Comparison

beehiiv vs Constant Contact pricing

Both bill on list size. beehiiv never meters sends. Constant Contact does. Constant Contact Lite undercuts beehiiv Scale at the small paid stops. Until 2,500 subscribers, beehiiv Launch is free and Constant Contact is not, which is the part a paid table alone cannot carry. Contact Sales empties above 25,000 stay empty.

Snapshot 3, beehiiv checked 14 September 2026, Constant Contact checked 13 September 2026. Monthly billing shown first. Constant Contact stays on the watchlist outside the six vendor tables.

Entry paid plans, side by side

beehiiv Scale against Constant Contact Lite, the cheapest paid plan each vendor sells at the eight breakpoints. Plans are not feature matched.

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.

Contacts	beehiiv Scale	Constant Contact Lite	Cheaper
500	$49$43 annualDer	$12$10.20 annualVer	Constant Contact by $37
1,000	$49$43 annualVer	$30$25.50 annualVer	Constant Contact by $19
2,500	$69$61 annualVer	$50$42.50 annualVer	Constant Contact by $19
5,000	$89$78 annualVer	$80$68 annualVer	Constant Contact by $9
10,000	$109$96 annualVer	$120$102 annualVer	beehiiv by $11
25,000	$169$149 annualVer	$280$238 annualVer	beehiiv by $111
50,000	$249$219 annualVer	n/aNot	not comparable
100,000	$329$290 annualVer	n/aNot	not comparable

beehiiv Scale against Constant Contact Lite, month to month billing, with the per month cost of paying yearly underneath. The Cheaper column compares the monthly prices. Plans are not feature matched.

Where the cheaper paid plan sits

Scale at 1k: $49; Or nothing at all on Launch, which covers the same list for free
Lite at 1k: $30; Verified fee-schedule band. No free email send plan on Constant Contact
Scale at 25k: $169; Lite is $280 at the same size

Constant Contact Lite is cheaper than beehiiv Scale at 500, 1,000, 2,500, 5,000 contacts. From 10,000 contacts through the last overlapping monthly stop, Scale is the cheaper entry plan wherever both publish a figure.

At 500 contacts Scale is $49 against Lite at $12. At 10,000 contacts Scale is $109 against Lite at $120. At 100,000 contacts Scale is $329 while Lite stays empty for Contact Sales (none) rather than guessed.

The free Launch plan covers three breakpoints

Launch holds 2,500 subscribers. Constant Contact has no free email send plan on the recorded ladder.

List size	Monthly	Confidence	Note
500 on the list	free	Verified	Constant Contact has no free email send plan at this size. Its cheapest cell here is Lite at $12 a month.
1,000 on the list	free	Verified	Constant Contact has no free email send plan at this size. Its cheapest cell here is Lite at $30 a month.
2,500 on the list	free	Verified	Constant Contact has no free email send plan at this size. Its cheapest cell here is Lite at $50 a month.

beehiiv Launch at the free stops, checked 14 September 2026. Constant Contact dollars in the notes are Lite.

Step up plans

beehiiv Max against Constant Contact Standard. Neither pair is feature matched. Premium sits above Standard on the Constant Contact side.

Contacts	beehiiv Max	Constant Contact Standard	Cheaper
500	$109$96 annualDer	$35$29.75 annualVer	Constant Contact by $74
1,000	$109$96 annualVer	$55$46.75 annualVer	Constant Contact by $54
2,500	$149$131 annualVer	$75$63.75 annualVer	Constant Contact by $74
5,000	$169$149 annualVer	$110$93.50 annualVer	Constant Contact by $59
10,000	$219$193 annualVer	$160$136 annualVer	Constant Contact by $59
25,000	$289$254 annualVer	$310$263.50 annualVer	beehiiv by $21
50,000	$379$334 annualVer	n/aNot	not comparable
100,000	$459$404 annualVer	n/aNot	not comparable

beehiiv Max against Constant Contact Standard, month to month billing, with the per month cost of paying yearly underneath. The Cheaper column compares the monthly prices. Plans are not feature matched.

At 10,000 contacts Max is $219 against Standard at $160. Premium at the same size is $275. At 25,000 contacts Max is $289 against Standard at $310.

The headline price is not on the same billing terms

Constant Contact Lite: $30; $25.50 paid yearly, about 15 percent off and the figure the pricing page leads with
beehiiv Scale: $49; $43 paid yearly from the published calculator
Free plans: Launch vs none; beehiiv Launch sends free through 2,500. Constant Contact has no free email send plan on the recorded ladder.

Constant Contact shows annual billing by default. A month to month buyer pays $30 at the entry stop, not the $25.50 headline. beehiiv annual dollars come from the published calculator. Comparing the two headlines therefore mixes an annual calculator default with a monthly newsletter sticker.

Send allowances, SMS and what each one counts

Paid beehiiv Scale and Max include unlimited email sends. Constant Contact meters sends under the contact tier.

Constant Contact includes 10 times the contact count in monthly email sends on Lite, 12 times on Standard, and 24 times on Premium. Past the allowance the published overage is 0.002 dollars per email. At 10,000 contacts Lite therefore includes 100,000 monthly sends.

SMS sits beside the Constant Contact email bill. Premium includes 500 messages a month on US paid plans. Lite and Standard sell SMS as an add on from $10 a month. None of those SMS dollars sit inside the email cells above.

beehiiv. 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.

Constant Contact. No contact counting rule for unsubscribed addresses was visible on the Constant Contact pricing page or inside the fee-schedule modal on the check date. Confidence on that question is none.