SocialKit vs Postiz

Credit where it is due: Postiz publishes to 30+ networks and covers every one of the 11 platforms SocialKit supports — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, Bluesky, Pinterest, Mastodon, and Google Business — then adds a deep long tail SocialKit does not: Reddit, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Dribbble, Whop, Twitch, Skool, Kick, Warpcast, VK, Lemmy, MeWe, Nostr, Listmonk, WordPress, Medium, Hashnode, and Dev.to. If you publish to decentralized or developer-community networks, Postiz is genuinely broad and not the thing to attack on coverage.

The difference is everything around the channels. SocialKit’s Solo plan includes 15 social accounts across all 11 platforms with unlimited scheduled posts on a hosted, no-ops product. Postiz’s entry Standard plan includes 5 channels with a 400-post monthly cap (per their pricing page, June 2026) — and the free version of all that breadth is one you stand up and maintain yourself.

This is the core difference. Postiz’s open-source nature is a real strength for developers, but it cuts both ways: the only free Postiz is the one you deploy and operate. Running the self-hosted build means provisioning a server, configuring the database and queues, registering OAuth apps for each network, applying updates and security patches, handling backups, and owning uptime — indefinitely. When a platform changes its API or a token expires at 2am, that is your pager.

SocialKit takes the opposite bet: it is fully hosted and managed. There is no server to provision, no build to patch, no infrastructure to babysit — you log in and publish, and platform integrations, updates, and uptime are our problem, not yours. Support is included on every plan. If your goal is to post, not to run a scheduler in production, “no server to maintain” is the whole pitch.

SocialKit gives you unlimited scheduled posts on every plan — Solo included — with a calendar view, per-network editing, and cross-posting. Batch a quarter of content in one sitting; nothing meters you.

On Postiz’s hosted SaaS, the Standard plan includes a 400-posts-per-month ceiling and 5 channels, with unlimited posting starting on the Team plan at $39/month (per their pricing page, June 2026). The plans are banded by channel count — 5 / 10 / 30 / 100 — so adding channels marches you up the ladder. Self-hosting removes the SaaS caps, but only by moving the cost from a subscription to your own server bill plus your own time.

Let’s be straight about the numbers. Postiz Standard lists at $29/month and SocialKit Solo at €29/month — roughly the same sticker. But Standard buys 5 channels, a 400-post cap, 3 AI videos, and no team, while SocialKit Solo includes 15 social accounts, unlimited posts, analytics, AI, and API + webhooks on one flat plan with no feature waiting a tier up. Postiz’s annual billing trims about 20% (Standard $23, Team $31, Pro $39, Ultimate $79 monthly-equivalent), and the team, unlimited-post, and higher AI quotas land on Team ($39), Pro ($49), and Ultimate ($99) respectively (verified June 2026).

The self-host route is free of subscription — but not free. You trade the monthly fee for a cloud bill (Hetzner, Railway, AWS) plus the ongoing time to run and patch it. For a developer, that can be a great deal. For everyone else, the flat €17.40/month annual Solo plan is the price that stops moving — and includes the operations you would otherwise be doing yourself.

Prices verified on Postiz’s own pricing page in June 2026 — they can change, so check current rates when you decide.

Postiz leans hard into AI agents: it ships AI image and video generation (metered by tier), a public API, an SDK, OAuth2, and an MCP server so you can drive posting from Claude, ChatGPT, or your own automations. For a developer building agentic workflows, that surface is a genuine differentiator and a fair reason to choose Postiz — we will not pretend otherwise.

SocialKit is not a black box on integrations either: it ships API access and webhooks on every plan, including Solo, ready for Zapier, Make, and n8n without a tier upgrade, and includes its AI assistant on every plan with metered credits. The split is philosophy: Postiz hands you a hackable, self-hostable platform to build on; SocialKit hands you a hosted product that already works, with the integration hooks you need and none of the maintenance you don’t.

Postiz is a fast-moving open-source project launched in late 2024, and its public review footprint is still small and young across the major directories — not yet the deep, verifiable track record of an established SaaS. Among the few public reviews, users report on Trustpilot a mix: praise for responsive support, and complaints about billing and a paid plan not behaving as expected. On the self-hosted path, your support is the community and the GitHub repo.

SocialKit includes email support on every plan (priority on Enterprise) and runs the infrastructure for you, so reliability is a managed service rather than something you operate. For a tool whose one job is to publish on schedule, having a hosted product and a support team behind it — instead of a server you maintain and a community you hope answers — is the safer default for most teams.