Publish Now vs Postiz
Postiz is solid software with 30+ platforms and a real community. The bill comes due in ops time - OAuth apps registered on every platform, weekend container restarts, API churn that lands in your inbox. Publish Now is the unified social media API, fully managed, one endpoint, every platform. Built for vibing.
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TL;DR
Postiz is great open-source software. Self-hosting it means you carry the ops - Docker container, OAuth app sprawl, platform API churn. Publish Now is the managed version at $5/mo + credits, no Docker container to babysit.
curl -X POST https://publishnow.app/v1/posts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"content": "Shipped without touching a Docker Compose file.",
"platforms": ["x", "instagram", "youtube"],
"schedule_at": "2026-06-10T09:00:00Z"
}'The reasons people search
On-call rotation for a tool that posts your tweets
OAuth app provisioning and review cycles across X, Instagram, and TikTok
Absorbing Instagram's 96% rate-limit cut yourself when Meta ships it overnight
165 open GitHub issues you're patching around in your fork
No SOC 2 path for the buyer who's about to ask for one
Entry price: $0 self-host / $29/mo cloud
Hosting model: Self-host (Docker) or Postiz Cloud
Time to first post: Hours to a weekend self-hosting, 15-30 min on cloud
OAuth app management: You register a developer app on every platform
Platforms supported: 30+ (incl. Mastodon, Nostr, Farcaster, Bluesky)
Entry price: $5/mo + credits
Hosting model: Fully managed, single API
Time to first post: Minutes via API key
OAuth app management: We handle it. No platform consoles to manage.
Platforms supported: 3 live (X, Instagram, YouTube), more on roadmap
Postiz is a legitimately great project - 32K GitHub stars, MIT licensed, 30+ platforms including Mastodon, Nostr, and Farcaster, and a community that actually ships.
Every row is sourced from public docs. No cherry-picking.
| Axis | Postiz | Publish Now |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $0 self-host / $29/mo cloud | $5/mo + credits |
| Self-host is $0 in software, not $0 in your time. | ||
| Hosting model | Self-host (Docker) or Postiz Cloud | Fully managed, single API |
| Time to first post | Hours to a weekend self-hosting, 15-30 min on cloud | Minutes via API key |
| OAuth app management | You register a developer app on every platform | We handle it. No platform consoles to manage. |
| Platforms supported | 30+ (incl. Mastodon, Nostr, Farcaster, Bluesky) | 3 live (X, Instagram, YouTube), more on roadmap |
| Postiz wins on breadth today. We focus on where most builders ship first. | ||
| Published uptime target | None on self-host or cloud | 99.9% target |
| Support response | GitHub issues + community chat | <48h business-day response |
| Compliance posture | Yours to own on self-host | SOC 2 readiness roadmap |
| Platform API changes | You patch and redeploy | We ship the fix, your code stays the same |
| Multi-tenant SaaS | Possible, but you build it | Built in from day one |
| MCP for AI agents | Community discussion, not first-class | Planned, first-class |
| Open GitHub issues | 165 open (May 2026) | N/A - managed service |
| Honest read: active project, also real production friction. | ||
The shape of the product, not just the pitch.
No Compose file, no Redis to babysit, no TLS certs to renew, no DB backups to script. We run the posting layer so you don't get paged on a Saturday night for a tool that posts tweets.
Instagram quietly cuts its Graph API rate limit from 5,000 calls/hour to 200. TikTok rotates token TTLs. LinkedIn restructures OAuth scopes. Your code doesn't change. We ship the fix. That's the entire product.
When the compliance buyer asks for a DPA, a sub-processor list, or SOC 2 readiness, you have an answer. 99.9% uptime target, <48h business-day support response, real status page, real incident history.
Grab a key, fire one `POST /v1/posts`, you're live. No Docker host to provision, no platform consoles to register apps in, no Meta and TikTok app review cycles measured in weeks.
Built for products where your customers each connect their own X, Instagram, and YouTube accounts. Tenant isolation, per-customer credits, managed OAuth across thousands of end-user accounts. Not a feature you bolt on later.
$5/mo flat plus credits per action. When one customer goes viral and triples your post volume, the bill doesn't triple - you top up credits. No per-channel tax, no seat licenses.
Run the same scale-up against both and you stop second-guessing the bill.
| Scale | Postiz | Publish Now | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postiz self-host (5 channels) | $0 software + your ops time | $5/mo + credits | Free until you count weekend pages and OAuth renewals |
| Postiz Cloud Standard (5 channels, 400 posts) | $29/mo | $5/mo + credits | Comparable spend, managed API instead of hosted UI |
| Postiz Cloud Team (10 channels, unlimited) | $39/mo | $5/mo + credits | We add multi-tenant DNA and a published support response |
| Postiz Cloud Ultimate (100 channels) | $99/mo | $5/mo + credits | At SaaS scale, predictability and compliance win the math |
You want full control of the stack, you're comfortable with Docker, and you have ops capacity to run it.
You specifically need Mastodon, Nostr, Farcaster, Bluesky, or other decentralized networks we don't cover yet.
You already have an ops team where 'spin up another container' is a Tuesday.
You'd rather build your product than become a social media API expert.
You need a SOC 2 readiness story and a published support response because your buyer is asking.
You need a working API in minutes, not a working Docker stack on a Sunday.
Switching from Postiz
Swapping from Postiz to Publish Now is low risk. Keep Postiz running for whatever it already serves, point new code at our API, and migrate workload by workload. No big-bang cutover.
Email yo@publishnow.app and the founder personally moves you over. No Docker, no Compose file, no certs - just an API key and a working `POST /v1/posts`.
I don't want to become a social media API expert. I want to build my product.
Indie SaaS founder, why-we-switched email