What Buffer costs in 2026
Read off Buffer's own pricing page on Oct 10, 2026, not from a third-party roundup. Prices change without announcement; the date is here so you know how fresh this is.
The number the pricing page does not put in large type
$50/mo (Team, 5 channels): Team is $10 per channel with unlimited users: five channels are $50, people are free. The starting price ($5/channel/mo (Essentials)) covers 1 user per channel; the free plan has 3 channels and 10 posts per channel.
What you buy with Buffer
Buffer is a simple, popular social media scheduler for planning and publishing posts across up to 11 networks including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Threads, Pinterest and Bluesky. It offers a clean queue and calendar, an AI Assistant for drafting, own-account analytics, a reply inbox, a link-in-bio page and team approvals. Its permanent free plan (3 channels, 10 posts each) makes it a favourite for solo creators. It is built to publish your content, not to discover viral posts across networks.
creators and small teams wanting simple, affordable multi-network scheduling.
- Per-channel pricing adds up for many accounts
- No viral/trend discovery, you source content yourself
- No social listening; deeper features gated to the Team plan
The same job, with the team price in plain sight
ViralHunt charges per plan, not per seat. Creator is $29 a month for one person and one brand. Studio is $99 a month for up to 4 people and 4 brands, and that price does not move when you add people. The free plan never expires, so you can compare before you pay.
How we checked this
Most comparison pages are written from marketing copy. This one is not.
- Buffer's pricing was read off their own pricing page on 2026-10-10. The date is here because prices change without announcement.
- Every capability we call partial says partial. We do not turn an almost into a tick.
- Where Buffer does something we do not, the table says so.
What we did not check, and why
- We have not run Buffer daily for weeks. We verify pricing, seat terms and documented capability; we do not publish an opinion on their interface that we have not earned.
- Enterprise tiers behind a custom quote are out of scope, because there is no public figure to verify.
And one that cost us: for months this table said Ahrefs starts at $129/mo. It starts at $29, and they also run a free tier. We were overstating a competitor's price by 4.4x, in the direction that flattered us. We found it while verifying and corrected it. If you spot another one, it is a mistake rather than a tactic.
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