What Hootsuite costs in 2026

Read off Hootsuite's own pricing page on Sep 2, 2026, not from a third-party roundup. Prices change without announcement; the date is here so you know how fresh this is.

Starting price$99/moWhat that price covers: 1 user

A team of five$495/mo5 users on Standard, priced per user

Free trialYes, time-limited

The number the pricing page does not put in large type

$495/mo: 5 users on Standard, priced per user. The starting price ($99/mo) covers 1 user.

What you buy with Hootsuite

Hootsuite is one of the best-known social media management tools: schedule and publish posts to your own accounts, manage a unified inbox, run analytics and basic social listening from a single dashboard. At its core it is a scheduler built around the accounts you own, not a tool for discovering viral content across networks or surfacing trends you do not already follow.

Best for

scheduling and managing your own social accounts.

Where it falls short

Scheduler-first, not viral discovery
Per-seat pricing adds up fast
No cross-network viral radar

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 7 people and 5 brands, and that price does not move when you add people. The free plan never expires, so you can compare before you pay.

$99/moA team of five on ViralHunt: Studio, up to 7 users, no per-seat charge

$495/moHootsuite: 5 users on Standard, priced per user

See ViralHunt's plans → ViralHunt vs Hootsuite, feature by feature → The best Hootsuite alternatives →

How we checked this

Most comparison pages are written from marketing copy. This one is not.

Hootsuite's pricing was read off their own pricing page on 2026-09-02. 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 Hootsuite does something we do not, the table says so.

What we did not check, and why

We have not run Hootsuite 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 We verify pricing, seat terms and documented capability; we do not publish an opinion on their interface that we have not earned.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.

Frequently asked

Does Hootsuite have a free plan?

Hootsuite offers a time-limited free trial, not a permanent free plan. ViralHunt has a free plan that never expires.

How much does Hootsuite cost for a team of five?

$495/mo: 5 users on Standard, priced per user. The starting price ($99/mo) covers 1 user.

Is there a cheaper Hootsuite alternative?

ViralHunt from $29 a month for one person, or $99 a month for a team of up to 7 with 5 brands, with a viral-content radar across 12 networks, an editorial board and scheduling. Compare them feature by feature on the comparison page.

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