The bill is per person
Standard costs US$99.00 per user every month. The second person on the team pays that same figure again, so the number on the table only holds while you are on your own.
Four tools for anyone who liked the Agorapulse inbox and stopped at the bill, which is charged per person and stays capped at ten profiles even on the upper plans. One of them keeps a free plan, one hands you more profiles for the same kind of dashboard, one brings approval in at the door, and one climbs to a full suite while still pricing by seat.
ZapPost is number 1 on the list: it delivers the post ready to publish, instead of a tool for you to build it. Then come the four alternatives, in recommendation order. Click any one of them to drop straight to its block, with where it wins and where it loses.
| Tool | Best for | Free | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1ZapPostOurs | Getting the post finished, with nothing to build | – | US$19.00/mo |
| 2LLoomly | Approval workflow from the entry plan | – | US$65.00/mo |
| 3VSVista Social | Many profiles with AI for text | – | US$79.00/mo |
| 4SSSprout Social | Full suite for large companies | – | US$99.00/mo |
| 5Metricool | Scheduling and analytics in one place | US$20.00/mo |
Agorapulse was built for a team answering messages all day, and people who leave tend to leave because of the bill.
Standard costs US$99.00 per user every month. The second person on the team pays that same figure again, so the number on the table only holds while you are on your own.
Standard, Professional and Advanced all stop at ten social profiles. Anyone who needs the eleventh pays for it on the side, every month, for each extra profile. The cap lifts only on the Custom plan, which is priced on request.
Ads reporting, ROI tied to conversions and competitor benchmarking arrive from Advanced up, which costs around twice Standard. Advanced listening is not even on the table: it is an add-on sold through a demo.
Posts and inbox items stay available for six months on the entry plan. To look a whole year back you need Professional, which keeps twelve.
The inbox pulls comments, messages and Google Business reviews into a single screen, scheduling comes uncapped from the first paid tier, the trial runs thirty days and asks for no card, and there is a mobile app for replying on the go. Anyone who spends the day dealing with people across networks gets it all done in there. It only means there is a moment to look at the rest.
ZapPost is number 1 here too, and the alternatives come after it. Every block has both halves: where the tool wins and where it loses. The price is the month-to-month one, with no commitment, read on the official page on August 28, 2026. Where paying for the full year comes out cheaper, that shows up inside the block.
Generates finished Instagram content the moment the customer asks, tuned to their niche: a carousel, a Reels script and a caption with a CTA.
Where it wins
Where it loses
Best for: People who get stuck deciding what to post and would rather receive the content finished than build each piece.
Content calendar with an approval workflow from the first plan up, made for anyone who reviews posts before publishing.
Where it wins
Where it loses
Best for: Small teams where someone signs off on the post before it goes out.
Social media dashboard for teams and agencies, with AI credits for captions and replies, scheduling and reporting, from 15 profiles up.
Where it wins
Where it loses
Best for: Agencies or teams with many profiles that want AI for text and client reports.
Vista Social Vista Social alternativesZapPost vs Vista Social
Enterprise-grade social media suite: publishing, customer care, listening and reporting, priced per user.
Where it wins
Where it loses
Best for: Companies with a social customer care team and budget for a full suite.
Sprout Social Sprout Social alternativesZapPost vs Sprout Social
Scheduler with analytics in the same dashboard: publishes to several networks and shows what performed, including competitor profiles.
Where it wins
Where it loses
Best for: People who want to schedule and measure in one dashboard and already have something to post.
It opens the table above without competing for the same slot. It handles the step before scheduling, and it has no free plan.
ZapPost does not publish at a set time, carries no inbox and answers no comments. If what you need is somewhere to keep up with the messages and set a post to go out on its own, stay with one of the four, or with Agorapulse itself.
What it solves comes before all of that: deciding the subject and writing it. In Studio you pick the format (a carousel, a Reels script or a caption with a call to action), say what it is about, and get the post finished in the tone of your niche. It is for the person who opens the calendar on Monday morning, sees the whole week blank and closes it without booking anything.
It costs US$19.00 a month on the monthly plan. On the six-month plan it drops to US$11.50/mo, billed every 6 months. There is no free tier, only a 7-day guarantee, and the output is built for Instagram.
See ZapPost and Agorapulse side by sideThe list above is indexed by tool. This one is indexed by what stops you, which is how the decision usually arrives.
What stops you is creating the post
No scheduler solves that different problem
That is where ZapPost comes in: you say the subject in Studio and walk out with the carousel built, the Reels script or the caption ready to paste. Bear in mind it does not schedule: you download it and publish by hand, or drop it into the tool that already publishes for you.
You want to pay the least, or test without paying at all
Metricool US$20.00/mo
It is the one name here that stays free once the trial ends: one brand and twenty scheduled posts a month, with no end date. Starter covers five brands at US$20.00 and puts scheduling and metrics on the same dashboard. Team approval shows up only on Advanced, and the free tier gets tight fast for anyone publishing daily.
You want to keep the inbox and gain profiles
Vista Social US$79.00/mo
Professional covers fifteen profiles and two people at US$79.00, below Agorapulse, with inbox, reporting and scheduling in the same place. It comes with a thousand AI credits a month for captions and replies. Anyone looking after a single profile still pays for all fifteen.
What you need is to sign a post off before it goes out
Loomly US$65.00/mo
Starter brings twelve accounts, three users and an approval workflow at US$65.00. No other tool on this list hands you three people at the door. In exchange, it brings no screen for handling comments and messages, and the next tier costs around five times more.
You want full-suite reporting and have the budget
Sprout Social US$99.00/mo
The reporting and the inbox go deeper than anything else on this list, the trial runs a full month with no card, and the profile cap lifts from Professional up. Two caveats: it costs US$99.00 per person, the same rule Agorapulse follows, and Essentials stops at five profiles, half of what you have today.
Metricool alone carries on without payment when the trial is over, capped at one brand and at a monthly ceiling of published posts. Loomly, Vista Social and Sprout Social open with a trial and charge when it runs out. The Agorapulse plan table carries no free tier today either: the way in is a thirty-day trial with no card.
The cheapest is Metricool, at US$20.00 with five brands on Starter. Behind it come Loomly, at US$65.00, and Vista Social, at US$79.00. Sprout Social matches Agorapulse figure for figure, and it is on this page for the reporting.
Loomly hands you three users on Starter and Vista Social two on Professional, inside the figure shown on the table. Sprout Social takes the same road as Agorapulse, with the price counting per person, so swapping one for the other leaves that part of the invoice untouched.
No. ZapPost takes no messages, schedules nothing and measures no reach: it generates the content on the spot, in Studio, and publishing stays with you or with the scheduler you already pay for.
Each figure came from the tool's own pricing page, on the date shown in the footer of this page. The Agorapulse one is the month-to-month figure, per user, which is the only way to line it up against the rest of the list.
Three of them cost less than Agorapulse and one matches it. Only Metricool keeps a version that never expires, and only Loomly opens with three people included. None of the four decides what this week's post is about, and that is the piece ZapPost delivers finished.
Results vary by niche and consistency.