Ayrshare Pricing in 2026: What It Costs and Why Developers Are Leaving

Ayrshare's cheapest paid plan is $149/month and it includes one social profile. Ten profiles cost $299/month, thirty cost $599/month, and there is no free tier — only a 28-day trial. Verified against Ayrshare's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. For a SaaS product where each customer connects their own accounts, that per-profile model is the number that decides whether you can afford to build on it.

Updated 19 August 2026. Ayrshare restructured its plans since this post was first published in April. The old Hobby ($29) and Individual ($49) tiers are gone, and the plan names changed. The current table is below.

#Ayrshare's Current Pricing Tiers

Ayrshare uses a tiered model based on connected social profiles:

Above 30 profiles the Business plan adds $8.99 per profile for 31–100, $3.49 for 101–500, and $2.49 beyond 500. Premium is single-user; extra team logins start on Launch. There is no free tier, but there is a 28-day trial with no card required.

A "profile" is one customer's connected set, not one social account — each profile covers up to 13 accounts across 13 networks. That distinction matters, and it is where the cost model bites.

Model a SaaS product where every user connects their own accounts. Twenty-five customers is 25 profiles: past Launch, into Business at $599/month. One hundred customers is $599 plus 70 × $8.99, about $1,228/month, before you have earned anything from them. Your COGS scales with signups rather than revenue.

#The Price History Problem

Ayrshare has restructured its pricing repeatedly. We watched it happen while maintaining this post: between April and August 2026 the two cheapest tiers ($29 Hobby and $49 Individual) disappeared, the plans were renamed, and the entry price became $149 for a single profile. The pattern developers report is consistent — plans restructure, and keeping the same functionality usually means moving up.

This is not a minor operational inconvenience. If you are a bootstrapped founder or a small engineering team, a 40% price increase six months after you shipped your product can break your unit economics entirely. Switching social API providers is not easy once users have connected their accounts. Each user must re-authorize. That is real friction that some percentage will not complete.

The G2 reviews for Ayrshare reflect this. The product reliability scores are solid. The pricing transparency scores are not. Developers consistently flag "unexpected price increases" as the reason they evaluated alternatives.

#What the $149 Premium Plan Includes

For $149/month you get:

• 1 connected social profile, covering up to 13 social accounts
• X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest support
• REST API access
• Webhooks for publish and fail events
• Basic analytics (impressions, engagement rate, reach)
• Image and video posting

What it does not include:

• A media library queryable via API (useful for AI agents that need to retrieve stored assets programmatically)
• An MCP server that can actually post. Ayrshare does publish an official MCP server, but it is documentation-only — it answers questions about the API rather than calling it, so an agent cannot publish through it. The MCP servers that do post are third-party and unofficial.
• Self-serve upgrades above the Business tier

For a single-profile use case, Premium works. The product is reliable. The API documentation is thorough. The risk is trajectory: can you confidently model this as a line item in 18 months?

#Who Feels the Pricing Model Most

Growing SaaS companies. Each new user who connects social accounts adds to your profile count. Costs grow with your users, not with your revenue. That is a structural problem if your margins are thin or your growth is fast.

AI agent builders. Agents posting at scale on behalf of many users can accumulate profile connections quickly. Ayrshare's per-profile model was designed for human-scale social management, not agent-driven infrastructure.

Bootstrapped founders. No runway means no buffer for surprise invoices. A price increase that is manageable for a funded startup is a real threat to a solo founder's profitability.

Schedule & Chill is free while we open up more platforms: scheduling for LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon and YouTube, the full REST API, and an official MCP server that actually publishes — no credit card, no trial timer. See the pricing page.

#Ayrshare vs. Schedule & Chill: Side-by-Side

Be honest about the trade: Ayrshare covers 13 networks today and we cover four. If you need Instagram or TikTok right now, Ayrshare can do it and we cannot. What we are cheaper at is the thing this post is about — the per-profile bill that grows with your signups. A queryable media library lets AI agents retrieve stored creative assets by tag or type without you building a separate lookup system. An officially maintained MCP server means tool definitions stay current when the MCP spec evolves.

#Should You Switch From Ayrshare?

If you are already on Ayrshare with users connected, migration has a real cost. Every connected user needs to re-authorize their social accounts through the new provider. Expect some drop-off. That friction is worth factoring against your actual savings.

If you are evaluating providers before you build, you can choose infrastructure that fits your expected growth curve from day one with no migration cost later.

Questions worth asking any social API vendor before committing:

1. How often have you changed pricing in the last 24 months?
2. What happens to existing customers when plans restructure?
3. Is there a self-serve path to higher tiers, or does growth require a sales call?
4. Is your MCP server officially maintained, and can it execute calls or only describe them?

The answers tell you what the relationship looks like in 18 months, not just today.

#Related reading

• Ayrshare alternatives for developers — 7 options compared on API docs, rate limits and MCP support
• The cheapest Ayrshare alternative in 2026 — a real pricing table at a few usage tiers

#Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ayrshare's cheapest plan? As of August 2026, Ayrshare's cheapest paid plan is Premium at $149/month, which includes one social profile covering up to 13 social accounts. The $29 Hobby and $49 Individual tiers that existed earlier in 2026 have been removed.

Does Ayrshare have a free plan? No. Ayrshare offers a 28-day free trial with no credit card required, but there is no permanently free tier.

Why do developers leave Ayrshare? The most commonly cited reasons on G2 and developer forums are unexpected price increases and per-profile costs becoming unmanageable as user bases grow.

What is a cheaper Ayrshare alternative? Schedule & Chill is free today — REST API, an MCP server and a queryable media library, with no card required. It posts to LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon and YouTube; six more platforms are in their vendors' review queues. Ayrshare covers 13 networks, so if you need Instagram or TikTok today it is still the one that can do it. Full comparison here.

Does Ayrshare have an MCP server? Yes, but it is documentation-only. Ayrshare's official MCP server answers questions about the API rather than calling it, so an AI agent cannot publish a post through it — the MCP servers that do publish are third-party and unofficial. Schedule & Chill's MCP server is maintained by the core team and executes real API calls, so an agent can schedule and publish directly. Verified August 2026.