Plunk vs beehiiv

Side by side, as alternatives to beehiiv. Rows that differ are highlighted; the strongest value in a row is marked. Unknown means no source yet.

Also replaces beehiiv: + Ghost + listmonk + Mautic + Notifuse + Keila + SendPortal

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beehiivpaid product

Cost and coverage

Price

$0 software; you run it

See pricing page source ↗

Subscriber lists and segments

Partly

Yes

Campaign editor and templates

Partly

Yes

Automations and drip sequences

Partly

Yes

Signup forms and landing pages

Yes

Open and click analytics

Yes

Paid subscriptions and newsletter website

Yes

Jobs covered

3 of 6 jobs

All 6

Popularity and activity (from GitHub)

Stars

5,535

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Gain this week

Unknown

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Signal

Building history

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Commits / 4 wk

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Latest release

v0.16.0 · 2026-10-08

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Commits / 12 wk

139

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People committing / 12 mo

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Issues opened / closed, 30 days

5 / 4

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Facts, with sources on each project page

Runs on my machine?

Self-hosted with Docker Compose, or hosted Plunk

Hosted by the vendor

Code licence

AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)

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Model weights licence

No separate model weights

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Commercial use

Yes under AGPL-3.0 copyleft terms

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Paid services needed?

Self-hosting requires an AWS SES account for sending

Subscription

Hardware

Not documented

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Operating systems

Any host with Docker and Docker Compose; host OS not listed

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Setup effort

Medium; Docker Compose plus AWS SES setup and DNS for app, api and other subdomains

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Stars over time

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Tracked daily since 16 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.

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Plunk (as alternatives to beehiiv)
Figures from RepoQuarry, 21 Oct 2026. Sources: https://repoquarry.dev/compare?ids=plunk&product=beehiiv

beehiiv: See pricing page
Plunk: free software; does 3 of 6 beehiiv jobs

- Plunk: 5,535 GitHub stars, 139 commits in 12 weeks, licence AGPL-3.0 (copyleft)

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Plunk vs beehiiv

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