# The Sprout Social alternative built for serious brands and agencies
> Canonical: https://skedsocial.com/sprout-social-alternative
Sprout Social is a premium suite with deep analytics and listening, at a price that climbs quickly as you add seats.
Premium suite with deep analytics & listening; expensive

## Why teams choose Sked over Sprout Social
- Far lower price for approvals + reporting (Accelerate vs Sprout tiers)
- Kanban approval UX
- Instagram-first heritage

## Where Sprout Social genuinely wins
- Sprout offers deep reporting and analytics with unlimited PDF and CSV exports across networks, plus a Premium Analytics add-on for ROI-focused dashboards.
- A unified Smart Inbox consolidates monitoring and engagement across social networks, with collision detection, case management and comment moderation built in.
- Social Listening is a premium add-on delivering multi-dimensional social intelligence across all major social channels, blogs, forums and the web.
- Broad reputation and review management lets teams respond to reviews from Yelp, Trustpilot, Google Play Store, Apple App Store, Glassdoor and Tripadvisor in one stream.

## Choose Sked if
- You want approvals and reporting at a fraction of Sprout's per-seat price.
- A visual Kanban approval flow fits your team better than a heavy analytics console.
- Instagram-first scheduling is central to your content.

## Choose Sprout Social if
- You need best-in-class native analytics and social listening and have the budget for it.
- Your team lives in advanced reporting more than in day to day publishing.

## Pricing
Sprout Social starts at $79/mo. Sked's pricing is per plan (not per seat).

Sprout Social tiers:
- Essentials: $79/mo
- Standard: $199/mo
- Professional: $299/mo
- Advanced: $399/mo

## Switching from Sprout Social
Typical migration time: Most teams move off Sprout Social within a day or two..

- Export your content from Sprout Social — Pull your planned posts, captions and media out of Sprout Social so nothing in your queue is lost in the move.
- Bring it into Sked — Upload your media and posts into Sked, bulk schedule from a CSV, and rebuild your content queue in the planner.
- Reconnect your social accounts — Authorize your Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest and other profiles directly in Sked so publishing picks up where you left off.
- Rebuild approvals and your calendar — Rebuild your posting schedule and set up approvals on Sked's visual Kanban board so clients and teammates can sign off in one place.