The AuthoredUp alternative for when writing alone stops scaling.

AuthoredUp is a precision hand-tool for writers who draft everything themselves. Depost AI is a team that writes, designs, schedules, and tracks, and still publishes nothing without your approval.

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Depost AI AuthoredUp
Talk-to-it chat creation Yes · the home screen No
Agents run the loop end-to-end Four agents + scheduling No AI writing
Real impressions + follower history Yes Full post history
Designs graphics for the post Yes No
Targeted feeds with lead tracking Stages, notes, reminders No
Replies and DMs drafted in your voice Yes · you send them No
Team approval workflow Rounds + comments + roles Draft collaboration
MCP · drive it from Claude or ChatGPT Yes · brand-scoped keys No
Multi-brand workspaces Yes Multi-profile · Business
Nothing goes out without your approval Approved by you, always No automation
Starts at · checked Aug 20, 2026 $59/mo · every feature, unlimited seats $19.95/mo
Pricing scales by Brand · unlimited seats Profile
Built for Creators to agencies Hands-on writers

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The pricing math

AuthoredUp is $19.95 a month and deliberately does not write for you: it is a precise editor and analytics for hands-on writers, and good at it. Depost AI is $59 because it is staffed differently: four agents plan, write, and design from your data, so the price covers the work, not just the workspace.

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Why people switch to Depost AI.

  • Four agents run the loop end to end: analytics into ideas into drafts into designed graphics into a scheduled queue.
  • Nothing publishes, replies, or connects on its own. The official LinkedIn API, and your approval on every post.
  • Your strategy is generated from your profile and 50+ published posts in your first 15 minutes.
  • Analytics sync your complete history, and every idea is ranked by what beat your own average.
  • The bill scales by the brands you run, not the people you invite. Reviewers and clients join free.

In fairness

  • AuthoredUp has the deepest formatting editor, previews, and hook library in the category.
  • If AI anywhere in the workflow is a dealbreaker on principle, it is the honest pick.

Listed because they are true. None of them changes the answer if you want LinkedIn run end to end, with your approval as the only manual step.

Beyond the checkboxes

The differences that matter.

Keep writing by hand, when you want to

AuthoredUp’s bet is that you write every word, and its editor honors that. Depost AI keeps the hand-written path, a full editor and your own drafts, and adds a team for the weeks you cannot: agents that plan, draft, and design, waiting for your edit.

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Analytics that feed forward

AuthoredUp shows you your history clearly. Depost AI reads the same history and acts on it: the Performance Analyzer finds what beat your average and why, and next week’s ideas arrive ranked by those lessons instead of by hunch.

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From one profile to a roster

AuthoredUp bills per profile and collaborates on drafts. Depost AI is built for the roster: a workspace per brand or client with its own agents and calendar, review rounds with roles, and unlimited seats on a per-account bill.

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What you'd be switching to

One subscription, the whole job.

The table compares parts. This is the whole: eight tools that feed each other, from the analysis that plans your week to the queue that publishes it.

The agent team

Four agents plan from your analytics, write in your voice, design the graphic, and queue the post for your approval.

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Chat & editor

Brief the team in plain language, then refine in an editor built for LinkedIn.

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Analytics

Impressions, engagement, and your complete follower history, synced from LinkedIn and feeding next week's ideas.

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Infographics

Graphics designed with the post, in a visual identity learned from what you publish.

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Engagement & leads

Targeted feeds, lead stages with notes and reminders, and replies drafted in your voice for you to send.

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Scheduling

A best-time queue through LinkedIn’s official API, with the first comment written alongside every post.

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Workspaces & approvals

A workspace per brand or client, review rounds and roles, and a bill that scales by brand with unlimited seats.

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MCP

Brief your agents from Claude or ChatGPT with brand-scoped keys, included on every plan.

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Depost AI vs AuthoredUp, asked directly.

Is Depost AI a good AuthoredUp alternative?

Yes, if you want help producing, not just polishing. Depost AI covers the editor and analytics ground, then adds what AuthoredUp deliberately leaves out: drafts in your voice, ranked ideas, generated graphics, engagement, and approvals.

I write my own posts. Is Depost AI still useful?

Very. Write in the editor as you do now, and let the rest of the loop work around your writing: analytics rank what to write next, the designer supplies the graphic, the queue publishes at the right time, and engagement drafts stay in your voice.

AuthoredUp has no AI by design. Where does Depost AI stand on that?

The concern behind that stance is sameness, and it is fair. Depost AI’s answer is different: no templates, a voice learned from your published posts, and every draft waiting for your edit and approval. You stay the author; the agents do the labor.

Does Depost AI sync my old posts and metrics like AuthoredUp?

Yes. Connect LinkedIn and your published history syncs with impressions, engagement, and your complete follower history. The difference is what happens next: the numbers become ranked ideas rather than a rear-view report.

How does pricing compare with AuthoredUp?

AuthoredUp starts at $19.95 a month per profile, with business tiers priced per profile. Depost AI costs more because it does more of the job: $59 a month solo, $99 with the team layer, then a flat $59 for each additional LinkedIn account with unlimited seats.

Can my team review posts before they publish?

Yes. Approvals ship with review rounds, comments, and roles, and nothing publishes without a yes. AuthoredUp shares drafts for co-editing; Depost AI adds the formal gate that agencies and advocacy programs need.

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