{"id":350,"date":"2025-07-08T17:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:14:24","slug":"whats-the-most-economical-newsletter-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/whats-the-most-economical-newsletter-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the most economical newsletter platform?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Programmer and newsletter author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mollywhite.net\/\">Molly White<\/a> has a complete write-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mollywhite.net\/micro\/tag\/substack\">here<\/a> comparing newsletter engines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.substack.com\">Substack<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ghost.org\/\">Ghost<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beehiiv.com\/\">Beehiiv<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.com\/\">Buttondown<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailchimp.com\">Mailchip<\/a>. She&#8217;s shared exhaustive spreadsheets comparing the costs at different subscription levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In short, &#8220;Cheapest option is self-hosting, though of course there is added time cost and a technical barrier to entry. I pay $100\u2013$150\/mo to self-host Ghost with a bit over 25,000 subscribers.For free newsletters, Beehiiv is free for up to 2,500 subscribers. ConvertKit is free up to 10,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmer and newsletter author Molly White has a complete write-up here comparing newsletter engines Substack, Ghost, Beehiiv, Buttondown and Mailchip. She&#8217;s shared exhaustive spreadsheets comparing the costs at different subscription levels. In short, &#8220;Cheapest option is self-hosting, though of course there is added time cost and a technical barrier to entry. I pay $100\u2013$150\/mo to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletternomics","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quizlab.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}