Postiz is a genuinely good open-source, self-hostable scheduler, if you're happy running a server and wiring up your own OAuth apps. Social media studio is the fully-managed alternative: nothing to install, a unified social inbox, UGC/avatar video and real human support.
Start 7-day free trialPostiz's only free path is self-hosting, Docker, a VPS, Postgres/Redis/Temporal, plus creating and maintaining your own developer app for each network. Social media studio is hosted and live in minutes, with nothing to run or bring.
Postiz is a scheduler, it has no unified inbox for comments, DMs or mentions. Social media studio manages all of them with webhook ingestion (Meta/Twitter/LinkedIn) plus an extended inbox for Slack, Telegram, Discord, Bluesky, Mastodon and Reddit.
Both tools generate AI text, images and short video. Social media studio adds a dedicated UGC/avatar video studio powered by HeyGen and D-ID, talking-avatar ads with a hook and sound library, on Standard plans and up.
Postiz reviewers call out missing approval workflows, thin role permissions and Discord-only support. Social media studio ships approval workflows (Standard+), per-workspace agency branding on every plan, and a ticketed help desk with a human on the other end.
Feature-by-feature comparison. Postiz cloud plan referenced = Standard; self-hosting the open-source build is a separate, free-but-DIY path.
Free plan or trial
Open-source / self-hostable
Connected destinations
AI text, image & video
UGC / avatar video (HeyGen, D-ID)
Unified social inbox
Analytics + best-time-to-post
Bio-link page included
Approval workflows
Public API / MCP / n8n
Starting paid price
Compare current Social media studio plans below. Prices come from our live plan catalog.
Postiz pricing from its public pricing page, check there for current rates.
No import wizard needed, moving from Postiz is smaller than it sounds.
Connect the same social accounts in Social media studio via each platform's official OAuth, no passwords shared, a couple of minutes per platform.
Anything already scheduled in Postiz still publishes from there. There's no hard cutover, run both side by side while the old queue empties.
Plan your next batch here, calendar, AI captions, approvals and the unified inbox. Cancel Postiz once its queue is empty.
Start with a 7-day free trial. A credit card is required, but nothing is charged until the trial ends. Your selected plan renews automatically after 7 days unless you cancel in Billing. There is no free plan.
If you're technical, self-hosting Postiz can be close to free: it's open-source under AGPL-3.0 and runs on a cheap VPS via Docker. The honest catch is the work, you maintain the server (Postgres, Redis, Temporal, Node), bring your own AI provider keys, and create and update a developer OAuth app for every social network. Social media studio trades that DIY burden for a managed service: there is no free plan, and every subscription starts with a 7-day free trial. If you'd rather not subscribe at all, the Lifetime deal is a one-time $299 payment (launch offer, first 100 customers). Compare setup and feature scope, not just the sticker price.
The biggest gaps are engagement and governance. Postiz is a scheduler with no unified inbox, no approval workflows and limited role permissions. Social media studio adds a unified social inbox (comments, DMs and mentions) with webhook ingestion plus an extended inbox for Slack, Telegram, Discord, Bluesky, Mastodon and Reddit, along with approval workflows, deeper analytics with best-time-to-post, dedicated UGC/avatar video, and a ticketed help desk.
Yes, this is parity, not a Social media studio advantage. Postiz ships a public REST API, an official MCP server, an n8n node, webhooks and AI text/image/video generation. Social media studio matches all of that (API access from the Lite plan; MCP with 200+ tools, CLI and n8n node on Standard and up). The difference is that Social media studio's surfaces are fully managed, whereas getting the most from Postiz often means self-hosting and supplying your own keys.
Connect the same social accounts in Social media studio and let any posts already queued in Postiz publish while you ramp down, no need for a hard cutover. If you self-hosted Postiz, you can keep the container running until your last scheduled posts go out, then decommission the server. Social media studio starts capturing analytics the moment each account connects, so you don't lose forward history during the switch.
Stop juggling tabs, draft, customize, and publish to 20 platforms from a single calendar.