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Buffer
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
- Last price change
- None seen yet
- Closest alternative
- Metricool
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 buffer.com
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.
Wikidata: software application for the web and mobile, designed to manage accounts in multiple social networks
- 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
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 10 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 · Pricing
What Buffer costs
The prices on Buffer’s pricing page as shown to visitors from Germany, in the order they appear. We check weekly; price changes are listed under What changed.
- $5 / month
- $60
- $10 / month
- $120
04 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Buffer
None of the 60 sites closest to Buffer match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
05 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →What Buffer changed on its homepage, prices, imprint and open positions, and in the tools it uses. Each change happened between the two dates: the last check that saw the old state and the one that found the new.
- ~ Page Homepage · Nov 6 – 12, 2026 New headings: 342,073 creators, brands, and agencies using Buffer · Social Media Glossary Dropped headings:
100,000326,943 creators, brands, and agencies using Buffer · Start page
06 · 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 · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 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-
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:helpscoutemail.com include:_spf.google.com include:mai…
- Cookie consent
- CookieYes page source: cdn-cookieyes.com
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=436470f5c9a974d3045706507ca0deef5fc07b3d82d645618…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5949a24fef4b564-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS tess.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=jpDzphFKQHfOP1m86Lu3xA2lyx4wZwx2DILni2KvWFc
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=7cr8hfn0y878zjxzgt4hbknwhxuk5y
Sitemaps
, 1 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- OpenAI · not on buffer.com 11/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- HubSpot · not on buffer.com 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on buffer.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- Zendesk 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on buffer.com 9/20
- React 8/20
- Next.js 7/20
- Apple Business · not on buffer.com 7/20
- Slack · not on buffer.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on buffer.com 6/20