Best Subscription Social Media Management UK (2026)

TL;DR

Five UK services met our criteria for genuine subscription social media management with published prices: 50 Pound Social, Wrise, 99social, 100 Pound Social, and Kraken Socials. Entry prices run from £50 to £295 a month, but cost per designed post lands between £7.62 and £22.93, and that narrower number is what separates them. Inside: every provider's real plans, an honest limitation for each, a comparison table, and how to pick your tier.

Five pricing pages, five browser tabs. One says £50 a month. One says £295. Both say fully managed, both say no contracts, and neither page explains why one costs six times the other.

That gap is the whole problem with buying subscription social media management in the UK. The pricing pages have converged on the same language while the product underneath varies enormously. Some of these services keep your feed from looking abandoned. Some make it look designed. Both are legitimate purchases, and the monthly fee is a poor guide to which one you are getting.

Below are the five UK services that publish real prices and run on genuine rolling monthly terms, every one checked in August 2026 against the provider's own pricing page. We are on the list on the same terms as everyone else, limitation included, because a list where the author has no downside is not worth reading.

What is a subscription social media management service?

A subscription social media management service is a fully managed service that creates and publishes your social content for a fixed monthly fee, with no minimum term and a defined output such as three posts a week across two platforms. It sits between doing it yourself and hiring a traditional agency.

Three things separate it from the alternatives. There is no custom quote, so you can compare providers before you speak to a salesperson. There is no minimum term, so the provider has to keep earning the account. And the deliverable is a volume of posts rather than a scope of work, which is what makes a unit cost calculable at all.

Agency retainers work differently. UK agency pricing guides published in 2026 put small business social retainers between £300 and £3,000 a month, usually behind a discovery call and an initial term. That model buys strategic depth and often paid social. It does not buy price transparency. We compare all four resourcing routes in our guide to [small business social media management costs and options](INTERNAL: small-business-social-media-management-costs).

How we chose the services in this list

Every service below met six criteria, set out first because criteria are what separate a list from an advert.

1. A published, fixed monthly price. No "request a quote", no "pricing on application".
2. Genuine rolling monthly terms. A minimum term of three months or more disqualified a provider.
3. Fully managed. The provider creates the content and publishes it. Tools that schedule what you supply, like Buffer or Hootsuite, are a different purchase.
4. A UK-based content team. Stated on the provider's own site.
5. Client approval before publishing. You see posts before they go live.
6. A stated output. Posts per week and number of platforms, in writing.

That ruled out scheduling tools, freelancer marketplaces, paid-social-only shops, and every agency whose pricing page ends in a contact form. It also ruled out several UK agencies trading under names close to ours, which is worth one line of warning. Search our name without the word Socials attached and you will surface a Cornwall marketing agency, a rum brand's creative agency, and a cryptocurrency exchange before you reach us. Kraken Socials is at gokrakensocials.com.

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The best subscription social media management services in the UK

Ordered by how much of the job each provider takes off your hands, most to least, rather than by price, because the cheapest plan and the fullest service are rarely the same thing. All figures are the provider's published prices as of August 2026. Four of the five quote excluding VAT, so a £99 plan is £118.80 to a business that cannot reclaim it. Check this before you compare anything.

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1. Kraken Socials: designer-made posts across three channels, from £295/month

Kraken Socials is a fully managed social media service that gives businesses a dedicated London-based team of designers, copywriters and strategists who handle strategy, design and posting for a flat monthly fee from £295/month. Launch is £295 for three posts a week across three channels. Pro is £495 for five posts a week across four channels. Scale is £695 for seven posts a week across five or more channels, with motion graphics. Clients spend roughly 10 minutes a month on one short form, the first batch of posts lands within five working days of the brand bible being approved, and nothing publishes until they approve it in the portal. No contracts, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee. We hold 4.9 out of 5 from 124 verified reviews.

Who it suits: a business whose feed is customer-facing and being judged, where looking templated is a commercial problem rather than an aesthetic one.

Standout strength: design is the product rather than a line item. In week one we build a brand bible covering voice, tone and visuals that the client signs off before any post exists, then every post is designed from scratch against it by a senior Adobe-certified designer. Three channels come as standard, not two, and revisions are unlimited on the posts in your plan.

Honest limitation: we are the most expensive entry point here by a wide margin, roughly six times 50 Pound Social's Essential plan and more than double 100 Pound Social's Basic. We also publish no client case studies yet, because we do not have public, client-approved results to build them on. A longer-established provider can show you six months of documented performance data today and we cannot. We do not handle community management or paid social either.

Look elsewhere if: your budget genuinely stops below £295, you need paid social run alongside organic, or documented case studies are a precondition for you.

