Sendible Alternatives

Agorapulse is the name that most competing guides put near the top, and the reason is its inbox. Every plan gathers messages and organic comments from your profiles in one place, and Professional adds assignments, reply collision detection and custom inbox views, so two people never answer the same comment. Sendible also has a shared inbox, but Agorapulse builds its whole product around moderation, with labels and saved replies on Advanced, and automated moderation on every plan, limited to one free rule per profile below Custom.

The unit is what changes the bill. Sendible charges per workspace and gives unlimited users on every plan. Agorapulse charges per user: Standard is $99 per user per month billed monthly, or $79 billed annually, and each plan includes 10 social profiles. Extra profiles cost $15 a month each on monthly billing, $10 on annual. A solo manager with 10 profiles pays $99 on Agorapulse against $99 on Sendible Plus for 18 profiles; a team of three pays $297. If you work alone or in pairs, it is a fair trade for a better inbox. Our Agorapulse switch guide covers the reasons people leave it in turn.

SocialPilot is the closest like-for-like replacement for Sendible's agency use, at a lower entry price. Essentials costs $30 a month billed monthly for 7 social media accounts and 1 user. Standard costs $50 for 15 accounts and 3 users, Premium $100 for 25 accounts and 6 users, and Ultimate $200 for 50 accounts with unlimited users. On annual billing the standard discount is 15%, the same rate Sendible gives, and promotions sometimes raise it. SocialPilot also shows a second price grid on its site, with Essentials at $20 a month for 5 accounts and Standard at $40 for 10, so check the account count of the plan you are offered before you pay.

The difference is what sits in the mid-tier. SocialPilot's Premium plan at $100 a month includes client approval and white label reports. On Sendible, custom branded reports start on Premium at $199 a month, and a full white label dashboard is a paid add-on on Elite, with pricing starting at $349 a month. Ultimate adds advanced white label, a dedicated account manager and migration and onboarding. Extra accounts cost $4 a month and an extra user $5, so you can grow by one client without jumping a plan. The limit: users are capped below Ultimate, where Sendible gives unlimited users from Core.

Sprout Social is the tool many Sendible users were comparing against when they chose Sendible, and it is still the reference for analytics. Its Professional plan adds competitor, tag and paid insights; Advanced adds sentiment in the Smart Inbox and message spike alerts. Listening is sold as an add-on from Standard upward. If your reporting has outgrown Sendible's pre-built reports, this is the step up.

The price is the catch, and it is per seat. Essentials costs $79 per seat per month billed annually, or $99 billed monthly, for 5 social profiles. Standard is $199 per seat on annual billing, also with 5 profiles; Professional at $299 and Advanced at $399 have unlimited profiles. A team of three on Professional pays $897 a month on annual billing, against $199 a month for Sendible Premium with unlimited users and 42 profiles. Sprout makes sense when one or two analysts own social, or when the budget follows the brand, not the account count. See our Sprout Social switch guide for the other side.

Vista Social is the newer agency tool that competing guides now place against Sendible, and it wins on profile count. Professional costs $99 a month billed monthly, or $950 billed yearly (about $80 a month), for 15 social profiles and 2 users. Advanced is $199 monthly for 30 profiles and 3 users, Scale $449 for 70 profiles and 4 users. On Sendible, $99 buys 18 profiles, so the gap is smaller than it looks, but Vista's unified inbox also takes reviews.

Reviews are the reason a local business picks it. Every plan lets you answer Google Business and Facebook reviews from the inbox. Yelp, TripAdvisor, OpenTable and Trustpilot reviews join the monitoring from Advanced, and they are monitored only, a limit Vista puts down to those sites. Listening on your own profiles is free; web and news listening starts at $75 a month. Watch the add-ons: X costs $29 a month per X profile, and advanced white label sits on Scale. More profiles come in sets of 10. Our Vista Social review scores each plan, Vista Social pricing breaks down the add-ons, and Vista Social alternatives lists where people go next.

Hootsuite is one of the three tools that most competing guides rank, and it is the oldest name in the category. Standard costs $99 per user per month billed annually and manages up to 10 social media accounts from one calendar. Professional, at $199 per user per month billed annually, moves to unlimited social accounts and adds automated inbox replies and workflows, 90-day trend forecasting and custom performance reports. Advanced, at $399 per user per month billed annually, adds content approvals and message routing.

For a Sendible user, the unit is again the problem. Hootsuite counts a social account as one profile, such as an Instagram account or a Facebook Page, and bills each user. Sendible Plus covers 18 profiles and any number of users for $99 a month. Hootsuite makes sense once you need unlimited accounts for a few heavy users, not many light ones. The trial also needs care: trial accounts are limited to 10 to 20 posts per organization a day, and bulk scheduling is not available during the trial. Our Hootsuite switch guide explains why teams leave it.

Buffer is the opposite of Sendible: small, simple and priced per channel. A channel is one social account you connect, such as one Instagram profile or one LinkedIn page. Essentials costs $6 per channel per month billed monthly, or $60 a year per channel; Team costs $12 per channel monthly, or $120 a year, and adds unlimited users, access levels, approval workflows and branded reports. The free plan covers up to 3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel and 1 user.

Per-channel pricing is great when you have few channels and poor when you have many. Three channels on Essentials cost $18 a month, about half of Sendible Core. Eighteen channels on Team cost $216 a month billed monthly, against $99 on Sendible Plus. Buffer also keeps the free plan as a safety net: if you do not add payment details after the 14-day trial, the account moves to the Free plan, and channels above three lock. See our Buffer switch guide for what it lacks for bigger teams.