Is Cardel an alternative to Medium or Memberful?

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

Can I use Cardel with Medium or Memberful?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Medium and Memberful?

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

How do I switch from Medium or Memberful 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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MediumvsMemberful

Medium gives writers a built-in readership and Partner Program earnings without a site. Memberful adds paid memberships, gated content, and newsletters to a site you run.

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How Medium and Memberful compare

Medium is where a good essay can find readers on its own. The editor is calm, publications curate, the algorithm and topics surface work to members, and the Partner Program pays writers from member reading time. You bring words; Medium brings the audience and the distribution.

Memberful is a clean way to charge for membership. Stripe billing, plans and gifts, gated WordPress content, Discord and podcast access, member newsletters, and now a landing-page and newsletter builder on your own domain. Publishers who want a paywall without rebuilding their whole site have trusted it for years.

Where they are different

Medium

Medium owns the reader relationship.
Medium is one publication format.
Medium claps and responses stay on Medium.

Memberful

Memberful assumes you have a site.
Memberful bills recurring plans.
Memberful sends member newsletters.

Choose Medium when you want readers and modest earnings without owning a site or a list.

Choose Memberful when you want a paywall and member billing on a WordPress or custom site you already run.

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What's on Medium and Memberful

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

Site and brand

Workspace site
Medium: Not included
Memberful: Included
Custom domain
Medium: Not included
Memberful: Included

Public content

Blog
Medium: Included
Memberful: Not included

Audience and email

Audience
Medium: Not included
Memberful: Included
Marketing emails
Medium: Not included
Memberful: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Medium: Not included
Memberful: Included

Team

Admin users
Medium: Included
Memberful: Included

Feature comparison for Medium and Memberful
Feature	Medium	Memberful
Site and brand
Workspace site	Not included	Included
Custom domain	Not included	Included
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Not included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included

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