Productivity

Buffer

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Buffer is a social media scheduling and management tool for individuals and teams.

Is Buffer production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Buffer 88 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Buffer (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 61/100
• Accessibility — 99/100
• Security — 70/100
• Privacy — 100/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 87/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 1741 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Andy Yates (@ay8s) · product account @buffer

Who it's for

Creators · Small businesses · Agencies · Nonprofits · Developers

Pricing

Free plan with 3 channels and 10 scheduled posts; paid plans with volume discounts (lower per-channel cost at 10+ channels); 14-day free trial available; 50% discount for nonprofits

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