Postiz
An open-source, self-hostable social media scheduler with a chat-driven AI Smart Agent, an MCP server, and a public API — publishing to a broad set of networks under AGPL-3.0.
Last verified · 2026-10-23 · by Moe Ameen
Published 2026-09-01 · Updated
Short answer
Postiz is an open-source social media scheduler under AGPL-3.0 that you can use hosted or self-host for free. A chat-based Smart Agent drafts posts, makes images and schedules them, and every plan includes an MCP server, a CLI and a public API so outside AI agents can run it. Hosted plans run from $29 a month (5 channels) to $99 (100 channels), with a 7-day free trial.
Key takeaways
- Postiz schedules posts to many networks from a calendar or a chat-driven Smart Agent.
- Hosted plans: Standard $29, Team $39, Pro $49 and Ultimate $99 a month; about 20% off yearly.
- Every hosted plan includes AI video clipping minutes for turning YouTube videos into shorts.
- Self-hosting is free under AGPL-3.0, but Postiz says agent features ship to hosted first.
- It has no avatar video, brand-exact carousels or blog articles.
What is Postiz?
Postiz is an open-source social media scheduling tool from the Gitroom team, licensed under AGPL-3.0 and fully self-hostable — the project says it does not gate features in the self-hosted version, though Postiz calls self-hosting a secondary option and ships agent features to the hosted platform first. You connect your accounts and manage posting from a visual calendar plus a chat-driven Smart Agent, publishing to a broad set of networks: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Discord, and more.
The Smart Agent is the headline. Instead of filling out a post form, you tell it in plain language what you want — "draft a LinkedIn post about our launch, make a matching image, and schedule it for Tuesday" — and it drafts the copy, generates a visual, and queues the post. In 2026 Postiz leaned into the agentic framing at the protocol level too: it exposes an MCP server and a CLI, so an external AI agent like Claude or ChatGPT can list your connected accounts, create posts, upload media, and schedule content on your behalf. Alongside that it ships a public API, a Node SDK, and integrations for n8n and Make.com.
Pricing on postiz.com starts around $29/month (Standard, 5 channels) and rises through Team, Pro, and Ultimate (~$99, 100 channels), with roughly 20% off annually and a 7-day free trial; AI image and video allowances scale by plan, and unlimited team members come in from the Team plan up. Because it's AGPL-3.0, you can also run the whole product for free on your own infrastructure. Treat specific tiers and allowances as a snapshot and confirm them on postiz.com.
Postiz is a scheduler with a chat layer, not a content engine. Its AI drafts captions and hashtags, makes generic text-to-image visuals, produces short AI clips, and on hosted plans clips a long YouTube video into short vertical clips — but it has no avatar/persona video, no face-locked persona, no brand-exact carousel builder, no governed brand voice, and it doesn't write full blog articles or newsletters. It's excellent at scheduling and automation; producing a deep, on-brand, multi-format content set from one source is a separate job.
What can you make with Postiz?
- A scheduled posting queue across a broad set of networks (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Discord, and more)
- Chat-drafted posts — copy, hashtags, and a matching AI image — created and scheduled from a single natural-language prompt
- Generic text-to-image visuals and short AI clips, with per-plan allowances
- Agent-run social publishing via the MCP server and CLI — an external agent like Claude or ChatGPT drives the account end to end
- Automated posting workflows wired through the public API, Node SDK, n8n, or Make.com
- A fully self-hosted scheduler you own and can audit, deployed for free under AGPL-3.0
Where does the Postiz Smart Agent stop?
The clever thing Postiz gets right is the prompt-to-post loop: you say what you want and the Smart Agent drafts a caption, makes an image, and schedules it. The ceiling is that this produces one post at a time — a caption plus a generic visual — and stops there. That's the exact seam Kompozy fills, and the two fit best as a producer-feeds-scheduler pair rather than as rivals. The same idea you'd type into the Postiz agent becomes a content seed in Kompozy, which grows it into a full multi-format release instead of a single post.
Take one topic and let Kompozy spin a full batch from it. Its argument becomes a Persona Short or a HeyGen avatar cut with a real face and voice; its key points become a brand-exact Carousel and a set of Quote Graphics; a long recording becomes Clipped Shorts with burned-in captions, reframed to 9:16 for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok; and the same seed also drafts a Blog Article and an Email Newsletter.
