Social media scheduling
Top brightbean-studio competitors 10 competitors in brightbean-studio's market
- Competitors listed
- 10
- Ranked on the scorecard
- 10
- brightbean-studio's rank
- #82 of 117
- With a free plan
- 2
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
These are the 10 tools closest to brightbean-studio in its own market: social media scheduling tools that list social media scheduling too, picked by shared categories and how close their entry price is to brightbean-studio's (the rules are below).
10 of them are ranked on the social media scheduling tools scorecard; Planable is the highest at 72/100 (#38 of 117 in the category).
brightbean-studio itself is #82 of 117 with 58/100, so 4 competitors on this list rank above it.
brightbean-studio's cheapest paid plan is $119 billed monthly (Plan). On the same billing basis, 9 of 9 competitors with a published price start lower and 0 start higher; entry plans are not like-for-like, so check the limits.
2 competitors have a free plan, and so does brightbean-studio.
brightbean-studio vs its competitors: market position
| Rank | Tool | Score | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Platforms | Features verified | Data checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #82 | brightbean-studioThis tool | 58/100 | $119/mo | Not offered | Yes, unlimited workspaces | 10 | 5 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #38 |  Planable | 72/100 | $33/mo | Not offered | Yes | 9 | 8 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #47 |  Social Champ | 70/100 | $29/mo | $23.20/mo | Yes | 6 | 13 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #55 |  SocialPilot | 68/100 | $30/mo | $85/mo | No | 10 | 11 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #73 |  SocialBee | 62/100 | $29/mo | Not offered | No | – | 12 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #87 |  Edgar | 55/100 | $29.99/mo | $24.91/mo | No | 9 | 5 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #90 |  Hubcast | 53/100 | $29/mo | Not offered | No | 5 | 6 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #91 |  Ocoya | 52/100 | $29/mo | Not offered | No | 2 | 4 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #96 |  Marky | 49/100 | $39/mo | $19/mo | No | 7 | 7 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #102 |  Loomly | 44/100 | $65/mo | $49/mo | No | 8 | 12 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
| #116 | Lately | 23/100 | Not offered | $199/mo | No | – | 4 of 19 | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the page it was read from (hover for the check date).
– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.
How each competitor differs from brightbean-studio
- Planable · #38, 72/100
Social media planning and collaboration tool with feed and calendar views, step-by-step approvals, scheduling, inbox, analytics and social listening.
- Score: 72/100, #38 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $33 billed monthly (Basic), $86 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Platforms: 9 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on Bluesky and Mastodon; adds X (Twitter)
- Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, First-comment scheduling, Post and account analytics, Best-time-to-post suggestions and 4 more
11 of 24 tracked details verified
Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026 - Social Champ · #47, 70/100
Social media management platform for agencies and teams covering scheduling, analytics, inbox, approvals and listening across many networks.
- Score: 70/100, #47 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $29 billed monthly (Standard), $90 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Platforms: 6 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on TikTok, YouTube, Threads, Bluesky, Google Business Profile and Mastodon; adds X (Twitter) and WhatsApp
- Verified features: Posting queue, Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, First-comment scheduling, Recurring posts and 9 more
16 of 24 tracked details verified
- SocialPilot · #55, 68/100
Social media management platform with a content calendar, bulk scheduling, approvals, unified inbox, analytics reports and white label options for agencies and brands.
- Score: 68/100, #55 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $30 billed monthly (Essentials), $89 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Platforms: 10 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on Mastodon; adds X (Twitter)
- Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, First-comment scheduling, Recurring posts, Media library and 7 more
14 of 24 tracked details verified
- SocialBee · #73, 62/100
Social media management tool with a content calendar, category-based scheduling, AI content generation, analytics reports, engagement inbox and approvals.
- Score: 62/100, #73 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $29 billed monthly (Bootstrap), $90 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, First-comment scheduling, AI caption assistant, Post and account analytics and 7 more
13 of 24 tracked details verified
- Edgar · #87, 55/100
MeetEdgar is a social media scheduler that stores posts in a content library, resurfaces evergreen posts and has an AI assistant for captions and hashtags.
- Score: 55/100, #87 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $29.99 billed monthly (Eddie), $89.01 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Platforms: 9 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on YouTube and Mastodon; adds X (Twitter)
- Verified features: Direct auto-publishing, Recurring posts, AI caption assistant, Post and account analytics, Unified social inbox
7 of 24 tracked details verified
- Hubcast · #90, 53/100
Social media scheduler with a shared calendar, optional approval step, video support and analytics, plus an optional connection to AI assistants over MCP.
- Score: 53/100, #90 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $29 billed monthly (Solo), $90 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Platforms: 5 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Google Business Profile and Mastodon; adds X (Twitter)
- Verified features: Calendar view, Direct auto-publishing, Post and account analytics, Approval workflows, User roles and permissions and 1 more
8 of 24 tracked details verified
- Ocoya · #91, 52/100
AI-assisted social media management suite that drafts posts, schedules them across many networks, and includes an inbox, workflows and an API.
- Score: 52/100, #91 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $29 billed monthly (Starter), $90 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Platforms: 2 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Google Business Profile and Mastodon
- Verified features: Calendar view, Direct auto-publishing, Best-time-to-post suggestions, Unified social inbox, Public API
7 of 24 tracked details verified
- Marky · #96, 49/100
AI tool that generates branded social media posts and graphics from a business website, with a visual editor, content calendar and scheduling to several networks.
