RecurPost vs SocialBee (2026): Features & Pricing
RecurPost from ~$9/mo, SocialBee from ~$29/mo. Real cost for a team compared. ViralHunt is $29/mo for everyone.
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | What that price covers | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RecurPost | agencies and SMBs recycling evergreen content on a set-and-forget schedule | from ~$9/mo | not verified | Free trial |
| SocialBee | solopreneurs and agencies automating consistent evergreen posting | from ~$29/mo | not verified | Free trial |
| ViralHunt | discovering viral content and turning it into posts, as a team | from $29/mo | your whole team, no per-seat charge | Yes, and it never expires |
Every price was read off the vendor's own pricing page. We show no G2 or Capterra ratings because we are not listed there, and an invented rating would destroy the only thing these pages have, which is that all of it can be checked.
Choosing between RecurPost and SocialBee? Below we break them down feature by feature, on pricing and on use case — and show where ViralHunt fits as the all-in-one alternative that tracks viral content across 12 networks.
| Feature | RecurPost | SocialBee | ViralHunt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social platforms covered | 10 — Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Google Business, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky | 10+ — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Google Business, Bluesky | 12 — TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Douyin, RSS, Quora, Tumblr |
| Real-time viral content discovery | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Per-post engagement tracking | Partial | Partial | ✓ |
| Cross-platform trending radar | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Editorial board (Kanban workflow) | Partial | Partial | ✓ |
| AI content studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in team chat | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Browser-extension scrapers | Partial | ✗ | ✓ |
| Niche / keyword tracking | ✗ | Partial | ✓ |
| Mention / sentiment listening | ✗ | Partial | Partial |
| Post scheduling & publishing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-DM (comment → DM) | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Public API + AI-agent access | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free trial | ✓ | ✓ | Free plan, no expiry |
| Starting price | from ~$9/mo | from ~$29/mo | from $29/mo |
📡 12 networks, one screen
TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit, X, Bluesky, Douyin, RSS, Quora & Tumblr — viral posts and engagement in a single radar.
🗂️ Built-in workflow
Assign any post to an editorial board, draft with the AI studio, and coordinate in team chat — no extra tools.
💸 Better value
One affordable plan instead of stacking a discovery tool + a workflow tool + a listening tool.
What is RecurPost?
RecurPost is a social media scheduler best known for content recycling: you organise evergreen posts into category-based libraries that re-publish automatically on a repeating schedule. It publishes to ten networks, with a visual calendar, bulk/CSV scheduling, per-platform customisation, best-time recommendations, AI writing tools and a Chrome extension. For agencies it adds client workspaces, approval workflows and white-label reports. It manages your outbound posting — it does not discover what is going viral across networks.
- Category-based evergreen recycling (its signature strength)
- Very affordable entry price with a no-card trial
- Agency tooling: client workspaces, approvals, white-label reports
- No viral-content discovery or trending radar
- Low account and post limits on the cheapest plans
- No social listening; analytics cover only your own accounts
Pricing: from ~$9/mo
What is SocialBee?
SocialBee is a social media scheduler built around content recycling: you sort posts into content categories, build a category-based calendar, and let evergreen posts re-publish automatically with expiration rules. It covers 10+ networks and adds an AI content assistant, RSS curation, analytics with PDF reports, a social inbox and agency workspaces with approvals. It is designed to automate consistent, always-on posting of your own content — not to discover what is going viral across networks.
- Category-based scheduling with evergreen recycling
- 10+ networks plus an AI content assistant and RSS curation
- Affordable, with agency multi-workspace plans and approvals
- No viral-content discovery or trending radar
- No public API, and the browser extension was retired (2026)
- Engagement limited to a social inbox — no true social listening
Pricing: from ~$29/mo
What is ViralHunt?
ViralHunt is a viral-content discovery platform that tracks the top-performing posts across 12 networks — TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Douyin, RSS, Quora and Tumblr — in real time. Beyond discovery, it turns trends into a team workflow with an editorial Kanban board, an AI content studio and built-in team chat — and now schedules and auto-publishes finished posts to 11 social networks, with separate brand/client projects. So a whole team can find, create and publish content in one place instead of stacking a discovery tool, a workflow tool and a scheduler.
