Postiz alternatives in 2026: OmniSocials vs Postiz, plus 4 others

The short answer

OmniSocials vs Postiz at a glance

OmniSocials compared with Postiz, feature by feature, checked on October 18, 2026

	OmniSocials	Postiz
Price and limits
Starting priceBilled yearly	$10/month$12 billed monthly	$23/month$29 billed monthly
How you pay	Per seatEach workspace or teammate	Per planBy number of channels
Accounts	One per platformIn each workspace	5 to 100 channelsBy plan, no add-ons
Teammates	$10/month each	Team plan and upUnlimited from $31/month
Posts per month	No cap	No capOn paid plans
Free plan	No	Self-host onlyPostiz Cloud has none
Free trial	14 daysCard required	7 daysCard check required
Platforms
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon, Google Business, TelegramPosting on both	Yes	Yes
Reddit, Discord and Slack	No	Yes
BlogsWordPress, Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode	No	Yes
Platforms in total	12	34
Planning and publishing
Calendar with drafts and previews	Yes	Yes
First comment	Yes	Comments and threads
Repeat evergreen posts	NoRepost automations instead	Yes
RSS auto-posting	No	Team and up
Engage, analyze, collaborate
Social inbox	7 platforms	NoNot in the app
Analytics	IncludedPDF reports	10 of 34 platformsLast 7, 30 or 90 days
Approval workflows	Every seat	Preview linksComments, no approve step
AI and developers
AI	Your own agentClaude, ChatGPT, any MCP client	Built-in AI agentImage and video credits by plan
MCP server	56 toolsInbox included	13 toolsNo comment tools
Public REST API	100 requests/minPer API key	Every plan90 to 100 post requests an hour
SDKs	8 languages	Node.js
CLI	Yes	Yes
Webhooks	5 eventsHMAC signed	On publish2 to 10,000 by plan
Self-hosting	No	Open sourceAGPL-3.0

Postiz facts and prices checked on October 18, 2026 on postiz.com/pricing and Postiz docs: plans and limits. Prices in USD. Something out of date? Tell us.

Why people are leaving Postiz

There is no inbox. Postiz schedules posts and comments on your own posts, but its app has no inbox for DMs or replies, and its docs say the MCP server cannot read or answer comments (October 2026).

Standard is one person. Standard, at $29 a month or $23 billed yearly, has no team members and allows 2 webhooks. Teammates and RSS auto-posting start on Team, at $39 a month or $31 billed yearly (postiz.com/pricing, October 18, 2026).

Channels are capped per plan. Plans hold 5, 10, 30 or 100 connected accounts, and there is no add-on for one more: you move up a plan. Posts are unlimited on every paid plan.

Self-hosting is real work. The free, self-hosted version needs PostgreSQL, Redis and Temporal, at least 2 GB of memory (4 GB or more recommended) and your own developer app on most platforms. Postiz calls self-hosting a secondary option, and agent features ship on its cloud first.

Approval is a comment thread. Postiz shares a public preview link that clients can comment on. Its docs say there is no approved state that blocks publishing: you move the post from draft to scheduled yourself.

What Postiz still does better

• Open source under AGPL-3.0, with about 37,000 GitHub stars, so you can run it on your own servers with no plan limits.
• 34 platforms, including Reddit, Discord, Slack, Medium, WordPress and Tumblr, which OmniSocials does not cover.
• Unlimited teammates from the Team plan, and 30 channels on Pro for $39 a month billed yearly, so several brands with a team can cost less.
• Built-in AI image and video generation, video clipping, RSS auto-posting and repeated posts.
• A REST API, a CLI and an MCP server on every plan, including self-hosted installs.

If you want to own the code and the servers, or you post to communities and blogs, Postiz is the better fit. OmniSocials is hosted only and has no RSS or recurring posts.

Postiz vs OmniSocials pricing

Both prices below are billed yearly and were checked on October 18, 2026. OmniSocials charges per seat: each brand (one workspace) and each teammate is a seat. Postiz charges per plan by the number of channels. OmniSocials costs less for one brand, with or without a helper. From three brands with a teammate Postiz Cloud costs less, because Pro holds 30 channels and unlimited teammates for $39 a month billed yearly. Self-hosting Postiz has no license fee, but you run the servers.

Work out your own setup

Brands

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People

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OmniSocials$10/month1 seat: 1 workspace, you included

Postiz$23/monthStandard: 5 channels, 4 needed (4 per brand)

$156 a year less on OmniSocials for this setup.

