beehiiv vs MailerLite
beehiiv
Email Marketing
- Score
- Not yet scored
- Price
- Free plan, paid from $43/mo
- Suits
- Solo, Small teams (2–50)
- Free option
- Free plan
- No preview yet
MailerLite
Email Marketing
- Score
- Not yet scored
- Price
- Free plan, paid from $12/mo
- Suits
- Solo, Small teams (2–50), Mid-size (51–500)
- Free option
- Free plan
Our verdict
It depends on your prioritiesA newsletter business platform against a general small-business sender.
TechBigs verdict, published Sep 4, 2026
beehiiv fits when the newsletter is the product and you want advertising or paid subscriptions built in. MailerLite fits when email is one channel of a business that also needs landing pages, forms and ecommerce triggers.
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Free ceilings
beehiiv's Launch plan carries 2,500 subscribers with unlimited sends and custom domains. MailerLite's free plan carries 250 subscribers and 2,500 monthly emails with two seats. For a new publication, that is the difference between a year of runway and a month.
Money in, not just mail out
beehiiv Scale (US$43 a month, US$517 a year) adds its advertising network, paid subscriptions, automations and community features; Max (US$96 a month) adds audio newsletters, the send API and unlimited seats. MailerLite has no equivalent revenue tooling in its published plans; its higher tier buys unlimited sends and seats instead.
Marketing tools
MailerLite states landing pages, pop-ups, dynamic segments, A/B testing and ecommerce triggers. beehiiv states automations, A/B testing and segments, with A/B testing marked unavailable on the free Launch plan. If you need forms and pages for a business site, MailerLite covers more of it in one place.
Where they differ
2 facts that can decide it; identical facts are below- Pricingbeehiiv: Free plan, paid from $43/moMailerLite: Free plan, paid from $12/mo
- Team sizebeehiiv: Solo, Small teams (2–50)MailerLite: Solo, Small teams (2–50), Mid-size (51–500)
Everything else
Same on both unless markedBasics
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| Basics | beehiiv | MailerLite |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing (products differ) | Free plan, paid from $43/mo | Free plan, paid from $12/mo |
| Free trial (products differ) | No | Yes |
| Team size (products differ) | Solo, Small teams (2–50) | Solo, Small teams (2–50), Mid-size (51–500) |
| Category | Email Marketing | Email Marketing |
| Product type | SaaS | SaaS |
| Pricing model | Free plan available | Free plan available |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
Pricing
beehiiv
- LaunchFree
Free
- Scale$43/mo
Flat rate
- Max$96/mo
Flat rate
- EnterpriseOn request
Contact sales
MailerLite
- FreeFree
Free
- Comfort$12/mo
Flat rate, 14-day trial
- Power$25/mo
Flat rate, 14-day trial
- EnterpriseOn request
Contact sales
Features
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| Feature | beehiiv | MailerLite |
|---|---|---|
| Drag-and-drop email editor (products differ) | Not verified | Yes |
| Landing pages (products differ) | Not verified | Yes |
| Signup forms and pop-ups (products differ) | Not verified | Yes |
| Ecommerce features (products differ) | Not verified | Yes |
| Automation workflows | Yes | Yes |
| A/B testing | Yes | Yes |
| Audience segmentation | Yes | Yes |
| Transactional email | Not verified | Not verified |
Integrations
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| Integration | beehiiv | MailerLite |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics (products differ) | Native | Not listed |
| Mailchimp (products differ) | Native | Not listed |
| Shopify (products differ) | Not listed | Native |
| Slack (products differ) | Native | Not listed |
| Stripe (products differ) | Native | Not listed |
| WooCommerce (products differ) | Not listed | Native |
| WordPress (products differ) | Not listed | Native |
| Zapier | Native | Native |
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