How Many Posts Can Be Scheduled in Publlish
Learn about Publlish's scheduled post limits — how many posts you can queue per channel, what happens when you hit the limit, and how to manage your queue efficiently.
The number of posts you can have scheduled at once in Publlish depends on your plan. This guide explains how the limits work, what counts toward them, and how to manage your queue if you're approaching the limit.
How Scheduling Limits Work
Publlish measures scheduled posts per channel — meaning the limit is the number of posts in your queue waiting to be published for a given channel, not across all channels combined.
For example, if your plan allows 100 scheduled posts per channel:
- You can have 100 posts queued for Instagram
- And separately, 100 posts queued for TikTok
- And so on for each connected channel
This means the effective total across all channels is your per-channel limit multiplied by the number of connected channels.
Limits by Plan
Exact limits are defined by your plan. Generally:
- Free plan: Limited number of scheduled posts per channel (typically 10–25)
- Essential/Starter plan: More posts per channel (typically 100–150)
- Team plan: Higher limits (typically 150–250 per channel)
- Agency plan: Highest limits, often unlimited or very high caps
For your current limit, go to Settings → Billing or check your plan details. Full plans and pricing breakdown →
What Counts Toward the Limit
Counts toward the limit:
- Posts scheduled for a future date and time
- Posts in your queue (added to a time slot but not yet published)
- Draft posts assigned to a channel and time (in some plan configurations)
Does not count:
- Published posts (already sent)
- Failed posts that have been cleared from the queue
- Ideas (unscheduled concepts in the Ideas library)
- Draft posts with no scheduled time (in some plan configurations)
What Happens When You Hit the Limit
If you try to schedule a post and your queue for that channel is full:
- Publlish will show a warning that you've reached your scheduling limit
- You won't be able to add more posts to that channel's queue until existing posts publish or are deleted
- Posts for other channels with capacity remaining are unaffected
How to free up space:
- Wait for upcoming scheduled posts to publish — as they go live, space opens up
- Delete posts from your queue that you no longer need Deleting posts in bulk →
- Upgrade your plan for a higher limit
Tips for Managing Your Queue Efficiently
Don't schedule further than 4–6 weeks in advance for most content. Beyond that, content often becomes stale or needs updating. Exception: evergreen content (tips, how-tos) that doesn't date.
Use bulk delete regularly. If you've been scheduling aggressively and built up old posts in your queue, periodic bulk deletion of outdated content keeps things manageable. Bulk delete guide →
Monitor queue depth per channel. Before a big campaign push, check how many slots are available on each channel so you're not surprised by a limit mid-campaign.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a limit on how far ahead I can schedule posts? No date limit — you can schedule months or years ahead. The limit is on how many posts can be in the queue at once, not how far in the future they can be.
Do drafts count toward my scheduled post limit? It depends on your plan configuration. Drafts without a scheduled time generally don't count; drafts with a scheduled time typically do.
What happens to posts in my queue if I downgrade my plan? Your existing queued posts are preserved, but you may not be able to add new posts until the queue count falls within your new plan's limit. What happens when you downgrade →
Is the limit per channel or per account? Per channel. Each connected social account has its own independent queue limit.
Can I see how many posts I have scheduled for each channel? Yes — go to your Queue view and check the count per channel, or check your plan usage in Settings.