Post Bridge alternatives (prices checked 13 November 2026)
Short answer: if you like what Post Bridge does (one post to many networks) but your app makes the videos and should publish them through an API, look at PostSail, Upload-Post or Postiz. If you mostly schedule by hand from a dashboard, Buffer is the cheaper start. We build PostSail, so we put it fourth and list its gaps too. Every price below comes from the vendor's own pricing page on 13 November 2026.
How we compared
- Price from each vendor's own pricing page on 13 Nov 2026. USD, monthly billing unless noted.
- What the price buys: connected accounts or channels, users, API access.
- X links. X's API pricing page charges $0.015 for each Post: Create request and $0.200 when the post contains a URL. So it matters how a tool handles links on X.
- One real downside for each tool, ours included.
| Tool | Best for | Price (vendor page, 13 Nov 2026) | API | Links on X | Main downside |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffer | Scheduling by hand, few channels | Free (3 channels); Essentials $5/channel/month, Team $10/channel/month (billed yearly) | API keys on every plan | Not stated | Priced per channel |
| Postiz | Teams that want an API, or self-hosting | $29 (5 channels) to $99 (100 channels) a month | Included (REST, webhooks, MCP) | Not stated | Standard plan has no team members |
| Upload-Post | Video-heavy posting through an API | Free (2 profiles, 10 uploads/month); paid from $24/month (5 profiles) | Included, Free too | Link posts on X: +$19/month for up to 50 | TikTok needs a paid plan; X links cost extra |
| PostSail (ours) | Apps that make short videos and post through one API call | Starter $19/month (10 accounts); Pro $49/month (50 accounts, team) | Included | Removed from the main post; first comment with a link: 10/month (Starter), 40/month (Pro) | YouTube Shorts and TikTok still wait for platform reviews |
| Zernio | Developers with many accounts, pay as you go | First 2 accounts free; $6/account (3-10), $3/account (11-100) a month | Included | X calls passed through at X's rates ($0.20 per link post) | The bill moves with usage |
| Ayrshare | Products that let their own users post | Premium $149/month (1 profile, up to 14 accounts); Launch $299; Business $599 | API-first | Not stated | High entry price for one creator |
Post Bridge itself
- Plans: Marketer $39/month (15 accounts), Operator $99/month (99 accounts, then $1 per account). The API and an MCP connection for AI agents are on Marketer.
- Links on X: the pricing page does not say how links in X posts are handled.
1. Buffer
- Best for: people who schedule by hand and use a few channels.
- Price: Free for 3 channels (10 scheduled posts per channel, 1 user). Essentials $5 per channel per month, Team $10 per channel per month, both billed yearly.
- API: API keys on every plan (1, 3 and 5 keys).
- Downside: you pay per channel. Ten channels on Essentials come to $50 a month on yearly billing.
2. Postiz
- Best for: teams that want an API, webhooks or MCP, and the option to self-host (Postiz is open source).
- Price: Standard $29 (5 channels), Team $39 (10), Pro $49 (30), Ultimate $99 (100) a month. Yearly billing lowers this to $23, $31, $39 and $79.
- API: included on every plan.
- Downside: the $29 Standard plan has no team members. Self-hosting means running and updating your own server.
3. Upload-Post
- Best for: video-heavy posting through an API.
- Price: Free (2 profiles, 10 uploads a month). Basic $24 (5 profiles), Professional $50 (25), Advanced $147 (75), Business $438 (225) a month.
- API: included on every plan, Free too.
- Downside: TikTok needs a paid plan. Link posts on X are a $19/month add-on, capped at 50 a month.
4. PostSail (ours)
- Best for: apps that make short videos and want one API call to post them to several networks, with a dashboard for the team.
- Price:
- Starter $19/month: 10 connected accounts, 1 user, 100 X posts a month.
- Pro $49/month: 50 accounts, team of up to 10, 500 X posts a month.
- 7-day free trial on both.
- API: included. Retries, duplicate protection and checks before anything goes out.
- Links on X: removed from the main post. The link can go in the first comment (a reply), and no add-on is needed: 10 first comments with links a month on Starter, 40 on Pro.
- Downside:
- We are new (opened November 2026).
- Today (13 November 2026) Bluesky and X are open. YouTube Shorts and TikTok are in review with Google and TikTok and open when the reviews finish.
- Instagram and Facebook come later, and there are no analytics yet.
5. Zernio
- Best for: developers who manage many accounts and prefer paying per account.
- Price: the first 2 accounts are free, then $6 per account (3-10) and $3 per account (11-100) a month. Ten accounts come to $48 a month.
- API: included for every account.
- Links on X: X API calls are passed through at X's own rates ($0.015 a post, $0.200 a post with a URL).
- Downside: the bill moves with usage. Messages you send above 10,000 a month and, for new accounts, automation runs above 2,000 a month cost extra.
Our own test: what posting to X and Bluesky cost and how long it took
We ran this on 10 November 2026 with our own accounts in the PostSail demo workspace. It is one run each, not a benchmark.
- X: we sent a text post and a 6-second vertical video (H.264, 1080×1920) through the X API.
- X's developer console counted 3 "Post: Create" events for the 2 posts and $0.05 in total. The only other call was the video's upload, so we read the third event as the upload: about $0.03 for the video post and $0.015 for the text post.
- Neither post had a link. Under X's pricing, a link in the post would have made it $0.20.
- Each post went out in a single request: 3.5 s for the text, 3.4 s for the video.
- Bluesky:
- A text post was live in 4.9 s, cold start included.
- The 6-second video took 20.7 s end to end: upload to Bluesky's video service, processing, then the post.
- What it means for links on X: keeping the link out of the main post is the cheap path. A reply that carries the link is still a post with a URL, so it is billed at $0.20 too. That is why tools cap or charge for it (Upload-Post $19/50, PostSail 10 or 40 included).
Method and disclosure
- We make PostSail. We put it fourth, not first, and listed what it cannot do yet.
- Prices change. We read each vendor's own pricing page on 13 November 2026.
- Publer and Metricool are left out: we could not read their full pricing pages on 11 November 2026.
- X's prices are from X's API pricing page. The timings and costs are from our own test on 10 November 2026.
Sources (read 13 November 2026):
- Post Bridge: post-bridge.com/pricing and post-bridge.com/mcp/docs
- Buffer: buffer.com/pricing
- Postiz: postiz.com/pricing
- Upload-Post: upload-post.com/pricing
- Zernio: zernio.com/pricing
- Ayrshare: ayrshare.com/pricing
- X: docs.x.com/x-api/getting-started/pricing