How much does Lately cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- Starter has a 'Try now for free' button; trial length not stated
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Free trial. Starter has a 'Try now for free' button; trial length not stated
- Notice before price changes. Terms may change without notice; no price-change notice period stated
Watch out for
- Their pages disagree: Growth plan social channels and user seats. "25 Social channels 5 User seats" vs "5 Social channels 3 User seats"
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup link for Starter "TRY NOW FOR FREE"
- Setup
- Initial onboarding and video library on Growth "Initial onboarding / video library resource"
- When sales steps in
- Growth and Enterprise show Request a Demo; Enterprise is custom priced "REQUEST A DEMO"
- Support
- Growth: chat-only, 48-hour response "Chat-only / 48-hour response"
- Support
- Enterprise: chat-only, 24-hour response "Chat-only / 24-hour response"
What Lately does
Lately repurposes longform content into social posts using a voice model, then schedules and publishes them to LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube or sends them to Hootsuite, Sprinklr or HubSpot. It offers Starter, Growth and custom Enterprise plans, and has announced a chat-based agent called Kately that is on a waitlist.
- Good for
- Individuals, micro-businesses, growing businesses and agencies, and large enterprises, franchises, social selling teams and employee advocates who want to repurpose existing text, audio and video into social posts.
- Channels
- LinkedIn personal and company pages, X personal and company pages, Facebook company pages, Instagram company pages, YouTube
- Main product
- Lately AI social content repurposing and scheduling platform
- Also includes
- Repurpose longform text, audio and video into social posts, Voice models, Social media calendar and AI scheduling, Performance analytics, RSS feed integration, AI-recommended hashtags and emojis
- Connects to
- Hootsuite, Hootsuite Amplify, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Sprinklr, UpContent, Grammarly, Bitly
- Public API
- Not stated
- MCP server
- Not stated
- AI caption writing
Lately's AI will also create social posts on its own, based on the longform content you feed it
- AI image generationNot stated
- Multi-network scheduling
Lately publishes to LinkedIn personal and company pages, X personal and company pages, Facebook company pages,
- Brand voice training
Brand voice mirroring and enhancement
- AI video and carousels
From video, we’ll generate a transcript, and dozens of posts with matching video clips.
- Team approval workflows
Approval workflows
- Analytics and reporting
Performance analytics.
- Unified social inboxNot stated
- Hashtag and best-time suggestions
AI-optimized scheduling for ideal cadence, time and day of week
- Social listeningNot stated
The same 10 checks appear on every tool in AI social media tools. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter/month billed annually | $19 | $14per month | 5 social channels1 voice model, 5 social channels, 1 user seat | – | "$14" "$19" |
| Growth/month billed annually | $239 | $199per month | 5 user seats1 voice model, 25 social channels, 5 user seats (plan cards | – | "$199" "$239" |
| EnterpriseCustom | Quote | – | UnlimitedUnlimited voice models, social channels and user seats | – | "Custom" |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Nonprofit pricing only for annual contract deals "Yeppers, but only for annual contract deals."
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- If a free trial is not cancelled, the customer is billed at its end "If you do not cancel, we will bill you at the end of the free trial or promotional period"
- Price change notice
- Terms may change without notice; no price-change notice period stated "We may modify the Terms from time to time without notice to you."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Lately, Inc.
- Address
- 4082 US Highway 209, Stone Ridge, New York, 12484
- Online since
- Jul 10, 2020 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "20,000+ businesses" their claim
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Questions
Is Lately free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: Starter has a 'Try now for free' button; trial length not stated. Paid plans start at $19/month.
How much does Lately cost?
Paid plans start at $14 per month billed yearly, or $19 billed monthly.
