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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.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Buffer matches.
- 01
Slack | AI Work Platform & Productivity Tools
Boost productivity and save time with Slack — the AI work platform for managing projects, automating workflows, and connecting teams securely. Start working smarter today.
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 and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 36 ms
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