Ghost pricing
How Ghost charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-08 on ghost.org ↗ · USD, list pricesGhost(Pro) hosting from $18/month for 1,000 members (no paid subscriptions); Publisher is a monthly price by member band from $35 for 1,000 to $329 for 100,000, with 0% taken from paid subscriptions.
- Free plan
- No
- Cheapest paid plan
- $18/mo
- Side project
- $35/mo Publisher 1k
- Growing
- $55/mo Publisher 2.5k
- Scaling
- $249/mo Publisher 50k
What the model leaves out
Ghost(Pro) managed hosting — a website and newsletter together; Ghost itself is open source and can be self-hosted. Monthly prices from the pricing page's member slider. Yearly billing: Starter $180/year ($15/mo), Publisher from $348/year ($29/mo) at 1k to $3,288/year at 100k. Business ($239/mo up to 10k members, $479 at 100k) is omitted — same members as Publisher at a higher price, with 15 staff users and 10 newsletters.
- Starter can't take paid subscriptions and is limited to 1,000 members and one staff user.
- Ghost takes 0% of premium subscription revenue; Stripe's processing fee still applies.
- Priced by members (free and paid signups), not by emails sent; email sending is unlimited.
- Above 100,000 members is a custom plan.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Subscribers | Paid subscription revenue per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $18/mo | up to 1k subscribers | up to $0 |
| Publisher 1k | $35/mo | up to 1k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 2.5k | $55/mo | up to 2.5k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 5k | $75/mo | up to 5k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 7.5k | $95/mo | up to 7.5k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 10k | $105/mo | up to 10k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 25k | $169/mo | up to 25k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 50k | $249/mo | up to 50k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 75k | $289/mo | up to 75k subscribers | — |
| Publisher 100k | $329/mo | up to 100k subscribers | — |
What you'd pay
Publisher 2.5k$55 plan$55/mo
Cost as you grow
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