Social media decision
Sendible
A capable developer can build a useful social-post scheduler and basic reporting in ~30 hours and host it cheaply, but reproducing Sendible’s breadth of integrations, polished UX, enterprise features, and scale reliability is costly—so build a narrow replacement or keep paying for the full product.
Visit website↗$30/mo
$360/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$50one-off30 h to build
$20/mo8 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
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 Sendible alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Create and schedule social posts and publish them to connected social profiles on a timetable; basic reporting of post delivery/status.
What it still won’t have
- Breadth and reliability of dozens of pre-built network integrations
- White-label dashboard and enterprise account manager
- Polished UX, onboarding, and support SLAs
- Advanced features (priority inbox, evergreen recycling, automated branded reports)
- Scale-tested infrastructure and multi-tenant workspaces
What remains hard
- Brand trust
See why 30,000 marketers love using Sendible.
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 1 seat.
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-hosted social scheduling service using Node.js (Express) + Postgres + Redis + a background worker (Bull or BullMQ). Implement: (1) user + workspace + profile models in Postgres, (2) OAuth/connect flow for Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn/X (storable tokens), (3) composer UI to create per-profile posts and schedule a publish time, (4) background worker to queue and publish posts via each network's HTTP APIs with retry and error logging, (5) a dashboard page showing recent scheduled/published posts and basic success/failure reports. Out of scope: white-labeling, enterprise onboarding, advanced analytics, AI caption generation. Include input validation, token refresh handling, retry/backoff, logging, and unit tests for core flows.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 6 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score67
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 · 6
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSendible
- official pricingSocial Media Management Pricing & Plans | Sendible
- official docsSendible's Top Features | Smarter Social Media Management
- open sourcebrightbeanxyz/brightbean-studio
- open sourcegitroomhq/postiz-app
- official pricingSendible pricing
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
