Is Feedly or SmarterQueue cheaper?

Feedly is cheaper to start, from $6 against $21 for SmarterQueue. The unit each one charges by differs, so the real bill depends on how many channels or seats you run.

Does Feedly or SmarterQueue have a free plan?

Feedly has a free plan; SmarterQueue does not, though it offers a 14-day trial.

Which is better, Feedly or SmarterQueue?

Feedly is the stronger pick for social media managers who need a steady stream of content ideas, while SmarterQueue is the better fit for creators and small businesses who want evergreen recycling and curation. We don't score them; the right call comes down to how you post.

Head to head

Feedly vs SmarterQueue

Last updated 4 June 2026

Feedly

Feedly isn't a social media scheduler at all. It's a content-discovery and monitoring tool, an RSS reader with AI on top, that social media managers use to find and track content. To actually schedule, you pair it with a real scheduler.

From: $6 /mo
Free plan

Visit Feedly

SmarterQueue

SmarterQueue is built around evergreen recycling and content curation: you sort posts into categories, it re-shares the best ones automatically with small variations, and a curation tool helps you find fresh content to fill the gaps. It runs two flat plans with a profiles slider, no free plan, and a trial that starts after your first queued post.

From: $21 /mo
Free plan

Visit SmarterQueue

Bottom line

Feedly and SmarterQueue both cover the basics; the right one comes down to how you post. Feedly is the stronger pick for Social media managers who need a steady stream of content ideas; choose SmarterQueue for Creators and small businesses who want evergreen recycling and curation.

Features compared

Feature	Feedly	SmarterQueue
AI captions	No	Yes
Basic analytics	Not assessed	Yes
Advanced reports	Not assessed	Yes
Bulk upload	Not assessed	Yes
Evergreen recycling	Not assessed	Yes
Team roles	Not assessed	Yes
Approvals	Not assessed	Yes
Link in bio	Not assessed	No

Platforms compared

Network	Feedly	SmarterQueue
Instagram	No	Auto
Facebook	Analytics	Auto
X (Twitter)	Analytics	Auto
LinkedIn	Analytics	Auto
TikTok	No	Auto
Pinterest	No	Auto
YouTube	No	Auto
Threads	No	Auto
Google Business	No	Auto

Pricing

Feedly

Free

Seats: 1

Up to 100 sources, organised into feeds
No Feedly AI
Read and organise content

Pro

$6.99 /mo

$6/mo billed annually

Seats: 1

$6.99/mo, $6 on annual ($72/yr)
Up to 1,000 sources, search, notes, and highlights
Share to X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Buffer, and Hootsuite

Pro+

Popular

$12.99 /mo

$8.25/mo billed annually

Seats: 1

$12.99/mo, $8.25 on annual ($99/yr)
Adds Feedly AI (Leo): AI feeds, deduplication, prioritisation
Up to 2,500 sources, 75 newsletter slots, RSS Builder

Enterprise

Custom

Seats: Unlimited

From about $1,600/mo, for team market and threat intelligence
Shared boards, team AI feeds, integrations

Feedly is a content reader and discovery tool, not a social scheduler. It does not schedule or auto-publish social posts; it surfaces content you can then share manually or push into a scheduler like Buffer or Hootsuite (often via Zapier), which means paying for two tools.
Plans: a free tier (100 sources), Pro at $6 a month on annual billing, Pro+ at $8.25 (adds Feedly AI / Leo), and an Enterprise market-intelligence plan from around $1,600 a month.
Prices are USD from current listings.
It's included here because social media managers use it to find and monitor content, not because it publishes.

SmarterQueue

Pro

$25 /mo

$21/mo billed annually

Seats: 1
Accounts: 5

$25/mo, $21 on annual; base covers 5 social profiles and 1 user
1 workspace, 10 content categories, 1 RSS importer
100 scheduled posts and 100 published posts per profile a month
10,000 AI words a month

Team

Popular

$50 /mo

$42/mo billed annually

Seats: 3
Accounts: 5

$50/mo, $42 on annual; base covers 5 social profiles and 3 users
Unlimited workspaces, 20 content categories, 3 RSS importers, advanced importer
250 scheduled and 200 published posts per profile a month, advanced analytics
25,000 AI words a month

Two plans, Pro and Team, with a slider: the base price covers 5 social profiles and the bundled users, and you add more profiles and users to scale, so the monthly cost grows with the slider. SmarterQueue recently replaced its older Solo / Business / Agency lineup with this Pro / Team-plus-slider structure.
There's no free plan, only a free trial whose timer starts after your first queued post rather than at signup.
Annual billing is 15% cheaper: at the 5-profile base, Pro is $21 a month and Team $42.
Extra social profiles and extra users are add-ons priced through the slider. AI caption writing is metered (10,000 words a month on Pro, 25,000 on Team), and X posting is capped at 5 tweets a week.
Nonprofits, charities, schools, and full-time students get 50% off.
Prices are USD, read off the live pricing page with the currency switched to USD and the billing toggled; the GBP figures (about £17 and £34 a month on annual) cross-check to the same numbers.

Pros and cons

Feedly

Best-in-class content discovery and RSS aggregation
Feedly AI filters, deduplicates, and prioritises sources
Strong monitoring and market intelligence on higher tiers
Cheap Pro and Pro+ plans, plus a free tier
Not a scheduler: no publishing, calendar, or auto-posting
Needs a separate tool (and often Zapier) to actually post
Enterprise market intelligence is expensive
Social 'sharing' is manual, one article at a time

SmarterQueue

Strong category-based evergreen recycling with text and media variations
Built-in content curation and importer to keep the queue full
Fairly priced, with competitor analysis and a social inbox included
Publishes to nine networks with an AI caption writer
No free plan, and the trial timer starts after your first queued post
AI words are metered and X posting is capped at five a week
No visual feed planner or link-in-bio
Profiles and users scale the price through the slider

Feedly vs SmarterQueue: FAQ

Is Feedly or SmarterQueue cheaper?: Feedly is cheaper to start, from $6 against $21 for SmarterQueue. The unit each one charges by differs, so the real bill depends on how many channels or seats you run.
Does Feedly or SmarterQueue have a free plan?: Feedly has a free plan; SmarterQueue does not, though it offers a 14-day trial.
Which is better, Feedly or SmarterQueue?: Feedly is the stronger pick for social media managers who need a steady stream of content ideas, while SmarterQueue is the better fit for creators and small businesses who want evergreen recycling and curation. We don't score them; the right call comes down to how you post.