MailerLite vs. Substack
MailerLite: A Substack alternative for more profitable newslettersMailerLite is a powerful Substack alternative for creators who want to keep their subscription revenue and build an audience with advanced marketing tools. Get started with a 30-day free trial today.
Earn more from every subscription
Switch to MailerLite and instantly increase your newsletter profits. It’s simple: Substack takes 10% of every newsletter subscription you sell, we take zero commissions. The table below shows how our pricing model helps you save.
| MailerLite | Substack |
| Service fee | $0/month | $0/month |
| Sales fee | 0% | 10% |
| Processor fee | Stripe | Stripe |
| Price for 500 paid subscribers | $20/month | $500 |
| Price for 1,000 paid subscribers | $30/month | $1,000 |
| Price for 5000 paid subscribers | $50/month | $5,000 |
| Price for 10,000 paid subscribers | $110/month | $10,000 |
Grow your audience with newsletters that excite
Our easy-to-use email marketing toolkit has all you need to create and monetize quality content. Your subscribers (and wallet) will see the difference.
Showcase your personality with beautifully designed emails built with our drag-and-drop or rich-text editor. Use global settings to create a memorable brand experience then build engagement with quizzes, surveys, and social embeds.
Convert your audience into subscribers with landing pages, sign-up forms and popups. Then build a beautiful website to grow your online presence and promote your newsletter. Customization options mean you’ll stand out among cookie-cutter newsletter websites.
Convert subscribers into paid users with automated welcome emails, nurture sequences and rengagement campaigns that work as you sleep. Stripe integration ensures a frictionless payment experience to maximize sales.
Know your audience
Improve content engagement with built-in analytics and heat maps that show what people like. Connect with Google Analytics for industry-leading insight.
A complete digital marketing toolkit
MailerLite is your Substack alternative if you want to go beyond the basics and level up your email marketing. Our award-winning growth toolkit has all you need to build a successful newsletter brand.
Meet each subscriber's needs
Increase engagement by segmenting subscribers and creating content for each group. Target messaging further with advanced email personalization.
Optimize everything
A/B test forms, pop-ups, landing pages, subject lines, and email content to take the most impactful action at every step of the subscriber journey.
Build your list faster with ads
Fuel paid newsletter growth with Facebook ads. Create landing pages and track conversions, use lookalike audiences for better targeting, and convert free subscribers with retargeting.
Dominate the search results
Build awareness with an SEO-optimized blog that showcases your ideas. Grow your list with blog post sign-up forms and use automation to convert leads into paid subscribers.
Even more features our users love
Every paying customer gets access to all of our advanced features while saving more.
Ready to connect
Access 130 plus ready-made integrations for popups, subscriber management, referral programs, and more. Go further by using our API to connect virtually any app.
You're in good company
What I love most about MailerLite is the completely and easily customizable templates, yet still having full accessibility from all email clients. The analytics features allow us to test different designs, content and subjects, to find out what inspires our readers the most. The icing on the cake is that all of this is available even for small startups using one of the cheaper paid plans.
Build your newsletter today
Sign up to MailerLite to grow faster and earn more from your paid newsletter. Test our advanced email marketing features for free with a 30-day trial. No credit card required.
Customer support is always here to help you
Keeping it Lite
We don’t just talk the talk, we walk the walk. MailerLite started out as a small business too! See how ‘Keeping it Lite’ has helped us build a product our customers love to use.
MailerLite vs. Substack full feature comparison
| Features | MailerLite | Substack |
| Sell digital products | ||
| Send paid newsletters | ||
| Sell recurring subscriptions | ||
| Selling worldwide | ||
| Automated nurture campaigns | ||
| Email coupons | ||
| Custom sending email domain | ||
| Award winning deliverability | ||
| Ecommerce integrations |
| Websites | ||
| Custom landing pages | ||
| Embedded signup forms | ||
| Pop-ups | ||
| Promotion pop-ups | ||
| Facebook custom audiences | ||
| Segmentation |
| Drag & Drop Newsletter editor | ||
| AI writing assistant | ||
| Rich-text newsletter editor | ||
| Image library | ||
| Newsletter templates | ||
| Create your own newsletter template | ||
| Edit links in sent campaigns | ||
| Custom HTML newsletter editor | ||
| Multilingual |
| Email Automation builder | ||
| Automations split testing | ||
| Automations templates | ||
| Multiple automation triggers | ||
| Automated email sequences | ||
| RSS campaigns | ||
| API documentation |
| Landing page templates | ||
| Create your own landing page template | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| A/B split testing | ||
| Click maps | ||
| Blogs | ||
| Password protected pages | ||
| Custom code injection |
| Email A/B split testing | ||
| Surveys and quizzes | ||
| Preview and send test emails | ||
| Dynamic email content | ||
| Auto resend campaigns | ||
| Unsubscribe page builder | ||
| Pop-up and embedded forms A/B split testing | ||
| Promotion pop-up A/B split testing | ||
| Preference center |
| Custom date range reports | ||
| List growth reporting | ||
| Email click maps | ||
| E-commerce sales tracking | ||
| Automation real-time reports |
| Knowledge base | ||
| Email Marketing Academy | ||
| Email support | ||
| Live Chat Support |
Start growing for free
Access all you need to create a paid newsletter today with a 30-day free trial. Collect subscribers, accept payments with Stripe, and create newsletters that stand out. No credit card required.