OmniSocials: $10 per seat a month billed yearly ($12 monthly), every feature included; X posts with a link use pass-through credits. Postiz Cloud: the cheapest plan that holds the setup, billed yearly: Standard $23 (5 channels, no team members), Team $31 (10 channels), Pro $39 (30) and Ultimate $79 (100); billed monthly they cost $29, $39, $49 and $99. A channel is one connected account, and we count 4 channels per brand. Posts are unlimited on every Postiz plan. From postiz.com/pricing on October 18, 2026. Self-hosted Postiz has no license fee.

What you get with OmniSocials

One calendar, filled by you or your AI agent

Plan in a week or month view, keep drafts in the tray and preview each post the way each platform shows it. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or another agent through the MCP server, and the posts it schedules land on the same calendar for you to check. How the MCP server works

One inbox for 7 platforms

DMs, comments and mentions from Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, X and Threads in one list, on every seat. Postiz has no inbox: DMs and comments stay in each platform's app. See the inbox

Repost automations

Post on one platform and let an automation repost it to the others on your schedule, for example your Instagram Reels to TikTok, one a day at 9:00 AM. Automations can also bring in your older posts from 8 platforms. See automations

Approvals for teams and clients

Add approval steps per workspace, so a teammate or client signs off before a post goes live. Reviewers comment, request changes or approve, and roles decide who can post, reply or see analytics. Postiz shares a preview link for comments, with no approve step. See collaboration

For developers

Postiz has an API, a CLI and an MCP server too. Here is how they compare.

Both give your code and your agent a REST API, an MCP server, a CLI and webhooks on every plan. Postiz is open source and can run on your own servers. OmniSocials is hosted, with an MCP server that also answers DMs and comments, SDKs in 8 languages and signed webhooks for every step of a post.

schedule.tsPOST /v1/posts

1import { OmniSocials } from '@omnisocials/sdk';
2
3const client = new OmniSocials(); // reads OMNISOCIALS_API_KEY
4
5await client.posts.create({
6  content: 'Our spring drop is live',
7  channels: ['instagram', 'x', 'bluesky'],
8  scheduled_at: '2026-11-03T09:00:00Z',
9});

Developer access: OmniSocials compared with Postiz

	OmniSocials	Postiz
REST API	REST APIapi.omnisocials.com/v1	api.postiz.com/public/v1, API key header
MCP server	MCP servermcp.omnisocials.com56 tools	mcp.postiz.com, 13 tools
SDKs	SDKs8 languages@omnisocials/sdk	Node.js (@postiz/node)
CLI	CLI56 commandsagent skill	postiz on npm, agent skill
Webhooks	Webhooks5 eventsHMAC signed	When a post publishes, 2 to 10,000 by plan
Rate limit	Rate limit100 requests/minper key	90 to 100 create-post requests an hour
Self-hosting	Self-hostingHosted only	Yes, open source (AGPL-3.0)

Postiz column checked on October 18, 2026.

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Other Postiz alternatives

OmniSocials is not the only option. These four come up most when people look for a Postiz alternative, from developer APIs to hosted schedulers. Each price is the vendor's cheapest paid plan, checked on its own pricing page.

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  Zernio

  Best for developers building social features into a product

  Free for 2 connected accounts. Then $6 per account a month, billed monthly by usage. (checked Oct 18, 2026)

  The catch: Every connected account is billed, so one brand on 4 platforms costs $12 a month, and X API calls cost extra.

  OmniSocials vs Zernio
• 

  Buffer

  Best for simple queues on a budget

  Free for 3 channels. Essentials from $6 per channel a month ($5 billed yearly). (checked Oct 18, 2026)

  The catch: You pay per channel and Essentials has one user, so 10 channels cost $60 a month billed monthly.

  OmniSocials vs Buffer
• 

  Ayrshare

  Best for letting your own users post to social media from your product

  Premium $149 a month ($129 billed yearly) for one profile. (checked Oct 18, 2026)

  The catch: Premium is one user, so a teammate or a second brand means Launch at $299 a month ($249 billed yearly).

  OmniSocials vs Ayrshare
• 

  Metricool

  Best for analytics and competitor tracking

  Free for 1 brand. Starter $25 a month ($20 billed yearly) for up to 5 brands. (checked Oct 18, 2026)

  The catch: X is a $10 a month add-on per account, and LinkedIn needs a paid plan.

  OmniSocials vs Metricool

How to switch from Postiz

1. 1

   Connect your accounts

   Make a workspace for each brand and connect each account through the platform's own sign-in. Every feature is open for 14 days, the API and MCP server included.

2. 2

   Rebuild your queue

   There is no import from Postiz. Its API can list your scheduled posts, and the OmniSocials API, the composer or your AI agent can schedule them again.

3. 3

   Cancel Postiz when you are live

   Keep both running until your scheduled posts are in OmniSocials, then cancel your Postiz Cloud plan before its renewal date, or shut down your own server.

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