Agorapulse Alternatives: Shared Profiles, Seats and AI Work
- Agorapulse paid plans price users individually, but the ten included profile slots are shared across all users.
- The former Free plan ended July 6, 2026; free Archie is a different creation-led offer with restricted permissions and networks.
- Archie’s free plan lists Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube; omitting YouTube misstates its current scope.
- Compare a management requirement with a management plan and a production requirement with an actual output test.
Agorapulse alternatives should be compared against the job and the unit being charged. A second paid user does not double the included profile pool, and the current free Archie offer is not the old Free management plan. This review explains those conditions first, then compares focused options for channel publishing, collaboration and content production. Published allowances are not measured outcomes from our testing.
Two paid users share the same ten included profiles. Count seats and destinations in separate columns.
Understand paid seats and shared profile capacity
Agorapulse’s current per-user help article lists Standard at $99 per user per month with monthly billing, Professional at $149 and Advanced at $199. The corresponding annual-billing rates are $79, $119 and $149 per user per month. Annual subscriptions commit for twelve months and are billed upfront. These are not annual totals, and adding a user is charged at the same plan rate as the first user. Custom pricing requires a quote.
The same help article explicitly says the ten social-profile slots included with Standard, Professional and Advanced are shared across all users. Adding another user leaves the organization with ten included profile slots, rather than twenty. More than ten profiles requires a separate add-on. The profile-add-on price is not established by that article, so this comparison does not invent a total for a twenty-profile organization.
For a bounded two-user Standard example with ten shared profiles, monthly subscription arithmetic is two times $99, or $198 before other charges. On the stated annual basis, two times $79 times twelve is $1,896 upfront. The $158 monthly equivalent is not a month-to-month offer. An organization needing twenty profiles would also require a verified profile-add-on quote; do not present $198 as its complete subscription.
Within an organization, users share one subscription plan. A lower tier for one colleague and a higher tier for another is not the configuration described by the help article. Record the actual operators, connected destinations and required features before comparing a per-user suite with a per-channel or bundled-account tool.
- Paid users: Standard $99/user/month. Monthly billing; annual rate $79/user/month, paid upfront for 12 months.
- Included profiles: 10 shared across all users. Adding a paid user does not add another ten profile slots.
- Free Archie: Up to 50 profiles; four networks. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube; new posts use Archie.
- Creation input: Begin with a source asset. Creation scope and permissions differ from the full management suite.
The free Archie plan is a different offer
Agorapulse says its former Free plan ceased to be available to new or existing Free users starting July 6, 2026. Its replacement choice includes a free version of Archie, the AI content-creation tool. Do not carry the former Free plan’s network, feature or profile assumptions into that offer. A name containing free does not establish the same management workflow.
The current Archie-plan help article lists one owner with full permissions and up to one hundred Archie-only users with limited permissions for connecting profiles, scheduling and publishing. It allows up to fifty profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube only. YouTube belongs in that list. The plan also lists the publishing calendar and drafts, and says new posts can only be created through Archie.
The allowance is ten credits per month, with a note that credit usage is not tracked during the beta phase. That temporary note does not establish a permanent unlimited allowance or the cost of every future action. The article says no credit card is required to activate the plan. Confirm the current account screen and the workflow you need rather than treating a beta allowance as a long-term production budget.
Archie begins with an existing source asset, such as an article, PDF, video or audio file. The general product article describes content repurposing and distinguishes it from the Composer’s Writing Assistant, which helps draft or improve an individual post. General Archie support and the free plan’s four-network restriction are different scopes. This review does not expand the free plan to every destination mentioned on a general feature page.
Compare alternatives by the missing capability
Buffer is worth considering for channel publishing and collaboration when its destinations and controls fit. Its official graduated monthly rates produce $100 for twenty Essentials channels or $160 for twenty Team channels: the first ten channels cost $6 or $12 each, and the next ten cost $4 each. Essentials lists one user; Team lists unlimited members and approvals. These are channel subscriptions, not a quote for Agorapulse’s complete inbox, listening or reporting capability.
SocialPilot is another account-based option. Monthly Essentials lists seven accounts at $30 and one user; extra accounts come in five-account bundles at $20. Ten required accounts therefore cost $50 in that example and leave twelve slots. Standard lists fifteen accounts at $50, three users and approvals. Premium lists twenty-five at $100, six users and CSV bulk scheduling. Confirm the required controls rather than choosing only by the lowest sufficient profile count.
Keep Agorapulse under consideration when its management functions and selected plan meet your actual requirement. Its general Archie article describes an additional creation layer while inbox, listening, analytics and reporting remain part of the existing management environment. This does not mean free Archie includes every paid management feature. Nor is it accurate to claim Agorapulse cannot assist with creation because it began as a management suite.
For a local video-production requirement, test NoobClaw against the finished output rather than against a profile-price table. Its example below has a narrower scope than these management subscriptions. Choosing a production tool does not establish that it can replace account permissions, approval records, client reporting or public publishing.
Build a comparable trial and budget
Write the requirement before opening a trial: needed profile types, authorized operators, approval path, a representative content format and the report or inbox task that matters. Then observe the actual task from input through review to the final result. A free creation workspace can be useful while still failing an inbox requirement; a paid management plan can work well while leaving your video-production task unresolved.
List the base subscription, user count, profile add-ons, annual commitment, media credits and recurring editing time separately. Use a small controlled test rather than a full client migration. Check what happens when a format is rejected, permission expires or an approver requests changes. Retain the old queue until the selected alternative passes the requirement and your account-specific export and cancellation conditions are understood.
Do not compare nominal profile capacity with audience results. This review offers no observed click, follower, revenue or enforcement outcome for these alternatives. Its numbers establish price arithmetic under stated conditions, while the production example establishes one local output. The decision needs both the relevant capacity and evidence that the actual job works.
For the related content and workflow decisions, read SocialBee Alternatives: Prices, Approvals and Content Work and Buffer Pricing at Scale: Channel Tiers and Team Costs. Each review has its own evidence and scope.
The separate NoobClaw production test
NoobClaw publishes this comparison and has a commercial interest in the recommendation. Its public execution record documents one English script of 441 characters producing a 32.6-second local MP4, 1080 by 1920 pixels at 30 frames per second, with voiceover and subtitles. That supports investigating a script-to-video production task. It does not demonstrate connected client accounts, an approved publishing integration, a migration, a reporting suite, account protection, audience growth or paid customers. Some stock footage did not closely match the script, and the record does not establish a complete audiovisual or licensing review. Provide a representative brief and inspect the finished file, editing effort and usable output before choosing it for production. Require a separate destination-specific permissions and publishing demonstration before choosing any tool for account management. Keep your existing management workflow when it already does the job; a local video example does not justify removing it.
NoobClaw publishes this article. Its script-to-video guide and public creative execution record document a local video result, not external-platform publication. Check the current product offer against the supported action you need.
Frequently asked questions
Do two paid users receive twenty included profiles?
No. The per-user help article says the ten included profile slots are shared across all users. Additional users and additional profiles are separate purchases.
Does the free Archie plan support YouTube?
Yes, its current plan article lists Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. New posts must be created through Archie, and Archie-only users have limited permissions.
Is Archie just a blank AI composer?
The general Archie article says it starts from a source asset and generates adapted posts. It distinguishes that workflow from the Composer’s single-post Writing Assistant. The free plan has its own scope.
What is the best replacement?
There is no universal replacement established here. Choose against the needed management or production capability, verify the account-specific quote and test the complete required workflow.
Sources
Official material reviewed on October 11, 2026. Document conditions apply to their stated service and scope; the editorial examples are explicitly hypothetical.