Best Later Alternatives in 2026: Pricing Compared

This page prices nine plans that cover ten connected profiles on one login, all in USD, from each vendor's own pricing page. Most people who search for a Later alternative want one number: what the same setup costs somewhere else.

The unit that matters is the profile, because Later sells profiles in bundles of eight.

Toolradar data: the social media management ranking we publish on Toolradar evaluated 148 tools, updated October 2026.

Its own Later alternatives list names seven tools, and five of them are priced below: Sprout Social, Agorapulse, SocialBee, Buffer and Planoly.

A Later alternative is a scheduler that publishes posts to your social accounts and plans them on a calendar. Each vendor bills that work in a different unit. Later sells social sets of eight profiles, Buffer bills per channel, Planoly bills per linked account, and Agorapulse and Sprout bill per user.

The unit sets the bill more than the headline price does.

So this page puts every plan on one basis: its yearly cost at ten profiles. The per-profile monthly rate, that cost divided by ten and by twelve, appears in the TL;DR for the two cheapest plans.

If you are weighing a Hootsuite team instead, the Hootsuite vs Buffer comparison covers the per-seat side.

Start with the count. Ten profiles on one login sits above Later Starter's cap of eight, which makes it the first count where Later's price steps up. Starter covers one social set, Growth covers two and Scale covers six. Ten profiles therefore forces Growth, with a second user you may not need.

Then price each plan for that count.

Yearly billing wins wherever a vendor prints a yearly figure. Planoly prints none, so its figure is a monthly rate.

The Vista Social review and the Sprout Social review go deeper on two of the plans below.

How we ranked: each plan that covers ten profiles or channels, with the logins the setup needs, is sorted by its annual cost in USD.

Plans that fail the count stay in the table with the reason. Vendors that price by brand or workspace, print only starting prices, or quote in another currency are left out.

Units hide the real price. A Later social set holds eight profiles, so Growth covers 16 and Scale covers 48. A Planoly set is one linked account, so ten profiles means ten sets, and each set past six costs extra.

Buffer's Essentials bills per channel, so the bill rises with every account you add.

Seats cost the most where vendors charge per user. Agorapulse's Professional plan is $119 a user a month on annual billing, and Sprout's is $299 a seat, so a second login doubles the cost.

Later Growth, Loomly Starter and Vista Professional include two or more logins in the plan price, so a second person adds nothing to the card. For Hootsuite's per-user pricing, check the Hootsuite review.

Verified on each vendor's pricing page in October 2026, in USD, on the billing basis each page prints. Later Growth at $37.50 a month billed yearly is $450 a year. SocialBee Accelerate is $490 a year. Loomly Starter at $49 a month billed yearly is $588 a year.

Buffer Essentials at $5 a channel a month billed yearly, for ten channels, is $600 a year.

Planoly Pro at $47 a month, plus four extra sets at $8 a month each, is $79 a month, or $948 a year on monthly billing.

Buffer Team at $10 a channel a month billed yearly, for ten channels, is $1,200 a year.

Agorapulse Professional at $119 a user a month billed annually is $1,428 a year for one user.

Sprout Social Professional at $299 a seat a month is $3,588 a year for one seat.

Sources: Later pricing, SocialBee pricing, Loomly pricing, Buffer pricing, Planoly pricing, Vista Social pricing, Agorapulse pricing and Sprout Social pricing.

Where the order flips: at three profiles, Later Starter costs $225 a year, while Buffer Essentials costs $180 for three channels and Buffer Free costs $0.

At eight profiles, Later Starter is still the cheapest plan that covers eight. At 17 to 25 profiles, Later Scale at $990 a year ties SocialBee Pro, which covers 25 profiles for three users. Above 25 profiles, Later Scale keeps its price up to 48 profiles, while SocialBee Pro stops at 25.