stop paying per seat to schedule posts.
If your team mainly uses Sprout or Hootsuite to schedule posts, you're paying per-seat prices for a per-channel job. Buffer and Postiz price by channel, Buffer's official MCP lets an agent draft, schedule and report, and PostHog's free tier often replaces Hotjar plus paid analytics.
$2.6k–6.7k / yr
illustrative saving
3 users, 8 social channels, scheduling only, list prices
Buffer / Postiz + PostHog vs Sprout Social vs Hootsuite
| Buffer / Postiz + PostHog | Sprout Social | Hootsuite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduling price | Buffer Team $10/channel, unlimited users · Postiz cloud $39/mo for 10 channels | $199/seat/mo (Standard) | ~$99/user/mo (Standard, unverified) |
| Pricing basis | Per channel | Per seat | Per user |
| AI / MCP access | Buffer official MCP: create, schedule, read metrics · PostHog free hosted MCP | Not verified | Not verified |
| Listening + unified inbox | No | Yes (quote-only add-ons) | Yes |
| Product analytics | PostHog free to 1M events + 5k session replays | — | — |
| Example: 3 users / yr* | ~$470–960 | ~$7.2k | ~$3.6k |
*Illustrative list-price maths, checked October 2026, mostly from public pricing pages and third-party trackers. Not a client result, and before our fees. Prices change often: we confirm against your real invoices in the audit.
Move if…
- Your social tool is mostly used to schedule posts
- You pay for Hotjar and analytics overage on top
- You want an agent drafting, scheduling and reporting weekly
Stay if…
- You need social listening, a unified inbox or employee advocacy
- You're already on Later (~$495/yr for 3 users): it's already cheap
- Your analytics need is above PostHog's free tier and Mixpanel is working
If any of these fit, we'll tell you so in the audit.
Low-risk, in three steps.
- 01
Audit seats vs channels
We check who actually logs in, which channels you post to, and which analytics tools overlap.
- 02
Move scheduling + tracking
Buffer or Postiz for scheduling, PostHog for product and web analytics, with tracking rebuilt and verified.
- 03
Agent-run posting
Claude drafts and schedules posts through Buffer's MCP for your approval, and sends a weekly analytics digest from PostHog.
The honest part
Some prices here come from competitor blogs. Hootsuite's in particular don't match each other, so we confirm your actual invoice before quoting a saving.
15 minutes.
your real numbers.
Send us the tools you pay for. We'll come back with what to move, what to keep and what to switch off, using your invoices, not list prices.
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