Planable alternatives
By Joris van Huët · each comparison from the vendors' own pricing and help pages, prices dated on the page
The short answer: 3 tools are compared with Planable on this site, and the line under each one is the verdict from its comparison: who should pick which, with the figures that decide it on the comparison itself. Read the one that names your job. What Planable costs and who it suits is in its entry, and how to use Planable walks through one job with it.
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Buffer
If no post may go out before a client, a manager or legal has signed it, Planable enforces that: its Pro plan, $59 a workspace a month on monthly billing with unlimited users, lets you make approval required, and Enterprise adds multi-level approval (Planable pricing, checked on 26 October 2026).
Loomly
If each client has its own approvers, the crossover sits at six clients.
Metricool
You are right that both tools can hold a post until a client says yes, but they price that gate very differently: six clients on Planable Pro cost 6 x $59 = $354 a month on monthly billing, while Metricool puts its approval system on Advanced at $67 a month for up to 15 brands (checked on 26 October 2026 on the.
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