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2. 100 Pound Social: the most established, from £125/month

100 Pound Social has been running since 2017, serves over 1,000 businesses, and is the most institutionally mature service on this list. Basic is £125 a month plus VAT for three posts a week on two platforms. Premium is £250 for four posts a week plus a weekly branded graphic or carousel, performance reporting, and one round of revisions a month. Pro is £375 for five posts a week and a wider set of add-ons including SEO blogs and newsletters. Extra platforms are £15 a month each.

Who it suits: a B2B business focused on LinkedIn that wants written content quality above all, and values a provider with a long operating history and published case studies.

Standout strength: an explicit no-AI policy on content, a dedicated UK content team, and a 20-day money-back guarantee that lets you see a full month of campaign before the window closes.

Honest limitation: every plan covers two platforms as standard, images are royalty-free stock unless you are on Premium or Pro or pay for branded graphics, revisions are capped at one round a month, video is not currently offered, and cancelling requires 30 days' notice rather than being immediate. Those are reasonable terms. They are not the same as the "cancel anytime" that the category's marketing language implies.

Look elsewhere if: design is the thing you are buying, you need video, or you want more than two channels without add-ons.

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3. 99social: video included, from £199/month

99social is based in County Durham and has worked with more than 600 businesses since 2017. Basic is £99 a month plus VAT for three posts a week on up to two platforms with custom static design. Standard is £199 for three posts a week on up to three platforms, including up to four Reels or TikTok videos created and edited each month. Pro is £299 for five to six posts a week on up to four platforms, six videos a month, two Stories a week, and analytics.

Who it suits: a business that needs video and cannot justify a video production budget on top of a management fee.

Standout strength: video at £199 a month is genuinely hard to find. UK pricing guides published in 2026 put standalone short-form video production at £300 to £2,000 per video depending on filming and editing, so four videos a month bundled into a £199 plan is a real structural advantage.

Honest limitation: 99social is upfront that monthly reports and telephone support are not included as standard, that analytics is a £29 a month add-on on lower plans, and that replying to comments and messages is charged separately at £35 an hour plus VAT. It also states that it may use AI for research and idea generation, with humans shaping and reviewing everything published. That is more transparent than most, and it is still a different proposition from human-designed-from-scratch.

Look elsewhere if: brand-consistent design across every post is your main concern, or you need engagement handled inside the fee.

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4. Wrise: one simple plan, from £99/month

Wrise runs a single social plan at £99 a month plus VAT: two posts a week on up to two platforms, custom graphics designed to your brand, a dedicated account manager on email, and a seven-day window each month to request edits before scheduling. Posts usually go live within 10 working days of sign-up. Around 250 small businesses use it, and it holds 4.8 on Google.

Who it suits: a sole trader or small local business that wants one decision, one price, and no plan comparison.

Standout strength: the add-on pricing is unusually transparent. An extra platform is £40 a month, an extra weekly post is £40, monthly reporting is £30, and an hour a week of community engagement is £120.

Honest limitation: that transparency cuts both ways. Because there is only one plan, scaling means stacking add-ons, and the arithmetic escalates quickly. Three posts a week across three platforms costs £99 plus £40 plus £40, or £179 a month, at which point you are paying more than 99social charges for the same volume. Reporting is not included at all at £99.

Look elsewhere if: you expect to grow past two posts a week, or you want reporting as standard.

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5. 50 Pound Social: the cheapest genuine entry point, from £50/month

50 Pound Social has been trading since 2016 and publishes three plans. Essential is £50 a month plus VAT for one bespoke post a week on one platform, with branded graphics, captions, and hashtags. Growth is £100 for three posts a week across two platforms. Premium is £225 for three posts a week with a richer content mix that includes carousels and short-form video, adapted per platform rather than cross-posted.

Who it suits: a business that needs its profiles to stop looking dormant, cheaply, and does not need much beyond that.

Standout strength: the Premium plan is one of the few sub-£250 UK plans that includes short-form video and platform-specific adaptation rather than posting the same square graphic everywhere.

Honest limitation: the £50 headline buys one post a week on a single platform, which is roughly four posts a month. That is enough to look active to someone who checks your profile, and not enough to build an audience. Reporting is also light: a monthly engagement summary appears from the Growth plan up.

Look elsewhere if: you need more than two platforms covered, or you want proactive strategy rather than execution.

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UK subscription social media services compared at a glance

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Why does one service cost £50 and another £295?

Because they are not selling the same unit. Once you divide the monthly fee by the number of posts, the six-fold gap in headline prices collapses to a range of roughly £7.62 to £22.93 per designed post, and the remaining difference is almost entirely about who designs each post and whether it is adapted for each platform or cross-posted.

Watch the top of each provider's range. 50 Pound Social's Premium plan, the one with carousels, short-form video, and platform-specific adaptation, works out at £17.32 per post. 100 Pound Social's Pro lands on exactly the same figure. Our Launch plan is £22.71. The honest gap between the best budget plans and a designer-led service is about £5 a post, not the 6x the entry prices imply.

