Postify vs Postiz: The Postiz alternative you do not have to host
Postiz is open source under AGPL-3.0: self-hosted it costs only your servers and time, and Postiz Cloud starts at US$29 a month for 5 channels. Postify is a hosted service only, with a free plan of 3 channels and paid plans from US$24 a month. The reason to switch is operational: there is no instance to deploy or update, and no developer app to register and get approved on each network.
Every Postiz fact on this page is either a published price or something Postiz documents itself, each one linked to the page it was read on and dated — all of them read on or after . We do not quote review-site ratings, and we have no customer testimonials to show you yet.
Side by side
Postify vs Postiz, feature by feature
Postiz Cloud has four plans, billed monthly: Standard US$29, Team US$39, Pro US$49 and Ultimate US$99 a month, for 5, 10, 30 and 100 channels, each with unlimited posts and a 7-day free trial. Postiz pricing, checked .
| Feature | Postify | Postiz |
|---|---|---|
| How it is billed | One flat price per plan, channels and seats included: Starter US$24, Team US$39, Agency US$79 a month. | Per plan, billed monthly: Standard US$29, Team US$39, Pro US$49, Ultimate US$99 a month.Postiz pricing, checked |
| Cheapest paid plan | US$24 a month (Starter: 5 channels, 100 posts a month). | US$29 a month (Standard: 5 channels, no team support).Postiz pricing, checked |
| Social accounts | 3 / 5 / 15 / 50 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) connected channels. | 5, 10, 30 or 100 channels by plan.Postiz pricing, checked |
| Team members | 1 / 1 / 5 / 20 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) seats. | No team support on Standard; unlimited team members from Team.Postiz pricing, checked |
| Scheduled posts | 30 / 100 / 500 / 5,000 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) posts a month. | Unlimited on every plan.Postiz pricing, checked |
| Free trial | 14 days on every paid plan. | 7 days on every plan.Postiz pricing, checked |
| Public API | On every plan, Free included (1,000 requests a month): 17 REST operations with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec. | Public API on every plan.Postiz pricing, checked |
| MCP server for AI agents | A remote MCP server with 15 tools, over OAuth 2.1. | Hosted MCP server and CLI on every plan.Postiz pricing, checked |
| Webhooks | 5 event types, signed per the Standard Webhooks spec. | Webhooks on every plan.Postiz pricing, checked |
| Self-hosting | No. Postify is hosted only. | Yes: open source under AGPL-3.0, with unlimited channels, posts and team members when you run it yourself.Postiz on GitHub, checked |
A feature is listed only when Postiz's own pages say what it offers. Anything we could not read there is left out rather than guessed.
The arithmetic
What Postiz costs as you add channels
The Postiz figures are its own published prices, from Postiz pricing, checked .
At 10 channels
- Postiz
- US$39 / mo
- Postify Team
- US$39 / mo
Postiz Team: 10 channels, unlimited team members · Postify Team includes 15 channels, 5 seats and 500 posts a month.
At 25 channels
- Postiz
- US$49 / mo
- Postify Agency
- US$79 / mo
Postiz Pro: 30 channels, unlimited team members · Postify Agency includes 50 channels, 20 seats and 5,000 posts a month.
The honest part
Where Postiz is the better choice
A comparison page that claims we win on everything is an advertisement. These are the cases where we would tell you to pick Postiz.
- It is open source under AGPL-3.0. You can read it, fork it and modify it, and you are not dependent on our roadmap or our continued existence. For a lot of engineers that ends the discussion, and reasonably so.Postiz on GitHub, checked
- Self-hosted, it has no licence fee and no plan limits on channels, posts or team members. If you have infrastructure and the time to run it, that is unbeatable on price.Postiz on GitHub, checked
- Its hosted plans cost less per channel than ours: Pro is US$49 a month for 30 channels, where Postify Agency is US$79.Postiz pricing, checked
- Self-hosted, it runs on your own servers, so your data stays where you choose, and its AI features use your own OpenAI or other provider keys.Postiz on GitHub, checked
Moving across
Switching from Postiz
There is no Postiz importer. This is what comes with you, and what stays behind.
What carries over
- Your social accounts. You reconnect each one to Postify, and nothing is posted while you do.
- Your queue, as a file. Postify's bulk upload takes a CSV in its own template (body, platforms, scheduled_at, as_draft, media), up to 500 rows at a time. If you can get your Postiz queue into a spreadsheet, you can reshape it into that template.
- Your team. Invite teammates by email: Team includes 5 seats and Agency 20.
- Your automations, rewritten. Anything you script can target Postify's public API (17 operations) and its signed webhooks.
What does not
- Scheduled posts, drafts and settings. Postify has no Postiz importer and never reads your Postiz account, so nothing moves on its own.
- Your Postiz analytics history. Past reports and performance stay in Postiz.
- Channels on Threads, X, and Reddit. Postiz publishes there, and Postify lists them as coming soon, so those channels cannot move yet.Postiz pricing, checked
- Channels on Google My Business, Slack, Dribbble, Whop, Twitch, Skool, Kick, Warpcast, VK, Lemmy, MeWe, Nostr, Listmonk, WordPress, Medium, Hashnode, and Dev.to. Postiz publishes there, and Postify has no connector for them.Postiz pricing, checked
- Any code you changed or providers you added to a self-hosted Postiz. Postify is not open source, so customisations do not come with you.Postiz on GitHub, checked
What we build instead
Publishing you can audit
The category's loudest complaint is posts that quietly never go out. Every line below describes a mechanism that exists in the product today.
