Iconosquare is an analytics powerhouse that treats publishing as the secondary act — 8 networks, 5 profiles on every paid tier. SocialKit is publishing-first across all 11 platforms on one flat EUR plan.
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TL;DR — the quick verdict
Credit where it's due: Iconosquare’s analytics genuinely lead this category: multi-year data retention, competitor benchmarking, and white-label client reports at a depth most schedulers — SocialKit included — do not try to match. If proving performance to clients is the job, it is a serious tool.
Side-by-side features and pricing, grouped by category. Pricing and feature availability as of June 2026.
| Feature | SocialKit | Iconosquare |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | ||
| Platforms supported | All 11 | 8 of 11 |
| Bluesky | Yes | No |
| Mastodon | Yes | No |
| Threads | Yes | Yes |
| Google Business | Yes | No |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Pricing & trial | ||
| Entry price | €29/mo flat (€17.40/mo billed annually) | €33/mo billed yearly (Launch)Free plan: 2 profiles, 10 posts/mo per profile. Month-to-month rates are higher |
| Pricing model | Flat plans — all 11 platforms included, no per-network pricing | Tiered plans — 5 profiles per tier, extra users €16/mo each |
| Social accounts included | 15 on Solo · 30 on Team | 5 profiles on every paid tierSame 5-profile cap from €33 Launch to €116 Excel; larger counts via custom plans |
| Free trial | 7 days — €0.00 due today | 14 days, no card required + free plan |
| Money-back guarantee | 7 days | NoNone listed on iconosquare.com/pricing (June 2026) |
| Publishing & scheduling | ||
| Scheduled posts | Unlimited on every plan | 100/mo on Launch · unlimited on Scale & Excel |
| Best-time auto-posting | Yes | Yes |
| Per-platform customization | Yes | Not listedNot shown on Iconosquare’s pricing page (June 2026) |
| First-comment scheduling | Yes | Not listedNot shown on Iconosquare’s pricing page (June 2026) |
| Calendar view | Yes | Yes |
| Content & AI | ||
| AI assistant | Every plan (metered credits) | AI captionsListed from the Launch plan (June 2026) |
| Post templates | Yes | Not listedNot shown on Iconosquare’s pricing page (June 2026) |
| Content library | Yes | Not listedNot shown on Iconosquare’s pricing page (June 2026) |
| Thread posts (X, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon) | Yes | Not listedNot shown on Iconosquare’s pricing page (June 2026) |
| Hashtag manager | Yes | Not listedHashtag tracking exists in analytics; a publishing-side manager is not shown (June 2026) |
| Collaboration | ||
| Team seats | 2 on Team · unlimited on Enterprise | 1 on Launch · 3 on Scale · 6 on Excel (+€16/mo each extra) |
| Approval workflow | Team & Enterprise plans | Scale plan (€69/mo) and up |
| Comments on posts | Team & Enterprise plans | Not listedNot shown on Iconosquare’s pricing page (June 2026) |
| Integrations & support | ||
| Analytics | Included on every plan | Deep — 1-yr data on Launch, 2-yr on Scale, unlimited on Excel |
| API + webhooks | Every plan, incl. Solo | API on Excel plan only (€116/mo)Webhooks not shown on their pricing page (June 2026) |
| Support | Email · priority on Enterprise | Email · dedicated CSM on ExcelSome users report on review sites that support is email-led and can be slow |
| Verdict | ||
| Best for | Posting to many platforms on one flat EUR plan | Agencies and brands that need deep, white-label social analytics |
Pricing as of June 2026. Iconosquare pricing and feature availability per their public pricing page — check current rates here. SocialKit facts per our own pricing page.
The basics
Iconosquare is an analytics-first social media management platform from a French, fully GDPR-compliant company that started life as an Instagram analytics tool (originally known as Statigram). Today it combines deep analytics, competitor benchmarking, and white-label reporting with scheduling, social listening, and engagement tools, aimed primarily at agencies, multi-location brands, and SMBs managing several profiles. It supports 8 social networks — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, and Pinterest — and offers a free plan plus paid tiers from Launch at €33/month to Excel at €116/month, billed yearly (as of June 2026), with a 14-day free trial that requires no credit card.
Iconosquare describes itself as “analytics-first social media management” — its own homepage leads with analytics, benchmarking, and reporting, with publishing as the supporting feature. That focus shows: the Launch plan caps publishing at 100 posts per month, and third-party reviews note that the content-creation side lags the reporting side, with reviewers citing the absence of features like AI image generation and visual bulk scheduling. If your main job is getting posts out across many networks fast, you are buying a reporting suite and using its second-string feature.
Iconosquare’s own positioningIconosquare’s pricing scales on users and data depth, not on profiles: Launch (€33/month), Scale (€69/month), and Excel (€116/month) each include just 5 social profiles, billed yearly as of June 2026. Tripling your spend gets you more seats, longer data retention, and white-label reports — but not a single extra profile until you negotiate a custom plan. For anyone managing many accounts, the per-profile value is hard to justify.
See Iconosquare’s pricing pageIconosquare covers 8 networks — and to its credit, that includes Threads, which some competitors still lack. But Bluesky, Mastodon, and Google Business Profile are not supported. If any of those three is part of your mix, you need a second tool alongside it. SocialKit publishes natively to all 11 platforms, including all three Iconosquare skips.
