RecurPost vs SocialPilot (2026): Features & Pricing
RecurPost from ~$9/mo, SocialPilot from ~$20/mo ($17 annual). 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 |
| SocialPilot | agencies and small teams needing affordable multi-account scheduling and client reports | from ~$20/mo ($17 annual) | 1 user, 5 social accounts | 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 SocialPilot? 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 | SocialPilot | ViralHunt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social platforms covered | 10 — Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Google Business, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky | 10 — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, YouTube, Pinterest, Google Business | 12 — TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit, X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Douyin, RSS, Quora, Tumblr |
| Real-time viral content discovery | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Per-post engagement tracking | Partial | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cross-platform trending radar | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Editorial board (Kanban workflow) | Partial | Partial | ✓ |
| AI content studio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in team chat | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Browser-extension scrapers | Partial | Partial | ✓ |
| Niche / keyword tracking | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| 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 ~$20/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 SocialPilot?
SocialPilot is a social media management and scheduling platform aimed at agencies and small teams. It centralises publishing across ten networks with a content calendar, bulk CSV scheduling (up to 500 posts) and optimal-time posting, plus a unified inbox for comments and messages, analytics with white-label client reports, approval workflows, an AI content assistant and a content library. It is built to schedule and report on the accounts you own — not to discover what is going viral across networks.
- Low price with generous account and user limits vs rivals
- Bulk scheduling across 10 networks with a content calendar
- Strong agency tooling: white-label reports, approvals, unified inbox
- No viral/trending content discovery across networks
- Focused on owned accounts, not creator/competitor monitoring
- No permanent free plan
Pricing: from ~$20/mo ($17 annual)
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).
- SocialPilot if your job is agencies and small teams needing affordable multi-account scheduling and client reports. Low price with generous account and user limits vs rivals.
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 SocialPilot 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
These two land in the same shortlist for agencies on a budget, but they are built around different bets. RecurPost bets your best content is already written and should go out again. SocialPilot bets you are publishing new content across a lot of accounts and need the limits to keep up.
That is why the prices look further apart than they are. RecurPost starts around $9/mo and SocialPilot around $20/mo, but RecurPost's cheap tiers carry low account and post limits, so an agency adding client accounts meets a ceiling sooner than the headline suggests.
Pick quickly
- RecurPost if you have a library of evergreen posts and the job is keeping it in rotation without touching it every week.
- SocialPilot if you publish fresh content across many accounts and the binding constraint is how many accounts and posts a plan allows.
- Neither, if what you need is to find the content in the first place. Both are outbound publishing tools and neither watches anyone else.
Recycling is a real feature, not a cheaper kind of scheduling
Category-based evergreen recycling is RecurPost's signature and it differs from queueing posts. You file content into categories and the tool keeps drawing from them on a repeating schedule, so a library keeps working long after you stopped thinking about it. For a business whose best posts stay true for years, that is the whole product.
SocialPilot schedules and recycles too, but its centre of gravity is breadth: bulk scheduling across ten networks, a shared calendar, white-label reports and approvals for client work. It answers how one small team keeps twenty accounts fed, not how one library stays in rotation.
The honest test is what your week looks like. If you spend it writing new posts, the limits matter more than the recycling. If you spend it wishing last quarter's posts were still running, the recycling matters more than the limits.
Where the money actually goes
Both are cheap by this category's standards and both put agency features behind the tiers you would expect. SocialPilot lists from about $20/mo, or $17 billed annually, with account and user limits that are generous for the price. RecurPost lists from about $9/mo with a no-card trial, and its cheaper plans carry low account and post ceilings.
Neither runs a permanent free plan, so the trial is the only way to find out before paying. Worth planning for: two weeks is not long enough to see whether a recycling schedule produces good rotation, which is the one thing you would be buying RecurPost to do.
What both leave to you
Neither tells you what to post. They take content you already have and put it out on a schedule, and their analytics cover your own accounts. Nothing in either is watching what is working on Reddit this morning or which competitor post is climbing.
For most teams that gap is filled by a person with twenty tabs open, and it is the part of the week that does not scale. It is what ViralHunt is built for, and it sits alongside a scheduler rather than replacing one: we track the post rather than the page across eleven networks, and hand what we find to an editorial board so it becomes an assignment.
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.
- SocialPilot — best for agencies and small teams needing affordable multi-account scheduling and client reports.
- ViralHunt — best if you want to discover viral content across 12 networks and turn it into content as a team.