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Who runs Buffer, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest social media management software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Planable
Measured from Buffer’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Buffer01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Buffer
Buffer buff.ly
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Buffer tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
1 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- CookieYes
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Buffer
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Buffer, thumbs down if it isn’t.
9 of the 60 sites closest to Buffer match.
- 01
Diply — The operating system behind creator growth
You create. Diply operates what happens next: people, distribution, strategy, analytics, monetization and technology behind creator growth. Apply today.
Very close - 02
Short.io — URL shortener with custom domains & analytics
Free URL shortener with custom branded domains, analytics, and QR codes. Create up to 1,000 branded short links at no cost. No credit card required.
Very close - 03
HYVOR® - Independent Software Foundry
Privacy-first website tools, crafted with care. Trusted by millions, from indie makers to enterprises.
Very close - 04
Webpage archive
archive.is allows you to create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
Very close - 05
Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost
DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Very close - 06
Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote
Our note taking app helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. Start your free trial today!
Very close - 07
Webhosting auf höchstem Niveau – SiteGround
Webhosting-Services unterstützen mehr als 3.000.000 Domains mit ultraschneller Geschwindigkeit, unübertroffener Sicherheit und schnellem 24/7-Experten-Support! Starten Sie jetzt!
Very close - 08
Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff
Very close - 09
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Buffer’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Buffer uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Buffer adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 84 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Buffer’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Cookie consent
- CookieYes page source: cdn-cookieyes.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577bce42eade31b-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 a mx include:spf1.mcsv.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 a mx include:spf1.mcsv.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 a mx include:spf1.mcsv.net include:spf.mandrillapp.com include…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1542.awsdns-00.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ES44Oq6A4__tfup-p2Tti4QXgLzVkHEwXFNZzaV0oFo
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on buff.ly 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on buff.ly 9/20
- OpenAI · not on buff.ly 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on buff.ly 9/20
- HubSpot · not on buff.ly 8/20
- Zendesk · not on buff.ly 7/20
- Apple Business · not on buff.ly 7/20
- PHP · not on buff.ly 6/20
- Slack · not on buff.ly 6/20
- WordPress · not on buff.ly 6/20
- Atlassian · not on buff.ly 6/20