Email and newsletter tools: prices and free plans

What email and newsletter platforms cost at your list size, and what their free plans leave out. beehiiv, Kit, MailerLite, Substack, Ghost and Mailchimp all price differently, so we compare them at real list sizes, with each price read from the vendor's pricing page and dated.

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• Free newsletter platforms compared: free-plan limits side by side, plus a cost calculator
• beehiiv pricing 2026: Free, Lite and Pro by list size
• beehiiv alternatives: prices and real switching costs at 1k, 5k and 10k subscribers
• Kit vs MailerLite: free plans, prices and which fits a new creator
• Kit free plan: what you get for $0 and where it stops

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