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Social Media Marketing · head-to-head

Agorapulse vs Fanpage Karma

Agorapulse

EU-Made

Panel rating

Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

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Fanpage Karma

EU-Made

Panel rating

Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

Full evaluation →

The written short answer is being updated after a re-evaluation. The scores below are current.

Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Data Protection Officer

Notes that every comment and message arriving from a network is personal data the company now processes. Wants a DPA that addresses that squarely, retention on the conversation archive, and an answer on where the sentiment analysis sends the text.

Agorapulse

Fanpage Karma

This judge's pick

Criterion by criterion

Publishing & calendar

Agorapulse

Scheduling through the official platform APIs is confirmed and the homepage advertises planning posts in advance, but there is no evidence of a calendar surface, per-network variants, bulk operations, previews or any failure handling at 3am — and silence here means the capability is not shown.

Fanpage Karma

Automated publishing is documented for seven networks from one centralized calendar that also covers stories, reels and videos, with approval workflows, idea voting and guest users alongside. We found no public information on per-network content variants, bulk import, link shortening with UTM rules, previews matching each network's rendering, or what happens when a scheduled post fails overnight.

Engagement & community inbox

Agorapulse

A centralized inbox for 'all interactions' plus comment moderation and inbox prioritization/automation are claimed, and the privacy policy confirms moderation of comments and messages via official APIs — but assignment, status, internal notes and per-person history are unevidenced. The only retention statement touching this archive is deletion 7–90 days after an account is disconnected, which says nothing about retention while the account is live.

Fanpage Karma

Brand mentions and their web sources are tracked across 460 million sources with positive, neutral and negative sentiment, which means public commentary about real people is processed at scale. We found no public information on a unified inbox with assignment, status, conversation history or direct-message handling, and nothing on where the AI sentiment analysis sends that text.

Analytics & reporting

Agorapulse

Reporting, monitoring and ROI modules are marketed and analytics run on connected profiles through official APIs, but nothing evidences history kept beyond platform windows, cross-network comparison, competitor benchmarking or scheduled exports — I cannot credit retention of metrics that the evidence never claims.

Fanpage Karma

Customizable and automated reports export to PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and CSV, with competitor benchmarking, historical comparison, Meta Ads analysis, shared dashboards and comments on reports. We found no public information on white-label client reporting, UTM-based attribution into web analytics, or audience demographics over time.

Approvals, roles & brand safety

Agorapulse

Approval workflows for posts are an explicit product pillar ('Freigabe-Workflows') together with agency functions, which takes this above a single optional step; but roles per account, comments on drafts, content locking and any audit trail are entirely silent, and for governance undocumented means unverifiable.

Fanpage Karma

Separate workspaces per brand, unlimited team members, approval workflows, idea voting and guest users who can assign tasks and approve content are all documented. We found no public information on granular roles per account or action, multi-step chains, content locking after approval, or an audit trail showing who approved and published what — which is the evidence trail a regulated brand would need.

Network coverage & API resilience

Agorapulse

Five major networks through official APIs for publishing, moderation, analytics and keyword monitoring is stated plainly, with a 'Systemstatus' resource listed, but per-network limitation docs, changelogs, deprecation notice and archive export are all unevidenced — and the 7/90-day deletion after disconnection is the opposite of the customer keeping the archive.

Fanpage Karma

Automated publishing is documented for seven networks including the newer ones such as Threads and Bluesky, with the per-network boundary stated: other networks are scheduled in Publish and published manually via the Publish app. We found no public information on whether the integrations use official APIs, per-network capability documentation, a status page, advance notice of deprecations, or export of the customer's own publishing and engagement archive.

European sovereignty

Agorapulse

A French SAS contracting entity, a stated controller/processor split, an SCC framework and the CNIL reference are genuine strengths. But AWS is named with no region, the subprocessor list is referenced (Article 4) yet never shown, and nothing tells me where the Archie AI engine or the inbox automation sends message text — the DPA-grade answer to personal data arriving from the networks is not in this sheet.

Fanpage Karma

A German entity with a Berlin commercial register, a VAT ID and an Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag (a data processing agreement) listed under the legal pages is a start, but the pages show only the DPA's title, not whether it addresses the personal data arriving from the networks in comments and messages. We found no public information on hosting location, any subprocessor touching the data, or where the AI sentiment analysis sends conversation text; the only retention figure visible is one year of data storage on the free publishing plan.

Pricing transparency

Agorapulse

No price, tier, account limit, seat cost or feature boundary is confirmed anywhere; the captured pricing page produced not a single figure, and the only pricing-adjacent fact is a 30-day trial without credit card. A team cannot compute an annual invoice from this evidence.

Fanpage Karma

The free publishing tier is defined with real limits — unlimited profiles and team members, 100 posts per profile per month, no payment details required — but beyond that no price figure appears on the captured pages. We found no public information on paid prices, billing period, or the tier where the monitoring, analytics and engagement capabilities sit, so a team cannot compute a real annual invoice from these pages alone.

Sovereignty, side by side

Dimension Agorapulse Fanpage Karma
Legal entity Not determined Incorporated in DE
Ownership Not determined Not determined
Data residency EU only Not determined
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach Not determined

Facts, side by side

Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.

Legal · Commercial register B 432 322 964 · Handelsregister Paris1

captured 30 Sep 2026 · Report an error

Amtsgericht Berlin · HRB 123671 B2

captured 5 Oct 2026 · Report an error

Legal · Entity Agorapulse SAS · July 2000 · Paris, France3

captured 15 Sep 2026 · Report an error

uphill GmbH4

captured 5 Oct 2026 · Report an error

Legal · VAT id FR434323229641

captured 30 Sep 2026 · Report an error

DE2687484952

captured 5 Oct 2026 · Report an error

Product · Modules Inbox · Beiträge Planen · Monitoring · Reporting · ROI5

captured 15 Sep 2026 · Report an error

Analytics · Engage · Publish · Discovery · Monitoring · Influencer finden6

captured 5 Oct 2026 · Report an error