Ayrshare alternative: the comparison with the numbers in it
Short answer. Ayrshare is $149/mo for one profile of up to 14 accounts. PostWire is free for one brand, $9 for three. Both price lists, verified 26 Aug 2026.
Every price on this page was read off ayrshare.com and postwire.io on 26 August 2026. If they have changed theirs since, trust their page over ours.
What each plan costs, in each company's own units
Ayrshare prices per user profile (up to 14 accounts each). PostWire prices per brand: one business with as many networks as it has — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn for the same business is still one brand. Compare the row that matches your own setup, not the tier names.
Ayrshare plan
Price / month
User profiles (up to 14 accounts each) included
Notes
Premium
$149
1
1 profile, up to 14 accounts
Launch
$299
10
up to 140 accounts
Business
$599
30
from $599, tiered pricing from the 31st profile
Enterprise
custom
300
custom pricing
PostWire plan
Price / month
Brands (networks unlimited)
Notes
Free
$0
1
30 posts/mo
Starter
$9
3
300 posts/mo
Pro
$29
10
2,000 posts/mo
Agency
$99
50
15,000 posts/mo
Scale
$299
200
unlimited posts
No permanently free tier, but a 28-day free trial on the Launch plan. Premium, Business and Enterprise are billed at signup with no trial.
The same two setups, priced on both
Tier names hide the thing that decides your bill: what counts as one unit. PostWire counts a brand — one business with every network it uses. Ayrshare counts a user profile (up to 14 accounts each). Here is what that does to two setups people actually have.
Your setup
PostWire
Ayrshare
One business on 4 networks
$9 (Starter, 1 of 3 brands)
$149 (Premium)
An agency: 10 clients, 5 networks each
$29 (Pro, 10 brands)
$299 (Launch)
Which one should you actually pick
Choose Ayrshare if…
You are an agency running dozens of client brands with many networks each — Ayrshare's profile model is built for exactly that shape, and past 30 profiles their per-profile rate steps down through $7.99 and $2.99 to $1.99.
Choose PostWire if…
You run one business or a handful of them. One business across four networks is a single brand — $9 on Starter — against $149 for Ayrshare's smallest paid tier.
Read the units before the price
Ayrshare counts user profiles, each holding up to 13 social accounts — the same shape as a PostWire brand. That makes this the cleanest comparison on the site: one business is $149 on Ayrshare and $9 here; ten client businesses are $299 there and $29 here. Any page that compares raw tier names without saying what a unit is, is selling you something.
Where Ayrshare is genuinely ahead
Fourteen networks, years in production, unlimited scheduling with no monthly post cap, and per-profile rates that step down to $1.99 at scale. Above a few hundred profiles their model, not ours, is the one that keeps getting cheaper.
What PostWire does that most of these do not
A native post per network from one idea. Smart Distribute writes the caption each platform rewards — length, hashtags, SEO and format — instead of pasting identical text everywhere.
It refuses posts that are going to fail. TikTok and YouTube reject anything without a video; Instagram rejects text-only. PostWire blocks that combination while you are writing, rather than reporting four errors after you hit publish.
A real MCP server, not just an API. One tool call from Claude, Cursor or any agent — plus n8n templates if you prefer no code.
Platform approvals already granted. TikTok Direct Post and Meta advanced access were approved for PostWire, so connecting is an OAuth click instead of a review queue.
It depends on your setup, and the two tools do not count in the same unit. Ayrshare prices per user profile (up to 14 accounts each); PostWire prices per brand — one business with as many networks as it has — from free (1 brand) to $299 (200). The tables on this page list both so you can check your own number rather than trust a headline.
When should I choose Ayrshare instead of PostWire?
You are an agency running dozens of client brands with many networks each — Ayrshare's profile model is built for exactly that shape, and past 30 profiles their per-profile rate steps down through $7.99 and $2.99 to $1.99.
When is PostWire the better choice?
You run one business or a handful of them. One business across four networks is a single brand — $9 on Starter — against $149 for Ayrshare's smallest paid tier.
Does PostWire have a free plan?
Yes: one brand with all of its networks and 30 posts a month, no card required, TikTok included.
Does Ayrshare have a free plan?
No permanently free tier, but a 28-day free trial on the Launch plan. Premium, Business and Enterprise are billed at signup with no trial.
Can an AI agent post through PostWire?
Yes. PostWire ships a REST API and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so Claude, Cursor or any agent can publish with one tool call, and there are n8n templates that do it without code.