Social scheduling · replacement recipe

Go from Hypefury to Postiz

The job: Social media scheduler (Schedule posts, Thread composer). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Hypefury
Hypefury Flexible · $6/mo
Year one−$1,388modeled
To · your pickCosts more in year one
Postiz
Self-hosted · $5/mo + 2 h upkeep a month
Change where you land

The money

$6/mo today , then $5/mo

Hypefury Flexible

Year one, net−$1,388
Pays back innever

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 2 of 2 covered

  • Covered: Schedule posts
  • Covered: Thread composer

The work

Setup
About 4 h
Upkeep
2 h a month
Watch out
Check first: You only rely on: Schedule posts, Thread composer

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Hypefury

    Download your data and files before you change anything.

  2. Set up Postiz

    Self-host free.

    Details
  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Postiz, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Hypefury

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: The end of the current billing period.

    How to cancel Hypefury
Open PostizHow to cancel Hypefury
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 4 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Schedule posts
  • Thread composer

Not covered

  • Evergreen recycling
  • Auto-plugs
  • Cross-posting
  • Engagement builder

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Schedule posts, Thread composer
  • Export your data from Hypefury before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-hypefury") on the Stackcut MCP server.

4 ways out, best first

Switch vendorBuffer (free tier)Saves $22 in year one
$6/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $72/yr · payback 8.3 mo
If your use fits the free tier (Up to 3 channels, 10 scheduled posts per channel, 100 ideas, 1 user, 3,000 API requests/month).
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Thread composer)
Buffer Free for up to 3 channels.
How we got this
You pay now: Hypefury Flexibleflat price$6/mo
New cost: Buffer (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$6 − $0+$6/mo
Over 12 months+$6 × 12+$72
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$72 − $50+$22
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $72 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Agent skillX plugin (Cursor Marketplace)Costs $278 more in year one
$6/mo today → $0/mo + 0.5 h upkeep · setup 1 h
Posting and reading on X from Cursor or a Grok Bot; with a Bot routine, simple scheduled posts without a scheduler subscription.
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Thread composer)
Assumes you already pay for an agent that runs skills (Cursor; a Grok Bot routine for scheduling); that agent's cost isn't counted. Setup (1 h) and upkeep (0.5 h a month) are Stackcut's estimates; not tested by Stackcut.
License: MIT
Install: Install 'X' from the Cursor Marketplace (https://cursor.com/marketplace/cursor/x)
How we got this
You pay now: Hypefury Flexibleflat price$6/mo
New cost: X plugin (Cursor Marketplace)runs in the agent you already pay for$0/mo
Your upkeep time0.5 h/mo × $50/h$25/mo
Difference each month$6 − $0 − $25−$19/mo
Over 12 months−$19 × 12−$228
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one−$228 − $50−$278
  • Not counting your time (7 h in year one): saves $72 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Open sourcePostizCosts $1,388 more in year one
$6/mo today → $5/mo + 2 h upkeep · setup 4 h
Covers 100% of the core features
Self-host free.
License: AGPL-3.0
How we got this
You pay now: Hypefury Flexibleflat price$6/mo
New cost: Postiza small server (modeled)$5/mo
Your upkeep time2 h/mo × $50/h$100/mo
Difference each month$6 − $5 − $100−$99/mo
Over 12 months−$99 × 12−$1,188
Setup, once4 h × $50/h−$200
Year one−$1,188 − $200−$1,388
  • Not counting your time (28 h in year one): saves $12 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Agent skillPostiz agent pluginPriced by usage
Free to install; needs Postiz: self-hosted (AGPL-3.0, on your own server) or Postiz Cloud (Read 2026-09-25: Postiz Cloud Standard $29/month; self-hosting needs a server you run.)
Scheduling social posts to 28+ channels from your agent (Cursor Marketplace description), on Postiz you self-host or Postiz Cloud.
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Thread composer)
Assumes you already pay for an agent that runs skills (an agent that supports Agent Skills (e.g. Claude Code/Cowork, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI); the agent's own subscription is not counted); that agent's cost isn't counted. Needs Postiz: self-hosted (AGPL-3.0, on your own server) or Postiz Cloud: priced by usage, so this way isn't priced here. Setup (1 h) and upkeep (0.5 h a month) are Stackcut's estimates; not tested by Stackcut.
License: AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Install: npx skills add gitroomhq/postiz-agent (Claude Code: /plugin marketplace add gitroomhq/postiz-agent && /plugin install postiz@postiz-agent)

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