Start with the kind of newsletter you want to run. Kit is a candidate if signup forms, subscriber tags and email sequences matter to your workflow. beehiiv is a candidate if you want a newsletter and a publication website where readers can discover past issues.
Tools to explore
Open a Product profile to check free access, paid options, usage terms and official sources.
Kit
Category: Newsletter Platforms
Use case: Newsletter Publishing
beehiiv
Category: Newsletter Platforms
Use case: Newsletter Publishing
Choose by the job you need to do
- Map your first issue. Decide how readers will subscribe, where past issues will live and whether you will send broadcasts manually or use an automated sequence.
- Price the workflow at your list size. Check the free subscriber cap, sending limits and which features require a paid tier. Compare monthly and annual billing at your current and expected list size.
- Plan for portability and permissions. Check how to export subscribers and content, what permissions the platform needs, and how paid subscriptions or other monetization features fit your plans.
How to interpret the evidence
These profiles draw on vendor documentation. FirstOfTen has not hands-on tested or benchmark tested either product for this hub, and no performance score is assigned. See the FirstOfTen methodology for how we evaluate tools.