beehiiv vs. Brevo

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beehiiv and Brevo compared across Company facts, Pricing, Campaigns & content, Automation & audience, Channels & deliverability and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

beehiiv

Modern newsletter platform with built-in growth tools, a referral program, paid subscriptions, and an ad network.

HQ New York, NY

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Brevo

Marketing and CRM platform (formerly Sendinblue) spanning email, SMS, automation, and transactional sending — priced by emails sent.

HQ Paris, France

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Company facts

Headquarters

New York, NY Headquartered in New York; company is 100% remote and globally distributed

Paris, France

Employees

129 129 full-time employees (company-stated)

1k 1000+ worldwide

Pricing

Free Plan

Launch plan: free up to 2,500 subscribers, unlimited sends

Up to 300 emails/day

Free Plan Contacts

2.5k Launch free plan caps at 2,500 active subscribers

500

Starting Monthly Price (USD)

$43 Scale plan, entry tier; $43/mo (billed annually $517/yr)

$9 Starter plan, 5,000 emails/mo

Pricing Basis

contacts Priced by active subscriber count; email sends are unlimited on all plans

emails sent

Campaigns & content

Drag-and-Drop Builder

Block-based drag-and-drop editor with column layouts and content blocks

Yes

Prebuilt Templates

Library of prebuilt newsletter and website templates

Yes

A/B Testing

Subject-line A/B testing (paid plans)

Standard plan and above

Landing Pages

Built-in website/web builder for hosted pages

Standard plan (1 page) and up

AI Content Assistance

Native AI tools: AI Writer, subject-line ideas, image generation, translation

Yes

Automation & audience

Automation Workflows

Visual workflow builder with branching and conditions (Scale plan and above)

Standard plan and above

Advanced Segmentation

Behavior-, tag-, and field-based segmentation

Yes

Signup Forms & Popups

Embeddable subscribe forms plus pop-ups

Inline forms; popups on higher tiers

Built-in CRM

Newsletter platform with subscriber lists; no sales-pipeline CRM

Yes

Channels & deliverability

SMS Marketing

No native SMS channel (email-focused)

SMS credits billed separately

Transactional Email

No transactional email API/SMTP relay for receipts/resets

Via API and SMTP

Ecommerce Integration

Native Shopify integration exists, but no store-aware commerce flows (abandoned cart, product recs)

Shopify, WooCommerce; abandoned-cart

Platform & integrations

Native Integrations

Native integrations incl. WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot, Salesforce, Shopify, Typeform; plus Zapier/Make

150+ apps in marketplace

Public API

Public REST developer API (subscribers, posts, segments); basic API on free plan, Send API on Enterprise

Public REST API

The verdict

beehiiv

Best for newsletters needing a large free list

beehiiv's free plan covers 2,500 subscribers with unlimited sends, versus Brevo's 500 contacts capped at 300 emails/day. Pricing is by active subscribers, so send volume never adds cost. The trade-off: no built-in CRM, SMS, transactional email, or ecommerce flows, and the paid entry tier starts at $43/mo.

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Brevo

Best for all-in-one marketing on a low entry price

Brevo bundles a built-in CRM, SMS, transactional email (API/SMTP), and abandoned-cart ecommerce flows that beehiiv lacks. Paid plans start at $9/mo and price by emails sent, fitting low-volume senders. The trade-off: its free tier holds only 500 contacts at 300 emails/day, versus beehiiv's 2,500 subscribers with unlimited sends.

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Sources · 18 verified references

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