Productivity
Buffer
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
Buffer is a social media scheduling and management tool for individuals and teams.
Is Buffer production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Buffer 90 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 Security. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 71/100
- 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 — 856 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 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