Publer vs SocialPilot
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14
Publer edges out SocialPilot overall, with a score of 19 versus 14, and shows up more often too — 23 of 80 answers compared to 17 of 80. Publer's strongest showing is on free or cheap tool questions, named in all 4 answers, and it does well for solo founders (3 of 4). SocialPilot's best category is agency use, named in 3 of 4 answers, and it leads on Gemini specifically (31 vs 11). Head-to-head, Publer comes out ahead on 9 questions, SocialPilot on 8, with 3 ties. Neither tool gets picked for analytics-focused questions.
Head to head
| metric | Publer | SocialPilot |
|---|---|---|
| score | 19 | 14 |
| questions won | 14 | 11 |
By assistant
Publer
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 4 | 5% of answers | #3.0 |
| Claude | 47 | 70% of answers | #4.4 |
| Gemini | 11 | 20% of answers | #6.0 |
| Perplexity | 14 | 20% of answers | #3.8 |
SocialPilot
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 3 | 5% of answers | #5.0 |
| Claude | 7 | 10% of answers | #4.5 |
| Gemini | 31 | 45% of answers | #4.1 |
| Perplexity | 16 | 25% of answers | #5.0 |
Where they differ
Only Publer gets named for
- What are the best free or cheap social media scheduling tools?
- Which social media scheduler is best for a solo founder?
- What's the best tool to post to every social network at once?
- What's the best tool to turn blog posts into social media posts automatically?
- Which social media scheduler is the easiest to use?
- What's the best tool to schedule threads on X?
- What's the best AI tool for writing and scheduling social media posts?
- What's the best open-source social media scheduler I can self-host?
Only SocialPilot gets named for
- What's the best social media scheduler for an agency managing many clients?
- What's the best social media tool with analytics that shows which posts perform?
- What's the best all-in-one social media tool for a small marketing team?
- What's the best social media scheduler for a startup?
- What's the best tool to schedule Instagram posts and Reels?
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Scores count how often each assistant names a product, weighted by position. How the score works · Full Social media schedulers leaderboard