Social media management

Top Emplifi competitors 10 competitors in Emplifi's market

Competitors listed
10
Ranked on the scorecard
8
Emplifi's rank
#46 of 49
With a free plan
1

Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify

These are the 10 tools closest to Emplifi in its own market: social media management tools that list social media management too, picked by shared categories and how close their entry price is to Emplifi's (the rules are below).

8 of them are ranked on the social media management tools scorecard; Zoho Social is the highest at 89/100 (#8 of 49 in the category).

Emplifi itself is #46 of 49 with 38/100, so 7 competitors on this list rank above it.

Emplifi's cheapest paid plan is $1,249 billed monthly (Essential). On the same billing basis, 4 of 4 competitors with a published price start lower and 0 start higher; entry plans are not like-for-like, so check the limits.

1 competitor has a free plan; Emplifi does not.

Emplifi vs its competitors: market position

Emplifi is the highlighted row. Rank is the position in the social media management tools ranking.
Emplifi and its competitors
RankToolScoreFrom, billed monthlyFrom, billed yearlyFree planPlatformsIntegrationsFeatures verifiedData checked
#46EmplifiThis tool38/100$1,249/moNot offeredNo2–8 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#8Zoho Social89/100Not offered$10/moYes, 1 workspace14–14 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#28NapoleonCat70/100$79/moNot offeredNo7–11 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#29PostPlanify70/100Not offered$31/moNo10–11 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#34Agorapulse65/100$99/user/mo$79/user/moNo10–14 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#35Statusbrew63/100Contact salesContact salesNo4–13 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#43Sprout Social54/100$99/user/mo$79/user/moNo7–5 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#45Hootsuite44/100Not offered$99/user/moNo31009 of 21Oct 14, 2026
#47XreplyAI30/100$599/moNot offeredNo10–4 of 21Oct 14, 2026
–Dash SocialNot rankedContact salesContact salesNo3–11 of 21Oct 14, 2026
–KhorosNot ranked–––––2 of 21Oct 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 Emplifi

Computed from verified facts on both sides; a feature counts as missing only when the vendor states it.
  1. Zoho Social · #8, 89/100

    Social media management platform for scheduling, monitoring, analytics and team collaboration across many networks, with Zoho CRM integration.

    • Score: 89/100, #8 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: $10 per month billed annually; not compared with Emplifi, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
    • Free plan: yes (Emplifi: no) source
    • Platforms: 14 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Google Business Profile, Snapchat, Telegram, Mastodon and WhatsApp
    • Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, First-comment scheduling, Direct auto-publishing, Recurring posts and 9 more

    16 of 26 tracked details verified

    Emplifi vs Zoho SocialZoho Social reviewPricing

    Zoho Social homepage (screenshot)
    Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026
  2. NapoleonCat · #28, 70/100

    Social media management tool combining a shared inbox, auto-moderation, publishing, analytics and reporting with an AI assistant.

    • Score: 70/100, #28 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: $79 billed monthly (Standard), $1,170 less than Emplifi's $1,249 source
    • Platforms: 7 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube and Google Business Profile
    • Verified features: Calendar view, First-comment scheduling, Direct auto-publishing, AI caption assistant, Post and account analytics and 7 more

    15 of 26 tracked details verified

    Emplifi vs NapoleonCatNapoleonCat reviewPricing

  3. PostPlanify · #29, 70/100

    Social media management platform for agencies with scheduling, a shared calendar, analytics, a social inbox, approvals and white-label reports.

    • Score: 70/100, #29 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: $31 per month billed annually; not compared with Emplifi, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
    • Platforms: 10 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky and Google Business Profile
    • Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, Media library, AI caption assistant, Post and account analytics and 7 more

    14 of 26 tracked details verified

    Emplifi vs PostPlanifyPostPlanify reviewPricing

  4. Agorapulse · #34, 65/100

    Social media management platform with scheduling, a shared inbox, listening, reporting and ROI tracking for teams and agencies.

    • Score: 65/100, #34 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: $99 per user billed monthly (Standard), $1,150 less than Emplifi's $1,249 (different pricing units: compare plan limits) source
    • Platforms: 10 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky and Google Business Profile
    • Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, First-comment scheduling, Media library, AI caption assistant and 10 more

    18 of 26 tracked details verified

    Emplifi vs AgorapulseAgorapulse reviewPricing

  5. Statusbrew · #35, 63/100

    Social media management tool with scheduling, a unified inbox, approval workflows, reporting, listening and link-in-bio, sold in tiered plans.

