The best social media management tools for lean B2B founders

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I compared all 8 social media tools in our catalogue on four things a lean founder actually feels: entry price (per channel or per seat), whether there is a real free tier to start on, breadth of supported networks, and how much overhead the tool adds versus how much it saves. Feature and pricing data are drawn from our own catalogue, last reconciled June 2026, and sanity-checked against each vendor's public pricing. Ranking is weighted for the solo-or-tiny-team B2B case, which is why genuinely strong enterprise platforms place low: they are not wrong, they are aimed at someone else.