Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers. Self-host it, or use mailcheap.ai.
Open-source alternative tobeehiiv
Mailcheap at a glance
Checked 19 Oct 2026Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers. Self-host it, or use the hosted mailcheap.ai. Added from the trending feed (owner) on 2026-10-17 with 1,184 GitHub stars. So far only the licence comes from GitHub; the other facts are unknown until someone checks them.
RepoQuarry. “Mailcheap.” Checked 19 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/mailcheapHow much of beehiiv does it replace?
- Personal use
- Unknown: Not checked Whether it runs on your own machine isn’t checked yet; Whether it needs a paid service isn’t checked yet
- For a business
- Unknown: Not checked Commercial use isn’t checked yet
1 of 6 jobs. Draft: which jobs it covers is not checked yet.
For campaign editor and templates, automations and drip sequences, signup forms and landing pages, open and click analytics, paid subscriptions and newsletter website, see other beehiiv alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.
Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
Evidence summary (paraphrase): Deployment requires Node.js 22+ hosting. No explicit Windows/macOS/Linux server support matrix was verified.raw.githubusercontent.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago
No licence changes since we started watching. Licence watch: follow Mailcheap and we email you if its licence terms change.
Growth and activity in detail
Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.
- Few active maintainersOnly 1 person committed in the last 12 months, so its future depends on very few hands.
1 people committing in the last 12 months · 0 pull requests merged in 30 days · 0 issues opened, 0 closed in 30 days
Stars over time
Building history+91 stars since 17 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.
- Mailcheap
Tracked daily since 17 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.
Commits per week, last 52 weeks
active 3 of the last 12 weeksCommits restarted after a quiet 12 weeks.
Where these numbers come from
- Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch today).
- Star history: counted every night since 17 Oct 2026; the dashed part before that is estimated from the dates people starred the repo.
- Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
- Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
- Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.