Sked Social review: $690 a year for team scheduling
Sked Social is priced for agencies and marketing teams rather than for creators. Our 6 October 2026 check records Grow at $58 a month or $690 a year, Accelerate at $166 a month or $1,990 a year, and Custom from $249 a month, so the cheapest way in is $58 a month and the approvals sit above it.
The short answer
Buy Sked Social if you publish for clients and need review portals and reports they will accept. Grow was $58 a month, or $690 a year billed annually, when we checked skedsocial.com/pricing on 6 October 2026, and Accelerate was $166 a month or $1,990 a year.
Skip it if you are one person posting your own content. Nothing here is aimed at you, and Buffer at $5 a month per channel, verified 1 October 2026, or Metricool at $20 a month flat, verified 6 October 2026, will schedule the same posts for a fraction of $58.
Where Sked Social fits
Sked Social fits the agency or in-house team whose work is as much about getting sign-off and showing results as about publishing. Approvals, client review portals and exportable reporting are the product, and the AI captions are trained on the brand rather than offered as a novelty.
Grow was $58 a month on our 6 October 2026 check, or $690 for a year billed annually. Paying the monthly rate twelve times is $696, so the annual commitment is barely a discount at all: it buys the convenience of one invoice rather than a saving worth planning around.
Accelerate was $166 a month, or $1,990 for a year. The same arithmetic applies, since twelve months at $166 is $1,992. This is the tier that carries the approval workflow, which means the feature most buyers come for sits at roughly three times the entry price.
Custom starts from $249 a month and is quoted from there. We record the floor and not the ceiling, so treat $249 as the beginning of a negotiation rather than a price, and ask what sits above it before budgeting. Twelve months at that floor is $2,988, which is the smallest a Custom year can be and not what one is likely to cost.
The model is an annual subscription, which is the detail that separates Sked Social from the creator tools in this category. The year is the unit of commitment whether or not you prepay, so the question is not what a month costs but whether the workflow will still suit you in twelve months. Our snapshot records a free trial without recording its length, so establish that before the decision window closes on you.
Against the alternatives it is priced as a team platform. Planable was $33 a month on Basic, verified 6 October 2026, and is built around approvals from the entry tier up, though it sells analytics separately. Sprout Social was $99 per seat a month on Essentials, verified 6 October 2026, which costs more per head but bundles reporting. Hootsuite was $99 a month on Standard, verified 1 October 2026.
This pricing was verified on 6 October 2026, ten days before this review, so it is the freshest evidence on this page and the figures above are recent rather than historic. Our snapshot does not record the profile or user allowances behind each tier, so those come from skedsocial.com/pricing. The social media scheduling category holds the cheaper options.
Sked Social pricing
Sked Social sells an annual subscription in three tiers, published as both a monthly figure and a yearly one. The figures below were verified against skedsocial.com/pricing on 6 October 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Grow | $58/mo | $690/year billed annually. Scheduling, AI captions, reporting |
| Accelerate | $166/mo | $1,990/year billed annually. Adds the approval workflow and client review portals |
| Custom | From $249/mo | Quoted above that floor. Our snapshot records the starting point only |
The tiers are flat, so the question is which one your workflow needs. Four things decide it:
- Whether you need approvals. Our 6 October 2026 check puts the approval workflow on Accelerate at $166 a month rather than on Grow at $58.
- How many profiles and users you need, which our snapshot does not record per tier. Get those allowances from the pricing page before you choose.
- Whether the published tiers fit at all, since Custom starts from $249 a month and is quoted above that.
- Billing, which is annual by design. Grow at $690 a year against $58 twelve times, which is $696, means prepaying saves next to nothing and commits the year.
Sked Social pricing against the schedulers
Sked Social sits with the team tools. Planable at $33 a month on Basic, verified 6 October 2026, undercuts Grow and puts approvals on the entry tier, with analytics sold separately. Sprout Social at $99 per seat a month on Essentials, verified 6 October 2026, and Hootsuite at $99 a month on Standard, verified 1 October 2026, cost more and bring reporting with them. Below all of them, Buffer at $5 a month per channel, verified 1 October 2026, and Metricool at $20 a month on Starter, verified 6 October 2026, are the creator-priced options. Sked Social's case is the client-facing side: portals and reports built to be sent to someone else.
Sked Social billing terms worth knowing
Two facts shape a Sked Social budget: the approval workflow is on the dearer tier, and the annual rate is close to the monthly one.
