Quick answer: SocialBee’s true monthly rates are $29 for Bootstrap, $49 for Accelerate, and $99 for Pro, with Agency plans at $179, $329, and $449. The pricing page loads with the Yearly toggle already selected, so the $24.20, $40.80 and $82.50 you see on arrival are annual-commitment rates. Annual billing saves 16.7% at every rung, slightly more than the “16% off” the toggle advertises. Figures read from socialbee.com/pricing on 6 October 2026.
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The first number you see is not the monthly rate
Open SocialBee‘s pricing page and three cards greet you: $24, $40 and $82. Look closer and each dollar figure carries a small superscript digit. That digit is a single decimal place, so the cards actually read $24.20, $40.80 and $82.50. Under each one, in grey, sits the phrase “per month, billed annually”.
Above the cards is a switch labelled “Yearly (16% off)” on the left and “Monthly” on the right. It arrives with Yearly selected. Nobody chose that; the page shipped that way.
None of that is hidden. It is printed on the card in plain language. But a shopper scanning three pricing pages in four minutes carries away “$24” and compares it against a rival’s honest monthly figure, and the comparison is wrong by six dollars before it starts.
Here is what the three Standard plans cost if you pay month to month.
Where the monthly figures actually live
Clicking the Monthly label should flip the cards. On our run, it did not: the toggle highlighted, the card figures stayed on the annual numbers, and the underlying checkbox behaved the same way. Whether that is a quirk of automated browsing or something a human visitor would also hit, we cannot say from one test. Either way, do not rely on the switch to tell you the truth.
Scroll past the cards instead. SocialBee publishes a side-by-side comparison table further down, and that table prints both bases explicitly, row by row, with no toggle in the way. “Monthly price: $29/ month, billed monthly”. “Yearly price: $290/ year, billed annually”. The ambiguity disappears.
Two sections of the same page, two different impressions. The cards sell. The table informs.
Checking the 16% claim
Most vendors round their discount badge upward. This one rounds down.
Bootstrap. Twelve months at $29 is $348. The annual plan charges $290. You keep $58, and $58 against $348 is 16.7%.
Accelerate. $49 twelve times is $588 against an annual charge of $490. The gap is $98, again 16.7%.
Pro. $1,188 versus $990. You keep $198. Same 16.7%.
The pattern holds exactly: every annual price is ten months of the monthly rate. Two months free, stated as 16% off. The badge understates by seven tenths of a percentage point, which is the rarest kind of pricing error.
The Agency tab, and the numbers it hides
Above the cards sit two tabs: Standard and Agency. Standard opens by default, so the three larger plans stay out of view until you click.
Agency holds Pro50, Pro100 and Pro150, named for the profile count each carries. Their cards print only the annual-equivalent monthly figure, and the comparison table lower down covers the three Standard plans alone. For a while this looked like a dead end.
It is not. Toggling to Monthly does change what the Agency section serves, and the true monthly rates are $179, $329 and $449. Those three numbers are what an agency actually pays without a year’s commitment.
One caution on annual totals. SocialBee prints $1,790.40, $3,290.40 and $4,490.40 nowhere on the page. Those figures are ours, derived by multiplying the published per-month annual rates by twelve, and they match the 16.7% pattern the Standard plans follow. Treat them as a planning estimate until a quote confirms them.
Cost per profile is the number that moves
Plan names tell you little here. Divide price by profiles and the ladder makes sense immediately.
On monthly billing: Bootstrap costs $5.80 per profile, Accelerate $4.90, Pro $3.96, Pro50 $3.58, Pro100 $3.29, Pro150 $2.99.
On annual billing, the same ladder runs $4.84, $4.08, $3.30, $2.98, $2.74, and $2.49.
Every rung buys cheaper profiles than the one below. A freelancer on Bootstrap pays more than twice per profile what a Pro150 agency pays. That is the whole commercial logic of the product, and it means the question “which plan” is mostly the question “how many accounts am I actually publishing to”.
Count carefully. SocialBee’s own note is explicit: two Instagram profiles, one Facebook page and two X profiles count as five accounts, not three networks.
Add-ons, and the one case where they beat an upgrade
Three add-ons are published. An extra user costs $10 a month or $100 a year. An extra workspace costs the same. A set of five extra profiles costs $15 a month or $150 a year.
