PlanVortex vs Ayrshare for publishing to social from your own product
Ayrshare starts at $149/month with no free plan. PlanVortex starts at €0/month and its API is right there, on the free plan, with no card. That is the biggest difference between the two. PlanVortex also ships a Node library, a Python library, and an MCP server, and it covers almost all of Ayrshare's networks, plus Discord and Slack, which they don't have.
How much does each one cost?
Prices verified at ayrshare.com/pricing on August 31, 2026, and in PlanVortex's production code (PLAN_PRICES) the same date.
| Entry plan | Mid plan | Top plan | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayrshare | Premium: $149/mo | Launch: $299/mo | Business: from $599/mo | Enterprise: custom |
| PlanVortex | Free: €0/mo | Basic: €15/mo | Pro: €30/mo | Custom: from €45 + VAT |
Ayrshare has no free tier: its cheapest plan, Premium, already costs $149/month. The closest thing to "free" is a 28-day trial with no card, and it's worth noticing where it sits: on the Launch plan, the $299/month one, not the entry plan. PlanVortex has a permanent free plan, no card required, no expiration.
On top of that, Ayrshare sells two add-ons that aren't part of any fixed plan: the Max Pack at $300/month (the AI features, included with Enterprise) and Facebook Ads at $100/month.
How much does API access cost?
At least $149/month on Ayrshare; €0 on PlanVortex. Ayrshare sells API access and nothing else: every one of its plans, starting with Premium, includes the full API, and the cheapest one is $149/month.
PlanVortex's API is on all four plans, the free one included: you create an app in the dashboard, get a client_id and a client_secret and call api.planvortex.com without entering a card. Those are the same credentials the Node library, the Python library, and the MCP server use. What scales with the plan is how many separate apps you get (1 on free, 2 on basic, 5 on pro and up to 10 on custom) and how fast you can call.
What you pay for in PlanVortex is connected accounts. The custom plan starts at €45 + VAT per month with its minimums (15 accounts, 20 GB, 5 integrations, 4,000 AI credits and 5,000 X credits, all included in that price) and each account is charged in tiers: €3 from 11 to 25, €2 from 26 to 100 and €0.90 beyond that. So 50 connected accounts come to €125 and 100 to €225, for the whole bill.
In short: if what you need is an API to publish with, in PlanVortex you can start today at €0 with 3 accounts, and in Ayrshare the floor is $149/month.
What's included in each plan?
The two measure different things, so price alone is not enough: Ayrshare limits by profiles and PlanVortex by connected accounts.
Ayrshare (verified on its pricing page):
| Plan | Profiles | Connected accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Premium ($149/mo) | 1 | Up to 14, across 14 networks |
| Launch ($299/mo) | Up to 10 | Up to 140 |
| Business (from $599/mo) | 30 (tiered up to 300) | Up to 420 |
| Enterprise | From 300 | Thousands |
PlanVortex (CLIENT_PLANES, in production code):
| Plan | Accounts | Users | Publications/month | Apps for the API | AI credits/month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free (€0) | 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 1 | — (no AI) |
| Basic (€15/mo) | 6 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 2 | 1,000 |
| Pro (€30/mo) | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 5 | 4,000 |
| Custom (from €45) | From 15 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Up to 10 | From 4,000 |
The structure matters more than the numbers. In Ayrshare, a profile is each one of your end customers, and profiles cost money: one on Premium, ten on Launch, thirty on Business. In PlanVortex brands and clients are unlimited and free (each with its own accounts, calendar, and team); what you buy are the resources, and you distribute them across brands from the dashboard.
For an agency with fifteen small clients of two accounts each, those two ways of counting produce very different invoices. Everyone has to run the numbers against their own mix.
Which networks does each one cover?
Almost the same ones. PlanVortex covers these: Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Bluesky, Threads, Slack, and Pinterest.
Ayrshare's list overlaps almost entirely, and Discord and Slack are not on it.
One detail if you compare network counts: Ayrshare's homepage says 14 because it counts WhatsApp in beta, while its own API documentation still said 13 and left WhatsApp out as of August 31, 2026.
Here's how it splits:
| Only on PlanVortex | On both |
|---|---|
| Discord, Slack | Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram, Bluesky, Threads, Pinterest |
Pinterest joined PlanVortex in September 2026. What you need to know about it is the same on both: there is no comment inbox. Pinterest's API does not expose a pin's comments (only how many there are), and Ayrshare's comments API does not include it either: its documentation lists Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Threads, TikTok, X, and YouTube (verified September 24, 2026). In PlanVortex, every pin also goes to a board chosen on each post, and the link it leads to goes in a field of its own.
Slack, in the left-hand column, is not a social network: it is for announcing things inside a team, in a channel, so it publishes and reports reactions and channel members and nothing else (no comment inbox, no direct messages, no reach).
Discord works differently from the rest: the Discord application belongs to the client, not to us, so it's created in their portal and its credentials are pasted into PlanVortex. In exchange, the rate limits are set by that community rather than by an app shared across every client. The reasoning is in the Discord publishing guide.
What developer tooling does each one offer?
PlanVortex ships three pieces:
npm i planvortex # Node library
pip install planvortex # Python library
npx -y planvortex-mcp # MCP server, for your AI assistant
The MCP server is also listed in the official MCP registry, runs on your machine with your credentials, and exposes no destructive tool.
| PlanVortex | Ayrshare | |
|---|---|---|
| Node.js library | Yes | Yes |
| Python library | Yes | Yes |
| Go library | No | Yes |
| PHP library | No | Yes |
| Command-line interface | No | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes |
| Outbound webhooks | Yes | Yes |
| Public OpenAPI spec | Yes | Yes |
| Dashboard under your brand | On request | No |
Go, PHP, and the CLI are three points in Ayrshare's favor if your team integrates in those languages or lives in the terminal.