- Tracks viral posts across 12 networks in one dashboard
- Editorial board, AI studio and team chat built in — no extra tools
- Schedules & auto-publishes to 11 networks, with multi-brand projects
- Affordable, a free plan that never expires, plus a REST API for AI agents
- Not a dedicated enterprise listening/analytics suite
- Younger brand than the incumbents
Pricing: from $29/mo
When to buy one of these two
You came here comparing two tools, not looking for a third. So first, plainly, what each one is the better buy for:
- RecurPost if your job is agencies and smbs recycling evergreen content on a set-and-forget schedule. Category-based evergreen recycling (its signature strength).
- SocialBee if your job is solopreneurs and agencies automating consistent evergreen posting. Category-based scheduling with evergreen recycling.
If either of those sentences describes your job, you have your answer and the rest of this page is not for you. What follows is for the case where neither one does.
Comparing RecurPost and SocialBee because neither one quite does what you need? ViralHunt has a free plan that does not expire, so checking is free and there is no countdown.
Try for freeThe short answer
This is the closest head-to-head pair in the category. Both are category-based evergreen recyclers, both file content into buckets and rotate them, and both sell mainly to solopreneurs and small agencies. The comparison is not what they do, it is what the price gap buys.
RecurPost lists from around $9/mo. SocialBee lists from around $29/mo. Three times the price for the same core idea, so the question is narrow and answerable: what does the extra get you, and do you need it?
What the extra actually buys
SocialBee brings more surface: ten or more networks, an AI content assistant, RSS curation that pulls posts in automatically, and multi-workspace plans with approvals for agency work. If your bottleneck is producing enough content to fill the categories, those two features aim straight at it.
RecurPost concentrates on the rotation itself plus the agency wrapper: client workspaces, approvals, white-label reports, at a lower entry price. Its constraint is the ceilings, and an agency grows into them quickly.
One difference to know before committing: SocialBee retired its public API and its browser extension in 2026. If your workflow pushes content in programmatically, or clips from the web as you browse, that door is closed and it used to be open.
The question neither product page asks you
Evergreen recycling assumes your content stays true. For a bakery posting its sourdough method, it does. For anything tied to a platform, a price, a feature or a news cycle, it does not, and a recycler will cheerfully republish something that stopped being accurate months ago.
So before choosing, count how much of your library is genuinely evergreen. If the honest answer is a third of it, the recycling engine is a smaller part of the purchase than it looks and the decision moves back to price and limits.
Both are outbound, and that is the real gap
Neither discovers anything. Their analytics report on your own accounts and neither includes social listening. They are excellent at getting content out and blind to what is coming in, which is why teams using them still run a separate manual process for finding what to post.
That is the half ViralHunt does: 2.7 million posts measured across eleven networks, ranked by the engagement they are pulling, with an editorial board so a find becomes an assignment. It does not replace a recycler and does not pretend to.
What is actually pulling engagement right now
Neither tool on this page tracks native posts, so here is the thing they cannot show you: one post per network, ranked by the engagement it is pulling, read straight off the corpus we measure.
- RedditAdding a dash of customer service175.8K upvotes
- TikTokEsperen al final 😳 #paratii #fyp @Eric Cronash @Jess Cardona @Monse Gomez4M likes
- XWe’re engaged. Through both the happy times and the difficult ones, we’ve shared so many moments together, supporting each other every step 936K likes
- InstagramProud to be part of another incredible Esports World Cup. 🎮🏆 Congratulations to all the champions, players and teams who made this event so 8.7M likes
- FacebookUn episodio de Dr. House terminó ayudando a resolver un misterioso caso médico en la vida real.137.8K reactions
Built 2026-09-03 06:14 from posts we track continuously. Refreshed by cron rather than written by hand, which is why it will say something different tomorrow.
Prices and features on this page were read off each vendor pricing page on 2026-09-03. Check them yourself: two of the three corrections we have had to make came from a vendor changing pricing with no announcement.
Which should you choose?
- RecurPost — best for agencies and SMBs recycling evergreen content on a set-and-forget schedule.
- SocialBee — best for solopreneurs and agencies automating consistent evergreen posting.
- ViralHunt — best if you want to discover viral content across 12 networks and turn it into content as a team.