Run the arithmetic against the next plan up and something interesting falls out. Bootstrap at $29 gives you five profiles. Add one profile pack, and you are at $44 a month for ten. Accelerate gives you ten profiles for $49. So the add-on route saves five dollars.
Five dollars buys quite a lot on the other side of that comparison. Accelerate lifts content categories from 10 to 50 and sources from 10 to 30, extends analytics history from three months to two years, and adds advanced analytics, a hashtag organizer, a bulk post editor, CSV uploads, and a post approval system. If you want any single one of those, upgrading is the cheaper path to it.
The same test at the top of the Standard ladder is closer. Pro costs $99 for 25 profiles. Five profile packs on top takes you to $174 for 50, while Pro50 costs $179 for the same 50. Pay the extra five and workspaces double from 5 to 10, and users per workspace go from 3 to 5. An agency with more than five clients has no real decision to make.
Where add-ons genuinely win is the awkward middle. A team sitting on Pro with 28 profiles and no need for a sixth workspace pays $99 plus $15 rather than $179. Keep that case in mind at renewal.
What each step unlocks besides profiles
Four limits move alongside the profile count, and one of them catches people out.
Content categories. 10 on Bootstrap, 50 on Accelerate, unlimited from Pro upward. Categories are how SocialBee organises evergreen recycling, so a solo operator running six content buckets is fine, and a brand running separate buckets per product line is not.
Content sources. 10, then 30, then unlimited. These are the RSS feeds and imports that fill categories automatically.
Analytics retention. Three months on Bootstrap. Two years on everything above it. This is the limit that catches people. Three months of history cannot show you a year-over-year comparison, cannot show you last summer against this one, and quietly rules out most of the reporting a client would ask for. Anyone who has to present results is on Accelerate or higher, whether or not they need the tenth profile.
Users and workspaces. Bootstrap and Accelerate give one user and one workspace. Pro gives three users per workspace across five workspaces, so fifteen seats at the ceiling. Agency plans give five per workspace, which at Pro150 means thirty workspaces and up to 150 seats.
Unlimited AI content generation appears on every plan, including Bootstrap, which is unusual. Most tools in this category meter AI credits by tier.
The networks you can publish to
Direct posting covers Facebook profiles, pages and groups; Instagram business and personal accounts; Threads profiles; LinkedIn personal profiles and company pages; X; Pinterest boards; TikTok personal and pro; YouTube channels; Google Business Profiles; and Bluesky. The list does not change by plan. Only the number of accounts does.
One thing no scheduling tool controls is what the networks themselves allow. Meta’s content publishing documentation caps a single Instagram carousel at ten items and exposes a separate endpoint purely so apps can check an account’s remaining publishing quota in a rolling twenty-four-hour window. Those ceilings sit below any plan you buy, and they are the reason a bulk upload sometimes stalls partway through for reasons your scheduler cannot explain.
An expired banner still sitting on the page
Above the Agency cards, as of 6 October 2026, SocialBee still displays a promotional block: 50% off monthly agency plans for three months with the code SBDAY2026, a claim that prices start at $89.50 instead of $179, and the line “Offer available until June 10”.
June 10 has passed. The comparison table carries matching rows for the Standard plans, quoting $14.50, $24.50 and $49.50 a month for three months, and $174, $294, and $594 on the annual side.
We have not tested whether the code still redeems, and we would not plan around it. Budget from $29, $49 and $99. If SBDAY2026 happens to work at checkout, treat it as a bonus rather than a reason to buy.
What the page promises alongside the price
Three commitments sit under the heading: a free 14-day trial, no contracts, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. A separate block offers full Pro access for fourteen days with no credit card.
Read that combination carefully, because it changes how you should trial. The trial runs at Pro level. If you spend two weeks on Pro and then subscribe to Bootstrap, you will lose unlimited categories, unlimited sources, four workspaces, two seats, exportable reports, and internal notes on day one. Build your trial workflow inside Bootstrap’s limits if Bootstrap is what you intend to buy.
Two worked totals
Abstract per-profile figures are easier to trust once you see them land on an invoice.