One writer, structurally
Moving a post into publishing is a single conditional database write. If two workers race, exactly one wins and the loser returns without ever calling a platform API — double-publishing is prevented by the data model, not by a lock that can time out.
Retries that cannot double-post
Every delivery attempt derives a deterministic key from the post, the channel, its scheduled time and the attempt number, stored under a unique constraint. A retry of an attempt that already reached the platform collides on that key and is recorded as skipped instead of sent twice.
A per-channel delivery record
Every post exposes, per channel, the stage it reached, how many attempts it took, the HTTP status the platform returned and the error text if it failed. When something does not go out, the reason is in the product rather than in a support reply.
Nothing sits in limbo
A sweep runs every minute and any post still stuck mid-publish after an hour is moved to failed, which triggers the same failure email and webhook as any other failure. A wedged job surfaces as a failure you are told about, not as silence.
You are told, every time
A failed publish sends an email you can switch off per workspace and fires a post.failed webhook carrying the same detail. Silence is not a failure mode we rely on you to notice.
Failed deliveries you can replay safely
Failed deliveries collect in a queue you can inspect and replay. The replay path re-checks that the post still exists, that this channel is not already delivered, and that no attempt is in flight — it refuses rather than risk a duplicate, and every replay is written to the audit log.
A real public API, not an integrations page
17 REST operations under /v1 with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, RFC 9457 problem+json errors carrying a stable machine-readable code, cursor pagination, and IETF-draft rate-limit headers. Scoped organization API keys; an Idempotency-Key header on post creation with a 24-hour ledger.
Signed webhooks with a published failure ladder
Outbound events are signed per the Standard Webhooks spec (HMAC-SHA256 over id.timestamp.body). Secret rotation overlaps both signatures for 24 hours. Failed deliveries retry 9 times across roughly 32 hours, warn you by email at 5, 10 and 15 consecutive failures, and auto-disable the endpoint at 20.
An MCP server for AI agents
A remote MCP server exposing 15 tools over OAuth 2.1, so an assistant can read your schedule and draft posts directly. Publishing and deleting stay disabled until a workspace owner turns them on.
An MIT-licensed SDK
The TypeScript SDK is MIT licensed, open source and published to npm as @postify/sdk, so the client you automate against is not a black box.
Analytics that admit what they don't know
Follower figures carry the reason you can trust them — live, frozen, or as-of-last-connect — and the top-posts panel names which platforms engagement data actually covers instead of quietly reporting zero for the rest. Coverage differs by network: not every network reports engagement, and where Postify cannot refresh a follower count, the figure shown is labelled as of your last connect.
Check it yourself
What Postiz documents about Postiz
We only cite what a vendor publishes about their own product. Every link goes to their page, not our summary of it.
Postiz develops in the open, so its bug reports, connector breakages included, are public in its GitHub issue tracker — an unusually honest thing to be able to evaluate before choosing a tool.
Postiz issues on GitHub, checked
Questions
Postify vs Postiz, answered
Why choose a hosted tool over self-hosting Postiz?
Mostly because platform connectors are permanent maintenance rather than a one-time build. Networks deprecate scopes, rotate token rules and change review requirements continuously, and self-hosting means those breakages are yours to notice and fix, along with registering and maintaining each platform app yourself. With Postify that work is ours. If you would rather own it — and some teams genuinely would — self-hosting is the better answer.
Is Postify open source?
The product is not. The TypeScript SDK is MIT licensed and open source, and the API it targets is specified in a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, so your integration code is not locked to a black box even though the service is closed. If open source is a requirement rather than a preference, Postiz is the honest recommendation.
What does Postify's developer surface include?
A maintained public contract: 17 REST operations under /v1 with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, RFC 9457 problem+json errors with stable codes, cursor pagination and rate-limit headers; outbound webhooks signed per the Standard Webhooks spec with a published retry schedule and failure ladder; and a remote MCP server exposing 15 tools over OAuth 2.1 so AI assistants can work against your schedule. Self-hosting Postiz gives you the database as well, which is more power and more responsibility.
Can Postify guarantee posts will publish?
No, and any tool that says otherwise is overselling — publishing depends on third-party APIs none of us control. What Postify does is make failure visible and non-duplicating. One conditional write means only one worker can ever claim a post, so a race cannot double-publish. Deterministic per-attempt keys mean a retry that already reached the platform is recorded as skipped rather than sent twice. Anything wedged mid-publish for an hour is swept to failed so it raises an alert instead of sitting silent. And every failure sends an email and a webhook.
Can I import my Postiz posts into Postify?
Not automatically: there is no Postiz importer, so you reconnect each account and rebuild your schedule. Postify's bulk upload takes a CSV in its own template (body, platforms, scheduled_at, as_draft, media), up to 500 rows at a time, and the public API has 17 operations and an MIT-licensed TypeScript SDK, so moving a queue is a file you reshape or a script you write rather than a button we ship.
Other comparisons
Try it against your own channels
The Free plan connects 3 channels and schedules 30 posts a month, with no card. Paid plans start at US$24/month — you are charged in your own currency — and each begins with a 14-day free trial.