Same focus. Very different price.
Taplio is the closest thing to a direct competitor: LinkedIn only, AI writing, scheduling, analytics. The difference is what it costs to get the part you came for — so here is the alternative, side by side.
- 7-day free trial
- Cancel anytime
- From $9.90 / month
The writer is the product, not an upsell.
Against $39 for Taplio's entry plan.
Not just the words.
The cheapest plan without the thing you wanted
Taplio's Starter plan is $39 a month and, by their own description, leaves out the AI post generator. To get AI drafting you move to Growth at $69. That is a common and perfectly legal way to price software, but it means the advertised entry price is not the price of the feature most people arrive for. MediaPilot puts the writer on the cheapest plan, because without it there is no product. Starter is $9.90 and includes the post generation, the image generation and the scheduling. The larger plans add credits, LinkedIn accounts and seats — not the core function.
- Taplio Starter: scheduling and analytics, no AI writer
- Taplio Growth: AI drafting, $69 / month
- MediaPilot Starter: AI writing and images, $9.90 / month
Publishing tool or outreach tool
Taplio's larger plans lean into lead generation: automated connection requests, automated direct messages, lead lists. If your LinkedIn strategy is outbound — find people, message them, book calls — that is a real capability and MediaPilot has none of it. MediaPilot is a publishing tool. It helps you show up consistently with posts worth reading, answer the comments they attract, and see what worked. Inbound rather than outbound. Which of those you need is a strategy question, not a feature comparison, and it is worth answering before you pick either tool.
- Taplio: publishing plus automated outreach
- MediaPilot: publishing, comments and analytics
- No automated connection requests or DMs here
MediaPilot and Taplio
| MediaPilot | Taplio | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $9.90 / month | $39 / month (Starter) |
| AI writing on the entry plan | Yes | No — from Growth, $69 / month |
| Generates images | Yes, per post | Not part of the post generator |
| Automated DMs and connection requests | No | Yes, on the Pro plan |
| Comment replies drafted | Yes, you approve each | Commenting credits for engaging on other posts |
| Free trial | 7 days, card required | 7 days with full Pro access |
Taplio details from taplio.com pricing, September 2026, checked on 14 September 2026. Prices change — check before you decide.
Where Taplio is the better choice
Automated connection requests and DMs are their product. We deliberately do not build those.
Taplio's benchmark of analysed posts is a genuine research tool. We do not have an equivalent.
Their trial gives full Pro access for seven days, which is more than ours gives.
Good to know
Smaller scope. No outreach automation, no post library, no Chrome extension — a publishing tool rather than a LinkedIn suite.
Starter includes a monthly credit allowance. A post with an image costs four credits, and the plan page shows exactly what each plan gives.
Posts already published stay on LinkedIn. Anything scheduled elsewhere has to be recreated — there is no import.
Yes. Every plan starts with 7 free days. Cancel in one click if it is not for you.
Yes. MediaPilot uses the official LinkedIn API and never asks for your password.
Same focus, a tenth of the entry price
Seven days free, then $9.90 a month.
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