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The short answer
Agorapulse is $79/mo Standard (annual). Sprout Social is $79/seat/mo Essentials (annual), $99 monthly. Agorapulse suits a social inbox without enterprise pricing, while Sprout Social suits enterprise reporting and workflow. Work out which description fits how you actually post, because the feature lists overlap far more than the pricing models do.
Agorapulse vs Sprout Social at a glance
| Agorapulse | Sprout Social | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry paid price | $79/mo Standard (annual) | $79/seat/mo Essentials (annual), $99 monthly |
| Free plan | Yes, limited | No, 30-day trial |
| Best for | A social inbox without enterprise pricing | Enterprise reporting and workflow |
Agorapulse
The most expensive alternative here and still below Hootsuite list price. The social inbox is the reason to pick it: unified, assignable, with saved replies, which is the capability most teams say they cannot give up. There is a limited free plan.
Sprout Social
Essentials is $79 per seat per month billed annually, $99 monthly, and covers 5 social profiles. Standard is $199 and Professional $299 per seat. The per-seat model is what makes it expensive for teams, and it is aimed at organisations that need the reporting, approval workflow and support depth rather than at anyone who mainly wants to schedule. No free plan.
If neither fits
These two are not the only options, and for a lot of people they are not the right two. Everything below is a working alternative, cheapest first.
| Tool | Entry paid price | Free plan | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Publer | $5/mo Professional ($4/mo billed yearly) | Yes, free forever tier | The cheapest paid tier with a real free plan |
| Post Bridge | Around $7.50 to $9/mo (Starter) | Yes, 5 posts/mo | Deliberately minimal publishing |
| Zoho Social | $10/mo (Standard, billed annually) | No | Teams already inside the Zoho suite |
| PostNext.io | 11 EUR/mo (Premium, 15 channels) | Yes, 1,000 posts/mo fair use | AI post and blog generation on a flat price |
| Planoly | Around $16/mo Starter (annual) | Yes, limited to 1 user and 1 social set | Instagram-first visual planning |
| Tailwind | $17.99/mo annual Pin Scheduling ($29.99 monthly) | Yes | Pinterest, and Pinterest SEO in particular |
| Later | $18.75/mo Starter (annual, 25% off) | No | Visual planning for Instagram-led brands |
| FeedHive | $19/mo (Creator, 4 social accounts) | No | Solo creators who want AI recycling |
| CoSchedule | $19/mo Social Calendar (annual) | Yes, Free Calendar with 1 user and 1 profile | A marketing calendar that happens to post |
| Metricool | $20/mo (Starter, 5 brands) | Yes, 1 brand and 20 posts/mo | Analytics depth at a small-team price |
| SocialPilot | $20/mo Essentials ($17/mo annual) | No | Agencies managing many client accounts |
| Buffer | $5/mo per channel (Essentials) | Yes, 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts | The cheapest way to start on one or two channels |
| SocialBee | $29/mo Bootstrap ($20.17/mo annual), 5 profiles | No, 14-day trial | Category-based evergreen recycling |
| MeetEdgar | $29.99/mo Eddie ($24.91/mo annual), 5 accounts | No, 30-day trial | Set-and-forget evergreen automation |
| Sendible | $29/mo Creator (1 user, 6 profiles) | No | White-label agency reporting |
| Planable | $33/workspace/mo Basic | Yes, 50 free posts with no time limit | The cleanest approval and review experience |
| HeyOrca | $35/mo per calendar (Agency Basic) | Yes, light posting on 1 calendar | Client approval workflows |
| Kontentino | $39/mo (Basic, billed annually) | No | Approvals with a brand-safety review step |
| Loomly | $49/mo Starter ($65/mo monthly) | No, trial only | Unlimited calendars and a post-ideas board |
| eClincher | $65/mo (Basic, 10 profiles, 1 user) | No | The closest all-in-one to Hootsuite itself |
| Mixpost | $299 one-time (Pro), self-hosted | Yes, Lite is open source | Owning your data on your own server |
| Hootsuite | ~$99/user/mo (Standard, list) | No, discontinued | Enterprise listening, ads, support inbox |
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