Comparison

HubSpot vs beehiiv pricing

These products do not share a billing shape. beehiiv sells Launch, Scale and Max on a subscriber ladder with unlimited sends. HubSpot Marketing Hub sells edition bases, Core Seats and marketing-contact packs from the Product and Services Catalog. This page keeps catalog USD beside beehiiv LIVE cells and does not invent a HubSpot eight-breakpoint matrix.

Snapshot 3, HubSpot catalog checked 26 September 2026, beehiiv checked 14 September 2026. Monthly billing shown first.

The bill shapes are not the same

HubSpot Starter base: $20; Per Core Seat. 1,000 marketing contacts included.
beehiiv Scale at 1k: $49; Verified calculator stop. Launch is still free at free. Max is $109.
HubSpot Professional base: $890; 3 Core Seats. Onboarding $3,000 one-time.

beehiiv prices active subscribers on fixed tier stops, with sends unlimited on every plan. HubSpot prices an edition base, then Core Seats, then marketing-contact packs on top. Comparing a HubSpot Starter seat sticker to a beehiiv Scale cell without saying which seats and which contact packs are in play mixes two meters.

HubSpot cells on this page prefer the Product and Services Catalog. The Marketing pricing UI can show suite or Customer Platform packaging, but its Marketing Hub list prices match the catalog, as do those on HubSpot's pricing calculator, read 26 September 2026. Only promotional prices, such as the new customer Starter seat, stay out.

beehiiv Scale across eight list sizes

LIVE ladder from the dated beehiiv calculator. Scale is the beehiiv comparison plan. Max and Launch sit in the notes.

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	Monthly	Confidence	Note
500	$49	Derived	beehiiv Max at the same size is $109. Launch is free at this size. Confidence derived.
1,000	$49	Verified	beehiiv Max at the same size is $109. Launch is free at this size. Confidence verified.
2,500	$69	Verified	beehiiv Max at the same size is $149. Launch is free at this size. Confidence verified.
5,000	$89	Verified	beehiiv Max at the same size is $169. Launch is not sold at this size. Confidence verified.
10,000	$109	Verified	beehiiv Max at the same size is $219. Launch is not sold at this size. Confidence verified.
25,000	$169	Verified	beehiiv Max at the same size is $289. Launch is not sold at this size. Confidence verified.
50,000	$249	Verified	beehiiv Max at the same size is $379. Launch is not sold at this size. Confidence verified.
100,000	$329	Verified	beehiiv Max at the same size is $459. Launch is not sold at this size. Confidence verified.

beehiiv Scale at the eight SideBySend breakpoints, checked 14 September 2026. Max and Launch dollars appear in the notes. Empty Launch cells above 2,500 stay empty.

HubSpot catalog edition bases

Verified catalog stickers for new customers after 5 March 2024. Not a contact ladder.

Edition	Base	Core Seats	Extra seat	Included contacts	Onboarding	Confidence
Starter	$20 / seat	1	$20	1,000	not required	Verified
Professional	$890	3	$50	2,000	$3,000 one-time	Verified
EnterpriseBilled annually	$3,600	5	$75	10,000	$7,000 one-time	Verified

Marketing Hub edition bases for new customers after 5 March 2024, read from the HubSpot Product and Services Catalog and checked 26 September 2026. Starter is per Core Seat. Professional and Enterprise start at an edition base that includes Core Seats. Confidence: verified.

Enterprise is billed annually only at $3,600 a month equivalent, with 10,000 marketing contacts included and onboarding at $7,000. Starter and Professional marketing-contact packs live on HubSpot marketing contacts pricing.

Worked examples at four list sizes

HubSpot Starter assumes one Core Seat. Professional uses the edition base plus catalog contact packs. Onboarding fees are one-time and sit outside the monthly figures. Pack totals are derived from verified catalog rates.

