It depends on what you need social media management tools to help you with.
Hootsuite is ideal for scheduling, publishing, replying to messages, and monitoring performance. It also offers collaboration tools, and management of team members, and integrates other third-party apps. However, it’s among social media management tools that require paid plans to access the most advanced functionalities.
On the other hand, Buffer is great for scheduling, publishing, and analyzing performance. It has a more robust analytic feature than Hootsuite, but it's also available at a higher price than Hootsuite.