Hootsuite vs Mixpost
Hootsuite and Mixpost are both social media management software. Hootsuite is a commercial product from Hootsuite. Mixpost is open source under MIT, with 3.9k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Hootsuite when
- A marketing team manages many brand accounts across networks and needs approvals and reporting.
- Pick Mixpost when
- You want a self-hosted Buffer alternative and already run Laravel or PHP hosting.
Side by side
Social media management for scheduling posts, managing a combined inbox, social listening and analytics across networks.
A Laravel package and app for scheduling and publishing social media posts with a content calendar and analytics on your own server.
Prices have climbed and the free plan is gone.
Team and agency features are in paid Pro editions, and the free version has been quiet since March 2026.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
PHP, Laravel and Vue
Closed source, sold by Hootsuite
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
360 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
3.9k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.6.0.
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.