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Buttondown pricing
Buttondown publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $9/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Buttondown plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | On request | 4 | Entry tier |
| Paid | On request | 2 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
On requestThe entry tier. It covers up to 100 subscribers, core newsletter features, hosted archives, custom domain sending.
Paid
On requestOver Free, this tier adds:
- Pricing scales by subscriber count above 100
- Add-on features from $9/month
What the product covers
The full Buttondown feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Newsletter creation
- Markdown support
- Subscriber management
- Analytics
- Paid subscriptions
Integrations
- Zapier
- Stripe
- Webhooks
Platform
- Web support
People bring Buttondown in for newsletter publishing, email marketing, audience building. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Buttondown are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in News & Media
Too few news & media tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttondown (this page) | Free, then $9/month | - | - | |
| Beehiiv | Free | subscription | - | vs Buttondown |
| Apple News | Free | freemium | - | vs Buttondown |
| Artifact | Free | free | - | vs Buttondown |
| Brightspot | On request | quote | - | vs Buttondown |
| Agility PR Solutions | On request | subscription | - | vs Buttondown |
| Arc Publishing | On request | quote | - | vs Buttondown |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Buttondown badges page.
Before you pay for Buttondown
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Buttondown runs on web, and is published by Buttondown LLC of Seattle, WA. The full record is on the Buttondown review, and the rest of the category is under best news & media tools.
Buttondown pricing questions
- How much does Buttondown cost?
- Buttondown publishes 2 tiers, from On request for Free up to On request for Paid. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Buttondown have a free plan?
- Yes, Buttondown is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- What is the difference between Free and Paid on Buttondown?
- Paid costs On request against On request, and adds pricing scales by subscriber count above 100, add-on features from $9/month.
- Which news & media tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 7 news & media tools listed alongside Buttondown have a free tier: Beehiiv, Apple News, Artifact.
- What am I actually paying for with Buttondown?
- The record lists 10 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for newsletter publishing, email marketing, audience building.
- Does Buttondown charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Buttondown prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Buttondown against before paying?
- The closest news & media tools in this directory are Beehiiv, Apple News, Artifact, Brightspot. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Buttondown covering price, platforms and features.