Postiz vs Post Bridge (2026): The Free Plan Counts Per Platform, and That Changes Everything
- Post Bridge free = 5 posts/month, counted per platform. Cross-posting to 4 networks spends 4 of your 5.
- Paid Post Bridge: $29 for 15 accounts, $49 for 50, $99 unlimited — all with unlimited posts, 10 supported networks.
- Postiz: $29 for 5 channels, $39 for 10, $49 for 30, $99 for 100 — plus a free self-hosting path and API on every tier.
- On per-account math Post Bridge Growth is about $0.98/account — the cheapest number we have measured in this category all month.
Both of these are aimed at the same person: someone with more accounts than budget who wants posts to land in several places without paying agency prices. They resolve that differently, and one of them has a free plan with a counting rule most people misread.
The free plan, read carefully
Post Bridge offers 5 posts per month free. Here is the part that changes the math: it counts per platform. Publishing one piece of content to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X is not one post against your allowance — it is four.
Which means the free tier gives a cross-poster roughly one publish per month. That is not a criticism of the pricing; it is a completely defensible way to meter it, since the vendor's cost really is per delivery. It is a criticism of how the tier gets described in comparison articles, where "5 free posts" gets printed with no footnote.
Read the counting rule before the number. "5 posts" and "5 deliveries" differ by however many networks you publish to.
Postiz's answer to free is structurally different: no free cloud tier at all (7 days of trial), but the software is open source under AGPL-3.0 and you can run it yourself with no licence fee, with the docs stating there is "no difference between the hosted version and the self-hosted version."
Paid pricing side by side
Verified against each vendor's own site on 30 August 2026. Prices change — confirm before buying.
| Postiz | Post Bridge | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | None (7-day trial) · self-host free | 5 posts/mo, counted per platform |
| Entry | $29 — 5 channels | $29 Creator — 15 accounts, unlimited posts |
| Mid | $39 — 10 · $49 — 30 | $49 Growth — 50 accounts |
| Top | $99 — 100 channels | $99 Pro — unlimited accounts |
| Networks | Broad, incl. self-hosted flexibility | 10 — X, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Bluesky, Threads, Pinterest, Google Business |
| API + webhooks | Every tier | Not the headline feature |
| Self-host | Yes | No |
The per-account column, which almost nobody runs
Divide monthly price by included accounts and the hero-price ranking inverts:
- Post Bridge Growth — $49 ÷ 50 = $0.98 per account/month
- Postiz Ultimate — $99 ÷ 100 = $0.99
- Post Bridge Creator — $29 ÷ 15 = $1.93
- Postiz Pro — $49 ÷ 30 = $1.63
- Postiz Standard — $29 ÷ 5 = $5.80
Two things fall out of that table. First, the two cheapest per-account options are the mid and top tiers, not the entry tiers — the $29 plans are the worst value per account on both products. Second, Post Bridge Growth at roughly $0.98 is the lowest per-account figure in this category we have measured this month, against SocialPilot at $4.00–5.00, Vista Social at $5.27, and Ayrshare Premium at $149 for a single profile.
One honest caveat: "account," "channel" and "profile" are not the same unit across vendors. Some vendors' "profile" bundles several networks. Always re-run the division against your own list of handles rather than trusting anyone's per-unit average, including this one.
Where each one wins
- Many accounts, no engineering appetite. Post Bridge. Fifty accounts for $49, unlimited posts, nothing to host.
- You need an API or webhooks on a small budget. Postiz — those are on every tier including $29, which is genuinely unusual.
- You want zero recurring cost and can do ops. Postiz self-hosted, with the caveat in the next section.
- Your networks are outside Post Bridge's list of ten. Then the comparison is already decided.
The self-hosting asterisk
Postiz free-to-self-host is true about the licence and misleading about the project. You have to obtain platform developer credentials yourself: Meta app review plus business verification (target accounts must be Professional), TikTok's content posting API review, X API access, LinkedIn publishing scope.
None of that is a Postiz flaw — it is what posting through official APIs requires of whoever holds the app. It just means the honest comparison to Post Bridge's $29 is not "$0," it is "$0 plus a platform-approval project." We walk through it in the real cost of self-hosted Postiz, and the wider category in open-source social automation tools.
What "50 accounts for $49" does not include
It does not include anything to put in them. Both of these are delivery: you supply the post, they schedule and publish it.
Fifty accounts posting the same content on a synchronised schedule is not fifty accounts — it is one account with fifty mirrors, and that is the easiest possible pattern for a platform to recognise. If your goal is fifty accounts that each read like a different person, the missing piece is per-account content and per-account rhythm, not more delivery capacity. That is the problem NoobClaw is built around: isolated local browser profiles under your own logins, each account generating its own content from its own niche and persona, on randomised human-like timing rather than one queue. One approach among several — but worth separating from the scheduler decision, because no scheduler on this page solves it. See also API versus browser automation.
FAQ
Is Post Bridge's free plan really only 5 posts?
Five posts counted per platform. Publishing one piece to four networks consumes four. For a cross-poster that is effectively one publish per month — useful for evaluating the product, not for running on.
Which supports more networks?
Post Bridge publishes a list of 10. Postiz's coverage is broader and, self-hosted, is bounded mainly by which developer credentials you can obtain. Check your own must-post list against both rather than comparing totals.
Cheapest option overall for 30+ accounts?
On published numbers, Post Bridge Growth ($49 for 50) at about $0.98 per account, with Postiz Ultimate ($99 for 100) close behind at $0.99 and better if you need API access. Re-verify current pricing before you commit.
The two-line test
Count your handles. Divide the plan price by that number. Then check the free tier's counting rule before you believe any free-tier claim, on either product or anywhere else.
Those two habits will do more for your tooling budget than any feature grid, because they are the two things vendors are least incentivised to put in the hero section.