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BeehiivvsHeartbeat

Beehiiv is a growth engine for newsletters: referrals, ads, paid tiers, and automations. Heartbeat is a friendly home for a small paid community with chat, events, and courses.

How Beehiiv and Heartbeat compare

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.

Heartbeat is a friendly place to start a paid community without a big budget. For $49 a month you get channels, threads, chat, voice rooms, DMs, unlimited courses and events, a custom domain, checkout pages, five automation workflows, and Pulse, an AI that actually sets up channels, offers, and pages for you. Grow adds unlimited workflows, DM rules, an affiliate program, and white-label email; Scale adds a branded app. For a founder with a small group who wants courses and calls next to the conversation, Heartbeat covers a lot for the price.

Where they are different

Beehiiv

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

Heartbeat

  • Heartbeat's landing page is the door to a private space.
  • Heartbeat emails members through workflows and a weekly digest.
  • Heartbeat's events sync to members' calendars.
  • Heartbeat charges 5% to 1.25% on payments.

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

Choose Heartbeat when a small paid community with courses, calls, and member chat is the product.

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What's on Beehiiv and Heartbeat

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

Site and brand

  • Workspace site
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • Custom domain
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • Theme and fonts
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • Brand kit
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Not included

Public content

  • Blog
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Not included
  • Reader engagement
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Not included

Audience and email

  • Audience
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • Marketing emails
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • Bulk email workflows
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • Campaign workflows
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included

Commerce

  • Shop payments
    Beehiiv: Not included
    Heartbeat: Included

Team

  • Admin users
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • Per-admin permissions
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included
  • AI Assistant
    Beehiiv: Included
    Heartbeat: Included

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

Beehiiv vs Heartbeat pricing

Compare plans, prices, and what it costs to get started.

  • Beehiiv

    Current plans and prices

    See what Beehiiv charges on their pricing page.

  • Heartbeat

    Current plans and prices

    See what Heartbeat charges on their pricing page.

Cardel: An alternative to
Beehiiv and Heartbeat

You don't pay until you publish.

Cardel provides a home for your craft. Share and sell your work, grow your audience, and bring your community together on a site of your own.

Common questions

  • Is Cardel an alternative to Beehiiv or Heartbeat?

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

  • Can I use Cardel with Beehiiv or Heartbeat?

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

  • How much does Cardel cost compared with Beehiiv and Heartbeat?

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

  • How do I switch from Beehiiv or Heartbeat 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.