Publer alternative
Both free plans last forever. Only one writes your posts.
SpeedRun Social generates a weekly campaign from your website, media included, behind one approval. Publer queues posts you supply. The useful question at $0: which tier still helps on the week you write nothing?
No account, no email, no card. One post from your own website.
Free forever, measured in different work
Publer's free tier is a genuinely permanent scheduler: 3 accounts, 10 scheduled posts per account, 25 drafts, no card, no clock. Its AI Assistant helps with captions in the composer, and the Business tier opens unlimited AI prompts for text and images. The structure tells you who it serves: someone who produces posts and needs them held, queued and sent.
Our free tier is a permanent generator. Each week it produces a campaign from your Brand Kit, 3 image posts, 1 short video and 1 cross-post, and holds it for your approval. The watermark on free media is the visible cost; $49.99 on Starter removes it and raises the credit grant.
Two permanent free plans is a rare, clean comparison. Load theirs with a week of your own posts, let ours generate a week from your site, and the tier that leaves your feed fuller is the one to pay for.
The same week, run two ways
Both weeks cost $0. Count what each one leaves on your feed.
A week inside Publer
Publer's free tier hands you a scheduler and leaves the writing to you. Connect up to three accounts, write or paste your posts, and line them up ten to an account. An AI assistant can help with a caption here and there, but the week is still your typing, and when the queue runs low you write more. That is the honest shape of their free tier: a calendar that rents you room for content you produce, at no cost, forever.
A week inside SpeedRun
The generator runs whether you wrote anything or nothing. Out of your Brand Kit come three image posts, one short video and one cross-post, captions already fitted per platform, and the queue holds them until you approve. A caption you dislike gets edited or regenerated on the spot. Publishing is native and scheduled, and next week another campaign generates without being asked, on the same $0.
Side by side, with sources
Every Publer number below was read off publer.com on 18 August 2026 and links to its source.
| What to compare | SpeedRun Social | Publer |
|---|---|---|
| Free-forever tier | A free plan, not a trial: one free campaign every week of 3 image posts, 1 short video and 1 cross-post, with the Brand Kit included and 300 credits a month that refill for as long as the account exists. No card is asked for. Media made on the free plan carries a small watermark that paid plans remove. | The Free plan was listed as "Free forever" at $0, with 1 user, 1 workspace, 3 social accounts except X, 10 scheduled posts per account, 25 saved drafts and a 24-hour post history.Source: publer.com/plans, read 18 August 2026 |
| Where a post starts | Inside the generator. The Brand Kit built from your website produces the caption, the image and the video together, so the composer window and the prompt both disappear from the workflow. | AI features were listed as "AI Assistant: generate engaging content with the power of artificial intelligence" and "AI Post Generator: quickly create engaging social media captions & copy with AI". The Business plan listed "Unlimited AI prompts: generate as much AI-content as you need, both text and images, at no additional cost."Source: publer.com/plans, read 18 August 2026 |
| Paid ladder | $49.99, $99.99 and $199.99 a month ($39.99, $79.99 and $159.99 billed annually), fixed, published, no calculator required. | Professional and Business had no fixed public list price. The page rendered only "/month" placeholders, with the price computed by an on-page calculator of social accounts and additional members, where every tenth social account and every tenth additional member were stated to be free. Enterprise was listed as "Get a quote".Source: publer.com/plans, read 18 August 2026 |
| Keeping old posts alive | No recycle queue exists. SpeedRun makes a new campaign every week instead of resharing an archive, so a library of proven posts on rotation is a job for Publer's machinery, and this row is theirs. | Recycling was listed as a feature to "recycle and repurpose your top social media content to boost engagement", and the Business plan listed "Spintax-powered post recycling".Source: publer.com, read 18 August 2026 |
Publer's paid prices cannot be quoted at all: Professional and Business rendered only "/month" placeholders behind an on-page calculator on 18 August 2026. Run their calculator on your own roster, because no table, ours included, can do it for you.
When SpeedRun wins
An empty queue is your recurring problem
Ten slots per account only matter once posts exist to fill them. When the writing is what never happens, a generated campaign beats an empty calendar every week it runs, and it runs on the free tier.
X publishing on the free tier
Publer's own plans page states that free accounts cannot connect Twitter or X. SpeedRun publishes to X on every tier including free. A business whose audience sits there gets the channel without paying either vendor.
A price you can read before you commit
Their Professional and Business prices exist only inside a calculator of accounts and members. Ours are three published numbers, $49.99, $99.99 and $199.99, and the pricing page is the whole negotiation.
