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Which platform should you choose: Memberful or beehiiv?
What you need to know about Memberful and beehiiv
Memberful and beehiiv help creators grow their businesses with exclusive content. The right platform for you depends on your focus: a newsletter or a broader membership business.
What is Memberful?
Memberful is a membership platform built on ownership. You own your content, data, and payments, and decide exactly how your membership works. Manage all your content — whether that’s a newsletter, articles, podcasts, or a community — and who accesses what directly in Memberful’s dashboard.
For established creators, Memberful slots into what you already use, with 18 integrations that add memberships to your existing tech stack.
What is beehiiv?
beehiiv is an all-in-one newsletter platform where you can publish, send, monetize, and measure your newsletter’s performance. While beehiiv has other features like communities and podcasts, it’s built for creators with newsletters as their core offering.
One thing that sets beehiiv apart is how it helps you grow, with tools like Recommendations and an Ad Network to increase visibility and help monetize your content.
Memberful & Leaky Paywall’s Features
| Platform | Memberful | beehiiv |
|---|---|---|
Price | Three plans; pricing varies based on the number of subscribers. Launch Plan: Free up to 2,500 subscribers; paid subscriptions not available Scale Plan: $43–$290/month → Includes digital products, community, advanced analytics, webhooks Max Plan: $96–$404/month → Includes everything on the Scale plan, plus white-label branding, audio newsletters, group subscriptions, and dynamic content | |
Transaction + payment processing fees | 4.9% per paid transaction | No transaction fees on paid subscriptions |
Monetization options | Annual and monthly subscriptions, pay-what-you-can, one-time purchases, group subscriptions | Annual, monthly, quarterly and pay-what-you-can subscriptions, one-time payments
Paid subscriptions, Ad Network, and Recommendations (Scale + Max plans) |
Newsletter | Publish and send a hosted newsletter in Memberful Integrate your member newsletter with your existing email platform, like Mailchimp, Kit, or Klaviyo | Publish, send, and analyze newsletter performance from the beehiiv platform; use built-in email templates |
Web | Build a membership site using Memberful’s website builder Use the WordPress integration to add membership features to your WordPress site | Create a customized AI website on all plans |
Community | Simple built-in community feature | |
Podcasts | Link to premium audio and video podcasts with unlisted RSS feeds | Host and distribute audio podcasts from beehiiv, depending on your plan: Launch Plan: 1 show with 1 episode/month Scale Plan: 1 show with 4 episodes/month Max Plan: 3 shows with unlimited episodes/month |
Other content types | Digital downloads, courses on WordPress (using the LearnDash and Sensei integrations) | Sell digital products |
Integrations | 18 built-in integrations, including Discord, WordPress, and email tools like Mailchimp | 20+ integrations, mostly based in Zapier, including a Memberful integration |
Support | Human support available Monday to Friday from 9 am–6 pm ET; in-depth documentation available | Human support included on paid plans |
Best for | Creators who want to share a range of exclusive content types | Creators with a newsletter as their core offering |
Why creators switch from beehiiv to Memberful
beehiiv helps newsletter-first creators grow their subscriber base and revenue. Memberful gives you room to share more types of content — like articles, podcasts, or communities — with your newsletter as one part of a bigger offering.
Growing beyond your newsletter
beehiiv helps newsletter-first creators grow their subscriber base and revenue. Memberful gives you room to share more types of content — like articles, podcasts, or communities — with your newsletter as one part of a bigger offering.
An added membership layer
beehiiv is built to run everything in one platform, from publishing your newsletter to growing your audience. Memberful takes a different approach: integrations add memberships to the tools you already use, and built-in features make it easy to add new types of content.
Every feature on one plan
While beehiiv doesn’t charge transaction fees, the monthly price goes up as you add subscribers and features. Memberful has one plan for $49/month (+ 4.9% transaction fees) that includes everything.
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How to switch from beehiiv to Memberful
Let your subscribers know that you’re moving to a new platform. Tell them what changes to expect and answer their questions ahead of time.
Tell your subscribers
Let your subscribers know that you’re moving to a new platform. Tell them what changes to expect and answer their questions ahead of time.
Schedule your migration
Migration is included for everyone who uses Memberful. Schedule your migration 3–5 days before you want to switch — typically, migrations take 1–2 hours.
Make the move
We’ll let you know what you need to prepare before your migration. Memberful and beehiiv both use Stripe Subscriptions, so we’ll use that to transfer member and payment details.
Ask us for help
Support doesn’t stop post-migration. Memberful’s human support team is available to answer your questions from Monday to Friday, 9 am–6 pm ET.
Frequently asked questions
Memberful is free to try for as long as you like, so you can get into the details.
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