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The Hootsuite alternative teams actually keep.

Hootsuite bills $149–$399 per user per month. Sked is a single workspace — ideas, scheduling, approvals, analytics and listening — priced per plan, not per seat.

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Sked vs Hootsuite — Sked analytics dashboard.
Feature Sked Hootsuite
Starting price (USD) $29/mo Basic ~$99/mo Professional
Team plan (3 users) $149/mo Grow ~$249/mo Team
Approvals built in Yes, configurable per brand Add-on on lower tiers
Social listening Included on Accelerate Separate product
AI Brand-Smart AI across scheduling + reports Add-on, generic prompts
Human support 24/7 humans, 91% CSAT Chatbot-first, tiered escalation

Modern software, not a decade of bolt-ons.

Hootsuite runs on architecture older than most social networks it connects to. Sked is built for how teams work now — one workspace, fewer tabs, no legacy UI tax.

Why teams switch

Three reasons it tends to stick.

  • Priced for the team you have

    Basic $29. Grow $149 with 3 users. Accelerate $299 with 6. Add paid seats only when you scale past Accelerate.

  • Collaboration without the upsell

    Hootsuite gates approvals and client portals behind its $399/user Advanced tier. Sked includes approval workflows, branded review links and role-based permissions from the Grow plan at $199/month.

  • 24/7 humans, 91% CSAT

    Sydney, London and New York coverage. ~4-minute average reply during business hours. No chatbot wall.

  • Chat, email, phone, and Zoom

    24/7 human support across chat, email, phone, and Zoom on Grow and Accelerate plans. Real humans across Sydney, London, and New York time zones. Average reply: 4 minutes.

Why teams switch — and stay.

Modern UI, transparent pricing and support that picks up. That's the pitch. That's also why the retention curve stays flat after the switch.

Hootsuite's unified inbox and team assignment features are restricted on Standard. Sked's inbox — DMs, comments, mentions, and Google reviews across every brand — is included on every paid plan.

What the switch looks like

Off Hootsuite in under two weeks.

Most teams shift the full queue + approvals + analytics in under a fortnight — without dropping a scheduled post.

  1. Day 1

    Kick-off call + Hootsuite export

    Onboarding call scopes your channels, brands and approval chains. You export scheduled posts from Hootsuite as CSV; our team imports them into Sked — no lost posts, no manual rebuild.

    Full queue mirrored in Sked by end of day 1.

  2. Week 1

    Approvals + brand kits configured

    Per-brand approval chains and Brand Kits set up. Stakeholders invited via no-login review portals. Hootsuite permission groups mapped to Sked role-based access.

    Approvals flowing without anyone leaving Slack.

  3. Week 2

    Reports + listening live

    Analytics dashboards wired, custom-cadence reports scheduled to inbox. On Accelerate, competitor tracking and brand-mention listening come online without a separate invoice.

    Reporting cadence reset; Hootsuite contract ready to cancel.

Common questions

Questions about switching from Hootsuite.

  • How does Sked's pricing compare to Hootsuite's?

    Sked Basic starts at $29/mo. Hootsuite Professional starts around $99/mo. Grow is $149/mo with 3 users — Hootsuite's 3-user Team plan is around $249/mo. Every Sked plan includes the full feature set: no paid add-ons for listening, approvals, or AI.

  • Can I move scheduled content from Hootsuite to Sked?

    Yes. Export your scheduled posts from Hootsuite as CSV and our onboarding team imports them for you at no extra cost. Most teams switch in under a week.

  • Does Sked support the same channels as Hootsuite?

    Sked auto-publishes to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, X and Google Business Profile. Notification-based publishing for Threads and Snapchat.

  • What about enterprise features — SSO, audit logs, SOC 2?

    SOC 2 Type 2 certified. SAML SSO, role-based permissions and audit logs on Custom plans. Fine-grained agency, franchise and enterprise controls on Accelerate and above.

Stop switching tabs. Start doing the work.

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