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Later Pricing

Facts verified AUGUST 2026

Later pricing starts at $18.75 a month, which is $225 over twelve months. There is no free plan, but there is a trial: 14 days.

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Later pricing page, showing the published plans and prices recorded on this page
The Later pricing page as captured on 9 August 2026. Captured from a US vantage point, so the currency matches the figures recorded here.

Later pricing at a glance

Later pricing facts, verified August 2026
Entry price Starter $18.75/month billed yearly; monthly works out at about $25 on their stated 25% discount
Smallest invoice $18.75 a month, or $225 a year
How that is reached Starter at $18.75 a month
Seat minimum None on the entry plan
Free plan No
Free trial 14 days
How it charges subscription
Prices read from The vendor's own pricing page
Last checked 9 August 2026

Every Later plan and what it costs

Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as subscription. Free trial: 14 days.

Later plans and prices, verified 9 August 2026
Plan Price Billing What it is
Starter $18.75 per month Billed yearly at 25% off. 1 social set (8 profiles), 1 user, 30 posts per profile
Growth $37.50 per month Billed yearly. 2 social sets (16 profiles), 2 users
Scale $82.50 per month Billed yearly. 6 social sets (48 profiles), 4 users, custom analytics
Add-ons Add-on $11.25 per month Per extra social set. Extra users $3.75. 100 AI credits $3.75

What Later costs beyond the advertised price

Each of these is a figure you can check on the vendor's own page. The arithmetic is shown so you can redo it rather than take our word for it.

  1. Charged on top of a plan$135 a year

    Add-ons is charged on top of a plan rather than instead of one: $11.25 a month, which is $135 a year on top of whichever tier you hold.

    Working$11.25 a month x 12 = $135 a year, added to a tier price rather than replacing it.

    Computed from the plan table on Later pricing , read 9 August 2026

What Later 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.

Later annual cost by plan
PlanQuotedMonthlyOver 12 months
Starterper month$18.75$225
Growthper month$37.50$450
Scaleper month$82.50$990
Add-ons add-onper month$11.25$135

Later pricing over time

Read from 18 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning November 2016 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.

  • Growth changed 6 times between 3 November 2020 and 3 September 2026, from $13 to $37.50, up 188.5% overall.
  • Starter changed 6 times between 4 November 2016 and 3 September 2026, from $29 to $18.75, down 35.3% overall.
  • Scale changed once between 5 September 2025 and 3 September 2026, from $73.33 to $82.50, up 12.5% overall.

Growth

Archived prices for the Later Growth plan
Published price Charged Seen from Last seen Capture
$13 Not stated 3 November 2020 Single capture Archive
$25 Not stated 6 November 2021 Single capture Archive
$40 Not stated 17 November 2022 Single capture Archive
$45 Not stated 3 October 2023 Single capture Archive
$30 Not stated 24 September 2024 Single capture Archive
$33.33 Not stated 5 September 2025 Single capture Archive
$37.50 Not stated 3 September 2026 Single capture Archive
  • ↑ $13 to $25, between 3 November 2020 and 6 November 2021 (+92.3%). before / after
  • ↑ $25 to $40, between 6 November 2021 and 17 November 2022 (+60%). before / after
  • ↑ $40 to $45, between 17 November 2022 and 3 October 2023 (+12.5%). before / after
  • ↓ $45 to $30, between 3 October 2023 and 24 September 2024 (-33.3%). before / after
  • ↑ $30 to $33.33, between 24 September 2024 and 5 September 2025 (+11.1%). before / after
  • ↑ $33.33 to $37.50, between 5 September 2025 and 3 September 2026 (+12.5%). before / after

Starter

Archived prices for the Later Starter plan
Published price Charged Seen from Last seen Capture
$29 Not stated 4 November 2016 21 November 2019 Archive
$8 Not stated 3 November 2020 Single capture Archive
$15 Not stated 6 November 2021 Single capture Archive
$18 Not stated 17 November 2022 Single capture Archive
$25 Not stated 3 October 2023 Single capture Archive
$16.67 Not stated 24 September 2024 5 September 2025 Archive
$18.75 Not stated 3 September 2026 Single capture Archive
  • ↓ $29 to $8, between 21 November 2019 and 3 November 2020 (-72.4%). before / after
  • ↑ $8 to $15, between 3 November 2020 and 6 November 2021 (+87.5%). before / after
  • ↑ $15 to $18, between 6 November 2021 and 17 November 2022 (+20%). before / after
  • ↑ $18 to $25, between 17 November 2022 and 3 October 2023 (+38.9%). before / after
  • ↓ $25 to $16.67, between 3 October 2023 and 24 September 2024 (-33.3%). before / after
  • ↑ $16.67 to $18.75, between 5 September 2025 and 3 September 2026 (+12.5%). before / after

