Pricing
Ghost pricing 4 plans, checked Oct 14, 2026
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
Ghost publishes 4 plans: Starter, Publisher, Business and Custom.
The cheapest paid plan is $18 per month billed yearly on the Starter plan.
There is no free plan.
Ghost plans and limits
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Charged per | Published limits | Includes (vendor's words) |
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| Starter | Not offered | $18 | per workspace |
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| Publisher | Not offered | $29 | per workspace |
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| Business | Not offered | $199 | per workspace |
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| Custom | Contact sales | Contact sales | Not stated |
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Prices in USD per month, before tax. Read from the vendor's pricing page on Oct 14, 2026. "Not stated" means the page does not publish it.
What it costs in practice
| Criterion | Weight | Score | Basis |
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| Entry price | 31% | 76 | $18/month billed annually on Starter; no monthly-billed price published (scored against annual-billed prices) source |
| Free plan or trial | 19% | 0 | No free plan or free trial shown on the pricing page source |
| Cost at 1,000 subscriberscategory criterion | – | Excluded | No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted. |
| Free plan limitscategory criterion | – | Excluded | No published data: left out, the other criteria are re-weighted. |
| Total | 80% covered6 of 8 criteria | 71/100 | Rank #18 in this category, based on 6 of 8 criteria |
Ghost pricing vs alternatives
| # | Tool | Score | Coverage | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Checked |
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| 1 |  Flodesk | 98/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 2 |  Sender | 98/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $9/mo | Yes, 2,500 subscribers | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 3 |  Brevo | 98/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $9/mo | Not offered | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 4 |  notifuse | 93/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $16/mo | $24.17/mo | Yes, unlimited emails per month | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 5 |  EmailOctopus | 92/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $9/mo | Yes, 2,500 subscribers | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 6 |  forwardemail.net | 88/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $3/mo | Not offered | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 7 |  AWeber | 85/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $15/mo | $12.49/mo | Yes, 500 subscribers | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 8 |  MailerLite | 85/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $12/mo | $10.80/mo | Yes, 250 subscribers | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the vendor page it was read from (hover for the check date). Coverage is the share of the scorecard's weight with verified data, and "N of M criteria" how many criteria the score is based on; a tool is ranked at 60% or more.
All Ghost alternativesQuestions, answered from the data
How much does Ghost cost per month?
The cheapest paid plan costs $18 per month billed yearly on the Starter plan (pricing page checked Oct 14, 2026).
Is Ghost free?
Ghost has no free plan (pricing page checked Oct 14, 2026).
Is Ghost priced per user or per account?
Paid plans are charged per workspace.
Does Ghost have custom or enterprise pricing?
Yes: Custom is quoted by sales; no price is published.