beehiiv vs. Constant Contact

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beehiiv and Constant Contact 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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Constant Contact

Established email marketing for small businesses and nonprofits — large template library, automations, and hands-on support.

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Company facts

Headquarters

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

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Employees

129 129 full-time employees (company-stated)

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Pricing

Free Plan

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

Free Plan Contacts

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

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Starting Monthly Price (USD)

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

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Pricing Basis

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

contacts

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

Hundreds of email templates

A/B Testing

Subject-line A/B testing (paid plans)

Subject-line A/B testing

Landing Pages

Built-in website/web builder for hosted pages

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AI Content Assistance

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

AI copy generator / AI campaign builder

Automation & audience

Automation Workflows

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

Automations gated/scaled by plan (e.g. 1 template on Lite)

Advanced Segmentation

Behavior-, tag-, and field-based segmentation

Contact/engagement segmentation; custom segments gated by plan

Signup Forms & Popups

Embeddable subscribe forms plus pop-ups

Web signup forms and pop-ups

Built-in CRM

Newsletter platform with subscriber lists; no sales-pipeline CRM

Sales CRM is a separate product (Lead Gen & CRM, ex-SharpSpring), not the core email plans

Channels & deliverability

SMS Marketing

No native SMS channel (email-focused)

Premium includes 500 messages; Lite/Standard add-on from $10/mo

Transactional Email

No transactional email API/SMTP relay for receipts/resets

Ecommerce Integration

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

Ecommerce automations, product blocks, store selling

Platform & integrations

Native Integrations

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

Integrations marketplace (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Shopify, etc.)

Public API

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

Public v3 REST API

The verdict

beehiiv

Best for newsletter creators starting free

beehiiv has a free plan up to 2,500 subscribers with unlimited sends, where Constant Contact offers no free tier. It bills by contacts, includes hosted landing pages, and exposes a public API even on the free plan. A fit for publishers who want to launch a newsletter at no cost before paying $43/mo.

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Constant Contact

Best for SMS and ecommerce-driven email

Constant Contact adds native SMS marketing and store-aware ecommerce flows (product blocks, automations) that beehiiv lacks. For sellers who want email plus text outreach tied to a store, it covers channels beehiiv does not, though it has no free plan to start on.

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Sources · 12 verified references

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