Head to head

Hootsuite vs Semrush

Hootsuite

Hootsuite is an enterprise social media management suite publishing to 10 networks, priced per user from $99 a month billed annually, with approvals and advanced listening reserved for its upper tiers.

8 channels · plans: Standard, Advanced, Enterprise

Semrush

Semrush publishes to 7 of the 31 channels in this comparison set, with plans from $20/mo.

7 channels · plans: Social Base, Social Pro, Social Business

Pricing and plans

What each side charges

Hootsuite

Standard$199/user/mo

Advanced$399/user/mo

EnterpriseCustom/mo

Semrush

Social Base$20/mo

Social Pro$40/mo

Social Business$250/mo

Channels

Where each one publishes

Hootsuite

Facebook Pages
Instagram
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Threads
TikTok
X
YouTube
Bluesky
Dev.to
Discord
Dribbble
Farcaster
Google My Business
Hashnode
Kick
Lemmy
Listmonk
Mastodon
Medium
MeWe
Moltbook
Nostr
Reddit
Skool
Slack
Telegram
Twitch
VK
Whop
WordPress

Semrush

Facebook Pages
Google My Business
Instagram
LinkedIn
Pinterest
X
YouTube
Bluesky
Dev.to
Discord
Dribbble
Farcaster
Hashnode
Kick
Lemmy
Listmonk
Mastodon
Medium
MeWe
Moltbook
Nostr
Reddit
Skool
Slack
Telegram
Threads
TikTok
Twitch
VK
Whop
WordPress

We build GrowSocialelion, so read every table here knowing that. Channel support and plan prices were compiled from public listings and vendor pages on 2026-08-27; a tool's own site always wins over this page. GrowSocialelion's own column is generated from its live platform catalog, so it cannot claim a network the app does not publish to.

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