- Grow
- $58 per month, or $690 for a year billed annually, on our 6 October 2026 check.
- Accelerate
- $166 per month, or $1,990 for a year billed annually.
- Custom
- From $249 per month, quoted above that.
- Annual against monthly
- $690 against $696 for twelve months at $58, so the annual rate is close to the monthly one.
- Where approvals sit
- Accelerate, on our 6 October 2026 check, not Grow.
- Pricing model
- Annual subscription. The year is the commitment.
- Trial
- A free trial was available on 6 October 2026. Our snapshot does not record its length.
A Sked Social quote above these figures is a tier or a Custom negotiation rather than usage, since nothing here is metered per post. Our snapshot records the three published prices and not the profile or user allowances behind them, so this page states no allowance numbers rather than estimating them. Our creator tool cost calculators will set a year of Sked Social against a year of the cheaper tools.
What Sked Social gives up
The entry price rules out solo work. Grow at $58 a month is $690 a year, and a creator posting their own content gets none of the client-facing machinery that the price is built around.
Approvals, the feature most buyers want, are on Accelerate rather than Grow. That is $166 a month against $58 on our 6 October 2026 check, so the workflow that justifies the tool costs roughly three times the advertised entry.
Annual billing is the model rather than an option, so the commitment is a year whichever way you pay. That is a long time to be locked to a publishing workflow a team may still be forming opinions about.
The annual rate saves almost nothing. $690 against $696 for twelve monthly payments at $58 means there is no real reward for prepaying, only the loss of flexibility.
Our snapshot does not record the profile and user allowances per tier, which are the limits most likely to force an upgrade. That is a gap in our evidence and the first thing to ask the vendor.
Custom is a floor rather than a price. From $249 a month tells you where negotiation starts and nothing about where it ends, so an agency with a large client list cannot budget from this page alone.
Cheaper tools in the social media scheduling category publish to the same networks. What you are paying for here is the review portal and the report you hand a client, and if those are not part of your job the premium buys nothing.
How Sked Social compares
The three tools below are the ones weighed against Sked Social, and the axis is client-facing workflow against price. Prices are the vendors' published rates with the date each was checked against its own pricing page. The wider field sits in the social media scheduling category.
| Tool | Best for | Price | Where it breaks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sked Social | Agencies needing client portals and reports | $58/mo Grow, $690/year | Approvals need Accelerate at $166/mo |
| Planable | Teams where sign-off is the bottleneck | $33/mo Basic, $49/mo Pro | Analytics and engagement are paid add-ons |
| Sprout Social | Brands wanting reporting and approvals together | $99/seat/mo Essentials | Per-seat pricing scales with headcount |
| Buffer | Cheap scheduling for a few channels | Free, $5/mo per channel | No client review portal or approval chain |
What to test on the Sked Social trial
Our 6 October 2026 check records a free trial without recording how long it runs, so establish that first and plan the test around the client-facing features you are paying for.
- Confirm the trial length and the current tier prices on skedsocial.com/pricing against the $58 and $166 monthly rates recorded here on 6 October 2026.
- Ask which tier the approval workflow sits on today. Our check puts it on Accelerate, and that single boundary is the difference between $58 and $166 a month.
- Get the profile and user allowances per tier in writing. Our snapshot does not record them and they are the limits that force an upgrade.
- Put a real client in front of the review portal. If they will not use it, the premium over a creator tool buys nothing.
- Export the report you would send to a client and read it the way they will. The reporting is half of what the price is for.
- Run the annual arithmetic before prepaying. $690 against $696 for twelve months at $58 is close enough that monthly billing may be worth the flexibility.
- Price the cheaper options in parallel. Planable was $33 a month on Basic, verified 6 October 2026, and Buffer $5 a month per channel, verified 1 October 2026, and the cost calculators will total each against a year of Sked Social.
Sked Social questions buyers ask
How much does Sked Social cost?
Our 6 October 2026 check of skedsocial.com/pricing recorded Grow at $58 a month or $690 a year billed annually, Accelerate at $166 a month or $1,990 a year, and Custom from $249 a month. Paying the Grow monthly rate twelve times is $696, so the annual rate is barely a discount on it.
Does Sked Social have a free trial?
Our 6 October 2026 check records that a free trial is available. It does not record the trial length or whether a card is required, so confirm both on skedsocial.com/pricing.
Which networks does Sked Social support?
Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, X, Threads and Google Business.
Is Sked Social good for agencies?
Yes. Approvals, client review portals and exportable reports are built for agency workflows.