An Agorapulse Alternative for Teams Who Just Ran Into the Eleventh Profile

Buffer is far cheaper and meters per channel at five dollars rather than per person. Hootsuite runs ninety nine, one hundred and ninety nine and three hundred and ninety nine a seat. Sprout runs seventy nine to three hundred and ninety nine a seat and quotes the listening on top. Agorapulse is the cheapest per seat of the three that charge per seat, at seventy nine on annual billing, and the only one holding every paid tier to the same ten profiles. All four will publish a post. None of them writes it.

No, and this is the row people miss. Standard, Professional and Advanced all connect ten social profiles. The higher tiers buy reporting, exports and permissions rather than capacity. Unlimited profiles exist only on the Custom plan, which is quoted rather than published.

Advanced is where custom date comparison ranges, advanced report exporting and the advanced social media ROI report arrive. Custom is where unlimited profiles, custom roles and permissions, a dedicated Customer Success Manager, one to one training, quarterly business reviews, priority support and AI powered reply suggestions arrive. Social profile reports are on every tier.

Whether the ten profiles you are allowed are ten profiles worth keeping. What your business should be saying next month. Whether the audience has heard it before. Who replies to the comment that lands at nine on a Friday night. None of that is a row anybody can tick. It is a job somebody has to hold.

Often you should not, and we would rather say it here than after a contract. Where somebody is already in the inbox each day and filling the calendar, we would be selling you a duplicate. Call us when the profiles start going quiet one at a time, which is how this usually begins.

At the seventh Standard seat. Six seats at seventy nine is four hundred and seventy four and seven is five hundred and fifty three, against our five hundred. On Advanced at one hundred and forty nine it happens at the fourth seat. Below those points they cost less and we will say so. The two figures are not the same kind of thing: theirs is software, ours is somebody writing and answering, and the Zoho Social license is bought separately in your name.

Both, and they are unusually clear about the difference. A user is somebody on your team and a profile is one connected account, in their own words. You pay per user per month, and the account is held to ten profiles on every paid tier regardless of how many users you buy.

As a standalone social suite the inbox is stronger and the reporting is more finished, and we would rather say that than argue it. Zoho Social wins on two narrower points. It sits inside the estate where your customers, your tickets and your campaigns already live, and it does not hold you to ten profiles. Bought from us it also arrives with somebody to run it.

That is the main reason to choose it. Social writes into CRM, Campaigns, Desk and Analytics directly, so somebody asking a buying question under a post becomes a lead on the contact record and a complaint can raise a ticket, with no integration to buy.

We count and connect the profiles and set the permissions, agree with you what each one is for, build and fill the content calendar, set up the approval workflow, monitor the streams and triage the inbox, run the brand and competitor listening, build the reporting, and wire it into CRM, Campaigns, Desk and Analytics. The figure covers the organization and does not move when you add a profile.

You do, and that is deliberate. The Social subscription is bought in your name and stays there. If you stop working with us you keep the account, every connected profile and the whole posting history, and you carry on. Zoho Assist is the only service where we carry the license.

Yes, and the profile count comes first for a reason. Reconnecting ten profiles is mechanical. Establishing that only six of them deserve to be reconnected is the part that changes what happens next, and it is the part a straight migration skips.

No. Five hundred a month, month to month, thirty days’ notice. The Agorapulse figures quoted here are the annual billing rates, and their own page shows the monthly rate is higher, so compare the commitment as well as the number.

Then buy two or three Standard seats and keep your five hundred dollars. At that size Agorapulse is comfortably the better buy and one person can hold the whole thing in their head. Come back when they cannot.

Some do, and it is rarely about volume. It shows up as separate business units needing their own approval chains, or a legal requirement to keep an auditable record of everything published.