Planoly vs Publer Comparison 2026
Planoly plans a visual grid before scheduling, free on mobile for 10 uploads a month, then $14 a month for Starter with extra social sets and users bought one at a time from Growth upward. Publer prices purely by social account, $5 a month each on Professional, or $4 billed annually, with every tenth account free automatically. Planoly is built around Instagram and Pinterest specifically, where the feed's look matters. Publer covers more networks including X, gated to paid plans, and its bill scales cleanly with account count rather than feature tiers.
At a glance
- Publer starts cheaper, at $5.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Planoly | Publer | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $14 | From $5 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Not stated | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 14 days | 7 days |
| API |
Planoly
Plan the grid before anything is posted
Planoly started as a visual planner for Instagram and still leads with the thing that made it: drag posts around a mock grid until the feed looks right, then schedule from there. Pinterest and TikTok came later and the link in bio is included rather than sold separately. Pricing is by social set and by user, both of which can be added one at a time, which suits somebody running two accounts rather than twenty.
Our note
Count your social sets and users before comparing tiers, since the per-unit add-ons are where this quietly gets expensive. If the grid preview is not the thing you want, a general scheduler will cover the rest for less.
Only on this side
- Covers link in bio
Publer
Scheduling priced per account, not per seat
Publer schedules to most of the networks a creator actually posts on and prices by social account rather than by seat, with every tenth account free. Recycling and auto-scheduling matter more than the calendar view for anyone running an archive of evergreen posts. The free plan is a real one, with the caveat that it will not connect X and keeps published posts for a day. Paid plans add the workspace, the bulk tools and unlimited scheduling.
Why people weigh these two
- Publer instead of Planoly
- Publer prices per account rather than per seat from $5 with a free tier.
- Planoly instead of Publer
- Planoly is built around planning the visual grid before anything posts, a stronger fit for Instagram-first accounts than Publer's broader eight-network scheduling.
Which one should you pick
Choose Planoly if the feed's visual layout is the actual job: dragging posts around a mock grid until Instagram or Pinterest looks right before scheduling, with the link in bio tool included rather than sold separately. The free plan lives on mobile with 10 uploads a month, and Starter is $14 a month, though extra social sets and users are bought one at a time from Growth upward and quietly add up. It does not connect X at all, which is not in its platform list.
Choose Publer if you post to a lot of accounts on a tight budget and the grid preview does not matter: pricing is purely per social account, $5 a month each on Professional, or $4 billed annually, with every tenth account free without asking. The free plan is real but will not connect X, which needs a paid plan here, something Publer attributes to the network's own API cost. Recycling evergreen posts automatically matters more than a calendar view for anyone running a back catalogue.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, Planoly or Publer?
- It depends entirely on how many accounts you run, since the two charge on different units. Publer is pure per-account pricing, $5 a month each with every tenth free, which tends to beat Planoly's per-social-set add-ons once you are running many accounts across many networks.
- Does either connect X (Twitter)?
- Publer does, but only on a paid plan; its free tier will not connect X, which Publer attributes to the network's own API cost. Planoly's platform list does not include X at all, so it is not an option there regardless of plan.
- Which one is built around planning how the feed looks, not just scheduling posts?
- Planoly, with its visual grid planner for dragging posts around a mock layout until Instagram or Pinterest looks right before anything publishes. Publer's listing is built around recycling, bulk scheduling and accurate previews rather than a grid-layout tool.
- How generous is each free plan?
- Planoly's free plan lives on mobile with 10 uploads a month. Publer's free plan is described as forever, with real scheduling but no X accounts and published posts kept for only 24 hours, the trade for it costing nothing indefinitely.
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