# Social Status review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Social media analytics and automated reports for profiles and ads Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Social Status is a social media analytics tool for tracking your own profiles, ad accounts, competitors and influencer campaigns. Its main output is scheduled reports that export to Excel, PDF, PowerPoint and Google Slides. Pricing is by plan quota, the number of profiles and accounts you add. - **Category:** Social Media Schedulers - **Made by:** Social Media Status Pty Ltd - **Website:** https://www.socialstatus.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to publish posts, as it is analytics only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Social Status has a free plan, and paid plans start at $9 per month for 3 profiles, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 plan quota (one profile, page or account), 1 month of data history and report export. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial on paid Small Business plans. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1 plan quota, 1 month of data history and report export. | | Micro | $9 per month for 3 profiles, billed monthly | 3 plan quota and 2 months of data history; supports Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. | | Basic | $29 per month for 10 profiles, billed monthly | 10 plan quota, 3 months of history, CSV, PDF, PPTX and white-label reports. | | Essential | $49 per month for 40 profiles, billed monthly | 40 plan quota, 6 months of history and support for TikTok, LinkedIn and X. | | Silver | $99 per month for 200 profiles, billed monthly | Professional plan with 200 plan quota; all six channels on every professional plan. | | Gold | $199 per month for 500 profiles, billed monthly | Professional plan with 500 plan quota; API and data warehouse are optional add-ons. | Read from https://www.socialstatus.io/plans/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Social Status before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 25% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Social Status's plans page labels annual billing as 25% off; Micro is $81 a year against $9 a month. Source: https://www.socialstatus.io/plans/ ## Key features - **Profile analytics:** Tracks pages and profiles you administer across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and X. - **Competitor analytics:** Tracks public competitor profiles, except LinkedIn, which does not permit competitive tracking. - **Ads analytics:** Shows performance for Meta ad accounts you manage. - **Influencer analytics:** Measures influencer marketing campaigns. - **Automated reports:** Exports to Excel, PDF, PPTX and Google Slides; white-label reports start on Basic. ## Good for - Agencies producing recurring client reports - Marketers benchmarking their pages against competitors ## Worth knowing - Small Business plans support only Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, apart from Essential. - Every profile, ad account or competitor you add uses plan quota. - It is an analytics tool and does not publish posts. - Platinum and larger plans sit above Gold; API access is only on Gold and above. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Social Status reports on your profiles, your competitors, your ads and influencers, with automated reports. It does not publish posts, the small plans cover Facebook, Instagram and YouTube only, and every profile or competitor you add eats plan quota. - **Value for money: B.** Micro is $9 a month for 3 profiles, inside the cheaper quarter, which tops out at $14. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 1 profile and 1 month of history, plus a 14-day trial on paid small-business plans. - **Features: C.** Profile, competitor, ads and influencer analytics with reports. It does that job fully, but it is analytics only, with no publishing. - **Ease of use: C.** A web app where you connect accounts and set up reports. No store rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Google Slides and Meta Ads. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Social Status's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among social media schedulers - Social Status's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 65 of the 90 other social media schedulers we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 72 of 90) and worst on features (C, above 2). - Its paid plans start at $9 a month, against a middle price of $24.46 for the category: 9 of the 79 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/social-media ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** You could make the core of Social Status for yourself: reports. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $108 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Google Slides, Meta Ads **Tags:** Reports, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [Iconosquare](https://toolgpa.com/tools/iconosquare): Social media analytics and scheduling for brands and agencies. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/iconosquare-vs-social-status) - [Rival IQ](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rival-iq): Social media benchmarking against competitors, with reports. 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