Prices checked 30 September 2026Updated
Hopper HQ helps you plan and schedule the visuals you make. Quetzal makes the posts in your brand, publishes them and learns from the results.
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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 Hopper HQ if you make your own visuals and want a low-cost visual planner for the accounts you connect, from $6 a month per channel (Grow).
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.
Hopper HQ costs much less for a few accounts, since you pay per account connected. Quetzal costs more because it makes the posts.
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Hopper HQ's price basis: Per connected social account, per month: Grow is for one user, Scale adds unlimited users, team permissions and content approvals. 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 Hopper HQ if you make your own visuals and want a low-cost way to plan how your feed looks and schedule it.
Quetzal reads your website and brand kit, plans the week and writes every post in your voice. You open a finished week instead of an empty calendar.
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.
Every post is measured, and what worked on your own accounts shapes what comes next. No report to read.
A plan covers one brand with its accounts and its team (4 people on Pro, more on larger plans). Agencies pay per client brand on one invoice, with a discount from the third client.
One brand, three accounts
One brand, six accounts
Three brands, three accounts each
Monthly billing on both sides, each tool in its own unit (Hopper HQ: per channel). An account is one connected social profile. Three brands on Quetzal share one agency invoice, with the agency discount already applied.
Connect the same accounts to Quetzal and paste your website. Quetzal picks up your colours and type from it and drafts your first week for review.
If you like planning certain posts in Hopper HQ's grid, keep doing it for those. Quetzal can fill the rest of the calendar alongside.
Choose Quetzal if planning the grid is fine but designing a post for every slot is where your week disappears.
Try for freeChoose Hopper HQ if you make your own visuals and want a low-cost way to plan how your feed looks and schedule it.
Visit Hopper HQOnly if you want the posts made for you. Hopper HQ is affordable and visual, with a grid planner, link in bio and hashtag research. Quetzal is for people who would rather approve finished posts than design them.
Hopper HQ expects you to bring the image and the caption. Quetzal plans the week from your brand, writes the captions, designs the images in your colours and publishes them.
Billed monthly, one brand with three accounts costs $116 (Starter) on Quetzal and $18 (Grow) on Hopper HQ. Hopper HQ costs much less for a few accounts, since you pay per account connected. Quetzal costs more because it makes the posts.
According to Hopper HQ's own pages, checked on 30 September 2026: its AI helps you write when you ask. Quetzal plans, writes and designs your posts on every plan, and makes AI reels from Pro.
Yes. Keep Hopper HQ for the posts you design yourself and your link in bio, and let Quetzal produce the rest of the week. Both publish through each network's official connection.
Connect your accounts to Quetzal, paste your website and review the brand kit it builds. Your first week is drafted from it, and there is nothing to export from Hopper HQ first.
Type your website and see a week of posts made for your brand. Free, and no account needed.
14 days free. Card required, nothing charged today.
Hopper HQ's prices were read from its pricing page on 30 September 2026 (monthly billing, USD). Features were checked on Hopper HQ's own pages on 30 September 2026; where Hopper HQ 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. Hopper HQ is a trademark of its owner; Quetzal is not affiliated with Hopper HQ.
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