What a Sprout Social Seat Costs

Compare the alternatives on how they bill you, not on feature checkboxes.

Every roundup ranks features

Almost none mention the thing that actually decides your invoice.

A seat is a fixed monthly floor

You pay it in the month you publish 400 posts, and in the month you publish none.

A seat bundles three things

You buy all three whether or not you use any of them.

  • Network breadth
  • Team collaboration
  • Enterprise reporting

Read two lines on any pricing page

The seat minimum, and the price of one extra user. A headline rate with a three-seat minimum is really three times the headline.

X publishes a price per action

So an X-only tool can pass it through: 1 credit to read your own post, 10 to reply to a mention, 15 to publish.

One link changes the bill

Publishing anything containing a URL costs 200 credits against 15 for a plain post. The link is the expensive object, not the post.

Scheduling costs nothing

Credits come out when the post actually goes out. A cancelled post is free, which is not true of a seat you already paid for.

The break-even question

Two networks or fewer, and under three people publishing? You are funding seats and connectors you never fill.

Run your own numbers

The full comparison table, the per-action price list, and the migration order that keeps your queue intact.

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