Social media

Sprout Social alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

brightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio2,103AGPL-3.0Self-hostable social media management platform to schedule, publish, and manage content across multiple platforms.Open on GitHub gitroomhq/postiz-app34,362AGPL-3.0Agentic social media scheduling tool for automating content creation and scheduled publishing.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Breadth and depth of maintained integrations across many networks and frequent API changes
Premium analytics, listening (large-scale social listening) and spike/alerting features
Influencer discovery and audience-signal marketplace
Enterprise services: white-glove onboarding, SSO, dedicated support
Scale, reliability and security certifications of a mature SaaS

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Sprout Social, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.