Is Cardel an alternative to Medium or Outseta?

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 Outseta when you want your work, audience, and sales in one place. The feature list on this page shows where Medium and Outseta are marked.

Can I use Cardel with Medium or Outseta?

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

How much does Cardel cost compared with Medium and Outseta?

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

How do I switch from Medium or Outseta 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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MediumvsOutseta

Medium gives writers a built-in readership and Partner Program earnings without a site. Outseta handles membership billing, logins, CRM, email, and support in one tool.

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How Medium and Outseta 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.

Outseta is the quiet workhorse behind many paid memberships and small SaaS products. Subscription billing, authentication and gated content, a CRM, email marketing, and a support desk come together so a founder can add a paying membership to any site they already have. It is well designed, honest, and built by people who use it.

Where they are different

Medium

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

Outseta

Outseta attaches to a site you build elsewhere.
Outseta bills subscriptions.
Outseta's support desk handles tickets.

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

Choose Outseta when you sell a subscription and need billing, logins, CRM, and support in one place behind your own site.

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What's on Medium and Outseta

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

Public content

Blog
Medium: Included
Outseta: Not included

Audience and email

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

Messaging

Messaging Center
Medium: Not included
Outseta: Included

Commerce

Shop payments
Medium: Not included
Outseta: Included

Team

Admin users
Medium: Included
Outseta: Included
Per-admin permissions
Medium: Included
Outseta: Included

Feature comparison for Medium and Outseta
Feature	Medium	Outseta
Public content
Blog	Included	Not included
Audience and email
Audience	Not included	Included
Marketing emails	Not included	Included
Messaging
Messaging Center	Not included	Included
Commerce
Shop payments	Not included	Included
Team
Admin users	Included	Included
Per-admin permissions	Included	Included

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