Head to head

Sprout Social vs Hootsuite

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a premium social media management platform for mid-market and enterprise teams, publishing to 12 networks and priced per seat, from $79 a month on Essentials to $399 on Advanced.

9 channels · plans: Standard, Professional, Advanced, Enterprise

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

Pricing and plans

What each side charges

Sprout Social

Standard$199/seat/mo

Professional$299/seat/mo

Advanced$399/seat/mo

EnterpriseCustom/mo

Hootsuite

Standard$199/user/mo

Advanced$399/user/mo

EnterpriseCustom/mo

Channels

Where each one publishes

Sprout Social

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

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

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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