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Hootsuite Pricing
Hootsuite costs $99 to $399 per user, per month: Standard at $99, Professional at $199 and Advanced at $399, with Enterprise quoted case by case. Because every price is per seat, a team of three on Professional pays about $597 a month. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and these are annual-billing prices: month to month costs more.
Cheaper option: Upload-Post has a free plan (10 uploads a month, 2 profiles, API included, no card) and paid plans from $24 a month ($16 billed yearly) for 5 profiles with unlimited posts, at one flat price per plan instead of per user or per channel. Start on Basic
How much does Hootsuite cost?
Every figure below was read on 16 October 2026 from www.hootsuite.com/plans. Where Hootsuite does not publish a number, this table says so instead of guessing.
Hootsuite plans compared
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $99 | per user, per month |
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| Professional | $199 | per user, per month |
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| Advanced | $399 | per user, per month |
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| Enterprise | Custom | quoted individually |
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Prices verified 16 October 2026 on www.hootsuite.com/plans. Vendors change prices without notice, so check the source before you buy.
What Hootsuite costs for a real team
The seat prices above multiplied by team size. No discounts assumed, add-ons not included.
| Team | Annual billing | Paid upfront per year | Monthly billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 seat on Standard (10 accounts) | $99/mo | $1,188 | Higher, not published |
| 3 seats on Professional | $597/mo | $7,164 | Higher, not published |
| 5 seats on Professional | $995/mo | $11,940 | Higher, not published |
| 3 seats on Advanced | $1,197/mo | $14,364 | Higher, not published |
Hootsuite pricing: the small print
The caveats the price table hides: what the headline number does not cover, and what pushes the bill up.
- The $99 / $199 / $399 figures come from Hootsuite’s own pricing FAQ on hootsuite.com/plans, where they are starting prices per user, per month. Enterprise has no public number at all.
- Every tier is billed per seat, so the bill grows with each person you add. The plan cards list Standard at 10 social accounts and Professional and Advanced as unlimited.
- There is no free plan. Standard, Professional and Advanced come with a 14-day trial that needs no card, capped at 10 to 20 posts a day per organization and without bulk scheduling.
- Standard, Professional and Advanced are all offered on monthly and annual billing. Annual is the cheaper of the two on a per-user, per-month basis.
- A nonprofit discount exists on some plans; the page does not spell out which ones or by how much.
- The prices on hootsuite.com/plans are shown on annual billing and the month-to-month rate is not published, so the team table below uses the annual figures. Check the live page before you commit to a plan.
What the same thing costs on Upload-Post
One profile is one account on every one of the 22 supported platforms, and the API is included on every plan, Free included.
Hootsuite’s entry point is $99 per user, per month, for up to 10 social accounts. On Upload-Post, the equivalent starting point is $0: the Free plan is a real plan, not a trial, with 10 uploads a month, 2 profiles and full API access, no card required. If you need unlimited posting, Basic is $24/month ($16/month on annual billing) with 5 profiles, and a profile means one account on every one of the 22 supported platforms. So 5 profiles is up to 5 accounts per platform, not 5 accounts total. Professional at $50/month ($33 annual) covers 25 profiles and adds whitelabel. The honest caveat: Hootsuite is a full social media management suite with an inbox, listening and team workflows, while Upload-Post is a posting and scheduling API. If you are buying Hootsuite for the publishing, you are paying suite prices for it.
| Upload-Post plan | Monthly | Annual (per mo) | Uploads | Profiles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 10 uploads/mo | 2 |
| Basic | $24/mo | $16/mo | Unlimited | 5 |
| Professional | $50/mo | $33/mo | Unlimited | 25 |
| Advanced | $147/mo | $118/mo | Unlimited | 75 |
| Business | $438/mo | $350/mo | Unlimited | 225 |
The Free plan is free forever, no card, with API access included.
Keep reading: Upload-Post vs Hootsuite · Upload-Post pricing comparison · The Upload-Post social media API
Hootsuite pricing FAQ
The questions people actually search for, answered with the numbers above.
How much does Hootsuite cost per month?
Hootsuite’s published plans are Standard at $99, Professional at $199 and Advanced at $399, each per user, per month on annual billing. Enterprise is custom-priced and has no public figure. A team of three on Professional therefore pays about $597 a month. Those are the numbers on hootsuite.com/plans, checked 16 October 2026.
Is there a free Hootsuite plan?
No. Hootsuite has no free plan, only a 14-day trial without a card, limited to 10 to 20 posts a day. After that the cheapest plan is Standard at $99 per user, per month. If a free plan is what you are after, Upload-Post’s Free plan is free forever with 10 uploads a month, 2 profiles and API access, and it does not ask for a card.
How many social accounts does the $99 Hootsuite plan include?
Standard, the $99 per user plan, lets you manage up to 10 social accounts. Professional and Advanced list unlimited social accounts, so on those tiers the price is driven by the number of seats, not accounts.
Is Hootsuite cheaper if you pay annually?
Yes. Standard, Professional and Advanced can all be billed monthly or annually, and the annual option comes out to a lower per-user monthly rate. Hootsuite does not publish the exact annual percentage in the FAQ, so treat the $99 / $199 / $399 figures as the monthly-billing reference points.
What is the cheapest alternative to Hootsuite for publishing?
If you only need to publish and schedule, an API-first tool is a fraction of suite pricing. Upload-Post starts free and its cheapest paid plan is $24/month ($16/month annual) with unlimited uploads across 22 platforms. See the Hootsuite alternative breakdown and the pricing comparison for the side-by-side numbers.
Test the full API before paying anything
Upload-Post's Free plan is a real plan, not a trial: 10 uploads a month, forever, with API access to 22 platforms and no credit card. Upgrade when you outgrow it.
Hootsuite prices verified 16 October 2026 on www.hootsuite.com/plans. We do not speak for Hootsuite; check their page for the current figures.