![]() ![]() Though the pricing page states $739/mo, you must commit to an annual plan and pay $8,900 upfront.Īgorapulse offers monthly payment options for all its plans. The problem is, as with the Professional and Team plans, the Business plan cost seen on the Hootsuite pricing page is based on an annual contract.īut unlike the Professional and Team plans, the Business plan doesn’t offer a monthly payment option. ![]() You’ll then need the Business plan, advertised at $739, to get up to 35 social profiles and 5 users.ĭo you need six or more users to manage social media for your business or agency? You can add on more users for the Business plan, but Hootsuite doesn’t state how much extra users will cost.īut the real unpleasant surprise is when you realize that there’s no monthly plan for the Business plan. If that’s your situation, you’ve exceeded the limits of the Team plan. Many active businesses and agencies need to manage more than 20 social profiles or more than 3 users. Need the Business plan? It will cost you $8,900 upfront That might mean that 90% of Hootsuite new users go through the unpleasant experience of learning how much Hootsuite will really cost them. ![]() That’s a considerable jump from what’s public on their pricing page!Ī total of 90% of Agorapulse users start with a monthly plan. A monthly subscription for the Team plan cost 60% more, while a monthly subscription for the Professional plan cost 100% more. Monthly plan prices are significantly higher than the advertised prices. Here are the two prices for the Professional plan: At this point, you can finally choose between a monthly and an annual plan. In fact, it’s impossible to find the monthly Hootsuite cost on the pricing page-or anywhere online unless you create an account.Įven then, you’ll continue to see only the monthly price based on an annual subscription up until the moment you enter your credit card information to complete your purchase. We have never seen a company use small print to denote that pricing is only based on annual pricing, all while hiding the actual monthly pricing. However, you typically see a toggle function to easily bounce between the monthly and annual costs. The first thing you’ll notice on Hootsuite’s pricing page is that all plans displaying a price have a small asterisk that refers to small print saying, “Prices based on annual billing.”ĭisplaying the monthly cost of a subscription software based on an annual subscription is common practice. (Intentional?) confusion between monthly cost and annual cost (You can also click on it from the Table of Contents on the left of this article.) 1. If you got the information you needed here, we still suggest you play with the pricing comparison tool we’ve embedded at the end of this article to see the numbers for yourself. Agencies and businesses that need to manage more than 20 social media profiles or need more than 3 users on their account soon find themselves doubling or tripling their cost to get the users, profiles, or features they need.
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