postqueen vs Sprout Social
Enterprise social suite with deep analytics, listening and a shared inbox.
Sprout Social is a long-established social media management platform aimed at mid-market and enterprise teams. It combines publishing, a unified inbox, review management, analytics and social listening in one suite, and it is usually bought by marketing departments that need reporting and governance rather than by individual creators.
postqueen is the open source side of this table: AGPL-3.0 licensed, free to self-host from a Docker image, and agent-first by design, so Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw and Hermes can drive your whole schedule through the CLI and the built-in MCP server. Sprout Social is a hosted dashboard, which is the right answer if you want someone else running it and do not intend to automate.
Feature by feature
| Feature | postqueen | Sprout Social |
|---|---|---|
| Channels | ||
| Yes | Yes | |
| YouTube | Yes | Yes |
| Google Business | Yes | Yes |
| Dribbble | Yes | No |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | No | |
| TikTok | Yes | Yes |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Yes | Yes | |
| Threads | Yes | Yes |
| X | Yes | Yes |
| Slack | Yes | No |
| Discord | Yes | No |
| Mastodon | Yes | No |
| Bluesky | Yes | Yes |
| Lemmy | Yes | No |
| Warpcast | Yes | No |
| Telegram | Yes | No |
| Nostr | Yes | No |
| VK | Yes | No |
| Dev.to | Yes | No |
| Medium | Yes | No |
| Hashnode | Yes | No |
| WordPress | Yes | No |
| Whop | Yes | No |
| Kick | Yes | No |
| MeWe | Yes | No |
| Twitch | Yes | No |
| Listmonk | Yes | No |
| Skool | Yes | No |
| Publishing | ||
| Post scheduling | Yes | Yes |
| Drag & drop calendar | Yes | Yes |
| Cross posting?One post, many channels, per-platform formatting | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk scheduling | Yes | n/a |
| Save as draft | Yes | Yes |
| Image & video upload | Yes | Yes |
| Video publishing | Yes | Yes |
| Threads & scheduled comments | Yes | n/a |
| AI post drafting | Yes | Professional plans and up |
| AI image generation | Yes | No |
| Built-in picture editor | Yes | n/a |
| Team approvals | No | Standard plans and up |
| Features | ||
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Self-hosting?Run it on your own server for free | Yes | No |
| Public API | Yes | Advanced plans and up |
| Webhooks | Yes | n/a |
| CLI | Yes | No |
| MCP server?Model Context Protocol for AI assistants | Yes | No |
| AI agent integrations?Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, Hermes | Yes | No |
| Node.js SDK | Yes | No |
| n8n integration | Yes | No |
| Zapier / Make.com?Connect via the public API and webhooks | Yes | Employee Advocacy only |
| Automated actions (Plugs)?Auto repost, like and comment on milestones | Yes | No |
| Repeated posts | Yes | n/a |
| RSS auto-post | Yes | Professional plans and up |
| Signatures | Yes | n/a |
| Analytics | Yes | Yes |
| Customer / brand groups | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited team members?On Growth plans and above | Yes | No |
| White label | No | Branded reports only |
| Mobile app | No | Yes |
| Social inbox | No | Standard plans and up |
| Social listening | No | Paid add-on |
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Pricing at a glance
Cloud plans run $20 to $99 per month with unlimited posts on every plan, four or five months free on yearly billing, and a 7-day free trial. Self-hosting is free.
Paid plans start around $99 per month for Essentials, with Standard, Professional and Advanced tiers billed per seat, plus a 30-day free trial.
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between postqueen and Sprout Social?
postqueen is open source and built for AI agents to drive: the same account is reachable from a calendar, a CLI, a REST API and a built-in MCP server, and you can run the whole thing yourself. Enterprise social suite with deep analytics, listening and a shared inbox. Which one fits depends on whether you want to automate publishing or manage it in a dashboard.
Is Sprout Social or postqueen open source?
postqueen is. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed, the code that touches your accounts is public, and self-hosting is free with a Docker image or a Helm chart. Sprout Social is a hosted product, so the database, the OAuth tokens and the publishing history stay on their infrastructure.
How many channels does each one publish to?
postqueen publishes to 30 channels and Sprout Social covers 10 of the ones we track. The number matters less than the overlap: list the networks you actually post to, then check both against that list rather than against each other.
Can I drive either one from an AI agent?
postqueen ships a built-in MCP server, a CLI on npm, a REST API, a Node SDK and an n8n node, so Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw and Hermes can all drive it. Sprout Social has a public API you could build against, but no MCP server or CLI, so the agent integration is something you would write and maintain yourself. Some of it sits behind a tier though. API: Advanced plans and up. On postqueen all of it is on every plan.
How does the pricing compare?
postqueen cloud plans run from $20 to $99 a month with unlimited posts on every plan, four or five months free on yearly billing, and a 7-day free trial. Self-hosting is free. Sprout Social: paid plans start around $99 per month for Essentials, with Standard, Professional and Advanced tiers billed per seat, plus a 30-day free trial. Prices move, so confirm both before deciding.
Does Sprout Social connect to Zapier and Make.com?
Employee Advocacy only. postqueen connects through its public REST API and webhooks on every plan, and ships an n8n community node as well, so the automation layer is not a tier you upgrade into.
What is involved in switching from Sprout Social?
Plan for the reconnection, not the export. Scheduled posts rarely migrate between tools, so someone re-enters the queue by hand, and every channel needs its OAuth connection made again. The part worth checking first is whether Sprout Social lets you take your analytics history with you, because that is the piece that is gone for good if it does not.
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