Flodesk pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Flodesk (flodesk.com) is a newsletter platform. Tiered by subscribers since late 2025, unlimited sends. No free plan.
What Flodesk costs
- 1k subscribers: $25/mo
- 5k subscribers: $52/mo
- 10k subscribers: $72/mo
- 25k subscribers: $162/mo
- 50k subscribers: $389/mo
- 100k subscribers: $689/mo
Plan compared: Lite plan (Pro above 25k). 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.
Flodesk price hikes
- Flodesk ended flat pricing: +89% at 10k · Dec 2, 2025
The famous flat $38 a month for unlimited subscribers ended for new customers. Tiered pricing is cheaper under ~2.5k subscribers and much pricier above.
Cheaper alternatives to Flodesk
At 10k subs, Flodesk costs $72/mo. 2 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 alternatives: 10 newsletter platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Dec 2, 2025 · Price increase: The famous flat $38 a month for unlimited subscribers ended for new customers. Tiered pricing is cheaper under ~2.5k subscribers and much pricier above.
Sources
Pricing page: flodesk.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Flodesk's pricing FAQ labels the prices (Lite $25 a month, or $19 billed yearly, at 1k) and says flat pricing was retired for new members on December 2, 2025. 100k uses the 105k tier.