Social media decision
Draft AI
A competent developer can reproduce the core functionality (AI-generated social posts plus scheduling/publishing) using existing open-source social schedulers and LLM APIs; the vendor does not show proprietary moats in the supplied page, so self-hosting a smaller replacement is realistic.
Visit website↗Built by Valery Alexeev, who ships 3 products in this index
Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off80 h to build
$50/mo6 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All Draft AI alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Generate social copy with an LLM, edit and save drafts, schedule/publish to social accounts, and store scheduled posts.
What it still won’t have
- Polished, productized UI/UX and onboarding
- Any proprietary prompt-engineering or tuned models Draft AI may include
- Built-in analytics, team collaboration, and multi-account management at scale
- Commercial support, uptime SLAs, and any proprietary integrations provided by vendor
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Draft AI does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal self-hostable Draft AI replacement using Next.js for the frontend, a Node/Express API, PostgreSQL for storage, Redis + Bull for background jobs, and an LLM provider (OpenAI-compatible) for generation. Core features in scope: LLM-based post generation with parameters (tone, length, hashtags), draft save/edit, OAuth-based connection to at least two social providers (e.g., Twitter/X and LinkedIn) for publishing, post scheduling with a reliable background worker, and a basic post preview UI. Out of scope: team/multi-seat billing, advanced analytics dashboards, native mobile clients, and training custom models. Include error handling for API failures, retries for posting, input validation, and unit + integration tests for API endpoints and the scheduler worker.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Build verdict base78
- An open-source build was found+5
- 3 cited sources+3
- Evidence score86
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productDraft AI — Content Generator for Social Media
- open sourceinovector/mixpost
- open sourcebrightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