The other way round, there's one piece only PlanVortex has: the dashboard under your brand. Ayrshare is an API with no end-user interface; if your clients need a screen where they can see their calendar, with Ayrshare you build it yourself.
Which one generates content with AI?
Both. Ayrshare has AI in the Max Pack add-on at $300/month on top of the Business plan (included with Enterprise).
What the Max Pack does, per its own documentation: generates and rewrites text, translates posts to 100+ languages, transcribes video, writes alt text for images, and runs sentiment analysis on a post or a comment. It also brings a link shortener with analytics and image resizing with watermarks.
What it doesn't do is generate images. That's the line between the two:
| PlanVortex | Ayrshare | |
|---|---|---|
| Generate text | Yes, from basic (€15/mo) | Yes, with Max Pack ($300/mo on top of Business) |
| Generate images | Yes | No |
| Translate posts | No | Yes |
| AI alt text | No | Yes |
| Transcribe video | No | Yes |
| Sentiment analysis | No | Yes |
In PlanVortex, AI isn't an add-on: you describe the week's theme and the planner generates text and an image for each network, with suggested times and human review before anything goes out. The credits come inside the plan (1,000 on basic, 4,000 on pro) and if you'd rather bring your own provider key, those generations consume no credits because you pay your provider directly. Generating the image is not compulsory either: the AI can write the text from your own photos, which for a local business is usually the only thing that works.
Put in money: Ayrshare's AI text generation starts at $899/month (Business plus Max Pack) and doesn't include images. PlanVortex's starts at €15/month and includes both.
What does Ayrshare have that PlanVortex doesn't?
Five things:
- Go and PHP libraries, and a CLI.
- Translation, alt text, video transcription, and sentiment analysis, all inside their Max Pack.
- A link shortener with analytics and image resizing with watermarks.
- Facebook ads created from an existing post, as a $100/month add-on.
- More years and more volume: per its own site, 10,000+ client teams and 30M+ daily calls (its own figure, not independently verified).
Where does each one win?
Ayrshare wins on: libraries in two more languages plus a CLI, and a catalog of AI utilities (translation, transcription, sentiment, alt text) that PlanVortex doesn't have.
PlanVortex wins on: price (the API is on the €0 plan, against $149/month), AI image generation included from €15/month, unlimited posts and users on every plan, unlimited clients and brands with no per-profile cost, an end-user dashboard under your brand, Discord, and integrations with Google Drive and RSS/WordPress to pull material in without leaving the dashboard.
When does each one make sense?
Ayrshare, if your team integrates in Go or PHP, or if you're going to build the interface your clients see yourself and only want the plumbing underneath. Entry cost is $149/month from month one.
PlanVortex, if you want your clients to have a dashboard (under your brand) without building it, if it helps that the AI generates the images too, or if you run many small clients and paying per profile gets expensive. And if what you need is to try before committing budget, the free plan (€0, 3 accounts, unlimited posts and the API included) lets you see the whole thing with no card, something Ayrshare doesn't offer.
How does PlanVortex charge?
Flat price per plan, with no hidden per-account fees within those limits: free is free, basic is €15/month, pro is €30/month, and custom is tailored upward from pro's minimums. Past 10 accounts, custom charges in graduated tiers (€3/account from 11 to 25, €2 from 26 to 100 and €0.90 beyond), so one more account costs that account and never a whole plan jump. Brands, clients, users and posts aren't billed separately, and new networks arrive on every plan at no extra cost. Full detail is on the pricing page, with a configurator that recalculates the Custom plan resource by resource.
Ayrshare's prices and features change on its own commercial cycle. Theirs are verified as of August 31, 2026 against ayrshare.com/pricing and its public documentation; if there's a difference with their current site, theirs wins. PlanVortex's are verified against production code on September 3, 2026.
Does Ayrshare have a free plan?
No. Its cheapest plan, Premium, costs $149/month and there is no permanent free tier. What it does offer is a 28-day trial with no credit card, and it's worth noting where that sits: on the Launch plan, the $299/month one, not the entry plan. Once the trial ends, you either pay or lose access. Verified at ayrshare.com/pricing on August 31, 2026.
Which social networks does each one support?
Most networks are on both, and Discord and Slack are only on PlanVortex. Pinterest is on both, and on neither does it have a comment inbox, because Pinterest's API doesn't provide one. One detail worth knowing when you compare the number: Ayrshare's homepage says 14 because it counts WhatsApp in beta, while its own API documentation still said 13 and left WhatsApp out as of August 31, 2026.
Which one is cheaper to get started with?
PlanVortex: its API is on all four plans, the free one included. You create an app in the dashboard, get the client_id and client_secret and call the API without entering a card, the same credentials that authenticate the libraries and the MCP server. Ayrshare's cheapest plan with API access costs $149/month. What scales with the plan in PlanVortex is how many separate apps you get (1 on free, 2 on basic, 5 on pro and up to 10 on custom) and how fast you can call.
Does Ayrshare offer AI content generation?
Yes, through the Max Pack add-on: $300/month on top of the Business plan, and included with Enterprise. It generates and rewrites text, translates to 100+ languages, transcribes video, writes alt text, and runs sentiment analysis on a comment. What it does not do is generate images. PlanVortex generates text and images from the €15/month basic plan up, with the credits included in the plan itself.
Does PlanVortex have official libraries and an MCP server?
Yes, all three pieces are published: npm i planvortex for Node, pip install planvortex for Python, and npx -y planvortex-mcp for the MCP server, which is also listed in the official MCP registry. What Ayrshare has and PlanVortex doesn't are the Go and PHP libraries and a command-line interface.