A freelancer with eight accounts. Two Instagram, one Facebook page, one LinkedIn profile, one LinkedIn company page, one X account, one TikTok, one Pinterest board. Bootstrap’s five will not stretch. Two routes exist: Bootstrap plus one profile pack at $44 a month, or Accelerate at $49. Over a year, that is $528 against $588, a difference of $60. The $60 buys 40 extra content categories, 20 extra sources, nearly two years of extra analytics history and five features. Take Accelerate, and take it annually at $490 if the work is steady, which lands the year at $98 below the monthly Accelerate price and $38 above the cheaper patched-together route.
An agency with nine clients. Assume four accounts each, so 36 profiles, and two staff touching every client. Workspaces matter more than profiles here, because nine clients need nine separate spaces and Pro caps you at five. Pro50 is the floor: $179 a month, or $149.20 on annual billing. Twelve months of annual billing comes to roughly $1,790, against $2,148 paid monthly. Adding a tenth client costs nothing extra until profile 51 or workspace 11.
Notice what drove each decision. For the freelancer, it was analytics history and categories. For the agency, it was workspace count. Neither was the profile allowance the plans are named after.
Two things to settle before you pay
First, the profile count you will have in month nine rather than month one. Profiles are the metered resource; packs cost $15 for five, and a plan change mid-term on an annual contract is the kind of thing that gets handled case by case. Agencies winning two clients a quarter should size one rung above today’s need.
Second, who counts as a user. Bootstrap and Accelerate give exactly one. A business owner who wants a contractor drafting posts for approval needs either Pro or Accelerate plus a $10 user add-on, and the published material does not state whether the user add-on is available on single-user plans. Ask before you assume it is.
Pricing pages change. Everything above was read on 6 October 2026, and the expired promotional banner still sitting on that page is a fair warning that the figures are not updated daily.
How to decide
Choose Bootstrap monthly if: you publish to five accounts or fewer, work alone, and nobody asks you for a report covering more than a quarter. $29 a month, cancel whenever.
Choose Accelerate if: you need more than three months of analytics, or you want the bulk editor and approval step. Ten profiles for $49 a month, $490 a year. For most small businesses, this is the honest entry point rather than the cheapest one.
Choose Pro if: you manage several brands and need them separated. Five workspaces and fifteen seats for $99 a month, $990 a year. Unlimited categories arrive here too.
Choose an Agency plan if: client count has passed five, or profile count has passed roughly 30. Pro50 at $179 a month is only $5 above Pro plus five profile packs, and it doubles your workspaces.
Pay annually if you have used the product for a quarter already. Two months free is a real saving, and the 30-day guarantee gives you an exit if the first month disappoints.
For a different shape of social tool, our write-ups on Brand24 pricing and Vista Social integrations cover listening and publishing respectively, and Vista Social alternatives is the wider shortlist.
FAQ
What does SocialBee cost per month?
$29 for Bootstrap, $49 for Accelerate, and $99 for Pro on monthly billing. Agency plans run $179, $329 and $449. The lower figures on the cards when the page loads are annual-commitment rates.
Is there a free plan?
No. Entry is a 14-day trial at Pro level with no credit card required, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee once you subscribe.
How much does annual billing save?
16.7% at every rung, which is two months free. $58 on Bootstrap, $98 on Accelerate, $198 on Pro. The toggle advertises 16%, so the badge is marginally conservative.
What counts as a social profile?
Each connected account, not each network. SocialBee’s own example: two Instagram profiles plus one Facebook page plus two X profiles equals five of your allowance.
Can I add profiles without changing plan?
Yes. Profiles are sold in sets of five at $15 a month or $150 a year. Extra users and extra workspaces are $10 a month or $100 a year each.
Which plan do I need for client reporting?
Accelerate at minimum, because Bootstrap keeps only three months of analytics. Exportable analytics reports start at Pro.
Does the annual discount apply to Agency plans?
The per-month annual rates of $149.20, $274.20, and $374.20 sit about 16.6% below the monthly rates, matching the Standard pattern. SocialBee does not publish the annual totals for Agency plans, so confirm the charged figure before committing.
Is AI content generation metered?
No. Unlimited AI content generation is listed on every plan, Bootstrap included.
Sources
- SocialBee pricing, read 6 October 2026 across the Standard and Agency tabs and both billing toggles.
- Instagram Platform content publishing, Meta for Developers, for the ten-item carousel limit.
- IG User Content Publishing Limit, Meta for Developers, for the rolling 24-hour publishing quota.