Kraken Socials prices are also almost flat per post across all three tiers, at £22.71, £22.86, and £22.93. That is deliberate. We are selling designer time, and designer time does not get cheaper in bulk.

Across the 7,000-plus posts we have designed for more than 200 brands, the clients still happy six months in are almost never the ones who optimised for the lowest monthly fee, and almost always the ones who worked out what a designed post was worth to them before they compared prices. The ones who struggle bought on the headline number, then found that what they needed was a feed a prospective customer would take seriously. Our comparison of [designer-made and AI-generated social content](INTERNAL: designer-made-vs-ai-generated-social-content) goes further into why that distinction shows up in the grid.

Run the in-house number too. The average UK social media manager salary is £34,385, per Indeed's July 2026 figures drawn from 1,600 reported salaries. Add employer National Insurance at 15% on earnings above the £5,000 secondary threshold, per HMRC's 2026 to 2027 rates, and that is another £4,408 before pension, software, recruitment, or holiday cover. Call it £3,230 a month for one person, or about £2,355 with the full £10,500 Employment Allowance. Every service here is a fraction of that, which is the honest reason the category exists. Our post on [when outsourcing social media is and isn't worth it](INTERNAL: why-uk-small-businesses-outsource-social-media) covers the cases where hiring still wins.

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What does subscription social media management not cover?

Community management, in almost every case. Replying to comments, answering DMs, and engaging with other accounts are charged separately: £120 a month for an hour a week at Wrise, £35 an hour plus VAT at 99social, and not offered at all by some providers, including us.

Paid social is a separate purchase almost everywhere, as is photography, any filming that needs someone on site, and strategic consulting beyond the content itself. Outside the top tiers, most plans cover two or three platforms, so wanting Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and TikTok at once will cost more than the entry price on any of these pages.

Your own workload is worth checking before you buy. A Censuswide survey of 501 UK small business owners and tradespeople for Markel Direct in 2026 found 54% spend one to three hours a week creating content, and 65% have never had any social media training. These services replace the hours. They do not replace your judgement about what the business should be saying, which is why every provider here asks you to approve posts.

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Which subscription social media management service should a small business choose?

If your only goal is that your profiles stop looking abandoned, 99social's £99 Basic plan gives you the most posts per pound on this list at £7.62 each. If you need video without a production budget, 99social Standard at £199 is the clearest option. If you are a B2B business living on LinkedIn and content quality matters more than visual design, 100 Pound Social's history and no-AI policy make it the strongest fit. If design quality is the reason you are outsourcing at all, that is the gap Kraken Socials was built for.

Before you commit to any of them, run four checks. Ask for three sample posts from a business in your industry, not a showreel. Confirm whether the price includes VAT. Ask exactly how many revisions you get per month and what happens on the fourth one. And read the cancellation clause, because "no contracts" and "30 days' notice" are not the same promise.

If keeping social media consistent is the job you keep dropping, that is the specific problem Kraken Socials exists to solve, and you can see the full plan breakdown on our [pricing page](INTERNAL: pricing). The first 30 days are covered by our money-back guarantee. We also make the case for [why consistency beats frequency](INTERNAL: social-media-consistency-brand-awareness) if you want to think about the strategy before the supplier.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I cancel a social media management subscription anytime?

It depends on the provider, and the marketing language hides real differences. 50 Pound Social, Wrise, and Kraken Socials run rolling monthly terms with no notice period. 99social charges a month upfront and you decide whether to renew. 100 Pound Social requires 30 days' notice once its 20-day money-back window closes. Read the clause, not the headline.

What is the cheapest way to keep posting consistently without hiring someone?

At August 2026 prices, 99social's £99 Basic plan has the lowest cost per post here at £7.62, covering three posts a week on two platforms. 50 Pound Social's Essential is cheaper in absolute terms at £50, but buys one post a week on one platform. Compare cost per post, not monthly fee. Our [affordable social media management guide](INTERNAL: affordable-social-media-management) works through the trade-offs.

Do subscription social media services use AI to write posts?

Policies vary and most providers state theirs. 100 Pound Social advertises an explicit no-AI content policy. 99social says it may use AI for research and ideas, with humans shaping and reviewing everything published. At Kraken Socials every post is designed from scratch by a human designer working from your approved brand bible; AI is a tool in the process, never the creator. Get the answer in writing.

Will a subscription service reply to comments and messages for me?

Usually not as standard. Community management is priced separately by most UK providers: Wrise charges £120 a month for an hour a week, and 99social charges £35 an hour plus VAT. Kraken Socials does not offer it at all. If replying to customers quickly matters to your business, budget for it as a separate line or keep it in-house.

How quickly will posts start going out?

Between three and 10 working days. 50 Pound Social says it can usually start within three. Kraken Socials delivers the first batch within five working days of your brand bible being approved. Wrise, 99social, and 100 Pound Social all quote around 10 working days from sign-up, with 100 Pound Social running a formal 10-day onboarding period.