- Score: 49/100, #96 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $39 billed monthly (Solo), $80 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Platforms: 7 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on YouTube, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon; adds X (Twitter)
- Verified features: Posting queue, Calendar view, Direct auto-publishing, Media library, Post and account analytics and 2 more
9 of 24 tracked details verified
- Loomly · #102, 44/100
Social media calendar and publishing tool with an AI assistant, approval workflows, interaction replies, social listening and analytics reports.
- Score: 44/100, #102 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $65 billed monthly (Starter), $54 less than brightbean-studio's $119 source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Platforms: 8 platforms (brightbean-studio: 10); not on Bluesky and Mastodon
- Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, Direct auto-publishing, Recurring posts, Media library and 7 more
15 of 24 tracked details verified
Lately · #116, 23/100
AI content tool that repurposes existing assets into social media posts and automates employee sharing of company messages.
- Score: 23/100, #116 of 117 (brightbean-studio: 58/100, #82)
- Entry price: $199 per month billed annually; not compared with brightbean-studio, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
- Free plan: no (brightbean-studio: yes) source
- Verified features: Calendar view, AI caption assistant, Post and account analytics, Content repurposing
5 of 24 tracked details verified
brightbean-studio head to head
How we picked
- Pool: tools in the same market as the tool on this page: they list its primary category, and their own primary category is one it lists too. Explicit competitor links count as well.
- Closest first, at most 10: explicit competitors, then the same primary category, then more shared categories, then the smallest gap in entry price (per month, on a log scale), then more shared platforms, then name.
- Order on the page: tools ranked on the category scorecard by their category rank, then tools that are not ranked (no scorecard, or under 60% of the weight with verified data) in closeness order.
- Prices are compared only on the same billing basis (billed monthly with billed monthly, billed annually with billed annually). A feature counts as missing only when the vendor's page states it; a feature the vendor does not mention is not listed either way.
Every value is read from the vendor's own pages (or GitHub for licences and stars) and shown with the date we checked it. A value we could not verify is shown as a dash, never estimated, and never read as a “no”. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Methodology
The scorecard behind the ranks
Every one of these social media scheduling tools is scored by the same 8 criteria (scorecard v2). Each criterion gives 0 to 100 from the vendor's published data; the total is the weighted average. A criterion without verified data is left out and the other weights are re-normalised. A tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed as not ranked, and so is a tool with no verified price and fewer than 2 verified features (“needs a verified price”); each score shows how many criteria it is based on. The core criteria are the same in every category; the category criteria are specific to social media scheduling tools. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.
| Criterion | Weight | Type | What we measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | 25% | Core | Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other social media scheduling tools on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).Log scale. Billed monthly: $9/month or less = 100, $49 or more = 0. Only billed annually: $9/month or less = 100, $58 or more = 0. Only free plans = 100. Usage-priced and one-time plans are not scored. |
| Free plan or trial | 15% | Core | Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.Free plan = 100. No free plan but a free trial = 60. The pricing page lists plans but shows neither = 0. No plans read = not scored. |
| Pricing transparency | 10% | Core | How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.80 x (plans with a public price / plans listed) + 20 x (public plans, up to 3) / 3. No plans read = not scored. |
| Verified features | 15% | Core | How many of the 19 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (posting queue, bulk scheduling (csv or multi-post), calendar view, first-comment scheduling, direct auto-publishing, recurring posts, media library, ai caption assistant, post and account analytics, report exports (pdf/csv), best-time-to-post suggestions, approval workflows, user roles and permissions, separate client workspaces, unified social inbox, white-label reports, link tracking (utm / short links), content repurposing, ugc collection). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.Linear: verified features / 10 (half the tracked list) x 100, capped at 100. No tracked feature verified = not scored. |
| API, integrations and export | 10% | Core | Whether a public API exists, how many integrations the vendor states, and whether the vendor documents a way to export your data.Average of the parts with data: public API yes = 100, no = 0; integrations on a log scale (100 or more = 100); a documented data export = 100. None verified = not scored. |
| Platform coverage | 10% | Category | How many of the 15 social platforms we track the vendor says the tool supports.Linear: platforms / 10 x 100, capped at 100. No verified platform list = not scored. |
| Cost per connected account | 10% | Category | Monthly price per connected account on the cheapest paid plan that allows at least 3 social accounts.Log scale: $2 per account or less = 100, $40 or more = 0. Plans that do not state an account limit are not used. |
| Free plan limits | 5% | Category | What the free plan allows: connected accounts (full marks at 3), scheduled posts per month (full marks at 100).Each stated limit linear up to its full mark (unlimited = 100), averaged. Tools without a free plan, or whose free plan states none of these limits, are not scored here. |
Sources are vendor pricing pages, docs and changelogs, each with the date we checked it. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Full formulas: methodology.
Questions, answered from the data
Who are brightbean-studio's main competitors?
By our scorecard, the highest-ranked of its closest competitors are Planable (72/100), Social Champ (70/100) and SocialPilot (68/100).
Which brightbean-studio competitor is cheapest?
Billed monthly, Social Champ starts lowest at $29 a month (Standard). Entry plans differ in limits.
How does brightbean-studio rank against its competitors?
brightbean-studio is #82 of 117 ranked social media scheduling tools with 58/100.
Which brightbean-studio competitors have a free plan?
Planable and Social Champ.