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How Newsletter Glue compares

These are all good tools. Here’s how they differ on price, where your newsletter lives, and who keeps your subscription revenue.

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Price, revenue and where your newsletter lives

Feature
Newsletter Glue
Substack
beehiiv
Ghost
MailPoet
Jetpack Newsletter
Best for
Publishers who run WordPress
Writers starting a newsletter from scratch
Newsletter-first businesses
Publishers starting fresh outside WordPress
WooCommerce stores and marketing emails
Emailing new posts to followers
Starting price
$24/moBilled yearly, unlimited subscribers
FreePlus 10% of paid subscriptions
FreeUp to 2,500 subscribers; paid plans from $49/mo
$18/moBilled yearly, 1,000 members; paid subscriptions from $29/mo
FreeUp to 500 subscribers and 5,000 emails a month
FreePlus 10% of paid subscriptions
What the price is based on
Emails you send each month
10% of paid subscription revenue
Subscriber count and plan
Member count and plan
Subscriber count
Free; lower fees on paid plans
Cut of paid subscriptions
NoneNewsletter Glue never takes a cut
10%Plus Stripe fees
0%Paid subscriptions need a paid plan
0%On the Publisher plan and up
Not offeredNo paid newsletters
10%2% on Jetpack Pro and Complete
Lives on your WordPress site
YesEvery newsletter is also a post
NoSubstack’s own platform
Nobeehiiv’s own website builder
NoGhost’s own platform
YesWordPress plugin
YesWordPress plugin
Where you write
WordPress block editorMagic Glue drafts an issue from your posts
Substack’s editor
beehiiv’s editor
Ghost’s editor
MailPoet’s drag-and-drop builder
WordPress block editorYour posts are emailed to subscribers
Send through your own email provider
Yes21 providers on Connect, or our own sending
NoSubstack sends it
Nobeehiiv sends it
NoGhost(Pro) sends it
PartlyYour host or SMTP on the Creator plan
NoSent by WordPress.com

Prices are taken from each company’s public pricing and help pages in November 2026 and may change. Yearly prices are shown where a company offers them. Payment processing fees (such as Stripe’s) apply to paid subscriptions on every platform.

Platform by platform

These are all good tools. Here is where each one fits.

Substack

A newsletter platform. We work inside your website.

Substack is the easiest place to start a newsletter from scratch. It’s free, then keeps 10% of paid subscriptions, and your issues live on Substack. Newsletter Glue sends newsletters from the WordPress site you already have, from $24/mo with no cut.

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beehiiv

Priced by subscribers. We’re priced by sends.

beehiiv is a polished newsletter platform with growth tools and its own website builder. It’s free up to 2,500 subscribers, then priced by list size. Newsletter Glue keeps your newsletter on your WordPress site, with unlimited subscribers.

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Ghost

A new platform. We keep you on WordPress.

Ghost is a publishing platform with newsletters and memberships built in, so moving to it means leaving WordPress. Newsletter Glue adds newsletters to the site you already run, with your theme and plugins.

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MailPoet

Built for store emails. We’re built for publishers.

MailPoet is a WordPress email plugin, now part of WooCommerce, with a drag-and-drop builder. Newsletter Glue lets you write in the block editor, turn posts into an issue in a minute, and publish every issue on your site.

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Jetpack Newsletter

Emails your posts. We build full newsletters.

Jetpack Newsletter emails new posts to subscribers for free, and keeps 10% of paid subscriptions on its free plan. Newsletter Glue gives you a dedicated newsletter editor, templates and Magic Glue, and takes no cut.

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