Benchmark Email vs Ghost

Benchmark Email helps you craft beautiful emails and design landing pages to grow your list. You can also tie your landing pages to marketing campaigns and get insights into its success.

Ghost is a platform built for blogs but great for newsletters as well. You can publish posts, send newsletters, grow your audience, sell premium subscriptions, and more.

Price Comparison

Benchmark Email is free up to 500 subscribers. Pricing can go up to $1,199/month for up to 200K subscribers.

Ghost starts at $11/month for up to 500 subscribers. Pricing can go up to $2,394/month for up to 385K subscribers.

Feature Comparison

Benchmark Email and Ghost both have great feature sets so the right tool for you really depends on your needs.

Features	Benchmark Email	Ghost
💸 Paid Subscriptions Accept paid subscriptions	❌	✅
➗ Segmentation Create segments of subscribers	✅	❌
🤖 Automation Automate actions based on behaviours	✅	❌
📩 Embeddable Forms Embeddable subscription forms	✅	❌
📄 Landing Pages Create landing pages for your newsletter	✅	✅
🔌 3rd Party Integrations Connect to other services	✅	✅
🖊️ Visual Editor Drag and drop email editor	✅	✅
📝 Markdown Editor Write emails in markdown	❌	✅
👩‍💻 HTML Design emails with HTML text	✅	✅
⚒️ API Integrate with the platform's API	✅	✅
📈 Analytics Get data on your emails' performance	✅	✅
🌍 Custom Domain Use a custom domain for your page	✅	✅
🗣️ Referrals Set up a referral programme	❌	❌
💽 Self Hosting Host on your own server	❌	✅
📢 Recommendations Recommend and be recommended by other newsletters	❌	✅