$3.99/mo, API included, vs a sales call for SocialPilot's
SocialPilot does have an API, which puts it ahead of half this comparison, but it's an Enterprise-tier feature with no published price, so you talk to sales before you can call it. Bulkit's API is the entire product, self-serve, on the $3.99 a month entry plan.
It depends on how you're planning to publish. If a dashboard is all you need, SocialPilot's Essentials plan at $30/month for 7 accounts is competitively priced against most of this cluster. But if you specifically need the API, SocialPilot puts it behind the Enterprise plan, which uses contact-sales pricing with no dollar figure published anywhere on their site, so the real cost of API access isn't $30/month, it's whatever a sales conversation lands on. Bulkit skips that step entirely: $3.99/month, 500 posts and comments included, then a cent per action, with the REST API as the only plan there is.
SocialPilot serves real agencies well, so the split here is about whether you need self-serve API access or a client-reporting dashboard.
If that's you, SocialPilot's Essentials through Ultimate tiers are a genuinely strong deal for agencies and multi-location businesses. Check its own pricing page rather than reading about Enterprise API access you may not need. See SocialPilot's pricing →
Yes. SocialPilot's own pricing page lists "API Access" explicitly as an Enterprise-tier feature, which means it's real, but it's not available on Essentials, Standard, Premium or Ultimate at any of their published prices. To get it, you contact sales for custom Enterprise pricing. Their developer docs reference OAuth 2.0 authentication, but they aren't self-serve in the way most developer platforms are: you can't sign up and start calling the API the way you can with Bulkit's, which is on the single $3.99/mo plan with full documentation from your first request.
| Bulkit | SocialPilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $3.99/mo | $30/mo (Essentials) |
| Free plan | No free plan, no card to start | 14-day free trial, no permanent free tier |
| Seats / users | Unlimited on every plan | 1 (Essentials) → unlimited (Ultimate) |
| Connected profiles | Unlimited on every plan | 7 (Essentials) → 50 (Ultimate) → unlimited (Enterprise) |
| Post volume limit | 500 posts & comments/mo included, then $0.01/action, no hard cap | No published post cap found; meters by accounts and AI credits |
| Public API | Yes, the API is the product, on every plan | Yes, listed as an Enterprise-tier feature |
| API gated to | No plan; it's the only plan | Enterprise (contact sales, no published price) |
| CSV export | Not needed: REST API, SDK, CLI, n8n node | Yes, exports queue/published/error/unscheduled posts as CSV |
On Bulkit, 500 posts and comments a month is exactly the included allowance: flat $3.99, unlimited accounts. On SocialPilot, 5 accounts fits the Essentials plan at $30/mo, but Essentials has no API. If the API is what you actually need for those 5 accounts, you're pricing against Enterprise, which has no published rate at all.
Bulkit is ~7.5× cheaper at this volume
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API access needs Enterprise (custom pricing), not the plan priced above.
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SocialPilot's tier ladder is built to be affordable for agencies and local businesses managing several accounts on a dashboard, and at that job, it's genuinely competitive on price.
Sign up and grab a key, no sales call, no custom quote. The API is the plan.
Use SocialPilot's "Export as CSV" option for queue, published, error or unscheduled posts: a confirmed, documented path off the platform, available on every tier including Essentials.
Turn the exported rows into Bulkit API calls, or use the CLI or dashboard's drag-and-drop calendar for a smaller queue. Reconnect accounts through Bulkit's OAuth flow once, no separate developer-app review.
Yes. "API Access" is listed explicitly as an Enterprise-tier feature on SocialPilot's own pricing page, which means it's real but requires custom, contact-sales pricing. It isn't available on Essentials, Standard, Premium or Ultimate. Bulkit's API is on every plan starting at $3.99/mo, with a published price and no sales call.
SocialPilot has no permanent free tier, only a 14-day trial. Bulkit has no free plan either, but creating an API key needs no credit card, and the entry cost is a published $3.99/mo against SocialPilot's $30/mo Essentials plan.
Yes. Bulkit's platform apps are already approved, so you connect accounts through Bulkit's own OAuth flow, no separate developer-app review on your end.
Yes, via CSV. SocialPilot has a confirmed, documented export of queue, published, error and unscheduled posts, available on every plan. Export that file and recreate the posts through Bulkit's API, CLI or dashboard.
There's no published number. It's bundled into a custom Enterprise quote you get by contacting sales, which makes it impossible to compare directly against a flat rate. Bulkit's API costs exactly $3.99/mo plus $0.01 per action, published and unchanging regardless of your account count.
Yes, every paid tier includes a bundle of AI credits (500 on Essentials up to unlimited on Ultimate) for AI-assisted post drafting. Bulkit has no content-generation feature at all; it's scoped to publishing whatever content your own stack produces.
Yes, SocialPilot explicitly markets to verticals like real estate, restaurants, law firms, HVAC and healthcare, and its account-count tiers scale reasonably for a multi-location business managing several local profiles from one dashboard. Bulkit doesn't have industry-specific tooling; it's a general-purpose publishing API regardless of vertical.
$3.99/mo, 500 actions included, then a cent each. A published price for the API, not a custom Enterprise quote.
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