Postify vs SocialBee: The SocialBee alternative for teams
SocialBee is priced by profile count — US$29, US$49 and US$99 a month, billed monthly, for 5, 10 and 25 profiles — with one user per workspace included until its Pro plan. Postify's Team plan is US$39 a month for 15 channels and 5 seats, and every Postify plan includes the public API. Switch if you schedule as a team, or want to drive your schedule from code.
Every SocialBee fact on this page is either a published price or something SocialBee 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 We do not quote review-site ratings, and we have no customer testimonials to show you yet.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 SocialBee, feature by feature
SocialBee has three plans, billed monthly: Bootstrap US$29 (5 profiles), Accelerate US$49 (10 profiles) and Pro US$99 (25 profiles) a month, or US$290, US$490 and US$990 a year. Bootstrap and Accelerate include 1 user per workspace; Pro includes 3 users per workspace across 5 workspaces. Agency plans cover 50 to 150 profiles. SocialBee pricing, checked .
| Feature | Postify | SocialBee |
|---|---|---|
| How it is billed | One flat price per plan, channels and seats included: Starter US$24, Team US$39, Agency US$79 a month. | By profile count: Bootstrap US$29, Accelerate US$49, Pro US$99 a month, billed monthly.SocialBee pricing, checked |
| Cheapest paid plan | US$24 a month (Starter: 5 channels, 100 posts a month). | US$29 a month billed monthly (Bootstrap: 5 profiles, 1 user).SocialBee pricing, checked |
| Social accounts | 3 / 5 / 15 / 50 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) connected channels. | 5, 10 or 25 profiles; agency plans go up to 150.SocialBee pricing, checked |
| Team members | 1 / 1 / 5 / 20 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) seats. | 1 user per workspace included on Bootstrap and Accelerate, 3 on Pro; extra users are US$10 a month each on monthly plans.SocialBee pricing, checked |
| Approval workflow | Approval workflow on the Team and Agency plans; client review links on the Team and Agency plans. | Post approval system, from Accelerate.SocialBee pricing, checked |
| Free trial | 14 days on every paid plan. | 14 days, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.SocialBee pricing, checked |
| Inbox replies | Reply to comments on LinkedIn, Facebook, Bluesky, and Mastodon from one inbox. | Comments, mentions and DMs for Facebook Pages and Instagram Business; comments and mentions for Threads, LinkedIn Company and X; comments for YouTube.SocialBee pricing, checked |
| Bulk upload from CSV | Up to 500 rows per CSV, in Postify's own template. | CSV uploads, from Accelerate.SocialBee pricing, checked |
A feature is listed only when SocialBee's own pages say what it offers. Anything we could not read there is left out rather than guessed.
The arithmetic
What SocialBee costs as you add channels
The SocialBee figures are its own published prices, from SocialBee pricing, checked .
At 10 channels
- SocialBee
- US$49 / mo
- Postify Team
- US$39 / mo
SocialBee Accelerate: 10 profiles, 1 user included · Postify Team includes 15 channels, 5 seats and 500 posts a month.
At 25 channels
- SocialBee
- US$99 / mo
- Postify Agency
- US$79 / mo
SocialBee Pro: 25 profiles, 3 users per workspace included · Postify Agency includes 50 channels, 20 seats and 5,000 posts a month.
The honest part
Where SocialBee 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 SocialBee.
- Every SocialBee plan includes unlimited AI content generation. Each Postify plan carries a monthly allowance of AI credits.SocialBee pricing, checked
- It offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. Postify's fees are non-refundable except where the law requires, which is what its free trial is for.SocialBee pricing, checked
- Its inbox handles DMs and mentions as well as comments on Facebook Pages and Instagram Business profiles.SocialBee pricing, checked
Moving across
Switching from SocialBee
There is no SocialBee 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 SocialBee 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 SocialBee importer and never reads your SocialBee account, so nothing moves on its own.
- Your SocialBee analytics history. Past reports and performance stay in SocialBee.
- Channels on Threads and X. SocialBee publishes there, and Postify lists them as coming soon, so those channels cannot move yet.SocialBee pricing, checked
- Channels on Google Business Profiles. SocialBee publishes there, and Postify has no connector for it.SocialBee 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 13 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 SocialBee documents about SocialBee
We only cite what a vendor publishes about their own product. Every link goes to their page, not our summary of it.
SocialBee's pricing page counts every connected profile, page or group separately: 2 Instagram profiles, 1 Facebook page and 2 X profiles count as 5 accounts.
SocialBee pricing, checked
Questions
Postify vs SocialBee, answered
Is Postify cheaper than SocialBee?
On monthly billing, compare by size. At 5 profiles SocialBee Bootstrap is US$29 against US$24 for Postify Starter. At 10, Accelerate is US$49 with one user included against US$39 for Postify Team with 5 seats. At 25, Pro is US$99 against US$79 for Postify Agency. SocialBee's yearly plans cost less per month, so compare on the billing you would actually choose.
Does Postify have an API and webhooks?
Yes, and it is a first-class surface rather than an enterprise add-on. Every Postify plan, Free included, has an API allowance (1,000 requests a month on Free) covering 17 REST operations under /v1, with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, RFC 9457 problem+json errors with stable machine-readable codes, cursor pagination and rate-limit headers. Outbound webhooks are signed per the Standard Webhooks spec. There is also a remote MCP server with 13 tools over OAuth 2.1 for AI assistants, and an MIT-licensed TypeScript SDK.
Can I import my SocialBee posts into Postify?
Not automatically: there is no SocialBee 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.