Best Ayrshare alternatives (2026).
Ayrshare is a mature, well-regarded posting API — the reason teams go looking for an alternative is almost always its per-profile bill. Here are four, each with an honest note on who it actually fits.
At Ayrshare’s published Business rates, 100 profiles cost $1,228.30/mo. The strongest alternatives are Publishly (flat plans, unlimited accounts, $99/mo Growth), Upload-Post (profile-count tiers up to $438/mo), Buffer (per-channel at $12/channel monthly, $1,200/mo at 100), and Metricool (analytics-first, capped at 50 brands). Which one fits depends on whether you need an API, a consumer scheduler, or an analytics suite.
The four alternatives.
For the full breakdown of Ayrshare’s own pricing math, see Publishly vs Ayrshare.
Publishly
Publishly replaces Ayrshare’s per-profile billing with flat plans sized by post volume — connected accounts are unlimited on every paid plan, so the 101st profile costs nothing extra. It also publishes a signed failure webhook and a per-destination delivery receipt, which Ayrshare’s public pricing page doesn’t detail. Best fit when the roster is growing and per-profile math is the pain point.
Upload-Post
Upload-Post keeps a similar profile-tier structure to Ayrshare but at a fraction of the price — its largest published tier tops out at $438/mo for 225 profiles, versus Ayrshare’s $8.99-per-profile metering past 30. Best fit for teams that want tiered, predictable pricing without an enterprise sales process.
Buffer
Buffer trades Ayrshare’s API-first design for a polished consumer scheduler with a real free tier — but its $12/channel monthly Team pricing still grows with every channel. Best fit for smaller teams that want a well-known, easy-to-use tool.
Metricool
Metricool isn’t priced per profile at all — its published tiers run Free up to $53–159/mo — but it caps at 50 brands with no unlimited option, so it stops being a fit once the roster outgrows that ceiling. Best fit for teams under 50 brands that want analytics and scheduling in one suite.
Side by side.
At published rates on 2026-08-11, Ayrshare’s per-profile pricing works out to $1,228.30/mo at 100 profiles — every alternative here either drops the per-profile bill entirely (Publishly, unlimited accounts at $99/mo Growth) or reduces it substantially at that scale.
| Feature | Publishly | Upload-Post | Buffer | Metricool |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat plans sized by post volume | Profile-count tiers — $0 to $438/mo | Per-channel — $10/channel/mo (Team) | Tiered — Free / $20–36 / $53–159 |
| Cost at 100 accounts | $99/mo Growth (unlimited accounts, 15k posts) | Between $147–$438 (75/225-profile tiers) | $1,200/mo at 100 channels ($360/mo at 30), monthly billing | Not offered — plans cap at 50 brands |
| Account cap | Unlimited on every paid plan | 225 profiles on the largest published tier | No cap published — each added channel is billed | 50 brands max |
| Failure webhooks | Yes — signed post.failure webhook | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Delivery receipts | Yes — per-destination state history + live post URL | Not published | Not published | Not published |
Competitor pricing & features last checked: 2026-08-11
Add the 101st profile for $0.
Flat plans sized by post volume, a delivery receipt on every post, and a signed webhook the moment one fails.