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Ghost CMS pricing
Ghost CMS publishes 3 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
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Ghost CMS 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 Self-Hosted | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Creator | $29/month | 4 | +$29/month, 4 more features |
| Business | $99/month | 4 | +$70/month, 4 more features |
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 Self-Hosted
FreeThe entry tier. It covers open source, self-hosted, basic features, community support.
Creator
$29/monthOver Free Self-Hosted, this tier adds:
- Email newsletters
- Memberships
- Analytics
- Custom domain
Business
$99/monthOver Creator, this tier adds:
- Advanced analytics
- Priority support
- Custom integrations
- Team collaboration
Where Ghost CMS stops being free
Free Self-Hosted, Free
- Open source
- Self-hosted
- Basic features
- Community support
Creator, $29/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Email newsletters
- Memberships
- Analytics
- Custom domain
What the product covers
The full Ghost CMS 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
- Publishing platform
- Email newsletters
- Membership management
- Analytics
- Paywall support
- SEO optimization
- Media library
- API access
Integrations
- Stripe
- Mailgun
- Zapier
- Integromat
- RSS
- API
Platform
- Web support
- Self-hosted support
People bring Ghost CMS in for running a publication or newsletter with paid subscriptions, self hosting a headless or full stack publishing platform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Ghost CMS are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Ghost CMS
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: 3 tiers between Free and $99/month, 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.
Ghost CMS runs on web, self-hosted, and is published by Ghost Foundation of London, UK. The full record is on the Ghost CMS review.
Ghost CMS pricing questions
- How much does Ghost CMS cost?
- Ghost CMS publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free Self-Hosted up to $99/month for Business. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Ghost CMS have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Self-Hosted tier costs nothing and covers open source, self-hosted, basic features. Paying starts at $29/month for Creator.
- What is the difference between Free Self-Hosted and Creator on Ghost CMS?
- Creator costs $29/month against Free, and adds email newsletters, memberships, analytics, custom domain.
- Is the Business plan on Ghost CMS worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is advanced analytics, priority support, custom integrations, team collaboration. It costs $99/month against $29/month for Creator. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Ghost CMS?
- The record lists 16 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running a publication or newsletter with paid subscriptions, self hosting a headless or full stack publishing platform.
- Does Ghost CMS charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Ghost CMS 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 Ghost CMS against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Ghost CMS to make a useful price comparison.