Ocoya vs Publer
Flexible per-account scheduling with a deep recycling toolkit.
Publer has the most configurable scheduling in this list — recurring posts, auto-recycling, bulk upload — and a free tier that lets you try it properly. Its pricing is per social account, which stays cheap only while the account count does, and AI is confined to the Business plan. Ocoya inverts that: one flat price, AI copy, images and video on every plan, a design studio, a real inbox and workflows. If you are optimising an evergreen queue, Publer. If you are producing the content, us.
Where each one is stronger.
Every claim in the Publer column comes from a page they publish, checked in September 2026. Rows where they are ahead are marked as such.
| Capability | ||
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No free plan — a 7-day free trial instead | Free forever — 3 social accounts, 1 user, with X/Twitter excluded |
| Pricing model | Flat plan price — $29, $79 or $199 a month | Per social account — Professional from $5/mo per account, Business from $10/mo, extra members $2–3 each. Every tenth account is free |
| Price at 20 profiles | $79/mo on Team — 5 users, 20 social profiles, 1,500 AI credits | Around $180/mo on Business at list, before team member seats |
| 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 | Unlimited AI prompts — but only on the Business plan; Professional has none |
| AI image & video | AI image and AI video generation in-app, from the same credit pool | AI image generation on Business; no video generation advertised |
| Campaign generation | One prompt becomes a whole campaign — posts, visuals and a schedule across every network | Bulk creation from a spreadsheet, not generated campaigns |
| Design tooling | Design Studio built in — templates, brand kit and a full editor in the same tab as the calendar | Canva, VistaCreate and Google Drive integrations — no first-party editor |
| Scheduling mechanics | Calendar, queue and bulk scheduling across every connected profile | The deepest toolkit here — recurring posts, auto-recycling, CSV bulk upload and expiry rules |
| 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 | Role-based: an Editor’s posts can require Admin/Owner or Client approval, and a decline carries a note back to the author |
| Networks | 14 integrations: Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Bluesky, Threads, YouTube Shorts, Google Business, TikTok, Discord, Dribbble, Kick and WooCommerce | Thirteen publishing integrations: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Threads, Pinterest, YouTube, Google Business, Telegram, Mastodon, Bluesky and WordPress. Telegram, Mastodon and WordPress are theirs alone; Discord, Dribbble, Kick and WooCommerce are ours |
| Unified inbox | DMs, comments and mentions from every connected profile, with assignment, open/resolved statuses and internal notes | No unified DM inbox |
| Workflow automation | Visual workflows automate publishing and replies, and can be triggered by an AI agent | Automation sits on the scheduling side — recycling and recurrence, not a workflow 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 | No MCP server published |
| Public API | REST API with a published reference, on every plan | API access on the Business plan |
| Link in bio | Not offered | Link-in-bio pages included |
Publer figures are taken from publer.com/plans, publer.com/integrations, publer.com/help as of September 2026 and may have changed since — check publer.com for their current terms. Publer is their trademark, not ours, and this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Choose Ocoya if
- You want AI on your entry plan, not gated behind the top tier
- You want image and video generated, and posts designed, inside the tool
- You need DMs, comments and mentions in a shared inbox
- Twenty-odd profiles under a flat price beats per-account billing
- You want your AI assistant to run the calendar over MCP
Choose Publer if
- You want a free plan that never expires
- Evergreen recycling and recurring posts are the core of your strategy
- You publish to Telegram, Mastodon or WordPress
- You run one or two accounts and want the cheapest possible line item
- A link-in-bio page matters to you
We would rather tell you this now than have you find out after migrating a year of content.
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Switching from Publer?
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