Scale

Archived prices for the Later Scale plan
Published price Charged Seen from Last seen Capture
$73.33 Not stated 5 September 2025 Single capture Archive
$82.50 Not stated 3 September 2026 Single capture Archive
  • ↑ $73.33 to $82.50, between 5 September 2025 and 3 September 2026 (+12.5%). before / after

Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.

Later pricing against its competitors

Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.

Entry price for Later and its competitors, verified 9 August 2026
ProductCheapest paid entryFree planAgainst Later
Buffer$5 a monthYes−$13.75 a month (−73%)
Later$18.75 a monthNoThis product
Hootsuite$99 a monthNo+$80.25 a month (+428%)

Which Later plan should you buy?

Recommended Later plan by situation
Your situationRecommendedWhy
You post to one profile per networkStarter$18.75 a month billed yearly for one social set of 8 profiles. Note the page defaults to yearly billing, so monthly is $25.
Two people manage two brands or accountsGrowth$37.50 billed yearly for 2 social sets and 2 users.
You need custom analytics and four usersScale$82.50 billed yearly for 6 social sets and 4 users.
You manage several client accountsAdd social sets, then compareExtra sets are $11.25 each and users $3.75. Eight clients is around $97 a month, at which point compare tools built for multi-client work.
You post to only two networksConsider Buffer insteadA social set includes eight profiles. If you connect two, you are paying for six you do not use.
You need listening or an inboxDo not buy LaterNeither exists meaningfully. Hootsuite or Sprout Social for management.

The prices assume yearly billing

Later’s pricing page loads with the Bill Yearly toggle already on, advertising “3 months free | 25% off”. Every figure you see is therefore a discounted, annually committed rate.

PlanBilled yearlyImplied monthly rate
Starter$18.75/month$25
Growth$37.50/month$50
Scale$82.50/month$110

If you want to pay monthly, add a third. That is not hidden exactly, but the default toggle means most people quote the lower number.

A social set is the unit, and it is a good idea

A social set is one profile on each supported network: Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Pinterest, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube and Snapchat. So one set is eight profiles.

  • Starter: 1 set, 8 profiles, 1 user
  • Growth: 2 sets, 16 profiles, 2 users
  • Scale: 6 sets, 48 profiles, 4 users

For a single brand pushing one campaign everywhere, this is better value than Buffer’s per-channel model, because eight channels on Buffer Essentials is $40 a month against Later Starter’s $18.75.

For someone posting to two networks only, Buffer wins, since you would pay for six profiles you never connect. Count networks, not just accounts.

Users are the tight constraint

One user on Starter. Two on Growth. Four on Scale. Extra users are $3.75 a month each, extra social sets $11.25 a month each, and AI credits $3.75 per 100 a month.

An agency with eight clients needs eight sets, which is $18.75 plus seven extra sets at $11.25, so around $97 a month before users. Workable, but at that point compare against tools built for multi-client management rather than assuming Later scales into it.

What it does not do

No meaningful social listening. No unified inbox handling volume. No approval workflows worth the name. If those are requirements, you are looking at Hootsuite or Sprout Social and a much larger budget.

Later’s claim is narrower and it holds: it is the nicest way to plan visual content across several networks and see what it will look like before it goes out.

Later questions, answered

Does Later have a free plan or free trial?
Later has no free plan. A free trial is available: 14 days.
Can I self-host Later?
No. Later is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
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What this profile is based on

Nobody here has used Later. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from one primary source , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.

Where Later appears on this site

  • Another profile Buffer names it as a competitor

Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.

Provenance and freshness

What has changed

  1. August 2026

    • Pricing verified as yearly-billing rates at 25% off, with monthly rates derived
    • 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.

  1. Later pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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