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What it is for

Buffer is a hosted social composer: you draft “Registration opens this Sunday!” across Instagram / TikTok / LinkedIn / Threads / Bluesky and park it on a January 2026 slot, and Free is forever. Use it when the job is a Create Post desk you start at a public $, not when you need Publer's week grid only.

Soft-note: cards print yearly-equivalent $5 / $10. Distinct from Typefully and Publer.

What makes it unique: the cover is Buffer's official Create Post + schedule calendar (Create Post, profile row Instagram / TikTok / LinkedIn / Threads / Bluesky, composer Registration opens this Sunday!, Start a Thread, Topic chips Pineapple / Sourdough / Topping, January 2026 with 21 selected, Posting Slots 6:00 PM, Select time 3:00 PM Europe/London, Schedule Posts) from publish-composer.webp on buffer.com — not a wordmark. The 21 day itself is ops of the calendar.

Key features

Create Post — the composer canvas (cover still; buffer.com). One desk. Cover Registration opens this Sunday! sits here.
Profile row — Instagram / TikTok / LinkedIn / Threads / Bluesky avatars (cover). A row, not an Essentials tile.
January calendar — January 2026 with 21 highlighted (cover). A calendar, not a $5 meter.
Posting Slots — 6:00 PM (cover). A slot, not yearly.
Select time — 3:00 PM Europe/London (cover). A time, not Team.
Topic chips — Pineapple / Sourdough / Topping (cover). A chip, not Agency.

Schedule Posts / Create Another / Save Draft on the cover are CTAs (not desks). Free / Essentials / Team tiles stay in Pricing. AI Assistant stays off Key features as an AI extra.

Who it's for

Best fit: creators who will stay on Free forever (10 posts / channel) while they open a first Create Post + 21 Jan slot, then Essentials at $5/month yearly-equivalent ($60/year, 1 channel) when they need unlimited ideas — not Team $10 first unless they need approval workflows / API.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from buffer.com/pricing cards. Soft-note: printed $ are yearly-equivalent per 1 channel; $13 strings in the HTML were Next IDs, not a plan.

Free — Free forever. 10 posts / channel (page). Ideas / drafts limits apply on the card.
Essentials — $5/month. Card: 1 channel · $60 billed yearly (save 2 months). Unlimited scheduled posts / ideas, analytics, first-comment scheduling.
Team — $10/month. Card: 1 channel · $120 billed yearly (save 2 months). Unlimited members, approval workflows, API (5 keys / 15,000 reqs).
More channels — per-channel; confirm the channel stepper. Do not invent a 2-channel $.
Agency — named in nav / comparison chrome we fetched without a printed seat $. Do not invent an Agency $.

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Limitations / costs

Free caps 10 posts / channel. Unlimited schedule is Essentials $60/year.
The $5 / $10 cards are 1 channel yearly-equivalent. Extra channels reprice the stepper.
A Create Post composer, not Publer's week grid. For that grid see Publer.
The product is not OSS. We omit a GitHub CTA.

Alternatives

Typefully — an X-first writer when you want Free $0 / Creator $99/year, not Buffer's January 2026 slot.
Publer — a weekly calendar when you want Free $0 / Professional from $5, not Schedule Posts.

Official tutorial

Official Buffer channel video: How To Use Buffer's Create Space | Never Lose A Content Idea Again (oEmbed author: Buffer). First-party Create Space how-to; the Create Post + January 2026 still is the cover. Ideas / slots on the video are ops of the composer + calendar, not generate-on-Pineapple. We searched @buffer and @Bufferapp — @Bufferapp is the product channel.

Written path: buffer.com/pricing plus the publish-composer still.

Website

https://buffer.com/

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Buffer's official homepage publish-composer.webp (Create Post + IG/TikTok/LI/Threads/Bluesky + January 2026 / 21 + Schedule Posts). Dollars checked on buffer.com/pricing (Free forever; Essentials $5 / $60 yearly 1ch; Team $10 / $120 yearly 1ch). Tutorial oEmbed author: Buffer (@Bufferapp).

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.