PostGate vs Postiz

A Postiz alternative for teams that don't want to run the server

Postiz is a real, actively developed open-source social media scheduler — AGPL-licensed, free to self-host, with a genuinely large channel and platform list. That's a fair choice for a team willing to run its own infrastructure and manage its own platform app approvals. PostGate is a managed API built for the opposite tradeoff: no servers to operate, multi-tenant environments with your own branding and custom domain out of the box, and delivery evidence you can build a product on top of. Below is a factual, sourced comparison so you can judge which fits your stack.

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How PostGate and Postiz compare

Every Postiz figure below is sourced from postiz.com's pricing page and the public gitroomhq/postiz-app GitHub repository as of this writing and may change — verify current details before deciding. PostGate figures come from our own docs and pricing page, linked throughout.

DimensionPostGatePostiz
Deployment modelA managed, multi-tenant API. No infrastructure to run — you call an HTTPS endpoint and PostGate operates the queues, workers, and delivery pipeline.Open source (AGPL-3.0) and self-hostable for free — you run Postgres, Redis, and the app yourself (Docker, Railway, Hetzner, etc.) — or use Postiz's own managed cloud instead.
Starting price & free tierFree sandbox plan, no card required. Paid plans start at $4.00/mo. See /pricing.Self-hosting the open-source app costs nothing but your own infrastructure. Postiz's managed cloud starts at $29/mo (Standard, 5 channels), up to $99/mo (Ultimate, 100 channels) — there is no free cloud tier, only a trial.
Who owns platform app approvalOn the white-label plan, bring your own Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other provider app credentials per organization — your approval status and rate limits are yours alone. See /docs/environments.Self-hosters must register and get their own developer apps approved with each platform — Postiz's own docs note Meta and YouTube review can take over a month. Cloud users post through Postiz's shared developer apps instead.
White-label branding & custom domainEvery embedded connection environment supports a branded logo, primary color, and a verified custom domain on every plan that enables white-label. See /docs/environments.No hosted, verified white-label domain product for a connection flow — a self-hoster can put their own domain in front of their own deployment, but branding a multi-tenant customer connection experience is not a built-in feature.
Webhook delivery modelSigned events (HMAC-SHA256 over timestamp and raw body) for post.published, post.partial, and post.failed, plus a test-delivery endpoint. See /docs/webhooks.Webhooks are listed as a feature on every Postiz cloud tier and in the open-source app; public docs don't detail a signature scheme or a per-target delivery evidence model.
SDK language coverageGenerated clients for six languages/runtimes — Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, and .NET — from one OpenAPI contract. See /docs/sdks-mcp.API access is included on every cloud tier and the self-hosted app exposes a REST API, but Postiz does not publish generated SDKs across multiple languages.
Idempotent retriesA stable Idempotency-Key makes a logical create-post request safe to retry for 72 hours — no accidental duplicate publishes. See /docs/idempotency.Not documented as a public API contract. A duplicate-publish bug from a retried in-flight TikTok job was reported and fixed in the open-source repo (PR #1741), which is the kind of failure a documented idempotency key is designed to prevent by contract rather than by fixing each occurrence after the fact.
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Open source is a real advantage — for the right team

Self-hosting trades ownership for operational load

Postiz being AGPL-licensed and free to self-host is a genuine, notable differentiator — you can read every line of the publishing pipeline, run it entirely on your own infrastructure, and never pay a subscription. That's the right tradeoff for a team with the appetite to run Postgres, Redis, and background workers in production, monitor them, and handle its own platform-app review process with Meta, TikTok, and every other provider it connects. PostGate takes the other side of that tradeoff deliberately: a managed, multi-tenant API where environments, custom domains, and provider-app isolation are configuration, not infrastructure you operate yourself. If you want to read the source or run it yourself, Postiz is a legitimate option; if you want white-label multi-tenancy without operating a deployment, that's what PostGate is built for. See /whitelabel.

Why teams switch

Why teams switch to PostGate

No infrastructure to operate

No Postgres, Redis, or worker fleet to run and patch — call an HTTPS endpoint and PostGate operates the queue, retries, and delivery pipeline. Explore the docs.

White-label environments

Create a test or live environment with a brand configuration — product name, logo, and primary color — for the customer-facing connection experience. Read the environments guide.

Signed webhooks with delivery evidence

Subscribe to signed post.published, post.partial, and post.failed events, and inspect per-target delivery evidence instead of guessing why a post stalled. Read the webhooks guide.

SDKs in six languages, plus MCP

Build from generated clients in Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, and .NET, or connect an AI agent to the hosted MCP server with draft-first publish safety. Read the SDKs & MCP guide.

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Idempotent posts, so retries never duplicate

Idempotency keys

Pass a stable Idempotency-Key when creating a post and PostGate makes the logical request safe to retry for 72 hours — no accidental duplicate publishes from a retried request. Explore the docs.

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