Postify vs Publer: The Publer alternative for teams
Publer charges per social account and per additional member, and keeps its API and MCP on the Business plan, which starts at US$10 a month for one account billed monthly. Postify charges one flat price per plan with seats included, from US$24 a month for 5 channels, and includes the public API and the MCP server on every plan, Free included. Switch if you schedule as a team, or want to drive your schedule from code.
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Side by side
Postify vs Publer, feature by feature
Publer prices its Professional and Business plans per social account, with a calculator on its plans page. Billed monthly, the calculator shows Professional at US$5 a month for 1 social account, US$20 for 5, US$36 for 10 and US$92 for 25, and Business at US$10, US$35, US$63 and US$161 for the same counts. Every 10th social account is free. The plan owner is included, additional members are US$2 a month each on Professional and US$3 on Business with every 10th free, and paying yearly takes 20% off. Publer plans & pricing, checked .
| Feature | Postify | Publer |
|---|---|---|
| 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 social account, plus each additional member: from US$5 a month on Professional and US$10 on Business for 1 account, billed monthly.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Free plan | Yes: 3 channels, 30 posts a month, 1 seat. | Yes: 1 user, 1 workspace, 3 social accounts (not X), 10 scheduled posts per account at a time.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Cheapest paid plan | US$24 a month (Starter: 5 channels, 100 posts a month). | US$5 a month billed monthly, or US$4 billed yearly (Professional, 1 social account).Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Social accounts | 3 / 5 / 15 / 50 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) connected channels. | Each one is paid for: 2 Facebook pages and 2 Instagram accounts count as 4, and every 10th is free.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Team members | 1 / 1 / 5 / 20 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) seats. | The plan owner is included; each additional member is US$2 a month on Professional and US$3 on Business, billed monthly.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Scheduled posts | 30 / 100 / 500 / 5,000 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) posts a month. | 10 scheduled per account at a time on Free; unlimited on paid plans, within daily posting limits.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Approval workflow | Approval workflow on the Team and Agency plans; client review links on the Team and Agency plans. | Approval workflows, listed among its paid features.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Free trial | 14 days on every paid plan. | 7 days on Professional and 14 days on Business, and a full refund on request within 14 days of any payment.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Public API | On every plan, Free included (1,000 requests a month): 17 REST operations with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec. | Publer API on Business.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| MCP server for AI agents | A remote MCP server with 14 tools, over OAuth 2.1. | Publer MCP on Business.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
| Bulk upload from CSV | Up to 500 rows per CSV, in Postify's own template. | Bulk scheduling from a CSV file, listed among its paid features.Publer plans & pricing, checked |
A feature is listed only when Publer's own pages say what it offers. Anything we could not read there is left out rather than guessed.
The arithmetic
What Publer costs as you add channels
The Publer figures are its own published prices, from Publer plans & pricing, checked .
At 5 channels
- Publer
- US$20 / mo
- Postify Starter
- US$24 / mo
Publer Professional: 5 social accounts, owner only; Business is US$35 · Postify Starter includes 5 channels, 1 seat and 100 posts a month.
At 10 channels
- Publer
- US$36 / mo
- Postify Team
- US$39 / mo
Publer Professional: 10 social accounts, the 10th free; Business is US$63 · Postify Team includes 15 channels, 5 seats and 500 posts a month.
At 25 channels
- Publer
- US$92 / mo
- Postify Agency
- US$79 / mo
Publer Professional: 25 social accounts; Business is US$161 · Postify Agency includes 50 channels, 20 seats and 5,000 posts a month.
The honest part
Where Publer 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 Publer.
- For one person running 5 to 10 accounts it costs less: billed monthly, its calculator shows Professional at US$20 for 5 social accounts and US$36 for 10, where Postify Starter is US$24 for 5 channels and Team US$39 for 15.Publer plans & pricing, checked
- Its paid plans have no monthly cap on scheduled posts, only daily posting limits. Postify plans include 30 / 100 / 500 / 5,000 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) posts a month.Publer plans & pricing, checked
- Its Business plan includes unlimited AI prompts, text and images, at no extra cost. Each Postify plan carries a monthly allowance of AI credits.Publer plans & pricing, checked
- Every payment can be refunded in full on request within 14 days. Postify's fees are non-refundable except where the law requires, which is what its free trial is for.Publer plans & pricing, checked
Moving across
Switching from Publer
There is no Publer 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 Publer 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 Publer importer and never reads your Publer account, so nothing moves on its own.
- Your Publer analytics history. Past reports and performance stay in Publer.
- Channels on Threads and X. Publer publishes there, and Postify lists them as coming soon, so those channels cannot move yet.Publer plans & pricing, checked
- Channels on Google Business Profile and WordPress. Publer publishes there, and Postify has no connector for them.Publer plans & pricing, 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 14 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 Publer documents about Publer
We only cite what a vendor publishes about their own product. Every link goes to their page, not our summary of it.
Publer's FAQ says posts a network's API cannot publish, such as posts to Facebook Groups, go out by push notification or reminder for you to post, not automatically.
Publer plans & pricing, checked
Its paid plans schedule without limit but enforce daily posting limits, which its FAQ says it can waive on a paid plan for specific scenarios.
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Questions
Postify vs Publer, answered
Is Postify cheaper than Publer?
It depends on how many accounts you connect and how many people work on them. Billed monthly, Publer's calculator shows Professional at US$20 for 5 social accounts against US$24 for Postify Starter, and US$36 for 10 against US$39 for Postify Team, which includes 5 seats. At 25 accounts Professional is US$92 and Business US$161, against US$79 for Postify Agency. Publer adds US$2 a month for each extra member on Professional and US$3 on Business; Postify's seats come with the plan.
Does Postify have an API and an MCP server?
Yes, on every plan, Free included: an API allowance of 1,000 requests a month on Free covering 17 REST operations, signed webhooks, and a remote MCP server with 14 tools over OAuth 2.1. Publer lists its API and its MCP on the Business plan.
Can I import my Publer posts into Postify?
Not automatically: there is no Publer 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.