Kit Review (2026)Free Stops at 1,000 Subscribers

Subscriber-based pricing counts everyone on your list — cold subscribers cost the same as fans, so prune before you price. Throughout this review we weigh it against Mailchimp.

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Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 9 Aug 2026

The free Newsletter plan is $0/mo and covers 1,000 email subscribers, with one basic Visual Automation plus unlimited landing pages, forms and broadcasts. Creator is $39/mo billed monthly, or $33/mo billed yearly ($390 a year, saving $78). Pro — the tier that adds subscriber scoring, engagement analytics and deliverability reporting — is $79/mo billed monthly, or $66/mo billed yearly ($790 a year, saving $158).

Paying yearly saves 17%. Every price on the page is quoted for 1,000 email subscribers and Kit bills by list size, so read the tier for your own list before you budget. Paid plans open with a 14-day free trial without a card, and migrations are free. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

What the pricing page doesn’t say

The catch

Three honest notes. The free plan is smaller than Kit's reputation suggests: it stops at 1,000 subscribers (re-verified 2026-08-09), so the month your list outgrows that number you are on Creator at $39/mo, or $33/mo if you pay a year up front. And the 35% price hike in 2025 changed the value math: the free tier is still arguably the best in creator email, but paid tiers now deserve comparison shopping rather than default loyalty. The creator-first features (tip jars, paid newsletters, recommendations) remain the real differentiator.

What Kit does

Email marketing built for creators (formerly ConvertKit). Grow your list with landing pages and forms, then automate newsletters and sell digital products from one place; a beta Kit MCP connects AI assistants like Claude directly to your account. Recent additions: a new landing-page editor, Dynamic Content, Newsletter Sponsorships, and App Store integrations on paid plans — SMS via SlickText, Patreon member sync (tier and support data in automations), Luma/Eventbrite event sync, and two-way HubSpot CRM sync on Pro.

What buyers report about Kit

Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Kit ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

When the paid plan is worth it

Read every number on Kit’s pricing page as “at 1,000 subscribers”, because that is what they are. Kit bills by list size, so the $39 on Creator and the $79 on Pro are the prices for a small list and both climb as you grow. Look up the rate for your own list before you compare anything -- the tier names tell you what you get, not what you pay.

With that in mind, the free plan is genuinely usable rather than a demo: $0 for 1,000 subscribers with unlimited landing pages, forms and broadcasts, plus one basic Visual Automation. Everything a small newsletter does is in there. So the reason to pay is not capacity but automation depth -- one automation is the ceiling that pushes people to Creator, not the subscriber count. The Creator-to-Pro step is more specific than most: Pro adds subscriber scoring, engagement analytics and deliverability reporting.

Those are diagnostic tools rather than features you use daily, so they earn their keep when your list is big enough that deliverability problems cost real money -- and at that size the per-subscriber rate matters more than the $40 difference anyway. Kit's own affiliate briefing of 25 August 2026 puts more behind that tier than the diagnostics headline suggests, and dates the additions to its Craft + Commerce 2026 event: Subscriber Signals, which alerts you the moment a high-value subscriber joins, A/B testing with up to five variants, links that stay editable after a broadcast has gone out, SparkLoop's newsletter referral system, unlimited team seats with collaborative editing, and 24/7 priority support.

That list is Kit's rather than ours -- we have not put those features through a test -- but it is the list to weigh if seats or referrals matter to you, because those are the parts you can judge on paper. Annual billing saves 17% ($390 against $468 on Creator, $790 against $948 on Pro). Paid plans open with a 14-day trial without a card, and migrations are free, which removes the usual reason to stay somewhere worse.

How to actually use Kit

Prune your list before you price a plan, because Kit bills by subscriber count and a cold subscriber costs exactly what a fan does. Removing people who have not opened anything in a year is free, improves your deliverability and lowers your tier — it is the highest-return hour in this whole process and most people do it after they start paying rather than before. Then read the price for your own list size rather than the page's.

Every figure Kit publishes is quoted for 1,000 email subscribers — Creator at $39 a month, Pro at $79, or $33 and $66 billed yearly — and the number moves with your list, so the published rates are a starting point rather than your bill. Use the free plan properly, but know where its wall is. It covers 1,000 subscribers with one basic Visual Automation and, unusually, unlimited landing pages, forms and broadcasts — so it is a genuine sending plan rather than a trial, and the only thing that ends it is list growth.

The month you pass 1,000 you are on Creator. If you are switching from another tool, take the free migration and the 14-day trial together. Migrations are free and the trial needs no card, which makes the switching cost unusually low. The thing to test in those two weeks is whether Pro's subscriber scoring and deliverability reporting change what you do, because that is the part of the tier you cannot judge from a feature list.

The rest of what Pro adds (five-variant A/B tests, editable links after sending, SparkLoop referrals, unlimited team seats) you can weigh on paper before the trial even starts.

Kit vs Beehiiv, side by side

Both columns come from the same place: each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in the sources at the foot of this page. We do not average them into a score.

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What it costs

Creator is $39/mo billed monthly, or $33/mo billed yearly ($390 a year, saving $78).

Price read on

2026-08-09

The catch

Three honest notes. Subscriber-based pricing counts everyone on your list — cold subscribers cost the same as fans, so prune before you price.

Best for

creators, writers and coaches building an audience-first business who want email, landing pages, digital products and a creator network in one

Beehiiv →

What it costs

At up to 1,000 subscribers Scale is $49/mo billed monthly or $517 a year (about $43/mo), Max $109/mo or $1,151 a year (about $96/mo).

Price read on

2026-08-16

The catch

Next to Substack it's more to learn.

Best for

newsletter operators who want growth tools, automation, SEO control and ad/referral monetisation — and to keep 100% of subscription revenue

Both names above are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. Neither changes what this table says: both columns come straight from the vendors’ own pricing pages.

The natural comparison is Beehiiv or MailerLite — the creator-email rivals — Beehiiv leans newsletter-growth mechanics, MailerLite undercuts on price; Kit wins on creator-commerce maturity. Weigh it against Mailchimp on the job you actually need done.

More on Kit

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The ex-banker filter — the same yardstick on every review (how we review): My ex-banker filter is simple: does Kit remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.

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Frequently asked questions

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