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beehiiv cost at 1,000 contacts

At 1,000 subscribers the recorded monthly figures are zero dollars on Launch, forty nine on Scale, and one hundred nine on Max. All three stops are verified from the beehiiv pricing calculator. Launch still covers this size for free. Sends are unlimited on every paid plan.

Snapshot 3, checked 14 September 2026. Child of beehiiv pricing. Sibling of beehiiv cost at 5,000 contacts, beehiiv cost at 10,000 contacts and beehiiv cost at 25,000 contacts. Vendor pricing page.

The three answers

Launch: free; Still inside the free ceiling that runs to 2,500 subscribers. Verified.
Scale: $49; $43 a month when paid yearly. Verified calculator stop.
Max: $109; $96 a month when paid yearly. Verified calculator stop.

All three plans at 1,000 subscribers

Monthly billing first. The annual column is the per month cost of paying for a year up front. Launch is free at this stop on purpose.

Prices are compiled from public vendor pages and can lag behind a change. Cells marked Der are calculated from published rules and cells marked Est are rough figures. Neither is an invoice or a quote, so confirm with the vendor before you spend.

Plan	Monthly	Confidence	Note
Launch	free	Verified	Unlimited email sends. Free to 2,500 subscribers. Newsletter, website, custom domain, unlimited sends, no monetisation features. Confidence on this stop is verified.
Scale	$49	Verified	Unlimited email sends. Entry paid plan. Ad network, paid recommendations, digital products, automations, polls, 3 seats. Confidence on this stop is verified.
Max	$109	Verified	Unlimited email sends. Adds sponsorship storefront, audio newsletters, up to 10 publications, unlimited seats, branding removal. Confidence on this stop is verified.

beehiiv at 1,000 subscribers, month to month billing, checked 14 September 2026. Launch, Scale and Max are verified.

Annual billing and unlimited sends

At this list size the recorded annual monthly equivalents are Scale $43 and Max $96. A monthly biller pays the higher sticker in the key numbers above. beehiiv never meters sends, so volume does not move the bill on Scale or Max.

Launch covers the first three SideBySend breakpoints for free and stops at 2,500 subscribers (free there). The paid ladder uses the published Scale and Max stops of 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000, 75,000, 100,000.

What the subscriber count includes

beehiiv defines an active subscriber as one who has not unsubscribed and has not been marked inactive, and the tier follows the active count. Paused, pending and inactive subscriptions are all outside it. That is why a workspace reading 1,000 mailable people can still sit at this stop once suppressed addresses are counted. What each tracked vendor counts is recorded here.

Where this stop sits on the ladder

Scale sits at $49 at 500 subscribers and $49 here, then moves to $69 at 2,500. Max sits at $109 then $109, then $149. The 500 and 1,000 paid stops share the lowest published Scale and Max tier. Neighbouring stops are verified calculator reads on Snapshot 3.

The full Launch, Scale and Max ladder lives on the parent page. beehiiv pricing by subscribers.