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Newsletter platform Price Change Alerts
Get an email when beehiiv, Kit, MailerLite, Ghost, Buttondown, Substack, EmailOctopus, Brevo, Mailchimp, AWeber and Constant Contact change their prices, subscriber limits or fees, with before/after numbers and the cheapest alternative at your list size. Plus one monthly cost report. Free.
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What you get
Price Change Alerts
A short email when a tracked platform changes:
- a price at any subscriber tier (monthly or annual billing)
- a free-plan subscriber limit or email-send allowance
- its cut or transaction fee on paid subscriptions
- a plan (added, removed or renamed), or whether a plan includes automations, a custom domain or branding removal
Frequency: only when something changes; at most one email a week.
Monthly Newsletter Platform Report
Early each month:
- what each platform costs at 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 and 25,000 subscribers, basic and with automations
- the cheapest option at each size, including with your own domain
- everything that changed last month, with sources
Frequency: once a month.
Read the latest report: October 2026
The full October 2026 report is on the site, built from the same verified data as the email. An excerpt:
Cheapest option by list size (prices as verified on 20 Oct 2026)
- 1,000 subscribers: basic newsletter: beehiiv Free / Kit Free / Substack Free + 10% of paid revenue / EmailOctopus Free at $0/mo. With automations: EmailOctopus Free at $0/mo. With automations + own domain: MailerLite Comfort at $19/mo.
- 5,000 subscribers: basic newsletter: Kit Free / Substack Free + 10% of paid revenue at $0/mo. With automations: Buttondown Paid (usage-based) at $29/mo. With automations + own domain: Buttondown Paid (usage-based) at $29/mo.
- 10,000 subscribers: basic newsletter: Kit Free / Substack Free + 10% of paid revenue at $0/mo. With automations: EmailOctopus Pro at $44.50/mo. With automations + own domain: Buttondown Paid (usage-based) at $79/mo.
Read the October 2026 report All reports
How it works
- We re-check every platform's official pricing page (at least weekly).
- Each check is saved as a dated snapshot of every plan, tier, limit and fee (our open price-history dataset, tracking since 20 Oct 2026).
- We compare it field by field with the previous snapshot. Any difference becomes an entry in the price-change log and an alert email.
We never estimate list prices. If we can't verify a value, we say so instead of guessing.
What an alert looks like
Sample format. Generated by the same code that writes real alerts, using beehiiv's real, sourced change of 1 Oct 2026 (before our alerts launched).
Subject: [SAMPLE] Price change: beehiiv raised 2 prices (up to +27.5%) and renamed plans
beehiiv raised 2 prices (up to +27.5%) and renamed plans
Effective 1 Oct 2026. Before/after values below are taken from the sources linked under each table.
beehiiv
| What changed | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan name | Scale | Lite | renamed |
| Lite (formerly Scale), up to 10,000 subscribers: price, monthly billing | $109 | $139 | +27.5% |
| Plan name | Max | Pro | renamed |
| Pro (formerly Max), up to 10,000 subscribers: price, monthly billing | $219 | $239 | +9.1% |
- beehiiv replaced Launch/Scale/Max with Free/Lite/Pro for new customers from 1 Oct 2026; existing customers move at their first renewal on or after 1 Nov 2026.
- Old price as reported by The Verge (2 Oct 2026); new price confirmed on beehiiv.com/pricing on 2026-10-20.
What it means for you: at 10,000 subscribers, the cheapest tracked option with automations today is EmailOctopus Pro at $44.50/mo (basic newsletter: Kit Free / Substack Free + 10% of paid revenue at $0/mo). Run your exact numbers.
Sources: source 1 · source 2 · beehiiv pricing page on NewsletterPricing · full change log
Privacy
The signup form is provided by beehiiv, which stores your email address under the beehiiv privacy policy. We use it only to send the alerts and monthly report described above. We don't sell or share it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. Details: privacy policy.
FAQ
Is it free?
Yes. Both the alerts and the monthly report are free. Emails may in future carry one clearly labelled sponsor slot; sponsors never affect prices, rankings or what we report.
How often will I get emails?
Price Change Alerts only go out when we detect a change, at most one email a week (several changes in a week are bundled). The Monthly Newsletter Platform Report goes out once a month, in the first days of the month. Nothing else.
Which platforms do you track?
beehiiv, Kit, MailerLite, Ghost, Buttondown, Substack, EmailOctopus, Brevo, Mailchimp, AWeber and Constant Contact. We only add a platform once every tier is verified against its official pricing page.
How do you detect changes?
We re-check each official pricing page, save a dated snapshot of every plan, tier, limit and fee, and compare it field by field with the previous snapshot. Every alert links to the official source.
Can I unsubscribe?
Yes, with one click from the link at the bottom of every email.