This is not a finished annual report — we’re not going to publish invented year-end statistics before we actually have a year of tracked data. What follows is only what we’ve directly verified against vendor pricing pages and documentation between April and July 2026.
Pricing and structure changes verified in this window
- Sked Social stopped selling approval add-ons on its Grow plan between 2026-09-22 and 2026-10-08: internal (US$500/yr) and external (US$1,000/yr) approvals now read “Not included” on Grow, so the cheapest plan with any approval workflow is Accelerate at US$166/mo billed annually; prices unchanged (detail)
- Oktopost removed its published prices between 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-06: Professional and Advanced, which had read “from $499” and “from $799” a month billed annually, now show only “Get a quote”, with plan contents unchanged (detail)
- dlvr.it cut its X posting cap from 500 to 150 posts a month per X account between 2026-09-29 and 2026-10-01 and removed Reddit from its platform list, leaving 20; plan prices did not move (detail)
- Vista Social cut included users a second time between 2026-09-25 and 2026-09-28, days after raising every tier: Advanced from 4 to 3 and Scale from 8 to 4, with Professional at 2 and prices unchanged, so a four-person team now needs Scale at $449/mo (detail)
- Tailwind ended its pricing split test between 2026-09-25 and 2026-09-28: the Pro, Advanced and Max tiers are no longer served, and every visitor sees the à-la-carte Pin Scheduling & Creation, Pinterest SEO and Pinterest Engagement products at their July prices (detail)
- Vista Social raised every self-serve plan between 2026-09-23 and 2026-09-25: Professional $79 to $99, Advanced $149 to $199, Scale $349 to $449 a month, with profiles, users and add-on prices unchanged; Scale’s annual discount returns to 20% (detail)
- Sked Social removed the Basic plan (US$24/mo annual, US$29 monthly) from its pricing page between 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-22; the cheapest plan shown is now Grow at US$58/mo, 2.4x the old entry price, while the page’s FAQ still describes four plans (detail)
- RecurPost added role-based permissions and a named-stage approval workflow by 2026-09-21, with stage deadlines that hold, escalate, auto-approve or reschedule a post nobody acted on; its pricing page and its feature pages disagree on whether roles sit on Agency alone or on every plan (detail). Disclosure: same team as this site
- CoSchedule dropped per-user pricing by 2026-09-19: Starter at $39 includes one seat, Professional at $59 includes two, and a sales-led Suite starts at $69, so solo users pay more and small approval teams pay far less (detail)
- Simplified, Postfity’s owner, rebuilt its social plans: the 30-account Growth tier went from $85 to $149 a month on annual billing and Enterprise lost its published price (detail)
- Pallyy removed its $15 Starter tier, so paid plans now start at $25, a plan that now includes approvals (detail)
- Oktopost replaced flat $8,000 and $12,000 annual prices with “from $499” and “from $799” a month billed annually, between 2026-07-17 and 2026-08-24 (detail)
- Tailwind is now split-testing the two structures from the same URL as of 2026-09-02: a cookie assigns roughly seven visitors in ten the Pro/Advanced/Max tiers and the rest the à-la-carte products, at unchanged prices in both arms — which means the August restructure-then-reversal we logged may partly have been the two arms read one at a time — detail
- Tailwind reversed that restructure nine days later, on 2026-08-26, deleting the Pro/Advanced/Max tiers and restoring Pin Scheduling & Creation ($29.99), Pinterest SEO ($14.99) and Pinterest Engagement ($14.99) at their July prices — a rollback, not a reprice — detail
- Tailwind restructured again in August, replacing its three à-la-carte products with credit-metered Free/Pro/Advanced/Max tiers ($17.99/$29.99/$49.99 annual) — the $17.99 sticker now carries half the credits it did, and Instagram/Facebook are back on the pricing cards; reversed two days later, see the entry above — detail
- Metricool doubled its X/Twitter add-on to $10 per connected account per month and ended free access to Studio and campaign dashboards, selling unlimited use as a new Advanced Analytics add-on — plan prices unchanged — detail
- Vista Social cut included users on every tier in August (Professional 3 → 2, Advanced 6 → 4, Scale 10 → 8) with prices unchanged — detail
- Sendible moved its prices twice in July — the entry tier rose 21% to $35 while Elite fell 25% to $299 and Enterprise got a published $750 price — detail
- Vista Social cut its Scale tier to $349/mo without touching the annual price, narrowing that tier’s annual discount — detail
- Hootsuite cut per-user pricing significantly and re-tiered around a new Advanced plan where approval workflows now live — detail
- Sendible abandoned its per-seat pricing ladder entirely for workspace-based tiers with unlimited users — detail
- Tailwind repositioned from a three-platform scheduler to a Pinterest-first, credit-metered product — detail
- SocialPilot dropped Tumblr from its supported platform list alongside a repricing — detail
- Loomly confirmed a no-early-cancellation clause on its discounted annual plan — detail
- CoSchedule doubled its X/Twitter per-profile fee from $8 to $16 a month between July 17 and August 25, 2026, with base plan prices unchanged — the second X surcharge to double in a month after Metricool — detail
Platform-access changes
- HeyOrca removed direct X/Twitter publishing (Apr 6, 2026) — detail, following the same pattern as Later’s X removal in August 2025
Market-access changes
- Sprinklr ended its self-serve purchasing program entirely (Apr 30, 2026) — detail; new buyers now require a sales cycle
- PromoRepublic pivoted to a quote-only model, dropping public pricing altogether — detail. In August we corrected ourselves on what that meant: self-serve signup never stopped, and the in-app pricing screen still publishes Build at $59/mo ($49 annual) and Grow at $99/mo ($79 annual) — the page went quote-only, the product did not — detail
Ten vendors, five months, all independently verified. On 2026-07-27 we re-checked 16 vendors against their live pricing pages: 13 unchanged, Vista Social and Sendible moved (entries above), and Sprinklr remains quote-only. On 2026-08-17 we re-checked all 16 again: 14 unchanged, Publer unverifiable behind its bot wall (published claims left standing), and Tailwind restructured its plans (entry above). We’ll keep this page live as the dataset grows rather than freeze it into a static yearly report.
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