Prices checked 30 September 2026Updated
Fastlane turns your website into short-form UGC, slideshows and trend remixes you swipe to approve. Quetzal plans the whole week from your brand across six networks: written posts, designed carousels and stories, and presenter reels.
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Pick Quetzal if you want your social media done for you: posts planned from your brand, written in your voice and published to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, X and YouTube. Pick Fastlane if your growth channel is TikTok and Reels and you want a steady stream of UGC-style video and trend remixes to swipe through, from $29 a month per subscription (Starter).
Quetzal starts at $116 a month per brand, or $89 a month billed yearly (Starter). Unlimited posts on every plan. Plans differ in connected accounts, designed images a month and AI reels, which start on Pro.
Fastlane has a free plan with no card, and its paid plans cost less than Quetzal's. It is the stronger pick for pure short-form video volume.
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Fastlane's price basis: Per account, per month, in tiers by AI studio credits; warmed social accounts are a separate add-on. Prices in US dollars, as shown on its pricing page. Quetzal charges per brand, in US dollars, with sales tax added at checkout where it applies. Source: their pricing page.
Stay with Fastlane if your channel is TikTok and Reels and you want UGC-style video volume above everything else.
Quetzal designs posts, carousels and stories in your colours and type, so every account looks like one brand. Designed images come on every plan, and posts from your own photos are unlimited.
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, X and YouTube, each with its own version of the post and its own publishing schedule.
LinkedIn posts follow a dedicated engine: one point for one reader, a hook from a fixed set of proven mechanisms, a single clear ask at the end and no hashtags. Your other networks get their own version of each idea.
Each client gets a private link to approve posts or ask for a change, with no seat and no login. Review mode holds every post until someone says yes.
Posts are written in your brand's language and composed natively rather than translated, with the regional variant you choose (Spain, Mexico, Argentina and more). The app itself works in English and Spanish.
One brand, three accounts
One brand, six accounts
Three brands, three accounts each
Monthly billing on both sides, each tool in its own unit (Fastlane: per subscription). An account is one connected social profile. Three brands on Quetzal share one agency invoice, with the agency discount already applied.
Both tools start from your website, so there is little to carry over. Connect your accounts to Quetzal, paste the same address, and Quetzal builds your brand kit and drafts a first week for your review.
Many teams will keep Fastlane for the TikTok and Reels volume it is built for. Quetzal can take the rest of the calendar: designed posts and carousels for Instagram and Facebook, LinkedIn written to its own rules, and posts for X and YouTube.
If you run both, give each its own networks or its own formats so the same idea does not go out twice on the same day.
Choose Quetzal if you need a full week across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, X and YouTube, with written posts and designed carousels in your brand as well as reels.
Try for freeChoose Fastlane if your channel is TikTok and Reels and you want UGC-style video volume above everything else.
Visit FastlaneFor a different mix. Fastlane is built for short-form video: AI UGC characters, a library of human UGC clips, slideshows and trend remixes, with a free plan to start. Quetzal is built for a whole brand presence: it plans the week and writes, designs and publishes posts, carousels, stories and reels across six networks.
The shape of the output. Fastlane gives you a feed of short videos and slideshows to swipe through for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Quetzal gives you a planned week in your brand, with posts written for each network, designed images and presenter reels from Pro.
Billed monthly, one brand with three accounts costs $116 (Starter) on Quetzal and $29 (Starter) on Fastlane. Fastlane has a free plan with no card, and its paid plans cost less than Quetzal's. It is the stronger pick for pure short-form video volume.
According to Fastlane's own pages, checked on 30 September 2026: its AI plans and makes the posts; on video: uGC characters made with AI, slideshows and a library of human UGC clips. Quetzal plans, writes and designs your posts on every plan, and makes AI reels from Pro.
Yes. A sensible split is Fastlane for TikTok and Reels volume and Quetzal for designed posts, LinkedIn, X and the rest of the calendar. Both publish through the networks' own connections, so they can share accounts.
Connect your accounts to Quetzal, paste your website and confirm the brand kit it builds. Your first week is drafted for approval, and review mode holds every post until you say yes. Keep Fastlane running while you compare the two.
Type your website and see a week of posts made for your brand. Free, and no account needed.
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Fastlane's prices were read from its pricing page on 30 September 2026 (monthly billing, USD). Features were checked on Fastlane's own pages on 30 September 2026; where Fastlane does not say, we write "not listed". We make Quetzal, so this is a vendor's comparison. If anything is wrong or out of date, write to hello@quetzaltech.es and we will correct it within 48 hours. Fastlane is a trademark of its owner; Quetzal is not affiliated with Fastlane.
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