Buffer works well for a single team managing its own channels. Once you're running social for multiple clients, the thing you're missing isn't a feature — it's a way to keep each client's content, team, and reporting separate. That's what Sendible's Workspaces are built for.
All channels sit in one shared account
Custom access and permissions for members
Branded reports
Email support
Channels can be distributed across 7 workspaces
Client separation per workspace
Automated branded reports
Dedicated onboarding
Pricing scales per channel.
Costs grow with every channel you connect, regardless of how you're organised.
One shared account for every client.
All channels and content live together, with no built-in way to keep clients separate.
Unlimited team members, one shared space.
Team plan includes unlimited users and approval workflows — all within a single, undivided account.
Branded reports you export yourself.
Add your logo and export as CSV, PDF, or markdown when you need them.
No client-facing connection flow.
With no client-specific structure, there's no secure way for a client to connect their own account — accounts get added and managed centrally.
Team is the ceiling.
Buffer's highest self-serve plan — no further tier unlocks more capability as an agency keeps growing.
Pricing scales per Workspace.
Profiles are bundled into Workspaces, so cost tracks your organisation, not just channel count.
A separate Workspace for every client.
Each client gets their own content, team, and reporting inside one account.
Unlimited team members, organised by client.
The same unlimited users and approvals, scoped to each client's own Workspace.
Branded reports, sent automatically.
White-label reports are automatically emailed from Premium.
Client Connect on every plan.
Clients securely connect their own social profiles through a widget, without ever sharing login credentials.
More room to grow: Elite and Enterprise.
White labelling (paid add-on), advanced user permissions, campaign reporting, live report sharing, customer success onboarding and a dedicated CS manager on Enterprise.
As one of G2's top-rated social media tools, Sendible scales with agencies the way Buffer's per-channel model doesn't — Workspaces per client, and more tiers to grow into beyond that.
Not as a structural feature — Buffer's own agency guide doesn't describe a client-specific dashboard or reporting view; all channels live in the same account. Sendible's Workspaces give each client separate content, users, and reporting inside one account.
Buffer's reports export as CSV, PDF, or markdown when generated, confirmed from Buffer's own feature pages. Sendible's reports can be automatically emailed from Premium, without needing to export them each time.
Yes — for a single team running its own accounts, Buffer's Free, Essentials or Team plans are a solid, capable choice. The gap shows up specifically at the agency scale, once multiple clients need to stay organisationally separate.
At matched scale (42 channels/profiles, billed annually), Sendible Premium is about 12% cheaper than Buffer Team — $169/mo vs $192.50/mo. A real but modest gap; the bigger difference is structural and functional, not price.
Additional Workspaces can be added to a plan at a per-Workspace cost that decreases at higher tiers. While adding an additional workspace will cost $35, on Enterprise it will be $15. This is a structural option Buffer doesn't have at all, since it has no Workspace-equivalent concept to add.
Two signals, not one. The structural one: needing to keep multiple clients' content, teams, and reporting cleanly separate inside one account, which Buffer's per-channel, single-account model doesn't support at any plan. The financial one: per-channel pricing keeps climbing as the client list grows, and Team is Buffer's highest self-serve tier — there's no further plan to grow into for more capability, just more of the same structure at a higher channel count. Sendible has Elite and Enterprise above Premium for agencies that keep scaling, with more Workspaces, advanced permissions, a full white-label option and dedicated support built in as they grow.
On Sendible, yes — Client Connect is included on every plan, letting clients securely connect their own social profiles through a widget, without handing over login credentials to the agency. Buffer has no equivalent: since there's no client-specific structure at all, there's no client-facing connection flow to speak of — accounts get added and managed centrally by whoever runs the Buffer account.