Buffer vs. Smash Balloon
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Buffer | Score8.4 out of 10 | Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | Buffer is a social sharing tool. When browsing content, clicking on the Buffer icon automatically stores the content and schedules posts to social media channels throughout the day. | $6 per month per channel |
 Smash Balloon | N/A | N/A | Smash Balloon is a plugin used to add social media content to WordPress, with the goal of displacing social media plugins that are complicated to set up, slow down the website site, aren’t customizable , or break anytime the platform makes a change. Smash Balloon plugins are designed to integrate seamlessly into Wordpress websites, where they help to display social media content that is unique to the business. The solution currently boasts over 1.6 million users. | $49 per year a single feed for 1 website |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.8 | - |
| Likelihood to Renew | 8.0 | - |
| Usability | 9.0 | - |
| Availability | 8.2 | - |
| Performance | 8.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 6.1 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 8.0 | - |
| Configurability | 10.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | 8.6 | - |