List size	HubSpot Starter	HubSpot Professional	beehiiv Scale	beehiiv Max
1,000 Launch is still free. Starter included contacts cover this size. Professional base includes 2,000 contacts.	$20 Derived pack math	$890 Derived pack math, plus $3,000 onboarding	$49 Dataset cell	$109 Dataset cell
5,000 Launch stops at 2,500. Starter packs from catalog bands. Professional adds one 5,000 contact pack above its 2,000 included.	$210 Derived pack math	$1,140 Derived pack math, plus $3,000 onboarding	$89 Dataset cell	$169 Dataset cell
10,000 Starter packs continue. Professional needs contact packs above 2,000.	$410 Derived pack math	$1,390 Derived pack math, plus $3,000 onboarding	$109 Dataset cell	$219 Dataset cell
25,000 Starter and Professional pack math from catalog bands only.	$1,010 Derived pack math	$2,115 Derived pack math, plus $3,000 onboarding	$169 Dataset cell	$289 Dataset cell

At 1,000 contacts HubSpot Starter is $20 for one seat against beehiiv Scale at $49, while Launch is still free. At 10,000 contacts Starter pack math reaches $410 while Scale is $109 and Max is $219. Professional stays far above both beehiiv paid plans once the edition base is in the bill.

Paying yearly on beehiiv and HubSpot

Per month at 10,000 contacts, paid month to month and paid for a year up front.

Plan	Paid monthly	Paid yearly, per month	Note
beehiiv Scale	$109Ver	$96Ver	beehiiv prints a separate yearly price at every subscriber stop on Scale and Max.
HubSpot Professional	$1,390Der	$1,250Der	Billed as 12,000 contacts. Monthly payment still carries a 12 month commitment.
HubSpot Enterprise	Not sold monthly	$3,600Ver	Billed as 10,000 contacts. Sold billed annually only.

Per month at 10,000 contacts. beehiiv figures come from its vendor record and annual rule (read 14 September 2026). HubSpot figures are the Pay Monthly and Pay Annually options on HubSpot's pricing calculator, read 26 September 2026; Professional paid annually is the 800 dollar base plus contact packs at 10 percent off, so derived. Onboarding is not included.

Sources: the beehiiv pricing page and HubSpot's pricing calculator.

beehiiv prints its own yearly price at every subscriber stop on Scale and Max, so the saving can be read straight off its page. HubSpot prints an annual discount only for Professional: Enterprise is sold billed annually with no monthly option, and the Starter seat price its calculator shows today is a new customer promotion.

Starter marketing-contact packs from the catalog

Verified pack rates. These bands feed the worked examples above. Midpoints between bands are not filled into an eight-stop matrix.

Marketing contacts	Monthly add	Confidence
up to 1,000	included	Verified
1,001 to 3,000	$50	Verified
3,001 to 5,000	$45	Verified
5,001+	$40	Verified

Starter marketing-contact add rates, per 1,000 marketing contacts, from the HubSpot Product and Services Catalog, checked 26 September 2026. Included bands are free inside the edition base. Confidence: verified.

Sends and what each one counts

beehiiv Launch, Scale and Max include unlimited sends, so volume never moves the beehiiv bill. HubSpot marketing email send limits scale with the marketing-contact tier: Starter at 5 times, Professional at 10 times, and Enterprise at 20 times that tier. Those HubSpot multiples are catalog feature limits, not a separate dollar meter.

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.

HubSpot. For new customers after 5 March 2024, Marketing Hub Starter is priced per Core Seat, and Professional and Enterprise start at a base price that includes Core Seats. Marketing contacts sit on top of the edition: included contacts come with the base, and further contacts are sold in catalog bands. Non-marketing contacts are free up to an overall contact ceiling of 15 million (marketing plus non-marketing). Exceeding the marketing-contact tier bills immediately. Designating contacts as non-marketing takes effect at the start of the following month or contract renewal, whichever comes first, and contact-tier downgrades wait until renewal.

No ad network, paid subscriptions or automations. Sends are unlimited, so the free plan is limited by the feature set and the 2,500 subscriber ceiling and by nothing else. HubSpot Marketing Hub has no free edition on the recorded catalog ladder.