Iconosquare’s supported networksThe €33/month entry plan is for a single user, and every extra seat on Scale or Excel adds €16/month. The plans most teams actually need — Scale at €69/month for approval workflows, Excel at €116/month for API access and white-label reports — get expensive fast, and the quoted figures are annual-billing rates, with month-to-month costing more. Users on G2 and Capterra repeatedly describe Iconosquare as one of the pricier options in the category.
Compare Iconosquare plansFeature deep-dive
Iconosquare supports 8 platforms: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, and Pinterest. That is a solid list — Threads support in particular puts it ahead of some rivals — but it stops short of Bluesky, Mastodon, and Google Business Profile.
SocialKit covers all 11: the 8 Iconosquare has, plus the 3 it does not. If you are building an audience on the newer open networks, or you manage local businesses that live and die by their Google Business listing, that gap matters daily. And because every SocialKit plan includes all 11 platforms with no per-network pricing, adding another network never changes your bill.
This is where the two tools’ philosophies split. Iconosquare is, in its own words, analytics-first — scheduling exists to feed the reporting engine. Its free plan allows 10 posts per month per profile, and the €33/month Launch plan caps you at 100 posts per month; unlimited publishing only arrives at Scale (€69/month). Third-party reviews also note the content-creation tooling trails dedicated schedulers, citing missing pieces like AI image generation and visual bulk scheduling — worth verifying against their current feature set, but a consistent theme.
SocialKit is publishing-first: unlimited scheduled posts on every plan, best-time auto-posting, per-platform customization of each post, first-comment scheduling, and native thread posting on X, Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. If your week revolves around getting content out — not just measuring it — the priorities are in the right order.
Honesty time: if deep analytics is your primary need, Iconosquare is one of the best in the business. Launch keeps a year of data, Scale two years, and Excel offers unlimited retention plus unlimited competitor benchmarking, white-label reports, and a dedicated customer success manager. Agencies that sell reporting as a deliverable are exactly who it was built for.
SocialKit includes analytics on every plan — performance per post and per platform, enough to know what is working and prove it. But it does not attempt Iconosquare’s multi-year benchmarking depth, and we will not pretend otherwise. The question is whether you need a reporting suite with a scheduler attached, or a scheduler with the analytics most creators and SMBs actually use.
Iconosquare Launch lists at €33/month billed yearly (as of June 2026) and includes 5 social profiles, 1 user, and 100 posts per month. SocialKit Solo is €29/month flat — €17.40/month billed annually — and includes 15 social accounts across all 11 platforms, unlimited scheduled posts, analytics, AI on every plan, and API + webhooks.
Step up a tier and the gap widens: approval workflows on Iconosquare start at Scale, €69/month billed yearly, still with 5 profiles. SocialKit’s Team plan is €49/month flat (€29.40/month billed annually) with 30 social accounts, 2 seats, approvals, and post comments. One more hedge worth knowing: the monthly figures Iconosquare displays are annual-billing rates — pay month-to-month and you will pay more, so check their pricing page for your real total.
Iconosquare’s free plan (2 profiles, 10 posts per month each) is a genuine plus for very light use — that is an honest point in its favor.
On Iconosquare, collaboration scales by the seat: 1 user on Launch, 3 on Scale, 6 on Excel, and €16/month for each additional user. API access is reserved for the €116/month Excel plan, which also brings the dedicated customer success manager; below that, some users report on review sites that support is email-led and can be slow to resolve issues.
SocialKit takes the opposite approach: API + webhooks ship on every plan, including Solo — ready for Zapier, Make, and n8n — and approval workflows come with the flat-priced Team plan rather than a per-seat ladder. Extra Team accounts are €4 each and extra teammates €2 each, so growing the team does not multiply the bill the way €16-per-user pricing does.
Entry plans compared. SocialKit prices are in EUR; all 11 platforms included — no per-network pricing.
billed annually · €29/month billed monthly
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5 social profiles, 1 user, 100 posts/month. Quoted prices are annual-billing rates — month-to-month is higher. Scale is €69/month and Excel €116/month billed yearly, each still with 5 profiles. As of June 2026.
Iconosquare Launch lists at €33/month billed yearly, while SocialKit Solo is €17.40/month billed annually (€29 month-to-month) — roughly €187 saved per year, with 15 social accounts instead of 5 and unlimited posts instead of 100 a month.
Pricing as of June 2026. Iconosquare prices are taken from their public pricing page and may change. Full SocialKit plan details on our pricing page.
Migration
No migrations team, no downtime — most people are fully moved over within the free trial.
Start your SocialKit trial — 7 days, €0.00 due today, no commitment.
Connect your social accounts. SocialKit uses official APIs for all 11 platforms — including Bluesky, Mastodon, and Google Business, which Iconosquare does not cover.
Recreate your posting schedule in the calendar and copy any queued posts across — drafts and templates make the move quick.
Export any historical reports you need from Iconosquare, then run both tools side by side during the trial before cancelling.
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An honest answer: it depends on how you work. Here's the short version.
I highly recommend this cost-effective option! It surpasses Hootsuite by providing valuable analytics for clients. Scheduling content is a breeze, and the suggested times feature is useful.
I love its pricing the most, it gives really good value for money. It's significantly lower cost than the big name alternatives with fewer restrictions on the qty of accounts/staff.
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