Myth: a scheduler's free tier is enough for a serious Threads account

Myth: a scheduler's free tier is enough for a serious Threads account

The common advice is to ride the free plan until you 'really grow.' The trap is that the free tiers usually cap the exact features Threads needs most.

Tested the free plans of Buffer, Metricool, and Typefully for two weeks.
— Buffer free: 10 scheduled posts total, no analytics
— Metricool free: 1 connection, blocks Threads carousels
— Typefully free: no per-network editing, the thing that actually matters

The correction: free tiers are fine for trialing the UI, not for running cadence. The bottleneck isn't post volume, it's the gated Threads-specific features.

Annoying limitation: none surface the Threads caps until after you connect the account.

Verdict: free tiers as a trial, Worth it; as a workflow, Skip.