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Hootsuite alternative

The Hootsuite alternative teams actually keep.

One modern workspace — ideas, scheduling, approvals, analytics and listening — priced for growing teams, not for enterprise deploys.

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

    Approvals, client review portals and role-based permissions on every paid plan — not gated behind Enterprise.

  • 24/7 humans, 91% CSAT

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

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.

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.

Try Sked free for 14 days — no credit card, no lock-in. Just the connected workspace your team has been asking for.