Five Essentials channels at Buffer's monthly rate of $6 per channel ($30/month), against posterly Starter at $7/month. Essentials is $5 per channel billed yearly. Team is $12 per channel billed monthly, or $10 billed yearly.
Buffer in 2026: Pricing, Features & How It Compares
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Buffer vs posterly: An Honest Comparison
Buffer pioneered simple social media scheduling, and for years it was the go-to tool for solo creators who wanted to queue up a few tweets. But Buffer's pricing model hasn't aged well. Every social account you connect is a separate channel. Buffer's pricing page shows two rates. Essentials is $5 per channel billed yearly, or $6 per channel billed monthly. Team is $10 per channel billed yearly, or $12 per channel billed monthly. Five accounts on monthly billing come to $30 on Essentials, or $60 on Team, before you have published a single post. On yearly billing those five accounts are $25 or $50.
posterly's prices on this page are monthly, so the savings below use Buffer's monthly rate. Starter is $7/month for up to 5 accounts, with no per-channel surcharge. Five Essentials channels at $6 each are $30/month, so Starter is $276/year less. Five Team channels at $12 each are $60/month, which is $636/year less. Pro is $15/month for 12 accounts.
Price aside, the feature gap has widened. Buffer includes an AI Assistant on every plan, which it describes as help creating, refining, and repurposing content. posterly's built-in AI generates captions with brand-voice learning and creates original images and videos with AI Studio (Nano Banana). For conversational workflows, the optional API & MCP add-on lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI clients use posterly tools.
Buffer's pricing page lists 12 networks: LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, YouTube, X, Google Business Profile, Instagram, Substack, Mastodon, TikTok, and Facebook. posterly supports 18 platforms, including Telegram, Discord, Slack, Lemmy, Dev.to, Hashnode, and WordPress. If you're a local business, posterly also adds Google Business Profile auditing and review showcase generation on top of GBP posting.
Switching is fast. There's no data to migrate, just connect your social accounts via OAuth, and you're posting within minutes. Your scheduled posts in Buffer will continue to publish on their timeline; you can let them run out naturally while you start scheduling new content in posterly.
For nine tools compared on all-in cost at 5 and 10 accounts, see the Buffer alternatives 2026 roundup.
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Five Essentials channels at Buffer's monthly rate of $6 per channel ($30/month), against posterly Starter at $7/month. Essentials is $5 per channel billed yearly. Team is $12 per channel billed monthly, or $10 billed yearly.
*X posting has monthly limits and add-ons because of current X API pricing.
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