    • Score: 63/100, #35 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: contact sales (no published price) source
    • Platforms: 4 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on TikTok and Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Google Business Profile
    • Verified features: Posting queue, Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, Direct auto-publishing, AI caption assistant and 9 more

    17 of 26 tracked details verified

    Emplifi vs StatusbrewStatusbrew reviewPricing

  6. Sprout Social · #43, 54/100

    Social media management platform covering publishing, inbox, analytics, listening and influencer tools for teams.

    • Score: 54/100, #43 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: $99 per user billed monthly (Essentials), $1,150 less than Emplifi's $1,249 (different pricing units: compare plan limits) source
    • Platforms: 7 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest and Threads
    • Verified features: Post and account analytics, Best-time-to-post suggestions, Unified social inbox, Social listening, Competitor analytics and 1 more

    8 of 26 tracked details verified

    Sprout Social reviewPricing

  7. Hootsuite · #45, 44/100

    Social media management suite covering post scheduling, a shared inbox, social listening, competitor tracking and reporting, with an AI assistant.

    • Score: 44/100, #45 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: $99 per user per month billed annually; not compared with Emplifi, which publishes no price on the same billing basis source
    • Platforms: 3 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on TikTok and Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook and X (Twitter)
    • Verified features: Bulk scheduling (CSV or multi-post), Calendar view, AI caption assistant, Post and account analytics, Best-time-to-post suggestions and 4 more

    12 of 26 tracked details verified

    Hootsuite reviewPricing

  8. XreplyAI · #47, 30/100

    AI social media agent that learns a company from its website and drafts posts for ten platforms, then publishes them once the user approves.

    • Score: 30/100, #47 of 49 (Emplifi: 38/100, #46)
    • Entry price: $599 billed monthly (Unlimited), $650 less than Emplifi's $1,249 (different pricing units: compare plan limits) source
    • Platforms: 10 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on Reddit; adds Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon
    • Verified features: Posting queue, Calendar view, Direct auto-publishing, Approval workflows, Public API

    7 of 26 tracked details verified

    XreplyAI reviewPricing

  9. Dash Social

    Social media platform for planning and publishing content, community inbox, cross-channel analytics, benchmarking, creator and UGC management with AI features.

    • Score: not ranked (50% coverage)
    • Entry price: contact sales (no published price) source
    • Platforms: 3 platforms (Emplifi: 2); not on Reddit; adds Instagram and Facebook
    • Verified features: Calendar view, Direct auto-publishing, Media library, Post and account analytics, Best-time-to-post suggestions and 6 more

    13 of 26 tracked details verified

    Dash Social reviewPricing

  10. Khoros

    Enterprise customer engagement software with an AI community platform and an AI social media management product covering listening, publishing and analytics.

    • Score: not ranked (15% coverage)
    • Verified features: Post and account analytics, Social listening

    2 of 26 tracked details verified

    Khoros review

Emplifi head to head

How we picked

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 management tools is scored by the same 7 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 management tools. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.

Scorecard criteria and weights
CriterionWeightTypeWhat we measure
Entry price25%CorePrice per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other social media management tools on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).Log scale. Billed monthly: $9/month or less = 100, $599 or more = 0. Only billed annually: $6/month or less = 100, $79 or more = 0. Only free plans = 100. Usage-priced and one-time plans are not scored.
Free plan or trial15%CoreWhether 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 transparency10%CoreHow 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 features15%CoreHow many of the 21 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, social listening, competitor analytics). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.Linear: verified features / 11 (half the tracked list) x 100, capped at 100. No tracked feature verified = not scored.
API, integrations and export10%CoreWhether 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 coverage10%CategoryHow 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 account15%CategoryMonthly price per connected account on the cheapest paid plan that allows at least 5 social accounts and 2 users.Log scale: $3 per account or less = 100, $60 or more = 0. Plans that do not state an account limit are not used.

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 Emplifi's main competitors?

By our scorecard, the highest-ranked of its closest competitors are Zoho Social (89/100), NapoleonCat (70/100) and PostPlanify (70/100).

Which Emplifi competitor is cheapest?

Billed monthly, NapoleonCat starts lowest at $79 a month (Standard). Entry plans differ in limits.

How does Emplifi rank against its competitors?

Emplifi is #46 of 49 ranked social media management tools with 38/100.

Which Emplifi competitors have a free plan?

Zoho Social.