RecurPost vs Planoly (2026): A Daily Post Cap vs a Network Bundle

RecurPost counts accounts and rations posts per day. Planoly counts bundles of networks and rations nothing. Those two sentences contain the entire comparison, and they produce opposite recommendations depending on one fact about you: whether your accounts are spread across platforms or stacked on one.

The prices

RecurPost from its pricing page 3 September 2026; Planoly from its pricing page 4 September 2026. Re-check before paying — both revise these.

The one question that decides it

How many accounts do you have on your busiest single network?

That number is roughly your Planoly set count, and it is the number Planoly charges you for. RecurPost, by contrast, charges you for every connection regardless of which network it is on.

Spread wide (one brand, five networks):

• Planoly Starter: 1 set. $14.
• RecurPost: 5 connections → Personal. $25. (Starter's 2-account limit rules it out, though 2 accounts + 3 add-ons = $21 is a legitimate alternative worth checking.)

Stacked deep (five Instagram accounts, nothing else):

• RecurPost Personal: 5 accounts. $25.
• Planoly: 5 sets → Pro at $47 (6 sets), or Growth $24 + 3 add-ons at $10 = $54. Pro is cheaper — an unusual case where the upgrade beats the add-on.

Two vendors, the same five accounts, and the cheaper one flips depending only on whether those accounts sit on one platform or five.

The caps: one has a hard one, one has none

RecurPost publishes a daily posting ceiling per account — 10, 20 or 80 depending on tier. That is a lot for a human and a real constraint for an evergreen recycling library, which is exactly what RecurPost is built to run. If you are re-queueing a content library on a repeating schedule, that cap is the number you plan around, not the account count.

Planoly publishes no post cap on its paid tiers. Its free mobile tier is capped at 10 uploads a month, which functions as a trial rather than a plan.

Add-on economics, and the rule that just broke

RecurPost's extra account is $4/month — below its Starter average ($4.50) and well below Personal's ($5.00). So on RecurPost, adding is almost always cheaper than upgrading until you need the extra seats or the higher daily cap.

Planoly is the first vendor we have priced where the add-on is not reliably cheaper. On Growth: $10 add-on vs $12 average — add-on wins. On Pro: $8 add-on vs $7.83 average — the upgrade wins, barely.

The takeaway is procedural rather than numerical: compute the tier average and compare it to the add-on price every single time. The general rule holds often enough to be worth checking and not often enough to be trusted.

What each product actually is

RecurPost is an evergreen recycler with a scheduler wrapped around it — content libraries, repeating time slots, ten supported networks, and agency machinery (client workspaces, approvals, white-label reports) on the top tier.

Planoly is a creator product: visual planning, Link in Bio, digital-product selling and Instagram DM automation, all of it available on the cheapest tier. It gates on scale, not on capability — the reverse of how most of this category is built.

Neither supports Chinese platforms. If your accounts are on Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou, Bilibili, Toutiao or WeChat Channels, neither product is a candidate at any price.

Where both stop

Both take content you already have and deliver it. Neither generates different content per account. That distinction is invisible when you run one brand and decisive when you run eight accounts in one niche — because the failure mode there is not "I forgot to post," it is "all eight of my accounts published variations of the same thing on the same afternoon."

NoobClaw is built around that second problem: isolated local browser profiles per account under your own logins, each account generating its own content from its own niche and persona, on randomised human-like timing instead of a shared queue. It does not do Link in Bio and it does not recycle evergreen libraries. Different purchase — just make sure you know which problem you are buying for.

Users and seats: a difference worth pricing

Both meter people, and they meter them differently enough to flip a decision.

RecurPost gives 1 user on Starter and Personal, and 3 on Agency. There is no per-user add-on published below Agency, so a second person means jumping to a $79 tier — a large step to buy one login.

Planoly gives 1, 2 and 6 users by tier and sells extras at $5 (Growth) or $3 (Pro) each. A second person on Growth costs $5. That granularity is a genuine advantage for a two-person operation, and it is invisible in any table that only compares account counts.

So: solo operator, several accounts on one network → RecurPost. Two or three people, one brand across networks → Planoly, and it is not close.

The checks to run yourself

1. Your busiest single network's account count — that is your Planoly set count and the number that decides this comparison.
2. How many logins you actually need — seats move the answer more than accounts do here.
3. Whether either supports every network on your list — RecurPost publishes ten; Planoly's list differs.
4. Both prices, on the day you buy. Ours are 3 and 4 September 2026, and this category revises with no notice — we watched one vendor's tiers change inside five days.

If neither model fits, the wider field is costed in the cheapest-scheduler league table.

FAQ

Which is cheaper overall?

RecurPost has the lower entry price ($9 vs about $14) and wins whenever you have several accounts on the same network. Planoly wins whenever one identity spans several networks. There is no general answer — the unit of billing differs, so the comparison is shape-dependent.

Can I use RecurPost Starter with add-ons instead of upgrading?

Yes, and it is often cheaper: Starter ($9) plus three add-on accounts ($12) is $21 for 5 accounts, versus $25 for Personal. The catch is that Personal also doubles the daily post cap from 10 to 20 per account. If you recycle at volume, that is what you are actually buying.

Does Planoly count each network in a set separately?

A set is described as a bundle covering one profile per network, so a single set spans several networks. Confirm the current definition on Planoly's own site before you buy — bundle rules are the most commonly revised part of any pricing page.

Also worth reading: RecurPost vs Later, Planoly vs Buffer, and the multi-account scheduler league table.