Sprout Social Effective but Expensive
August 13, 2025

Sprout Social Effective but Expensive

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Standard

Overall Satisfaction with Sprout Social

[...] uses Sprout Social to build, schedule, and report on social media posts across multiple platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok.
Our team is small, with only four of us inside the platform. Sprout Social offers an approval system that allows us to have multiple eyes on a post before it ever goes live.
Sprout Social's reporting allows for greater insight into our performance metrics.

Pros

  • Reporting.
  • Scheduling.
  • Approval system.
  • Cross-platform insights.

Cons

  • Price, too expensive.
  • I would like to be able to add video to an Instagram carousel inside of Sprout Social.
  • Time savings.
Sprout Social is generally easy to use, and offers multiple effective ways to learn about the platform.
We use Asana to track tasks for all of our work, not just social media. I would love to see a Sprout Social and Asana integration.

Do you think Sprout Social delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Sprout Social's feature set?

Yes

Did Sprout Social live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Sprout Social go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Sprout Social again?

Yes

There have been times where other people at [...] have come to me for advise about social media, and I always recommend they find a platform LIKE Sprout Social that is free or cheaper. It does not make sense for every department to be paying for Sprout Social or a seat to Sprout Social, so instead I encourage them to look into Buffer or the Meta Business Suite.
If it wasn't for the price, I would have no problem recommending Sprout Social. That being said, Sprout Social's price is similar to it's peer platforms. They are just ALL expensive.

Sprout Social Feature Ratings

6.5
Boolean keyword searches
Not Rated
Filtering out noise/spam
3
Sentiment analysis
Not Rated
Broad channel coverage
10
7.8
Content planning and scheduling
9
Audience targeting
6
Content optimization
8
Workflow management
8
7.0
Customer interaction histories
7
Bulk actions
Not Rated
5.5
Lead generation
5
Content marketing
6
8.0
Twitter
8
Facebook
8
LinkedIn
8
Google+
Not Rated
Instagram
8
Pinterest
8
8.0
Campaign success analytics
8
Real-time tracking
8
Competitor analysis
8
6.5
Role-based user permissions & privileges
9
Mobile access
4

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