Mixpost vs Sprout Social
Mixpost and Sprout Social are both social media management software. Mixpost is open source under MIT, with 3.9k GitHub stars. Sprout Social is a commercial product from Sprout Social.
Which to pick
- Pick Mixpost when
- You want a self-hosted Buffer alternative and already run Laravel or PHP hosting.
- Pick Sprout Social when
- A midsize marketing or customer care team needs strong social reporting and engagement workflows.
Side by side
A Laravel package and app for scheduling and publishing social media posts with a content calendar and analytics on your own server.
Social media management with publishing, a unified inbox, listening, reporting and influencer tools.
Team and agency features are in paid Pro editions, and the free version has been quiet since March 2026.
Per-seat pricing is high.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and mobile app
PHP, Laravel and Vue
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Sprout Social
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
3.9k GitHub stars
221 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release 2.6.0.
Not known
Other comparisons
More social media scheduling and management tools
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.