Buffer
buffer.com
Straightforward social scheduling
An AI copilot that plans and drafts Instagram posts
Reads what already works on your Instagram profile and in your niche, then drafts carousels, static posts and Reels scripts in your saved colours, fonts and logo for you to edit, schedule and publish through Meta's official API. Built for coaches, consultants and service businesses rather than shops or restaurants. Every new signup starts with a 3-day free trial, then continues on a paid plan.
We have read this pricing page 3 times since Sept 2026. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
The entry plan changed name here, from Start to Essencial. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
† The page showed this figure beside a monthly/annual switch and did not say which one it belonged to, so we publish the number without claiming a billing period. Readings like this are shown but never compared, which is why they never produce a price change.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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