Postify vs Sprout Social: The Sprout Social alternative for small teams
Sprout Social is priced per seat: Essentials is US$79 a seat a month on annual billing (US$99 billed monthly) for 5 social profiles, and the Sprout API is part of the US$399 Advanced plan. Postify's Team plan is US$39 a month in total for 5 seats and 15 channels, and the public API is on every plan, Free included. Switch if what you need is publishing, approvals and an API for a small team rather than a customer-care suite.
Every Sprout Social fact on this page is either a published price or something Sprout Social 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 We do not quote review-site ratings, and we have no customer testimonials to show you yet.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 Sprout Social, feature by feature
Sprout Social prices each plan per seat, with annual billing: Essentials US$79 (US$99 billed monthly), Standard US$199, Professional US$299 and Advanced US$399 a seat a month; Enterprise is custom. Essentials and Standard connect 5 social profiles, Professional and Advanced unlimited. Because cost scales with people rather than channels, this page compares whole plans. Sprout Social pricing, checked .
| Feature | Postify | Sprout Social |
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| 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 seat, on annual billing: Essentials US$79, Standard US$199, Professional US$299, Advanced US$399 a seat a month.Sprout Social pricing, checked |
| Cheapest paid plan | US$24 a month (Starter: 5 channels, 100 posts a month). | US$79 a seat a month on annual billing, or US$99 billed monthly (Essentials, 5 social profiles).Sprout Social pricing, checked |
| Social accounts | 3 / 5 / 15 / 50 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) connected channels. | 5 social profiles on Essentials and Standard; unlimited from Professional.Sprout Social pricing, checked |
| Team members | 1 / 1 / 5 / 20 (Free / Starter / Team / Agency) seats. | Every plan is priced per seat.Sprout Social pricing, checked |
| Approval workflow | Approval workflow on the Team and Agency plans; client review links on the Team and Agency plans. | Message approval workflow from Professional; an external approval workflow, for reviewers without a Sprout login, from Advanced.Sprout Social pricing, checked |
| Free trial | 14 days on every paid plan. | 30 days, no credit card required.Sprout Social pricing, checked |
| Public API | On every plan, Free included (1,000 requests a month): 17 REST operations with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec. | The Sprout API is on the Advanced plan (US$399 a seat a month).Sprout Social pricing, checked |
| Inbox replies | Reply to comments on LinkedIn, Facebook, Bluesky, and Mastodon from one inbox. | Consolidated inbox, from the Standard plan.Sprout Social pricing, checked |
A feature is listed only when Sprout Social's own pages say what it offers. Anything we could not read there is left out rather than guessed.
The honest part
Where Sprout Social 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 Sprout Social.
- From its Standard plan, Sprout Social pairs publishing with review management and keyword and location monitoring, and it sells Premium Analytics and Listening as add-ons. Postify has none of these.Sprout Social pricing, checked
- Its Advanced plan adds helpdesk integrations, message spike alerts and customer-care reports: the tooling a support team needs.Sprout Social pricing, checked
- Enterprise adds white-glove onboarding, SSO setup and priority support, the procurement-friendly shape a large organisation looks for.Sprout Social pricing, checked
- Its free trial runs 30 days, with no credit card; Postify's runs 14.Sprout Social pricing, checked
Moving across
Switching from Sprout Social
There is no Sprout Social 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 Sprout Social 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 Sprout Social importer and never reads your Sprout Social account, so nothing moves on its own.
- Your Sprout Social analytics history. Past reports and performance stay in Sprout Social.
- Review management and keyword and location monitoring, which Sprout Social lists from its Standard plan, have no Postify equivalent.Sprout Social 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 Sprout Social documents about Sprout Social
We only cite what a vendor publishes about their own product. Every link goes to their page, not our summary of it.
Sprout Social publishes its per-seat prices and its per-plan profile limits on its own pricing page, including which plan each feature, such as the API, sits on.
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Questions
Postify vs Sprout Social, answered
How does Postify's pricing compare with Sprout Social's?
Sprout Social charges per seat, from US$79 a seat a month on Essentials with annual billing, so a five-person team on Standard pays for five seats at US$199 each. Postify charges one flat price per plan with seats included: Team is US$39/month for 5 seats and 15 channels. For a customer-care team that needs listening and review management, Sprout Social is selling something Postify does not have.
Does every Postify plan include the API?
Yes. Every Postify plan, Free included, has an API allowance (1,000 requests a month on Free) covering 17 REST operations, plus signed webhooks and a remote MCP server with 13 tools for AI assistants. Sprout Social lists the Sprout API on its Advanced plan.
Does Postify have a social inbox?
It has an inbox for comments: you can reply on LinkedIn, Facebook, Bluesky, and Mastodon from Postify. It is not a customer-care desk — there are no helpdesk integrations, no review management and no listening, which is where Sprout Social is the stronger tool.
Can I import my Sprout Social posts into Postify?
Not automatically: there is no Sprout Social 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.