Last updated: September 2026
What Postiz Actually Is
Postiz is a social media scheduling and publishing platform that lets you plan, create, and cross-post content to more than 30 networks from a single visual calendar. It covers the usual suspects (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, and Mastodon) alongside places most schedulers ignore, such as Reddit, Discord, Telegram, Slack, Dribbble, Warpcast, Nostr, and blog destinations like WordPress, Medium, Dev.to, and Hashnode.
The detail that sets it apart from Buffer, Hootsuite, and Later is that Postiz is open source. You can pay for the hosted cloud version, or you can deploy the same codebase on your own server and run it at no software cost. That single choice shapes everything about who the tool suits and how far you can push it.
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Most social schedulers are closed products you rent by the month. Postiz publishes its full code, so the exact application behind the paid plans can be installed on infrastructure you control. For teams that treat scheduled content, connected account tokens, and audience data as sensitive, this is the meaningful difference. You are not handing your publishing pipeline to a black box, and you are not locked into a vendor who can change terms or sunset a plan.
Self-hosting removes the recurring subscription entirely, which matters most at the high end. Running 100 connected channels on the hosted Ultimate plan costs money every month, while the self-hosted route trades that for the cost of a server and the effort of maintaining it. The tradeoff is real: you take on setup, updates, and connecting your own API keys for the AI features. Teams without engineering support will find the hosted version far simpler, but the option to move in-house is always there, and that portability is rare in this category.
Being open source also means the project moves in the open. Integrations and network support are added continuously, and because the code is public, technical users can extend it or audit exactly how their accounts are handled rather than trusting a marketing page.
What Else It Does
AI Content and Design
Postiz includes an AI copilot that drafts posts, generates images, and produces short videos from a single chat window. Rather than shipping one rigid generator, it connects to external models and agent tools (including Claude and ChatGPT) and exposes an MCP server, so the assistant can be driven programmatically as part of a larger workflow. There is also a built-in picture editor with a Canva-style interface for adjusting visuals before they go out. AI image and video allowances are metered per plan, so heavy generators should check the monthly caps rather than assume unlimited use.
Scheduling and the Visual Calendar
The core of the product is a calendar where you compose once and cross-post to many channels at chosen times, then review and edit each variant per network before it publishes. Because different platforms have different formats and limits, the editor lets you tailor a post for each destination instead of forcing one identical message everywhere. Posts per month are unlimited on every paid tier, so the real constraint is how many channels you connect, not how often you publish.
Automation and Recycling
Beyond one-off scheduling, Postiz supports auto-actions such as auto-posting, auto-liking, and auto-commenting when a post hits engagement milestones, plus content recycling that reposts evergreen material on a loop. An RSS feature can pull items from a feed and turn them into scheduled posts automatically, which is useful for turning a blog or news source into a steady social pipeline without manual copying.
Analytics, Teams, and Integrations
An analytics dashboard reports per-channel and per-post metrics like impressions, engagement, and reach so you can see what performed. Paid plans above the entry tier include unlimited team members with admin and member roles, and multi-brand or client management through customer groups, which is aimed squarely at agencies juggling several accounts. For developers, a public API and webhooks let Postiz slot into existing systems rather than living as an isolated dashboard.
Pricing
Postiz runs on two tracks. The self-hosted, open-source deployment is free to use on your own cloud, and every hosted plan comes with a 7-day free trial. The hosted cloud tiers are billed monthly as follows, with all tiers offering unlimited posts:
- Standard, $29/mo: 5 channels, AI copilot, 3 AI videos per month, picture editor, API, webhooks, and analytics. No team members.
- Team, $39/mo: 10 channels, unlimited team members, 100 AI images and 10 AI videos per month.
- Pro, $49/mo: 30 channels, unlimited team members, 300 AI images and 30 AI videos per month.
- Ultimate, $99/mo: 100 channels, unlimited team members, 500 AI images and 60 AI videos per month.
The pricing logic is unusual in a good way. What you pay for is the number of connected channels and your AI generation allowance, not the volume of posts. That makes Standard genuinely usable for a solo creator, while agencies scale up to Pro or Ultimate as they add client accounts. Anyone comfortable managing a server can sidestep the subscription altogether by self-hosting, which effectively makes the paid plans a convenience fee for hosting, maintenance, and bundled AI credits.
Who It Is For
Postiz fits three groups cleanly. Solo creators and small businesses who want to publish across several platforms without paying enterprise prices get most of what they need at the $29 or $39 tiers, especially since posting is unlimited. Agencies and teams managing many client accounts benefit from unlimited team members, customer groups, and the 30-to-100 channel range on the higher plans. And technically minded teams (or privacy-conscious ones) get an option almost no competitor offers: run the whole thing yourself, keep your data in-house, and pay nothing for the software.
It is less ideal for someone who wants a polished, hands-off experience with deep native analytics and a large support organization behind it; the older incumbents still lead on breadth of reporting and enterprise handholding. But if your priority is wide network coverage, unlimited publishing, AI assistance wired to real agent tooling, and the freedom to leave the vendor behind entirely, Postiz is one of the few tools built around exactly that.
Is Postiz really free?
The open-source version is free to run on your own server, so there is no software subscription if you self-host. The managed cloud plans are paid and start at $29 per month, though each hosted tier comes with a 7-day free trial before billing begins.
How many social networks does Postiz support?
Postiz publishes to more than 30 channels, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Discord, Telegram, Slack, and blogging platforms such as WordPress, Medium, Dev.to, and Hashnode.
What do the AI features do?
An AI copilot drafts post copy, generates images, and produces short videos from one chat window, and it connects to external models and agent tools rather than a single fixed generator. Image and video generation is metered per plan, and there is also a built-in picture editor for manual adjustments.
Can several people work in the same account?
Yes. The Team, Pro, and Ultimate plans include unlimited team members with admin and member roles, plus customer groups for managing multiple brands or clients. The entry-level Standard plan is single-user with no team members.
How is Postiz different from Buffer or Hootsuite?
The main difference is that Postiz is open source and can be self-hosted, so you can run the full application on your own infrastructure and keep your data in-house. It also covers a wider set of networks than most schedulers and builds its AI assistant around external models and agent tooling, including an MCP server.
