beehiiv gives a newsletter a website, an ad network, referrals, and paid subscriptions. Eden's email marketing lives inside your store, so emails start when someone buys, stop pitching people who already did, and win back checkouts.
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beehiiv is the better newsletter platform, with a website, ads, referrals, and 0% on paid subscriptions. Eden's emails come with a store that sells courses, coaching, calls, and Custom AI, so they start on a purchase, skip people who already bought, and bring back people who left checkout. Pick beehiiv to grow and earn from a publication. Pick Eden if your emails exist to sell your own products, or keep beehiiv and connect it to Eden.
Starts on what they did. Someone buys or claims a product, signs up on your page, gets a tag from a quiz, or their membership ends.
Stops pitching buyers. Set what the sequence sells. Anyone who buys it leaves, and any email can skip people who own a product or already clicked.
beehiiv has purchase triggers too. Automations from Lite can start on a product or paid subscription purchase, with up to 10 live on Lite and no cap on Pro.
The whole store. Courses with lessons, downloads, coaching packages, paid calls on your Google Calendar, memberships, and a Custom AI people can talk to.
Checkout recovery built in. People who type their email at checkout and don't buy get a reminder an hour later. Buying stops it.
beehiiv sells to readers. Paid subscriptions and digital products at 0%, with order bumps, upsells, webinars, and coaching on Pro.
Six ready-made sequences. Welcome, Free to paid, Upsell, Abandoned checkout, Ask for testimonials, and Win back, or start blank.
Or let the AI write it. Pick the product it sells and the AI drafts every email for 10 credits.
beehiiv grows the list. A full website, an ad network, subscriber referrals, and recommendations from Lite. Eden has a newsletter page, but none of the rest.
Money next to opens. Every broadcast and every sequence email shows sent, opened, clicked, and dollars earned from your store.
Nothing to set up. Eden sends from its own address, so there is no domain to set up, and your own domain is an option from Pro. It checks uploaded addresses and handles unsubscribes.
beehiiv tests more, for less. A/B tests and custom domains from Lite. Eden tests subject lines from Starter, and your own domain needs Pro.
Checked October 4, 2026. A dash means the tool does not do it.
Based on published product information. Features and prices can change.
If the newsletter is the business, with ads, sponsors, referrals, and paid subscriptions, beehiiv is the better tool.
If your emails exist to sell your own courses, downloads, and coaching, Eden's emails come with the store and know who bought what. You can keep beehiiv connected for your publication.
Keep your publication on beehiiv. Connect beehiiv in Integrations. Buyers and signups from your store land in beehiiv too, and Eden's emails handle the sales.
Or bring your list over. Export from beehiiv and upload the CSV in Customers. Importing is free up to your plan's contacts: 10,000 on Free and Starter. Email is priced by your sends, not your list. Only import people who bought from you or agreed to hear from you. Imported people get broadcasts, not sequences.
Your first big send goes in stages. 500 emails, then 5,000 an hour later, then everyone, once bounces and spam reports look fine.
Verified October 4, 2026. Competitor pricing changes; check their site to confirm.
Eden Pro costs less than beehiiv Lite for a weekly email to 10,000 or more people. beehiiv costs less under 2,500 people, for daily email with automations, and it takes 0% on sales. Eden's price includes your store, courses, coaching, and calls.
For emails that sell your own products, yes: broadcasts, sequences that start on a purchase, and checkout recovery. Eden also has visual automations, A/B subject lines, and a newsletter page with a public archive. For a publication with a full website, ads, referrals, and paid subscriptions, beehiiv does far more. You can connect beehiiv to Eden and use both.
For a weekly email to 10,000 or more people, yes. Eden's email is priced by your sends, not your list. At 10,000 people emailed weekly, automations cost $139 a month on beehiiv Lite ($119 billed yearly), and sequences cost $79 on Eden Pro. Broadcasts alone are $64 on Eden Starter. beehiiv costs less for small lists and for daily email with automations: 10,000 people every day is $139 on Lite against $154 on Eden Pro, since beehiiv's sends have no limit. beehiiv is also free up to 2,500 and takes 0% on sales, where Eden takes 5%. Eden's price also covers your store, courses, coaching, calls, and AI credits.
Yes. Connect beehiiv in Your store → Integrations. Buyers, free claims, and page signups are added to beehiiv.
Yes. A paid newsletter is a product in your store: monthly, yearly, or once, with each issue emailed to paying readers and kept in an archive in Eden. Eden takes 5% (2% on Max), where beehiiv takes 0% but needs Lite. Your newsletter page has a public archive and RSS, but Eden has no ad network or referral program.
Yes. New prices started October 1, 2026 for new customers, and existing customers move over at their first renewal on or after November 1. At 10,000 subscribers, Lite went from $109 to $139 a month and Pro from $219 to $239. Custom domains are no longer on the free plan.
Broadcasts, sequences that know who bought, and checkout recovery, inside your store.
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