Metricool Alternatives That Are Actually Free (and the LinkedIn Catch)
- Metricool free is 1 brand, 20 posts/month, 30 days of analytics, and it does not include LinkedIn or Twitter/X — that exclusion is the reason most people go looking.
- Paid Metricool starts around €16–20/mo for 5–10 brands, with X and advanced analytics sold as add-ons on the Starter tier.
- If LinkedIn is what you need, the honest free options are self-hosted (Postiz) — because LinkedIn API access is expensive for vendors to give away.
- Metricool is an analytics product with scheduling attached. If you only wanted scheduling, you are paying for the half you do not use.
Most people do not go looking for a Metricool alternative because Metricool is bad. They go looking because they connected their accounts, went to schedule a LinkedIn post, and found the button was not there.
That is not a bug. Metricool's free plan excludes LinkedIn and Twitter/X (verified on metricool.com/pricing, 2026-08-30). And once you know why, the whole free-scheduler market becomes much easier to read.
What Metricool free actually gives you
- 1 brand
- 20 scheduled posts per month
- 5 competitor profiles tracked
- 30 days of analytics history
- AI assistant and their MCP integration
- No LinkedIn. No Twitter/X.
Paid starts around €16–€20/mo (Starter, 5–10 brands, unlimited publishing, LinkedIn enabled, X as an add-on) and €43–€67/mo for Advanced with team roles, approvals and API access.
Twenty posts a month is five a week. If you run more than one account, you will hit that ceiling in the first fortnight — and you will hit the LinkedIn wall on day one.
Why LinkedIn is the network free plans always drop
This is worth understanding because it predicts every other vendor's behaviour. LinkedIn and X have the tightest and most expensive third-party publishing access of the major networks. Every connection a vendor gives away on a free plan has a real cost to that vendor.
So the rule is: the networks a free plan excludes are the ones that cost the vendor money, not the ones you use least. Expect the same pattern everywhere, and stop treating it as a quirk of one product.
The free alternatives, and what each takes instead
| Option | LinkedIn on free? | What it takes instead |
|---|---|---|
| Postiz self-hosted (AGPL-3.0) | Yes, if you get your own LinkedIn developer access | A server, and the whole platform-approval process on your shoulders |
| Mixpost Lite | No — Facebook Pages, X and Mastodon only | Everything else is behind the $299 Pro license |
| Post Bridge free | LinkedIn is supported on the platform; free tier is 5 posts/month total | Volume — and each network counts as its own post |
| Metricool paid Starter | Yes | €16–20/mo, and X is a separate add-on |
| SocialPilot / Vista Social | Paid only | No free tier at all; $20/mo and $79/mo entry points |
(Vendor pages verified 2026-08-30. These tiers move — confirm current terms.)
A question worth asking before you switch at all
Metricool is fundamentally an analytics product with scheduling attached — competitor tracking, reports, Looker Studio connectors, PDF exports. That is why its free tier caps posts so aggressively: publishing is not the thing it is selling.
So ask yourself honestly: are you using the reports?
- Yes → you are on the right product; the €16–20 Starter tier is probably the cheapest way to unblock yourself.
- No → you have been evaluating analytics tools for a scheduling problem, and half of every price you have looked at was for reporting you never open.
And if the real problem is content, not scheduling
There is a third possibility worth naming. If you keep hitting a 20-post ceiling with time to spare, scheduling is not your constraint. If you keep not hitting it because you ran out of things to post, then no scheduler on this page changes anything.
NoobClaw sits on that second problem: it is a desktop app on your own machine where you log into your own accounts in locally isolated fingerprint browser profiles (nothing handed to a third party), and each account generates its own content from its own niche, persona and keywords rather than one post copied across. Analytics and reporting are not what it does — if that is what you value in Metricool, keep Metricool.
FAQ
Does Metricool free include LinkedIn?
No. LinkedIn is enabled from the Starter tier upward, and X is offered as an add-on on Starter. This is the most common reason people look for alternatives.
Is there a free Metricool alternative with unlimited posts?
Only self-hosted open source, and "unlimited" there is bounded by your own platform API quotas rather than by the tool. Hosted free plans all cap volume, accounts, or networks.
Is Metricool's open source alternative any good?
Postiz is the closest in spirit — active project, AGPL-3.0, no feature gap between hosted and self-hosted per its docs — but it is a publishing tool, not an analytics suite. You would not be replacing Metricool's reporting.
The one thing to do today
Open Metricool and check whether you have looked at a report in the last 30 days. If you have not, you are shopping in the wrong category — and the cheapest fix is a pure scheduler, not a cheaper analytics suite.
Related: Publer free alternatives, what Postiz self-hosting really costs, Hootsuite alternatives.