Ghost(Pro) pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Ghost(Pro) (ghost.org) is a newsletter platform. Hosted plans by member count, 0% fee on paid subs (Publisher and up). No free plan.
What Ghost(Pro) costs
- 1k subscribers: $18/mo
- 5k subscribers: $75/mo
- 10k subscribers: $105/mo
- 25k subscribers: $169/mo
- 50k subscribers: $249/mo
- 100k subscribers: $329/mo
Plan compared: Starter (Publisher above 1k). 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.
Ghost(Pro) price hikes
- Ghost(Pro) raised its entry plan 67% · Jul 2025
New lineup: Starter went from $9 to $15 a month and lost paid subscriptions, tips and two of its three newsletters; Creator and Team were replaced by Publisher at $29.
Cheaper alternatives to Ghost(Pro)
At 10k subs, Ghost(Pro) costs $105/mo. 6 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) alternatives: 6 cheaper newsletter platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jul 2025 · Price increase: New lineup: Starter went from $9 to $15 a month and lost paid subscriptions, tips and two of its three newsletters; Creator and Team were replaced by Publisher at $29.
Sources
Pricing page: ghost.org/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices read from Ghost's member slider on monthly billing (Oct 16, 2026). 1k uses Starter, which can't take paid subscriptions; Publisher costs $35 there. Starter is $18 on monthly billing and still $15 billed yearly. Above 100k members Ghost asks you to contact sales.