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How much does AI social media content creation cost?

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Quick answer

Costs fall into three tiers: general AI assistants around $20 to $30 per user monthly for text only, platform AI features usually included in the subscription, and production add-ons priced per client. Cloud Campaign includes CaptionAI, ImageAI, and AI Social Inbox on every plan; CloudStudio is $99 monthly per workspace.

Tier one: general AI assistants

Paid consumer AI subscriptions sit in the twenty to thirty dollar per user per month range and produce text, and increasingly images. The sticker price understates the cost for agency use, because the tool produces content and nothing else: no brand memory per client, no calendar, no approvals, no publishing. The hours spent re-prompting each brand's voice, moving text into a scheduler, and handling images separately are the real expense.

Tier two: AI included in a management platform

Most agency social platforms now bundle AI features into the subscription rather than charging separately. The relevant question is not the AI price but the platform price and its unit. Per-seat platforms charge for every person who touches the tool, so the effective cost of those AI features rises with headcount. Workspace-based platforms charge per client brand, so team size does not change the bill.

Tier three: production add-ons

Tools that generate a complete client calendar and schedule it are usually priced per client rather than per user, because that is where the value lands. This tier is the closest comparison to outsourced content production, and it is worth pricing against your current cost per client rather than against a software line item.

Compare against delivery cost, not sticker price

The useful calculation is hours saved per client per month multiplied by your loaded hourly cost. An agency spending twelve hours a month producing content for a client, at a fifty dollar loaded rate, is spending six hundred dollars on that client's production. Any tool that removes most of those hours pays for itself well before the software line item matters. Our answer on what social media management costs an agency to deliver covers how to measure it.

Cloud Campaign's structure

CaptionAI, ImageAI, and the AI Social Inbox are included on every Cloud Campaign plan with no usage limits, and plans run $49, $199, and $299 per month with unlimited users on all of them. CloudStudio, the full production add-on, is $99 per month per client workspace on top of a plan. Annual billing is twelve months for the price of ten.

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