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Buffer vs Meltwater Comparison (2026)

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Buffer

Meltwater

Overview

Buffer helps users manage multiple social media accounts at once as well as quickly schedule content from anywhere on the web, collaborate with team members, and analyze rich statistics on how posts perform

Cloud-based AI media intelligence platform for PR and marketing teams, offering media monitoring, social listening, and analytics.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

1.4K

894

483

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

79%

would recommend this app

4.0

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

54%

would recommend this app

Pros

“The scheduling is useful and the free version has enough features to make it suitable for most who are using to manage their own small business posting needs.”

Pupp R.

Owner

“My business is using an "everywhere, all at once" strategy to post across all social media channels and connected accounts in an effort to be where our customers want/need us when they are ready.”

Chris L.

Operations

“Buffer makes it easy to schedule out a month of posts on the major socials, and the AI tool can repurpose specifically for individual channels, as opposed to just cross posting.”

Chris L.

Operations

Pros

“Since I have been using meltwater for the past two year my favorite feature is the X (Twitter) analytics dashboard that gives us an analysis of mentions with demographic data on age gender and RT QT and many more apart from that the buzz alerts where in if there is a surge in mention it notified us via mail and in tool”

Rishikesh M.

Social Analytics

“No media database is perfect in terms of either staying current with media members and/or as it relates to media monitoring.”

Dan L.

SVP

“It really helps to cover mentions around the social media related to the brand i am working on and the sentiment anlaysis”

Rishikesh M.

Social Analytics

Cons

“I also found it to be a bit buggy when trying to integrate it with the various social media accounts.”

Pupp R.

Owner

“Analytics are a little limited unless you upgrade to a higher plan and that doesn’t always work for a small nonprofit budget.”

Wesley M.

Digital Communications Director

“it has limited reporting features so you cant get deep insights on engagment and growh trend”

Jonah F.

Writer

Cons

“It got to a point where we asked our "client success manager" to please disable our instance of the platform so our team would stop receiving the useless alert emails that were filling up our inboxes. Despite several emails, our CSM never replied to the emails or heeded our request to disable our account. ”

Abe G.

“Can be expensive in terms of number of seats and/or tools used.”

Dan L.

SVP

“I can't think of how many times our team would look at the "alert" emails and laugh at both the quality of the results followed by the obscureness of the websites it was pulling content from. ”

Abe G.