A social media manager, not a suite
Sprout gives a team tools. Ampere Autopilot does the work itself: plans the week, writes the posts and schedules them.
Ampere Autopilot vs Sprout Social
Sprout Social is a deep suite for companies with social media staff, priced per seat. Ampere Autopilot does one job well: your Facebook posts, planned, written and posted in your voice.
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Sprout Social
What Autopilot does
Ampere Autopilot
The short answer
Sprout Social is a serious tool for serious social media teams. If you're the owner and the marketing department, Ampere Autopilot gets your posts done for about half the price of one Sprout seat.
Why owners switch
Sprout Social helps a social team work faster. Autopilot is built to be the team.
Sprout gives a team tools. Ampere Autopilot does the work itself: plans the week, writes the posts and schedules them.
Sprout charges for every seat. Autopilot Pro is $49 a month for your business.
Paste your website and swipe a few posts. That's most of the setup. No onboarding calls to book.
Who does the work
Here's the weekly job, and who handles each part.
Sprout Social
4.5 of 6 jobs land on you
Ampere Autopilot
0 of 6 jobs land on you
Plus a tap to approve, until you flip on Autopilot Mode
Decide what to post
You plan the calendar
Plans the week for you
Write the captions
You write. AI Assist helps on some plans.
Writes every caption in your voice
Find or make the photos
You bring each image
Your photos first, then stock or new images
Schedule the posts
Sprout Social publishes at the times you set
Schedules every post for you
Check it before it goes out
You're the only check
A quality check on every post, then your OK in Review Mode
Do it again next week
Back to a blank box
Next week's posts are already on the way
The real cost
Sprout Social Essentials for one person, billed yearly, next to Autopilot Pro.
Sprout Social
$948 a year
Your time. You still plan and write every post.
Ampere Autopilot Pro Plans, writes, designs and posts
$490 a year
Autopilot Pro yearly is $490, paid up front for 12 months, no mid-year cancel. Monthly Pro is $49 a month, cancel anytime.
$458 less a year with Autopilot
About half the price, and Autopilot writes the posts.
Your call
Start in Review Mode. Nothing posts until you tap Approve. When you trust the posts, flip on Autopilot Mode. You can switch back anytime.
Switching from Sprout Social
Paste your website. That's most of the setup.
One link
Ampere Autopilot reads your site and learns your services and your town.
yourwebsite.com
A few swipes
Swipe right on posts that sound like you. Left on the ones that don't.
One tap
Approve your first week. Once you trust the posts, turn on Autopilot Mode.
Questions
For a local business, yes. Sprout Social is a suite for social media teams. Autopilot plans, writes and posts your Facebook posts for you.
As of November 2026, Sprout Social starts at $79 per seat a month on Essentials, billed yearly. Standard is $199 and Professional is $299 per seat. Autopilot Pro is $49 a month.
No. Autopilot sticks to planning, writing and posting your Facebook posts. If you need listening and team reports, Sprout Social is built for that.
Not yet. Ampere Autopilot posts to Facebook Pages today. Instagram is coming first, then X and more.
Yes. Start with 14 days of Pro free, no credit card. Run both side by side and keep the one you like. On day 15 your account moves to the Free plan unless you upgrade. Nothing is charged and nothing is deleted.
Nothing goes out without your OK unless you turn on Autopilot Mode. Every post also goes through a quality check first. You can switch back to Review Mode anytime.
Monthly Pro is $49 a month and you can cancel anytime. Yearly Pro is $490 paid up front for 12 months. You can turn off renewal anytime, but you can't cancel mid-year. Every paid plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee.