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Medium pricing
Medium 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
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Medium 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 | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Medium Membership | $5/month | 4 | +$5/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
FreeThe entry tier. It covers unlimited reading, publishing platform, story drafts, community engagement.
Medium Membership
$5/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Unlimited access
- Exclusive stories
- Member earnings
- Ad-free reading
Where Medium stops being free
Free, Free
- Unlimited reading
- Publishing platform
- Story drafts
- Community engagement
Medium Membership, $5/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited access
- Exclusive stories
- Member earnings
- Ad-free reading
What the product covers
The full Medium 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
- Story publishing
- Member program
- Earning potential
- Reading time estimates
- Clap reactions
- Highlighting & annotations
- Story recommendations
- Following system
Integrations
- RSS
Platform
- Web support
- Mobile support
People bring Medium in for publishing articles without running your own blog, reading long-form writing across technology, culture and news, earning from writing through the medium partner program. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Medium are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Medium
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 Free and $5/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.
Medium runs on web, mobile, and is published by Medium Inc of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Medium review.
Medium pricing questions
- How much does Medium cost?
- Medium publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $5/month for Medium Membership. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Medium have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers unlimited reading, publishing platform, story drafts. Paying starts at $5/month for Medium Membership.
- What is the difference between Free and Medium Membership on Medium?
- Medium Membership costs $5/month against Free, and adds unlimited access, exclusive stories, member earnings, ad-free reading.
- What am I actually paying for with Medium?
- The record lists 15 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for publishing articles without running your own blog, reading long-form writing across technology, culture and news, earning from writing through the medium partner program.
- Does Medium 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 Medium 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 Medium against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Medium to make a useful price comparison.