Every piece is held to one Persona Brief and banned-word filters, so a whole week of output reads as one brand — not a generic AI caption bolted to a stock image. If you run Postiz self-hosted, this is especially clean: Kompozy is the generation engine, Postiz is the distribution endpoint you already own. Where the two overlap on publishing, it's a fair split — Postiz reaches more raw networks, while Kompozy's own Autopilot publishes across the eight social platforms plus blog and email behind a per-post review. Postiz schedules a post; Kompozy produces the content that's worth scheduling.
- Pick the topic you'd normally hand to the Postiz Smart Agent, and bring it into Kompozy as the seed instead.
- Generate the multi-format batch: a Persona Short or HeyGen avatar cut, a brand-exact Carousel, Quote Graphics, Clipped Shorts from a long recording, a Blog Article, and an Email Newsletter.
- Hold every piece to one Persona Brief and banned-word filters so the whole set reads as a single brand.
- Let Kompozy caption and reframe each cut to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 so one asset fits every platform natively.
- Publish through Kompozy's Autopilot across eight social platforms plus blog and email — or export the finished assets into your self-hosted Postiz queue for the extra networks it reaches.
What does this look like in Kompozy?
A real five-slide carousel made in the Kompozy workspace. It shows a format a scheduler like Postiz does not build for you; it was not made in Postiz.
Who is this for, and who should skip it?
Best for:
- Teams that want an open-source scheduler they can self-host
- Developers who want AI agents like Claude or ChatGPT to post through an MCP server or CLI
- Accounts spread across many networks, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit and Discord
Not ideal for:
- Anyone who wants the newest agent features on a self-hosted install first
- Creators who need avatar video, branded carousels or blog posts generated for them
- Teams without someone to maintain a self-hosted deployment
Frequently asked questions
What is Postiz?
Postiz is an open-source, self-hostable social media scheduling tool from the Gitroom team, licensed under AGPL-3.0. It publishes to a broad set of networks from a visual calendar and a chat-driven Smart Agent, and it exposes a public API, an MCP server, and a CLI so external AI agents can drive it. You can self-host the full product for free or use the paid hosted plans from ~$29/month.
What can you make with Postiz?
A scheduled posting queue across many networks, chat-drafted posts with copy and a matching AI image, generic text-to-image visuals, and short AI clips (allowances scale by plan). Its output is scheduled social posts with light AI assist — not avatar video, brand-exact carousels, blogs, or newsletters.
Does Postiz generate content or just schedule it?
Mostly it schedules, with post-level AI assist. The Smart Agent drafts captions and hashtags, makes a generic image, produces short clips, and hosted plans include YouTube-to-shorts clipping — but there's no avatar/persona video, face-lock, brand-exact carousel builder, governed brand voice, or blog/newsletter generation. For deep multi-format generation, pair it with a content engine like Kompozy.
How do I turn a Postiz idea into a full content set?
Use the same topic as a seed in Kompozy instead of a single Smart Agent post. Kompozy grows it into a Persona Short or avatar cut, a brand-exact carousel, quote graphics, clipped shorts, a blog article, and a newsletter — all in one Persona Brief voice — then publishes across eight social platforms plus blog and email. If you self-host Postiz, you can also export the finished assets into its queue.
Is Postiz free?
It can be. Postiz is AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable, and the project says it does not gate features, so you can run the whole product for free on your own infrastructure. The managed hosted plans start around $29/month with a 7-day free trial. Self-hosting is free in dollars but you own the deployment, updates, and uptime.
How do we know this?
We checked every figure, date, price and quote on this page against the sources listed below on 2026-10-23, and removed or corrected anything we could not confirm. Plan details come from postiz.com/pricing and open-source terms from the Postiz GitHub repository. We corrected two earlier claims: Postiz now clips long videos, and its self-hosted version gets agent features later. Kompozy plan and format details come from kompozy.io/pricing.
Sources
- Postiz — Pricing (read 2026-10-23)
- GitHub — gitroomhq/postiz-app (read 2026-10-23)
- Kompozy — Pricing (read 2026-10-23)
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