beehiiv
A newsletter platform with growth tools, ad sales and paid subscriptions built in, plus an AI writing assistant, so a newsletter can become a business without stitching together separate tools.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Launch | $0/month | Getting started with no cost, forever. | Up to 2,500 subscribers, unlimited email sends, newsletter site, campaign analytics, custom domains. |
| Scale | $49/month | Ready to grow and monetise. | Everything in Launch, plus the Ad Network, 0% take rate on paid subscriptions, digital products, email automations, a team of 3 seats. |
| Max | $109/month | The complete growth engine for larger operations. | Everything in Scale, plus branding removal, audio newsletters, up to 10 publications, unlimited team seats, priority support. |
Read from beehiiv's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Where it breaks
Browser-based; founded by former Morning Brew engineers and built specifically for newsletters that intend to make money from ads or subscriptions, not just send updates.
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beehiiv’s origin story matters for what it’s built to do: it came out of the team behind Morning Brew, a newsletter that became a real media business, and the product reflects that ambition rather than a generic “send an email” tool. Monetisation is native — an ad network that connects a newsletter to advertisers directly, paid subscriptions with no platform cut, digital product sales — where most competitors treat those as afterthoughts or third-party integrations.
Email automations — a welcome sequence, a re-engagement flow — run on their own once built, which is what separates this from a tool where every send needs a person to hit go. The AI assistant sits earlier in the pipeline, drafting subject lines and body copy for a human to edit rather than deciding what to send.
The free tier is genuinely usable, not a crippled trial — up to 2,500 subscribers with unlimited sends, which is enough runway for most newsletters to prove the concept before paying anything. That’s a sharper free offer than Mailchimp or Kit typically extend at a comparable size.
Against Kit specifically, the split is emphasis: Kit leans toward the individual creator selling their own products, beehiiv leans toward the newsletter-as-media-business model with advertising built into the core product. Both are strong choices; which one fits depends on whether ad revenue or product sales is the intended business model.
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