beehiiv pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
beehiiv (beehiiv.com) is a newsletter platform. Tiered by subscribers, 0% cut of paid subscriptions. Free plan: up to 2,500 subscribers, 1 publication.
What beehiiv costs
- 1k subscribers: $59/mo
- 5k subscribers: $109/mo
- 10k subscribers: $139/mo
- 25k subscribers: $199/mo
- 50k subscribers: $299/mo
- 100k subscribers: $469/mo
Plan compared: Lite plan. 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.
beehiiv price hikes
- beehiiv raised prices by up to 52% · Oct 1, 2026
Scale became Lite and Max became Pro, both at higher prices: Lite is 18–43% more depending on list size, Pro up to 52% more. Existing customers move over at their first renewal on or after November 1.
Cheaper alternatives to beehiiv
At 10k subs, beehiiv costs $139/mo. 8 newsletter platforms cost less:
- Sendy + SES: $4.30/mo (Self-hosted, SES à la carte at $0.10 per 1k)
- MailCheap: $39/mo (Plan for one issue a week (~4.3 emails per subscriber))
- Flodesk: $72/mo (Lite plan (Pro above 25k))
- Buttondown: $79/mo (Base plan, no add-ons)
- Bento: $79/mo (Marketing Platform)
- MailerLite: $89/mo (Comfort plan)
- Ghost(Pro): $105/mo (Starter (Publisher above 1k))
- Mailchimp: $110/mo (Essentials (Standard above 50k))
beehiiv alternatives: 8 cheaper newsletter platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Oct 1, 2026 · Price increase: Plans renamed (Scale to Lite, Max to Pro) at higher prices: Lite costs $30 more at 10k subscribers.
- Apr 19, 2024 · Repriced: Grow plan retired; Scale repriced by subscriber tier and a Max plan added.
Sources
Pricing page: beehiiv.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Old prices from a Sep 23, 2026 archive of beehiiv.com/pricing, new prices from the live page. Lite stops at 100k subscribers.