Hootsuite Pricing
- Marketing pricing
- $99/mo at the smallest
Hootsuite pricing starts at $99 a month, which is $1,188 over twelve months. There is no free plan, but there is a trial: 30 days.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Hootsuite pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Standard from $99 per user/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $99 a month, or $1,188 a year |
| How that is reached | Standard at $99 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | No |
| Free trial | 30 days |
| How it charges | subscription |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Hootsuite plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as subscription. Free trial: 30 days.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $99 | per month | per user - Up to 10 social accounts, unlimited scheduling, one user |
| Professional | $199 | per month | per user - Unlimited social accounts, trend forecasting and automation |
| Advanced | $399 | per month | per user - Adds social listening, approval workflows and advanced analytics |
| Enterprise | Custom | Negotiated | Multi-team administration, custom onboarding and support |
What Hootsuite actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standardper user | per month | $99 | $1,188 |
| Professionalper user | per month | $199 | $2,388 |
| Advancedper user | per month | $399 | $4,788 |
Cancelling Hootsuite, and getting money back
Read from the published Hootsuite terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| Refund window | None published |
|---|---|
| When you cancel | Hootsuite's self-serve terms state that all fees are non-refundable, and it reviews refund requests submitted on a form rather than granting them by right. |
| Changing mid-term | A subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play cannot be refunded by Hootsuite and has to be cancelled through that store. |
Hootsuite help centre, refunds ↗ · read 18 September 2026
Which Hootsuite plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You manage up to ten social accounts alone | Standard | $99 a month for one user. Note that is the entry price, so there is no cheap Hootsuite tier. |
| You need unlimited accounts and trend forecasting | Professional | $199 per user a month. |
| You need social listening and approval workflows | Advanced | $399 per user a month, and where the compliance and monitoring case actually lives. |
| You post to a few accounts on a small budget | Do not buy Hootsuite | Buffer at $5 per channel does the scheduling for a fraction. $99 buys capability you will not open. |
| You need the best reporting for stakeholders | Compare Sprout Social first | Sprout's reporting is stronger, at comparable or higher per-seat cost. |
The price problem, stated plainly
Standard is $99 per user per month for ten social accounts and a single seat. Buffer’s paid plans start around a tenth of that and handle scheduling competently. If your requirement is “post to four channels on a calendar”, Hootsuite is not the rational choice and has not been for several years.
That is not a criticism of the product so much as an observation about who it is now built for.
What actually justifies the cost
Three things, and none of them are scheduling:
- Approval workflows. Regulated industries and large brands need a post reviewed before it publishes, with an audit trail. Cheap tools do not do this.
- Social listening. Monitoring mentions, sentiment and competitors across networks, available on Advanced.
- Team administration. Roles, permissions and account groupings for agencies running many clients or enterprises running many regions.
If you need those, $199 or $399 per user is defensible. If you do not, you are paying for governance you will never open.
Watch the per-user maths
Hootsuite prices per user, and Standard includes only one. An agency with five people managing clients is at Professional or Advanced across five seats, which is a substantial annual commitment. Model the whole team before comparing against per-account competitors, because the two pricing models are not directly comparable.
The category has moved
Scheduling has been commoditised, and the platforms themselves now offer free native tools. The tools winning the small and mid-market compete on price and simplicity, while Sprout Social competes with Hootsuite at the top on reporting quality. Hootsuite’s position is the middle of that squeeze, which is worth knowing when assessing how the product will evolve.
Hootsuite questions, answered
- Does Hootsuite have a free plan or free trial?
- Hootsuite has no free plan. A free trial is available: 30 days.
- Can I self-host Hootsuite?
- No. Hootsuite is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
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Where Hootsuite appears on this site
- Another profile Buffer names it as a competitor
- Another profile Later names it as a competitor
- Another profile Sprout Social names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing verified across all tiers
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Hootsuite plans - checked 9 August 2026
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