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20,000
For up to 10,000 subscribers
Starter
$0.95 per 1,000 emails
$19/month
Billed monthly
Every plan includes
- Campaigns
- Scheduling
- Website
- Your own domain
- Signup forms
- Welcome emails
- Imports
- Stats
- AI agents and API
- Chat support
83% cheaper than
*4,000 subscribers, one email a week: $19 on MailCheap Starter, $109 on beehiiv Lite. Prices checked October 2026.
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Questions about billing
What counts as an email?
Every email MailCheap sends for you: issues, tests, and welcome and confirmation emails. An issue sent to 1,000 subscribers is 1,000 emails. The count starts over every month, on the day your plan started, and yearly plans get the same emails every month.
What counts as a subscriber?
A contact who gets your issues. People who haven't confirmed yet, unsubscribed or bounced stay in your list and don't count.
Why do you charge per email and not per subscriber?
Because sending emails is what costs money. Storing a subscriber costs almost nothing.
Most newsletter tools still charge per subscriber. So you pay for people who stopped reading. To protect your deliverability, you'd have to delete them by hand. Otherwise you keep emailing people who are asleep, and your deliverability drops.
Those tools earn more from the thing that hurts you. I don't want MailCheap to profit from that.
MailCheap's list cleanup is on by default. Readers who ignore your issues for months get one last email. No answer, and MailCheap stops sending them issues. They're never deleted or unsubscribed.
You pay for the emails you send.
What happens if I go over my plan?
Signups keep working, and confirmation emails still go out. New sends wait until you upgrade, or until your next month starts. Once the month's emails are used up, welcome emails pause too, and subscribers who join in the meantime don't get one later.
Can I change plans?
Yes, from the billing page, anytime. Stripe shows you what you'll pay before you confirm. You pay in US dollars.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Your plan runs until the end of the month or year you paid for. Then sending stops, and your newsletter, subscribers and issues are kept for when you come back.
Is there a free trial?
No. Plans start at $19 a month, and you can cancel anytime.