Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
Both cover analytics. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Scheduling and monitoring for ten accounts up
Landing pages built around the A/B test
Hootsuite | Unbounce | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $99 | From $29 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | Not stated |
| Runs on (they differ) | Web, iOS, Android |
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Scheduling and monitoring for ten accounts up
Hootsuite schedules posts, answers messages from one inbox and monitors what is being said about a brand and its competitors, which is the combination that keeps it in agencies and marketing teams. The entry plan covers ten social accounts for one person; the tier above lifts that to unlimited and adds inbox automation. Analytics and approval workflows are what the upper plans are actually sold on. It is priced per user per month, so a second person on the account roughly doubles it.
Our note
The per-user pricing is what to model, because a second person roughly doubles the bill and that is where this stops competing with the cheaper schedulers. Choose it when monitoring and approvals are requirements rather than nice to have, and choose almost anything else when they are not.
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Landing pages built around the A/B test
Unbounce is a landing page builder whose reason to exist is what happens after the page is up: variants, traffic splitting and a record of which version won. Popups and sticky bars come with it. It is a conversion tool bought by people running paid traffic, and it is priced for them rather than for a first page.
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| Covers | Analytics, Social Media Management | Landing Pages & Funnels, Analytics |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
Buy this when you are spending money on traffic and want to spend less. Landingi builds a comparable page for less, and Unbounce earns the difference back only if you are actually running the tests.
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