Does Later still have a free plan?

No. Later offers a 14-day free trial and no free tier afterwards. Articles describing a Later free plan are describing a version that no longer exists.

What is the cheapest alternative to Later?

On price alone, Buffer's free tier covers 3 channels with no time limit, and Metricool's covers 1 brand with 20 posts a month. Both schedule rather than generate.

Can Later handle several TikTok accounts?

One per social set. A second TikTok account means a second social set, which is the point where its pricing stops suiting multi-account creators.

Is Koda a drop-in replacement for Later?

No. There is no visual planning grid and no link-in-bio. Koda replaces the part where the video has to be made, not the part where a feed is composed.

Koda as a Later alternative

Last checked 22 September 2026

The first thing to know about Later is that it has no free plan at all any more: a 14-day trial, then $18.75 a month billed yearly for one social set of 8 profiles, one per network. Koda is not a like-for-like replacement — Later is a visual planner and scheduler, Koda generates the video and then publishes it to several TikTok accounts.

	Later	Koda
Free plan	None — 14-day trial only	7-day trial, then a limited free tier
Entry price	Starter $18.75/month billed yearly	See the pricing page
Several TikTok accounts	One per social set — a second TikTok account needs a second set	Up to 40 connected accounts on one plan
Posting volume	30 posts per profile per month on Starter	Bounded by the plan's coin grant, not a per-profile post count
Generates the video	No	Yes, end to end from a written idea
Visual planning grid	Yes — its signature feature	No

Later figures read from its own pricing page on 22 September 2026. Koda's come from the constants that enforce them in the product.

Why so many "free scheduler" lists still name Later

Because Later used to have a free tier and no longer does. Round-ups written before the change, and the articles that copied them, still describe a plan that does not exist.

If you arrived at Later expecting free, that is the mismatch — not a limit you hit, but a plan that was removed.

The social set, and why it surprises multi-account creators

Later prices around a "social set": one profile per network, eight in total. That is elegant for a brand with one account per platform.

It is the wrong shape for someone running five TikTok accounts, because those are five social sets, not one. Anyone comparing Later with a multi-account tool is usually in exactly that case.

When Later is still the better choice

You plan visually. Later's grid preview — seeing the feed before it exists — is its real product, and Koda has nothing like it.
You run one brand across many networks rather than many accounts on one network. That is what a social set is built for.
Instagram is your centre of gravity. Later started there and it still shows.
You want link-in-bio bundled rather than as another subscription.

Frequently asked

Does Later still have a free plan?: No. Later offers a 14-day free trial and no free tier afterwards. Articles describing a Later free plan are describing a version that no longer exists.
What is the cheapest alternative to Later?: On price alone, Buffer's free tier covers 3 channels with no time limit, and Metricool's covers 1 brand with 20 posts a month. Both schedule rather than generate.
Can Later handle several TikTok accounts?: One per social set. A second TikTok account means a second social set, which is the point where its pricing stops suiting multi-account creators.
Is Koda a drop-in replacement for Later?: No. There is no visual planning grid and no link-in-bio. Koda replaces the part where the video has to be made, not the part where a feed is composed.

Everything stated here about Later was read from its own pages on 22 September 2026. Pricing and limits change and nothing here checks them automatically, so verify anything you are about to act on.

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