Podia and Beehiiv are tools for managing your email marketing, building an email list, and running your newsletter. Both make it easy to grow your audience and communicate with subscribers, and you can set up a website, blog, and sign-up forms in just a few clicks.

But while Beehiiv focuses mainly on newsletters, Podia is an all-in-one tool for building an online business.

With Beehiiv, you can only monetize your business with ad networks, boosts, and premium newsletter subscriptions. With Podia, you can sell digital downloads and courses, offer coaching, sell webinars, create upsells and presales, share lead magnets, keep track of customers, create landing pages, manage affiliates, and anything else you need to grow your business.

No tool is perfect for every person, and even though we’re (obviously) fans of Podia over here, we always want you to make the right choice for your business. Keep reading to find out whether Podia or Beehiiv is the best fit for you.

Podia vs. Beehiiv plans and pricing

Podia and Beehiiv both have a free option so you can see how each tool works before investing any money. Podia has a 30-day free trial so you can test out all of Podia’s functionality, and Beehiiv has a basic free plan that you can use while you’re getting started.

Podia pricing: Podia has two base plans with different features and transaction fees. Both plans come with unlimited products, customers, and sales.

• Mover: $39/month and 5% transaction fee ($33/month when paid annually): Mover includes your website, blog, landing pages, and customer chat messaging, plus unlimited digital products, courses, product bundles, and third-party code.

• Shaker: $89/month and 0% transaction fee ($75/month when paid annually): Shaker includes all the Mover features plus affiliates and no transaction fees.

You can also add Podia Email to any Podia base plan. Podia Email is free for your first 100 subscribers, and after that, the price goes up as your list grows (with some of the most competitive email prices in the industry). All Podia Email plans come with Podia’s full suite of advanced email marketing features, so you can send beautiful newsletters, run automations, build campaigns, and segment/filter your audience no matter your list size.

Beehiiv pricing: With Beehiiv, you’ll start by choosing your plan based on the features you need. The price of your plan then goes up as your subscriber count grows.

While you can get 2,500 subscribers for free on the Launch plan, all other plans go up in price as soon as your list hits 1,000 subscribers. Below, you’ll see the starting price for each plan assuming you’re at the 1,000-subscriber mark, as well as what’s included.

• Launch: The free plan includes a basic website and unlimited posts and email sends for up to 2,500 subscribers.

• Scale: Scale starts at $34/month billed annually or $39/month billed monthly for creators with less than 1,000 subscribers. This plan includes email automations, monetization tools, and more website customization.

• Max: Max starts at $86/month billed annually or $99/month billed monthly for creators with less than 1,000 subscribers. This plan includes the ability to remove Beehiiv branding and more publications.

• Enterprise: This plan is for big businesses and includes an account manager and dedicated IP address.

Here’s how this could work in two different scenarios.

Let’s say you have an email list with under 100 subscribers. You can get your website, email list, and blog content up and running with Podia and Beehiiv, but Podia also gives you the ability to sell products and courses from day one. This means you could start earning money while you grow.

Now let’s imagine that you’ve grown your list to nearly 5,000 subscribers. With Beehiiv, you’d need to choose either the Scale plan for $69/month (billed annually) or the Max plan for $130/month (billed annually). Both of these plans come with more website options, email automations, and the ability to monetize through ads, boosts, and premium subscriptions.

On Podia, you could choose a Mover plan with features like unlimited courses, product bundles, and webinars, and you would only pay $33/month for Mover and $34/month for 5,000 Podia Email subscribers, for a total of $67/month (paid annually).

That’s less than you would pay for just your newsletter on Beehiiv, and it includes unlimited digital products and courses too.

You can build a website and blog with Podia and Beehiiv, but Podia has more customization options

Podia gives you a full website builder and blog on all plans. You get access to all design options, and you can add unlimited landing pages and email opt-in forms. You can also add unlimited blog posts and customize the design of those blog posts however you like.

Style your blog page, adjust the layout of your articles, add a custom color palette, and make other changes without touching a line of code. You can choose from dozens of professionally designed section layouts, so your site looks great out of the box, and add embeds from +1,900 sources around the web to give your site extra sparkle. (Plus, it’s easy to optimize each page for SEO so more readers find your work!)

Podia also has integrations with Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and Pinterest tag so you can track your website’s performance.

Beehiiv is also a no-code editor, but the website builder has more limitations. On the free plan, you’ll only have basic website customizations, and you won’t get access to the layout tab or the new website templates until you upgrade to a paid plan. The website builder has a few pre-determined sections that you need to use, so it might be hard to make your site look the way you want.

When you publish a post on Beehiiv, you have the option to add it as a blog post on your site, send it as an email blast, or both. You can also set posts to be featured if you’d like them to be one of the six primary posts on your website or create categories to organize your content. You can share unlimited blog posts on all plans.

Simply put, Beehiiv has basic websites that are relatively easy to customize, but you’re much more limited in your design options. Podia’s website builder lets you make exactly what you want with tons of customizations, blogging, and unlimited pages.

Podia and Beehiiv both have newsletters and email marketing features

Podia and Beehiiv both come with email newsletters, automated workflows or campaigns, and marketing features that you can use to grow your business. Both platforms also include unlimited email sends on all plans.

The key difference is that Beehiiv is almost exclusively for email newsletters, while Podia offers email marketing alongside your digital products, courses, affiliates, and customers.

Podia also has all email features like newsletters, automations, email templates, tagging, and campaigns on all Podia Email plans, so you have advanced tools to run your business whether you have 20 subscribers or 20,000.

If you prefer to use a different email platform with Podia, that’s fine too! We have native connections with providers like ConvertKit, Mailchimp, and ActiveCampaign, as well as Zapier, so you can use whatever tools you’re comfortable with.

Both Beehiiv and Podia connect your email with your blog, but again, Podia gives you more control over how this looks.

With Beehiiv, you can choose to publish a post as a blog post, email, or both, but that’s where the options end. With Podia, you can publish a blog post and automatically send it to your audience with our one-click emailing feature, and you can pull in the content of any blog post to any email whenever you like.

Podia has more ways to monetize your audience

Both Beehiiv and Podia have monetization tools to help you grow your business, but with Podia, the ways you can earn are different.

On Beehiiv, you can monetize your newsletter through ad networks, boosts, and premium memberships where subscribers pay monthly or yearly for exclusive newsletter content.

With Podia, you can monetize your online business through digital downloads, online courses, coaching, webinars, and pretty much any type of digital product you can imagine. You can also sell subscription plans for your products.

If you’re looking for a way to monetize your newsletter and are interested in earning money through boosts and ad networks, Beehiiv could be a good option for you. There’s a free plan so you can see if you like the tool, and the free trial covers some of the premium features so you can get a sense of how they work.

If you’re looking for an all-in-one platform where you can sell products, build a beautiful website, run your blog, and manage your email marketing, give Podia a try. Podia has your newsletter platform, course platform, online store, ecommerce checkout, affiliates, website, blog, and everything else you need to run your business.

You’ll have easy access to your customers, subscribers, and sales information all in one place, and you can even start earning money during the free trial. Plus, the pricing is simple, so you only pay for what you need. Start growing your online business and sharing what you know with Podia today.