--- title: Postiz review description: Open-source social scheduler for 25+ channels, with a paid managed cloud canonical: "https://10xgtm.ai/tool/postiz" type: review category: "Content & creative production" last-verified: 2026-08-24 availability: active sources: 6 --- # Postiz review The broadest-reach social scheduler for the money: one calendar posting to 25+ networks, a real AI drafting assistant, and flat pricing that undercuts per-channel incumbents. The catch is support and reliability, not features. ## The take - **Great for:** Creators, founders, and lean teams posting across **many networks** (including rarer ones like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Reddit) who want **flat pricing**, not per-channel fees. - **The catch:** **Support is thin** and **channels disconnect**; when a network changes its rules, posting can break until Postiz catches up. The managed cloud removes self-host setup pain, but not the platform-approval hoops. - **Bottom line:** Worth it if **channel breadth and price** matter more than white-glove support. Start on the 7-day trial, connect your two hardest channels first, and confirm they post reliably before you commit. ## Specs - **Starting price:** $29/mo (Standard) - **Free tier:** 7-day trial; free if self-hosted - **Pricing model:** Flat monthly by channel count (5 to 100 channels) - **Watch out for:** Thin support, channel disconnections, and platform business-account approvals ## What you're actually getting Postiz is a **social media scheduling platform**: you queue and cross-post to 25+ networks from one shared calendar, with drag-to-reschedule and click-to-edit. A built-in **AI copilot** drafts and rewrites posts and generates images, and every plan adds team workspaces, analytics, an API with webhooks, and RSS auto-posting. There are **two ways to run it**. The managed cloud at postiz.com needs no infrastructure and starts at $29/month. Or you self-host the open-source (AGPL-3.0) build for free and run the servers yourself. Same core product; the difference is who operates it. ## Where it earns its keep **Channel breadth no incumbent matches at the price.** Where Buffer sticks to the popular networks and charges per channel, Postiz covers rarer ones (Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, Reddit) at a flat rate. On Reddit's r/selfhosted and r/SaaS it gets named alongside Mixpost as one of the few viable open-source schedulers, with practitioners singling out that rare-channel support. The **calendar is genuinely fast** (drag to reschedule, no lag), development is near-daily, and the project carries 34.9k GitHub stars. If you post to more than a couple of networks, the flat model is usually cheaper than a per-channel tool. ## Where it'll bite you **Support is the weak spot.** A self-hoster on r/selfhosted put it plainly: "Support doesn't exist pretty much; there are too many users and not enough staff." On the paid cloud you get more, but confirm response times before you rely on it for time-sensitive posting. **Connections drop.** Channels disconnect and logins expire (YouTube needs Google's app review to stay connected), and when a network changes its rules, posting can break until a fix ships. Platform approvals for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn business accounts are still on you. If you self-host, budget for **setup friction**, and first-time configuration trips many users. The managed cloud removes the infra work, not the approvals. ## What it costs, really The cloud is **flat monthly by channel count**, with unlimited posts on every tier: **Standard $29** (5 channels, 3 AI videos), **Team $39** (10 channels, unlimited members, 100 AI images), **Pro $49** (30 channels, 300 AI images), and **Ultimate $99** (100 channels, 500 AI images). A **7-day trial** is available. Self-hosting is **free** under AGPL-3.0 if you run the infrastructure. The number worth working out: at your channel count, does Postiz's flat plan beat a per-channel incumbent, and is your real constraint infra effort (favor cloud) or vendor support (favor a supported competitor)? ## Reach for it / skip it - **Reach for it if:** Creators, founders, and small teams posting across many networks who want flat pricing and broad channel coverage, plus engineers who want a self-hostable option. - **Skip it if:** You need dependable, responsive vendor support or guaranteed uptime for mission-critical posting. Postiz trades polish and support for reach and price. ## What real users said - "It has run on a $15/mo server for a few months. It does not care how many channels or teammates I add. The accounts and post history live on a machine I control, not someone else's dashboard." -- vikasprogrammer, DEV Community - "In my opinion, this is really one of the most robust, practitioner friendly social media AI automation tools." -- Tom Granot, YouTube (SyntaxGTM) - "It is not free in practice, because it spawns six to nine containers and needs a 2GB to 4GB server to stay alive. For most solo creators, the $29 a month cloud plan is the saner choice." -- Noah Albert, Creator Tribune --- Full review: https://10xgtm.ai/tool/postiz - 6 cited sources.