PostEverywhere vs Postiz: which should you pick? PostEverywhere is the agentic social media scheduler built for AI agents: pick it if you want Claude, ChatGPT or your own code to run your posting through a hosted MCP server that is listed in Claude's connector directory, with nothing to deploy, from $9 a month. Pick Postiz if you want open source you can run on your own server for nothing, forever. If you are comfortable deploying and maintaining a Node app with a database, Postiz costs nothing in licence fees. If you are not, its hosted plans start at $29/mo, which is three times our entry price for fewer accounts.
So: self-host Postiz and it wins on cost outright. Pay either company to host it and the maths flips.
Written by Jamie Partridge, Founder. Prices checked 6 October 2026.
What PostEverywhere and Postiz actually cost
| Postiz (hosted) | Price | Channels | Team members |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $29/mo | 5 | not included |
| Team | $39/mo | 10 | unlimited |
| Pro | $49/mo | 30 | unlimited |
| Ultimate | $99/mo | 100 | unlimited |
Postiz also offers a 7-day trial, and self-hosting is free.
| PostEverywhere | Price | Accounts | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | $9/mo | 2 | 1 |
| Starter | $19/mo | 5 | 2 |
| Growth | $29/mo | 10 | 3 |
| Scale | $39/mo | 20 | 5 |
Like-for-like on hosted plans: five accounts is $29 on Postiz against $19 here, ten accounts is $39 against $29, and thirty accounts is $49 against $39 for twenty.
Postiz wins clearly at very high channel counts: 100 channels for $99 has no equivalent in our ladder.
The Postiz number most comparisons skip
Postiz's Standard plan at $29 does not include team members. Unlimited seats start at Team, $39. Ours start at 2 seats on the $19 plan.
And the self-hosted option is not free in the way a spreadsheet suggests. You are running a Node application, a Postgres database and a Redis instance, keeping them patched, handling OAuth callbacks for every network, and renewing platform API credentials when they expire.
On a small VPS that is perhaps $10 a month in infrastructure and a few hours a quarter of your time. Free software, paid attention. For a developer who enjoys that, it is a genuine win.
For a marketing team, it is a hidden cost that arrives on the worst possible day.
Where Postiz genuinely wins
It is open source, and that is not a footnote. You can read the code, fork it, audit exactly what touches your tokens, and keep running it if the company disappears. No hosted tool can offer that, including ours.
If data residency or vendor lock-in is a real constraint in your organisation, this ends the comparison.
No licence cost if you self-host. The whole product, not a limited tier. You still pay for the server and your time.
More channels at the top. 100 channels for $99/mo. Our ladder stops at 20 accounts on Scale.
A broader network list. Postiz covers Mastodon, Reddit, Warpcast-style networks and WordPress alongside the mainstream set. We publish to WordPress too, but we do not support Mastodon or Reddit.
A real community. Tens of thousands of GitHub stars, an active issue tracker, and contributions from outside the company. That is a support channel of a kind, and a signal the project is not going to quietly stop.
Where Postiz hurts
Somebody has to run it. The self-hosted path assumes deployment skills and ongoing maintenance. When a platform changes its API, you wait for a maintainer or you fix it yourself.
Hosted pricing starts high for what you get. $29 for five channels with no team members is the least generous entry point of any tool in this comparison set.
Support is community-shaped. For an open-source project that is normal and fair. It is still different from having someone accountable when a client's launch post fails.
What the same setup costs on PostEverywhere vs Postiz
A three-person team with ten accounts, over a year:
| Year one | |
|---|---|
| Postiz self-hosted | ~$120 infrastructure plus your time |
| Postiz Team (hosted) | $372 (annual billing; $468 monthly) |
| PostEverywhere Growth | $278 (annual billing) |
Self-hosting wins on cash and loses on hours. Whether that is a good trade depends entirely on whose hours they are.
Why PostEverywhere is the better answer for most teams
This is our product, so check the claims rather than take them.
The case: you do not run anything. Accounts stay connected, tokens refresh, platform API changes are our problem, and when something fails there is a webhook telling you rather than a log file you have to go and read.
All top platforms are on every plan, seats are bundled rather than billed per head, and AI image and video generation are included rather than metered separately.