Who SpeedRun is not for
SpeedRun does one narrow job. If any of these describe your week, we would rather tell you now than lose you two weeks in.
The free plan holds more of your writing
3 accounts times 10 scheduled posts is real capacity for a hand-writer, well past the one generated campaign our free week produces. Someone who writes a month of posts up front and wants them queued for nothing has found their tool, and it is Publer.
Your best posts deserve a second run
Recycling, and Spintax-powered recycling on Business, keeps a strong post earning long after you wrote it. SpeedRun generates fresh weekly and owns no recycle queue. A library worth resurfacing is an asset only one of these products can operate.
Networks off our roster
Mastodon and Telegram sit in Publer's integrations navigation and nowhere in our product. Audiences living on those channels get reach from Publer that we simply do not offer.
An agency scaling by the seat
Their calculator prices accounts and members with every tenth one free, which is a volume curve built for agencies. SpeedRun prices one business flat and has no member arithmetic at all. A seat-counting operation belongs on the curve.
Who should pick which
Four buyers, one sentence each. Some of these verdicts go to Publer.
The blogger who writes daily and queues weekly
Publer. Thirty free scheduled slots hold that output, and WordPress is on their list.
The barber whose last post was the grand opening
SpeedRun. The next post generates from the shop's website this week, free, watermark and all.
The brand with a greatest-hits archive to rotate
Publer. Recycling and Spintax exist for exactly that archive; we regenerate instead.
The owner who needs X covered without a paid plan
SpeedRun. Their free tier excludes X by their own page; ours includes it.
What switching actually costs
Since both free tiers persist, switching from Publer does not have to be an event. Leave your scheduled posts to publish from their queue, start the generated weeks here, and let the two run in parallel until one of them is obviously your feed. The pieces that do not carry over are the recycling schedules and the draft archive; export or repost anything in those 25 drafts you still care about.
The workflow shift is from composing to reviewing. If you enjoy writing posts, keep writing them, and know that our editor accepts your line over the generated one every time. The switch only pays when the composing was the chore, which is exactly the case the free week is there to test.
Pricing philosophy
The free tiers can be counted directly. Publer's holds 30 scheduled posts at a time (3 accounts, 10 each) that you supply. Ours generates 12 image posts, 4 short videos and 4 cross-posts across a four-week month that you approve. Capacity for your work against production of ours: that is the entire pricing story at $0.
Above $0 the comparison breaks down honestly: their paid prices are calculator outputs on your roster, ours are three flat published numbers. Compute theirs, read ours, and weigh both against the labour each one saves you.
Our side is short: $49.99, $99.99 and $199.99 a month, every price published, and the pricing page is the canonical list.
Questions people ask on the way in
Publer also has AI. Why is SpeedRun's generation different?
Position, mostly. Publer's AI Assistant and Post Generator live inside the composer, helping you write, with unlimited prompts arriving on the Business tier. SpeedRun's generation is the front door: the campaign exists before you open the app, media included, and the composer is what you use to correct it rather than to start it.
Why can this page not quote Publer's paid prices?
Because their plans page prints none. On 18 August 2026, Professional and Business showed "/month" placeholders resolved by an on-page calculator of social accounts and members, with Enterprise at "Get a quote". That is a legitimate pricing model; it just cannot be copied into a table. Run their calculator on your numbers.
Can I keep using Publer's free plan alongside SpeedRun's?
Nothing stops you, and it is a sensible arrangement while deciding. Some businesses keep a scheduler for hand-written posts and let the generated campaigns cover the weeks nobody writes. Both tiers cost nothing permanently, so the overlap has no deadline.
Whose free plan publishes to X?
Ours does; theirs does not, by their own plans page, which states free accounts cannot connect Twitter or X. On paid tiers both products publish there. For a free-tier user with an X audience, this single row may be the whole decision.
What does the SpeedRun Social free plan include?
300 credits a month, refilled forever, and 1 free campaign a week: 3 posts, 1 video and 1 cross-post. No card is required. Media made on the free plan is watermarked; paid plans remove the watermark.
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Keep Publer's queue exactly as it is and let a generated week land next to it. Whichever tier your feed could not live without is the one that earns the upgrade.
Publer is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with or endorsed by SpeedRun Social. SpeedRun Social publishes this comparison and sells a competing product. Statements about Publer are quotations from Publer's own pages, each linked above and checked on 18 August 2026; prices and terms change, so verify them at publer.com/plans before deciding.