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Alternatives to Khoros
22 social media tools sit alongside Khoros in this directory. Below is what separates each from Khoros on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 7
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Khoros starts at
- On request
Why people look past Khoros
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Khoros entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Khoros carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 7 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Khoros publishes a single plan, Khoros at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Unified customer experience management platform
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Khoros's 1.
The all-in-one community platform
- Publishes an entry price of $49/month, where Khoros does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Khoros's 1.
Save time and grow on social media
- Publishes an entry price of $99/year, where Khoros does not.
The renamed and restructured Twitter, now merged into Elon Musks xAI, with paid verification and metered API access
- Can be used without paying; Khoros cannot.
- Sold on a Free to use, paid X Premium tiers and metered developer API model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Khoros's 1.
Visual discovery and bookmarking platform monetised through advertising and shopping links, run as an independent public company
- Can be used without paying; Khoros cannot.
- Sold on a Free for users, advertising revenue from businesses model rather than quote.
Blogging and fandom platform owned by Automattic after being sold off by Verizon for a fraction of what Yahoo paid for it
- Can be used without paying; Khoros cannot.
- Sold on a Free to use, optional ad-free subscription and paid post promotion model rather than quote.
- 2 tiers to Khoros's 1.
Every Khoros alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khoros (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| SprinklrIf you want social publishing, listening and care in one suite from a vendor that is still independently operated | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Khoros |
| CircleIf you need a modern branded community without enterprise social management, at a fraction of the cost | $49/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Khoros |
| HootsuiteIf your requirement is really social publishing and analytics rather than a hosted support community | $99/year | - | - | vs Khoros |
| X | Free | Free to use, paid X Premium tiers and metered developer API | 3 | vs Khoros |
| Free | Free for users, advertising revenue from businesses | 1 | vs Khoros | |
| Tumblr | Free | Free to use, optional ad-free subscription and paid post promotion | 2 | vs Khoros |
| Free | Free, funded entirely by targeted advertising | 1 | vs Khoros | |
| Tailwind | Free, then $11.99/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Khoros |
| Metricool | Free, then $20/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Khoros |
| Mention | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Khoros |
| YouScan | $499/month | Per month by mention volume and search topics | 2 | vs Khoros |
| Synthesio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Khoros |
| Rival IQ | $239/month | Per month by tracked company count | 3 | vs Khoros |
| Statusbrew | $69/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Khoros |
| Determ | €99/month | Per month by topic and mention volume | 4 | vs Khoros |
| Brand24 | $199/month | Per month by mention volume | 5 | vs Khoros |
| Awario | $29/month | Per month by mention volume | 3 | vs Khoros |
| Sked Social | $24/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Khoros |
| Planoly | $14/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Khoros |
| SocialBee | $29/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Khoros |
| Sendible | $1/month | Subscription | 5 | vs Khoros |
| Talkwalker | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Khoros |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Khoros badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Khoros is most often brought in for a telecommunications operator that wants a public support community whose accepted answers measurably deflect contact centre volume, a consumer brand consolidating a dozen regional social accounts under one publishing approval workflow with regional role permissions, a games publisher running player forums where moderation load and volunteer moderator tooling matter more than publishing features, a bank that needs social service messages tracked against the same sla framework as its email and chat queues. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Khoros is broadly right and the question is cost, the Khoros pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Social Media category lists everything the directory holds, and best social media tools ranks them.
Khoros runs on web, ios, android, api. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Khoros alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Khoros?
- 22 other social media tools are listed in this directory, led by Sprinklr, Circle, Hootsuite, X. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Khoros?
- 7 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: X, Pinterest, Tumblr, Facebook, Tailwind.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Khoros?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Khoros?
- Khoros is most often brought in for a telecommunications operator that wants a public support community whose accepted answers measurably deflect contact centre volume, a consumer brand consolidating a dozen regional social accounts under one publishing approval workflow with regional role permissions, a games publisher running player forums where moderation load and volunteer moderator tooling matter more than publishing features, a bank that needs social service messages tracked against the same sla framework as its email and chat queues. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Khoros?
- None of the social media tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Khoros alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Social Media, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Khoros against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Khoros covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every social media tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Social Media category, 22 tools beside Khoros. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.