Is Cardel an alternative to Beacons or Beehiiv?

Cardel is a home for your craft: a site of your own with a blog, newsletter, shop, community, and one inbox. It can replace Beacons or Beehiiv when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Beacons and Beehiiv are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Beacons or Beehiiv?

Yes. Cardel pages can link out to other products, so you can keep Beacons or Beehiiv for what it does best and bring the rest of your work to Cardel.

How much does Cardel cost compared with Beacons and Beehiiv?

You don't pay for Cardel until you publish. Choose Starter, Pro, or Studio when your site goes live. Beacons and Beehiiv set their own prices, so check their pricing pages on this page for current plans.

How do I switch from Beacons or Beehiiv to Cardel?

Start with Build Your Site, set up your home, and bring your work over at your own pace. You do not have to move everything on day one.

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BeaconsvsBeehiiv

Beacons is a creator toolkit: link in bio, store, email marketing, and invoicing in one. Beehiiv is a growth engine for newsletters: referrals, ads, paid tiers, and automations.

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How Beacons and Beehiiv compare

Beacons is more than a link page. A link-in-bio, digital product store, email marketing, media kit, brand-deal invoicing, and AI tools give a creator a mini back office without leaving the app. For someone monetizing social attention with sponsors and downloads, it is a clever, generous bundle.

Beehiiv treats a newsletter like a media business. Referral programs, Boosts and recommendations, an ad network, paid subscriptions, automations, segmentation, a website with SEO, and deep analytics are all pointed at one thing: growing and monetising a list. Operators who think in subscriber counts and CPMs love it.

Where they are different

Beacons

Beacons is a profile with tools.
Beacons emails from its platform.
Beacons sells downloads and links.

Beehiiv

Beehiiv's site exists to convert subscribers.
Beehiiv monetises the list.
Beehiiv sends.

Choose Beacons when you are monetizing a social audience with sponsors, downloads, and a bio link.

Choose Beehiiv when your newsletter is the business and growth loops and ad revenue are the plan.

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What's on Beacons and Beehiiv

A check means that capability is available. Beacons and Beehiiv are marked only when the offer is comparable, not the same product.

Site and brand

Workspace site
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included
Custom domain
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included
Editor Mode
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included
Theme and fonts
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included
Brand kit
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included

Public content

Blog
Beacons: Not included
Beehiiv: Included
Reader engagement
Beacons: Not included
Beehiiv: Included
Shop pages
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included
Marketing emails
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included
Campaign workflows
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included

Messaging

AI Suggest
Beacons: Not included
Beehiiv: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Not included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Not included

Team

Admin users
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included
Per-admin permissions
Beacons: Not included
Beehiiv: Included
AI Assistant
Beacons: Included
Beehiiv: Included

Feature comparison for Beacons and Beehiiv
Feature	Beacons	Beehiiv
Site and brand
Workspace site	Included	Included
Custom domain	Included	Included
Editor Mode	Included	Included
Theme and fonts	Included	Included
Brand kit	Included	Included
Public content
Blog	Not included	Included
Reader engagement	Not included	Included
Shop pages	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Included	Included
Marketing emails	Included	Included
Campaign workflows	Included	Included
Messaging
AI Suggest	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Included	Not included
Scheduling and bookingsLink to external scheduling available on Starter.	Included	Not included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Not included	Included
AI Assistant	Included	Included

* Note: This table does not capture every feature of Beacons or Beehiiv, and is not intended as a comprehensive list. We keep this page current, but Beacons or Beehiiv may add or remove features that are not shown here.