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Paragraph
Publishing and newsletters for early-stage startups
Free plan availableNewsletters & Publishing
from $16/moVisit paragraph.com
What Paragraph is
A writing and distribution platform that sends each post to subscribers by email and keeps a public web archive, positioned around startup media rather than personal blogging.
What Paragraph has cost
We have read this pricing page 3 times since Aug 2026. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $16/mo*Aug 2026 · Starter · 1 reading · source
- $16/moAug 2026 · Starter · 1 reading · source
- $16/mo*Sept 2026 · Starter · 1 reading · source
* That reading is the effective monthly cost when paying for a year up front, which is what the page published at the time.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
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Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.
Paragraph alternatives
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Where Paragraph sits on price
Entry prices across Newsletters & Publishing, cheapest first.
- Buttondown$9*
- EmailOctopus$9
- Paragraph$16
- Ghost$18
- Flodesk$25
- Curated$39
- beehiiv$49
- Newslet$69
7 of these 8 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page; the rest are marked * and are indicative. The median is taken across the 6 verified prices in Newsletters & Publishing. 2 more tools in this category do not publish an entry price and are not plotted.
Paragraph pricing questions
- How much does Paragraph cost?
- Paragraph starts at $16 a month on its Starter plan, billed annually. That figure was read from paragraph.com's own pricing page on 6 September 2026.
- Does Paragraph have a free plan?
- Yes. Paragraph publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- What is Paragraph used for?
- A writing and distribution platform that sends each post to subscribers by email and keeps a public web archive, positioned around startup media rather than personal blogging. People mainly use it to send a newsletter, start a newsletter, publish a blog, grow an audience.
- What are the best alternatives to Paragraph?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Substack, beehiiv, Ghost, Newslet. Substack and beehiiv publish a free plan.