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Buffer
Schedules posts across your social accounts, with an AI assistant that drafts them. AI-powered tool, with a free plan; runs on web, mobile. The stack builder picks it for social posts.
What it is known for
- Strengths: scheduling to twelve social platforms; AI assistant drafts and rewrites posts; comment replies from one dashboard.
- For: creators, small businesses, agencies, nonprofits, higher education and developers.
- Runs on: web, iOS and Android apps, browser extension, API.
- Learning curve: easy: billed as a simpler way to manage social media.
- Works with: Canva, Google Drive, Dropbox, Zapier, Unsplash and Claude and ChatGPT via MCP.
Read on October 9, 2026 from buffer.com.
Plans and prices
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel, 1 user, AI Assistant |
| Essentials | $6/mo per channel, or $5/mo billed yearly | Per channel; $5 billed annually; unlimited posts, AI Assistant |
| Team | $12/mo per channel, or $10/mo billed yearly | Per channel; $10 billed annually; unlimited users |
Checked by hand against buffer.com/pricing on October 9, 2026; confidence high. Prices are monthly in US dollars unless the row says otherwise; the builder counts the plan it starts on, Essentials.
When the stack builder picks it
The builder reads each job's rules from the top and takes the first step whose conditions hold and whose plan fits the money left. Buffer is named in these steps:
- Social posts, step 2 of 6, when less than $6 is left for it: the free plan.
- Social posts, step 3 of 6, when less than $29 is left for it: Essentials ($6/mo per channel, or $5/mo billed yearly); the step also names Hypefury, and the best score takes it.
- Social posts, step 4 of 6, when at least $90 is left for it: Essentials ($6/mo per channel, or $5/mo billed yearly); the step also names Metricool, SocialBee, ContentStudio, Predis.ai, Later, Hootsuite and Sprout Social, and the best score takes it.
- Social posts, step 5 of 6, otherwise: Essentials ($6/mo per channel, or $5/mo billed yearly); the step also names SocialBee, ContentStudio, Predis.ai and Hypefury, and the best score takes it.
- Social posts, step 6 of 6, otherwise: the free plan.
The rules are public in stack-rules.json, and how the stack builder scores explains the tie-break.
Works with
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok and Pinterest.
Alternatives the same rules name
- Hypefury: Writes and schedules creator posts with AI trained on your past posts. From $6/mo per channel.
- Metricool: Schedules posts and reports social and ad results in one place. From free.
- SocialBee: Plans posts by category, writes them with an AI copilot and schedules them. From $29/mo.
- ContentStudio: Finds content to share, writes posts with AI and schedules them. From $29/mo, or $19/mo billed yearly.
- Predis.ai: Makes ad creatives, video ads and social posts from a prompt, and schedules them. From $32/mo.
- Later: Visual planner and scheduler for Instagram, TikTok and more. From $25/mo, or $18.75/mo billed yearly.
- Hootsuite: Social scheduling, inbox and reports for teams. From $99/mo billed yearly.
- Sprout Social: Team publishing, listening and reporting with AI Assist. From $99/mo, or $79/mo billed yearly.
Signals and what people say
- App Store: 4.7 from 34,533 ratings, as of October 7, 2026
- Hacker News, 30 days to October 7, 2026: 0 stories
Change log
- October 9, 2026: plans and prices checked against buffer.com/pricing; nothing had moved.
- October 7, 2026: plans and prices first recorded from buffer.com/pricing.
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