brightbean-studio
Open-source, self-hostable social media management platform. Schedule, publish, and manage content across 10+ platforms from a single dashboard. Free alternative to Buffer, Sendible, and SocialPilot.
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Sep 2026
Eleven social networks with no paywall on any of them. BrightBean Studio plans, composes, schedules, approves, publishes, and monitors content across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky, Google Business Profile, Mastodon, and DEV.to. Approval workflows and team management are included, and the hosted version costs nothing either.
Deployment is Docker Compose with Postgres, an app container, and a background worker. Migrations run automatically before the app starts, which removes the usual first boot ceremony. Python 3.12 and Node 20 will run it locally on SQLite if you just want to poke at it.
No per seat pricing and no per channel limits, which is precisely the thing that costs money everywhere else in this category. Solo creators and small agencies benefit most. Compare it against inovector/mixpost, where the free edition reaches three networks and everything past that is a $299 license.
The catch is age. This project started in spring 2026, and eleven platform integrations means eleven OAuth flows and eleven APIs that break on somebody else's schedule. gitroomhq/postiz-app has more road behind it. Read the issue tracker before you put a paying client's account on it.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree: Everything. AGPL-3.0, self-hosted, all eleven platform integrations, approval workflows, team management, insights. The hosted instance at brightbean.xyz/studio is also free with no per seat or per channel limits.
Self-hosted: Docker Compose brings up Postgres, the app, a worker, and a reverse proxy. Database migrations run automatically on startup. One click deploys exist for Heroku, Render, and Railway. Local development needs Python 3.12 and Node 20 and will run on SQLite.
Paid: There is no paid tier. No feature gates, no channel caps, no seat pricing on either the self-hosted or the hosted version.
Free on every axis, self-hosted or hosted, with all eleven networks included. The real cost is trusting a project that is only a few months old.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free, hosted or self-hosted
- Small team
- free; the approval workflow is included, which is normally the upsell
- Medium team
- free, but self-host so an outage is yours to fix
- Large team
- free; validate the integrations against a test account before migrating
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