Comparison

Ocoya vs Buffer

The tidiest scheduler in the category, priced per channel.

7 rows to Ocoya5 about even

4 to Buffer

Buffer is the cleanest scheduler anyone makes, and its free plan is genuinely useful — three channels, ten queued posts each. The catch is the shape of the price: per channel, which is cheap at two profiles and expensive at twenty. Ocoya is a different product underneath — one flat price, the AI writer, image and video generation and the Design Studio in the box, and an inbox that covers DMs rather than just comments. If you want a tidy queue for a personal brand, Buffer is hard to beat. If you want the content made for you, come here.

Feature by feature

Where each one is stronger.

Every claim in the Buffer column comes from a page they publish, checked in September 2026. Rows where they are ahead are marked as such.

Ocoya compared with Buffer, checked against buffer.com in September 2026.
Capability	Ocoya	Buffer
Free plan	No free plan — a 7-day free trial instead	Free forever — 3 channels, 10 queued posts per channel, 1 user
Price at 5 profiles	$29/mo on Starter — 1 user, 5 social profiles, 300 AI credits	$25/mo on Essentials (5 × $5), 1 user — or $50/mo on Team
Price at 20 profiles	$79/mo on Team — 5 users, 20 social profiles, 1,500 AI credits	$100/mo on Essentials or $200/mo on Team at list, before volume discounts
AI copywriting	AI captions from a prompt, with brand voice, tone and length controls, on every plan — plus rewrite, shorten, expand, tone and translate-into-37-languages on any caption	AI Assistant for writing and repurposing, unlimited credits on every plan — text only
AI image & video	AI image and AI video generation in-app, from the same credit pool	No image or video generation — media is uploaded
Campaign generation	One prompt becomes a whole campaign — posts, visuals and a schedule across every network	Content ideas and per-post drafting, not campaign generation
Design tooling	Design Studio built in — templates, brand kit and a full editor in the same tab as the calendar	No built-in editor
Networks	14 integrations: Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Bluesky, Threads, YouTube Shorts, Google Business, TikTok, Discord, Dribbble, Kick and WooCommerce	Eleven channels: Bluesky, Facebook, Google Business Profile, Instagram, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X and YouTube. Mastodon is the one on their list we do not have
Unified inbox	DMs, comments and mentions from every connected profile, with assignment, open/resolved statuses and internal notes	Community inbox for comments, with AI reply suggestions — comments rather than DMs
Workflow automation	Visual workflows automate publishing and replies, and can be triggered by an AI agent	A publishing queue and posting schedule — no automation builder
MCP / AI assistant control	mcp.ocoya.com — an OAuth-secured MCP server covering the whole product: create, design, schedule, run workflows and switch brands. Included on every plan	A public MCP server on every plan including Free, with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Raycast and Perplexity support
Public API	REST API with a published reference, on every plan	API access from the free plan — 1 key, 3,000 requests a month
Analytics	Post and profile performance in-app	30-day history on Free, unlimited history and custom reports on paid, branded reports on Team
Approval workflows	Request approval on any post: pick which brand members review it, they get an email with one-click approve or reject, and the post cannot publish until it is approved. Every decision is logged on the post. Not gated behind a higher tier	Content approval workflows and custom access controls on Team
Team seats	1, 5 or 20 users depending on plan — seats are part of the plan, not an add-on	Unlimited users on Team, at $10 per channel per month
Link in bio	Not offered	Start Page, a link-in-bio builder, included

Buffer figures are taken from buffer.com/pricing, buffer.com channel pages, buffer.com/mcp, developers.buffer.com as of September 2026 and may have changed since — check buffer.com for their current terms. Buffer is their trademark, not ours, and this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

Choose Ocoya if

You run more than a handful of profiles and per-channel pricing has stopped making sense
You want the posts written, designed and generated, not just queued
You need DMs and mentions in the inbox, not only comments
You want automation you can build, not just a queue
One prompt turning into a full campaign would save you a morning

Choose Buffer if