Newsletter platforms compared: prices and price hikes
Where creators write, send and get paid for a newsletter. Each price is the cheapest paid plan that can send a weekly issue to your whole list.
Prices at 10k subs
- Substack: free
- Sendy + SES: $4.30/mo
- MailCheap: $39/mo
- Flodesk: $72/mo · last hike Dec 2025
- Bento: $79/mo
- Buttondown: $79/mo · last hike Mar 2023
- MailerLite: $89/mo · last hike Jun 2026
- Ghost(Pro): $105/mo · last hike Jul 2025
- Mailchimp: $110/mo · last hike Apr 2026
- beehiiv: $139/mo · last hike Oct 2026
- Kit: $139/mo · last hike Sep 2025
Cheapest paid plan that can send a weekly newsletter to the whole list, billed monthly. Plans priced by emails sent assume one issue a week, about 4.3 emails per subscriber a month.