Email for software companies, without the enterprise campaign builder.
Paid
11 votes
About beehiiv
beehiiv is a newsletter platform that keeps the publishing tools and the earning tools in one account. Alongside the email editor sit a no-code website builder and podcast hosting, and the platform names four routes to revenue: paid subscriptions, its advertising network, paid recommendations and digital products. Paid subscriptions carry a 0 percent take rate, so reader payments arrive whole.
The advertising network is the part with the most moving pieces. It requires the Scale plan or higher, and a publisher has to be actively sending to receive offers at all. Up to five ad offers can be reserved at a time. The advertiser, not the publisher, decides whether a placement is priced per thousand or per click: CPM deals pay a fixed amount per 1,000 unique opens, CPC deals pay per verified unique click, and placements are measured on impressions, unique opens and verified clicks. Earnings move through Stripe Express into a beehiiv wallet with no withdrawal fee, and payouts are processed on the 20th of each month for the previous month's earnings, which is worth knowing if you are planning cash flow around ad income.
Launch is the free tier at $0 a month, capped at 2,500 subscribers with three publications and one team seat. It still includes the newsletter, a website, a podcast, custom domains, a link-in-bio page and the recommendation network, plus API access, though not the Send API. What it leaves out is the money: no ad network, no paid subscriptions, no digital products.
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Scale, listed at $517 billed annually and shown as $43 a month, is where those unlock, together with email automations, surveys and polls, A/B testing and the referral programme. It allows up to 100,000 subscribers and three team seats.
Max, listed at $1,151 billed annually and shown as $96 a month, is aimed at operations running several titles: up to ten publications and unlimited team seats. It adds removal of beehiiv branding, audio newsletters, RSS to send, dynamic content, group subscriptions and the Send API. Enterprise covers audiences above 100,000 subscribers and adds dedicated IP addresses and SSO.
The plan ladder tracks a publication's stage fairly closely. The free tier gives a writer everything needed to publish and grow an audience, and the paid tiers are largely about being allowed to charge for it, sell against it or run more than one title at a time.
Key features
- Bundles a newsletter editor, a no-code website builder and podcast hosting.
- Takes 0 percent of paid subscription revenue.
- Matches publishers with advertisers through an ad network on the Scale plan or higher.
- Pays ad earnings on the 20th of each month through Stripe Express into a wallet with no withdrawal fee.
- Measures ad placements by impressions, unique opens and verified clicks.
- Pays CPM deals per 1,000 unique opens and CPC deals per verified unique click.
- Allows a publisher to reserve up to 5 ad offers at a time.
- Includes custom domains, a link-in-bio page and the recommendation network on the free plan.
- Adds email automations, surveys, polls, A/B testing and a referral programme on Scale.
- Removes beehiiv branding and adds audio newsletters, RSS to send and dynamic content on Max.
- Offers API access on every plan, with the Send API reserved for Max and above.
- Adds dedicated IP addresses and SSO for audiences above 100,000 subscribers.
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Key facts
| Category | Marketing |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Freemium |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Upvotes | 11 |
| Listed | 22 August 2026 |
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