Best social media scheduler for agencies, priced per client

The best social media scheduler for agencies is one that prices your clients, not your headcount: SocialPilot Premium covers 25 accounts, 6 users, client approvals and white-label reports for $85 a month billed yearly, and Sendible gives each client its own workspace with unlimited users. If sign-off is your bottleneck, pick Planable; if you run many small clients on a budget, Metricool Advanced covers up to 15 brands for $53.

What this means for you

Agency costs grow in two ways: per person on your team, or per client you add. Per-seat suites get expensive fast once three people log in. Flat plans and per-workspace plans stay cheaper, but check what each one caps: accounts, workspaces, posts or users.

How we picked: the criteria

Every tool is judged on the same six things:

1. Price for a realistic setup: 5 clients, 25 social profiles, 3 people on your team, and clients approving posts. Yearly billing first, monthly in brackets. A second setup below covers 10 clients.
2. Client workspaces: can each client get its own space and see only their own posts?
3. Approvals: can a client sign off, ideally without paying for a seat?
4. White label and reports: branded reports, or a dashboard under your name.
5. Networks: does it publish where your clients post?
6. Free plan or trial: free agency plans are rare, so trial terms count.

Prices come from each tool's row in our directory, read from the vendor's own pricing page. The first pick in each group was re-checked on 9 November 2026. PlanPost is this site's own product; it gets the same criteria and is listed last in its group.

What a social media scheduler for agencies costs: 5 clients, 3 people

With Planable's Analytics add-on on each workspace, the bill is 5 x ($49 + $12) = $305 on the yearly toggle, or 5 x ($59 + $14) = $365 monthly.

At 10 clients, 50 profiles and 5 people

• SocialPilot Ultimate: $170 billed yearly ($200 monthly) for 50 accounts, unlimited users and advanced white label.
• Zoho Social Agency: $230 ($320) still fits: 10 clients, 5 team members, agency-branded reports.
• Sendible Elite: $254.15 ($299) for 15 workspaces and 90 profiles. White label is a paid add-on with no published price.
• Planable Pro: 10 x $49 = $490 ($590 monthly), before analytics.
• Hootsuite or Sprout Social Advanced: 5 x $399 = $1,995 a month billed yearly, each.

Metricool Advanced stays at $53 up to 15 brands, but white label is only on its Custom plan, which has no published price.

The best social media scheduler for agencies, by need

One flat price with client approvals and white-label reports

SocialPilot Premium is the pick for most small agencies. $85 a month billed yearly ($100 monthly) buys 25 accounts, 6 users, unlimited client seats, client approval workflows, bulk scheduling and white-label reports on 10 networks. Extra accounts are $4 a month and extra users $5. The trial is 14 days with no card. More in the full SocialPilot review.

Doesn't suit: agencies that need an API or single sign-on (both are Enterprise only), or anyone hoping to save on Standard, which has no client approvals.

• Zoho Social Agency: $230 a month billed yearly for 10 clients, 5 team members, a client portal and agency-branded reports.

Every client gets its own workspace

Sendible is built around client workspaces. Every plan has unlimited users, approvals start on Plus ($84.15 billed yearly for 3 workspaces and 18 profiles), and client users only see their own dashboards to preview and approve posts. For 5 clients you need Premium at $169.15 ($199 monthly), which also adds custom branded reports.

Doesn't suit: teams that manage only their own brand, agencies with clients on Pinterest (not on Sendible's network list), or anyone who wants white label below Elite.

• CloudCampaign Team: $165 billed yearly ($199) for 5+ brand workspaces, unlimited users and accounts, and standard white-labeling. Its current scheduling page doesn't list X.
• ContentStudio Agency Unlimited: $99 billed yearly ($139) for 25 accounts and unlimited workspaces and users. White label costs $50 a month on top.

Client sign-off is the bottleneck

Planable is built for approvals. Every plan has unlimited users, Pro adds required approvals, and you pay per workspace: $49 a month billed yearly ($59 monthly), one workspace per client. The trial is 50 posts with no time limit and no card, so you can run a real client through it first. See the full Planable review.

Doesn't suit: high-volume clients, because Pro caps each workspace at 150 posts a month, or agencies that want analytics and an inbox in the base price, since both are add-ons per workspace.

• Kontentino Starter: $59 a month billed yearly for 10 profiles and 3 users, built around client and internal approvals.

Many small clients on a tight budget

Metricool Advanced is the low-cost reporting pick for lots of small brands. $53 a month billed yearly ($67 monthly) covers up to 15 brands, with team and client management, roles, post approval, customizable report templates and the API. See the full Metricool review.

Doesn't suit: clients who post a lot to X (each X account is $10 a month extra), brands with two profiles on the same network, or agencies that want white label, which is Custom only.

• Pallyy Agency: $79 billed yearly ($99) for 10 social sets and 3 users with custom reports; extra sets and users are $10 a month each.
• PlanPost Pro: $33.25 a month billed yearly ($39 monthly) for unlimited accounts and posts and up to 10 team members, with review links clients can open without an account. Our data lists it for solo founders and small teams, not agencies: approvals are marked Beta, there's no inbox, and it doesn't cover Pinterest, Bluesky or Google Business Profile.

You also need an inbox, reviews and listening

Vista Social is a full suite at a flat price. Advanced is $159.17 a month billed yearly ($1,910 a year, or $199 monthly) for 30 profiles and 3 users, with the social inbox and review management that adds Yelp and Tripadvisor to Facebook and Google Business reviews. Listening is a $75 a month add-on. The trial is 14 days with no card.

Doesn't suit: solo freelancers on a tight budget (Professional starts at $79.17), agencies with clients on X, which costs $29 a month extra, or anyone who needs white-label reports below Scale ($359.17 billed yearly).

The per-seat suites cost far more for the same team. Agorapulse Standard is 3 x $79 = $237 a month billed yearly, but for only 10 profiles. Hootsuite and Sprout Social are both $1,197 a month for 3 people once clients need to approve posts (see Hootsuite vs Sprout Social). Moving off one? Read Hootsuite alternatives, Sprout Social alternatives or Buffer alternatives.

The scheduler picker narrows this list by your networks, team size and budget.

What to do next

• Business owners: If you post for one business, you don't need an agency tool. See the best social media scheduler for small business.
• Marketers and agencies: Count clients, profiles and people, then price SocialPilot Premium and Sendible Premium against your current bill. Run one real client's approvals through a trial before you commit to yearly billing.
• Developers: Nothing new. Each platform's API rules are in the API changelog.