Both of us run an MCP server, built on the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can drive either. Ours is published as @posteverywhere/mcp and hosted at mcp.posteverywhere.ai with 39 tools and no install, covered in connecting PostEverywhere to Claude, the setup guides for the PostEverywhere MCP server and the wider roundup of the best social media MCP servers.
If you are choosing the assistant too, our AI agents for social media comparison ranks the ones that can drive it.
Where we lose, so you can weigh it: Postiz is open source and we are not, which means no self-hosting, no code audit and no forking here. It supports Mastodon and Reddit; we do not. It goes to 100 channels; we stop at 20. Its community is larger than ours.
If any of those matters, Postiz fits your needs better.
Prefer someone else to run it? Start a 7-day trial and connect your accounts in a couple of minutes. Card required, $0 charged today, cancel anytime.
What self-hosting Postiz actually involves
If you are weighing the free option, it is worth knowing what you are signing up to rather than discovering it later.
The stack. A Node application, a Postgres database and a Redis instance, plus a public HTTPS endpoint for OAuth callbacks. Docker Compose makes the first install straightforward; it does not make the next two years straightforward.
Token maintenance. Every social network expires access tokens on its own schedule and changes its API without asking. On a hosted tool that is the vendor's problem. Self-hosted, it is yours, and you find out when a post fails rather than when a changelog is published.
Upgrades. New releases arrive through the repository. Somebody has to read the notes, take a backup and apply them, and that somebody needs to still work there in eighteen months.
None of this is an argument against self-hosting. It is an argument for being honest about whether the person who will maintain it is you, and whether you want that job. Plenty of teams do, and for them Postiz fits.
How to choose between PostEverywhere and Postiz
Pick Postiz if you can self-host and want to, if open source or data residency is a requirement rather than a preference, if you need Mastodon or Reddit, or if you are running dozens of channels.
Pick PostEverywhere if you want an AI agent or your own code to do the posting without running anything yourself: the MCP server, REST API and webhooks are hosted and come on every plan from $9.
Pick it, too, if nobody on your team wants to own a server, if you want seats included at the low end, or if you would rather pay $19 than $29 for five accounts.
Be honest about which you are. The most expensive outcome is self-hosting because it is free, then discovering six weeks later that nobody has time to maintain it.
Frequently asked questions
Is Postiz really free?
Self-hosted, yes: it is open source and you can run it at no licence cost forever. You still pay for the server it runs on and the time to maintain it. The hosted version is not free; it starts at $29/mo.
Is Postiz cheaper than PostEverywhere?
Self-hosted, yes, substantially. Hosted, no: five channels is $29 against our $19, and ten is $39 against $29. Postiz becomes cheaper again at very high channel counts, where $99 buys 100 channels.
Does Postiz include team members on the entry plan?
No. Standard at $29/mo does not include team members; unlimited seats begin at Team, $39/mo. PostEverywhere includes 2 seats at $19 and 3 at $29.
Can I self-host PostEverywhere?
No. PostEverywhere is hosted only. If self-hosting is a requirement, Postiz is the better fit and we would rather say so than waste your trial.
Which supports more platforms?
Postiz has the longer list, including Mastodon and Reddit, which we do not support. We cover all top platforms including Telegram and Discord. Check both lists against the networks you actually publish to rather than the totals.
Can an AI assistant post through either?
Yes, both run an MCP server. Ours is hosted with 39 tools and needs no install, so ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Cursor can connect with one URL.
What happens to a self-hosted instance if the project stops?
You keep running the version you have, and you can fork it. That is the structural advantage of open source and it is a real one. With a hosted tool, including ours, you are trusting the company to continue.
Weighing more than one? We have run the same head-to-head against Buffer, SocialPilot and Metricool.
The bottom line
This comparison has a cleaner answer than most. If you will genuinely self-host, Postiz has no licence cost and is worth a look. Open source, auditable, forkable, and a broad network list.
If you will not self-host, the hosted comparison is less flattering to Postiz: $29 for five channels with no seats against $19 for five accounts with two. That is the whole argument, and it only applies to people who were never going to run a server anyway.
Start your 7-day trial, or see the wider field in our comparison hub and Postiz alternatives.
Founder & CEO of PostEverywhere. Writing about social media strategy, publishing workflows, and analytics that help brands grow faster.
