Agorapulse is really two products in one coat: a solid scheduler, and an inbox and ROI reporting engine that are genuinely the best reasons to buy it. The catch is how the bill grows. Every plan is priced per user at the same full rate, $99 to $199 a month per seat, approvals only arrive on the Professional plan, multi-step workflows sit on the quote-priced Custom tier, and X, listening, and advocacy are all add-ons. In July 2026 the free plan went away too.
Maeve Social covers the part lean agencies actually run every week, planning, internal approvals, client review, and publishing, at one flat price with seats included. If your team lives in the inbox and reports ROI to a board, stay with Agorapulse. This page is for everyone paying per seat for a sign-off workflow.
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Agorapulse is built around engagement: an inbox that pulls comments, DMs, mentions, Google reviews, and ad comments into one queue, and ROI reports that connect Google Analytics to show what social returned in traffic and sales. If replying is most of your day, that depth is the product and it is worth paying for.
The fit breaks for a lean agency whose real workflow is getting content planned, approved by the client, and out the door. Approvals start on the Professional plan at $119 per user on annual billing, every teammate who touches the workflow is another full-rate seat, external review means the Advanced plan's shared calendars, and the multi-step approval workflow agencies actually want is quoted on the Custom tier. Maeve Social puts internal approvals and client review links on its Standard plan, $99 a month flat for five people, and clients approve from a browser without an account.
The six differences a lean agency actually feels after leaving a per-seat suite.
Agorapulse pricing last checked July 2026 and shown in USD. Plans on both sides can change, so check the live pricing pages before you decide.
| Feature | Agorapulse | Maeve Social |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms supported | Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, and Google Business Profile, with X sold as a paid add-on | Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, TikTok, YouTube, Threads |
| Content calendar | Yes, a unified calendar on all plans, with publishing queues on Advanced and up | Yes, drag-and-drop calendar, board, and list with platform previews |
| Workflow feel | An engagement suite built around the inbox, with publishing attached | A planning and publishing workspace built for lean teams |
| Pricing model | Per user, every seat at the same full rate with no volume discount, plus quote-priced add-ons | Flat monthly price with seats included by plan, never per seat |
| Social inbox | The signature feature: comments, DMs, mentions, Google reviews, and ad comments in one queue with assignment and collision detection | Comments and DMs from every platform in one queue |
| Analytics and reporting | Strong, including ROI reports that pull Google Analytics data to tie posts to traffic, leads, and sales | Built-in analytics plus a free report template |
| Social listening | A quote-priced Advanced Listening add-on, outside the plans | Not built in |
| Approval workflows | Simple approvals from the Professional plan, bulk approve on Advanced, multi-step workflows on the Custom plan | Internal approvals and client review on the Standard plan and above |
| External client review | Shared calendars, from the Advanced plan | Client review batches an outside reviewer opens without a seat, with comments and emoji reactions, on the Standard plan |
| Instagram grid planning | A grid preview, from the Professional plan | Yes, a free Instagram grid planner tool and in-app feed preview |
| Link in bio | PulseLink, from the Professional plan | Not built in |
| AI agent control (MCP server) | No MCP server; a Reports open API on the Custom plan only | A first-party MCP server with read, write, and confirm-before-publish scopes for Claude, Codex, and Cursor |
| Command-line interface (CLI) | No CLI | A maintained CLI on npm, signed in with a device-flow token |
| Spreadsheet-style planning | CSV bulk scheduling up to 200 posts on Advanced and up, but no live planning table | A Workbench planning table that edits captions, dates, pillars, and assignees inline across many posts |
| Free plan | Discontinued in July 2026. The free tier is now Archie, the AI content assistant, rather than the management product | No free plan; every plan has a 3-day full-feature trial |
| Starting price | $99 per user per month for Standard ($79 on annual billing), with every plan capped at 10 social profiles and extra profiles at $10 to $15 a month each | From $25 per month flat, all channels included and no monthly post cap, with a 3-day full-feature trial |
| Free trial | 30 days, no card required | 3 days |
Usually the per-user bill. Agorapulse charges the same full rate for every seat, $99 to $199 per user per month, so the price climbs with the team rather than the work. On top of that, a run of headline features live outside the plans as quote-priced add-ons: social listening, employee advocacy, competitive benchmarking, and even full X management. And in July 2026 the permanent free plan was discontinued, which removed the cheap way in.
As of July 2026: Standard is $99 per user per month, or $79 on annual billing. Professional is $149, or $119 annual. Advanced is $199, or $149 annual. There is no volume discount, every plan includes 10 social profiles, and extra profiles cost $10 to $15 a month each. A three-person team on Professional with annual billing pays $357 a month.
For teams, yes, by a wide margin. Maeve Social's Standard plan is $99 a month flat and covers five team members with approvals and client review included, which is the same money as one Agorapulse Standard seat on monthly billing. The same five people on Agorapulse Professional cost $595 a month on annual billing. Solo, the gap is smaller but still real: Maeve Social starts at $25 a month against Agorapulse's $79 annual-billing floor.
Not all of them, and the gaps matter if engagement is your job. Agorapulse's inbox is deeper, with Google review moderation, ad-comment moderation, saved replies, and collision detection, and its ROI report ties posts to Google Analytics traffic and sales, which Maeve Social does not do. Maeve Social covers planning, scheduling, approvals, client review, an inbox, a media room, and analytics with reports, at a flat price. If you live in the inbox all day, Agorapulse earns its cost.
No. The permanent free plan was discontinued on July 6, 2026. The free tier that remains is the Archie plan, which is Agorapulse's AI content assistant with limited publishing access rather than the management product. The 30-day trial of the paid product is still available. Maeve Social has no free plan either; every plan comes with a 3-day full-feature trial.
Teams that spend more time replying than posting. If several people work a high-volume inbox, if Google reviews and ad comments need moderating in the same queue, or if you have to show an executive what social returned in actual traffic and sales, Agorapulse is built for exactly that and the per-user price can be worth it.
Lean agencies and teams whose week centers on planning, approval, and publishing. Content moves from draft to internal approval to client sign-off to the calendar, clients approve from a browser link without a seat, and adding a teammate does not add $79 to $199 to the monthly bill.
Yes. Connect your social accounts to Maeve Social and start scheduling. Published content stays on each platform; Maeve Social handles future posts, not historical ones, and you can run both tools in parallel until the switch feels safe.
