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Prices read 12 October 2026

Newsletter cost

The price of one issue of a company's own email newsletter, from Fiverr gigs to agencies that schedule the send, and what the email platform charges every year to hold the list.

The short answer

$30 to $1,575

per issue of 600 to 1,000 words, from people and companies. AI tools are priced separately below.

Freelance marketplace, middle
$195
Writing or production platform, middle
$88
Independent specialist, middle
$1,175
Agency or studio, middle
$437

Priced for: One issue of a B2B company's own email newsletter: 600 to 1,000 words written from material you supply and your recent content, a subject line and preview text, and setup in your email platform. Monthly packages are divided by issues. Not a subscription to someone else's newsletter, and not advertising in one.

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Key takeaways
  • 01The newsletter cost a company pays is two bills that move separately: the issue, priced by who writes it, and the list, priced by the email platform. One 800-word issue ran from $30 to $1,575 across the sellers we read; holding 5,000 subscribers ran from $0 to $2,028 a year.
  • 02On the marketplaces a 'newsletter' is usually a short email. Of the 30 Fiverr and Upwork listings we read, only 12 sell one 800-word issue; the rest stop at 100 to 400 words, bundle short emails, state no length or sell design alone.
  • 03Putting the issue into your email platform is the step almost nobody prices. Only NewsletterAsAService's published package covers the whole spec, down to scheduling the approved send, and six providers price platform setup on its own, from $29 to $4,500.
  • 04Platform prices quoted online are usually the small-list price. beehiiv's $49 Lite plan is the price at 1,000 subscribers and $95 a month at 5,000; Brevo's Starter holds a 5,000-contact list only from its 20,000-email tier; Kit Pro's $87 a month is a first-year price that renews at $116.
  • 05The independent evidence is thin. Only two freelancers we found publish a per-issue rate on their own site, so that band rests on two points, and every rate survey we read reports what writers charge or what marketplace contracts paid, never what a company pays per issue.

Search newsletter cost and the top US results answer other questions: beehiiv's own subscription prices, a Reddit thread on platform costs for paid newsletters, a WordPress plugin licence, and an AI Overview that leads with what to charge readers. The one result written for a company buying a newsletter, an email platform's article, gives no figure at all.

So this page prices one thing: one issue of a company's own email newsletter, 600 to 1,000 words written from material you supply, with a subject line, preview text and setup in your email platform. Per-word prices are converted at 800 words. Subscriptions to someone else's newsletter and adverts in one are out of scope. Every price was read on 12 October 2026, in US dollars.

The list is a separate bill, so it gets its own section. Most email newsletter pricing online is a platform's plan for a small list; the running costs below are read at 5,000 subscribers, and a paid plan charges for the list whether or not an issue goes out.

The price, by route

Newsletter cost, route by route

Each bar runs from the cheapest to the most expensive published price we read for this route, normalised to the same spec. The dot is the middle price. The axis is logarithmic: each gridline is ten times the one before.

  • Freelance marketplace

    13 prices

    $30 to $475

  • Writing or production platform

    4 prices

    $40 to $128

  • Independent specialist

    2 prices

    $1,050 to $1,300

  • Agency or studio

    6 prices

    $240 to $1,575

  • Rate surveys

    3 prices

    $46 to $478

  • AI tools

    5 prices

    $0.22 to $16

  • In-house hire

    computed

    $569 to $1,138

In-house is not sampled. It uses the salary data for AI Content Writer (mid-level median, $84,000 base), loaded at 1.3x and divided by 8 to 16 issues a month. The count is our assumption, not a measured figure: the role page gives 8 to 20 pieces a month, format depending, and an 800-word issue is one of the shorter pieces. The top is held at 16 because loading and testing each send sits on top of the writing.

The evidence

Every price we read

69 published prices, each read on the page it links to, in US dollars from a US view. The third column converts each one to the same spec, with the arithmetic. A price that buys something materially different is shown and left out of every range.

  • Upwork seller Abdul Wahab (Islamabad, Pakistan)

    Freelance marketplace

    $30 (Starter, 1,000 words)

    1,000 words, 2 revisions, 2-day delivery; listing titled 'B2B newsletter and SEO content'

    $30

    Starter is 1,000 words (inside the spec); $30 as published.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr seller AceAli

    Freelance marketplace

    $10 (BRONZE, 1 email, 250 words), plus $5 per additional 100 words

    One 250-word email, 1 subject line, competitor research, 1 revision, 2-day delivery

    $40

    No package reaches 800 words, so the cheapest package plus its own add-on is counted: Bronze $10 + 6 x $5 = $40 for 850 words (Fiverr's own calculator shows $40 at 800). The Gold route ($70 + 2 x $30) would be $130. Re-read 2026-10-12.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr seller Daniella H

    Freelance marketplace

    $55 (1000 words Substack post)

    One 1,000-word newsletter, 2 subject lines, 2 revisions, 4-day delivery

    $55

    Package is 1,000 words (inside the spec); $55 as published. The 500-word package is $45.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr seller Daniel O

    Freelance marketplace

    $10 for a 250-word email, plus $5 per additional 50 words

    One email, 2 subject lines, 3 revisions, 1-day delivery

    $65

    $10 + 11 x $5 (550 extra words) = $65 for 800 words.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Elijah (Ibadan, Nigeria)

    Freelance marketplace

    $100 (Standard, 600 words), plus $15 per additional 100 words

    One beehiiv newsletter, 2 subject lines, 2 CTA suggestions, 3-day delivery

    $130

    $100 + 2 x $15 = $130 for 800 words. Advanced (1,000 words) is $150.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr seller Vicky Sidler

    Freelance marketplace

    $140 (600-word email copy), plus $25 per additional 100 words

    600 words for one or two emails, 2 subject lines, 7-day delivery

    $190

    $140 + 2 x $25 = $190 for 800 words in one email. The 900-word package is $200.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr seller Maria Diandra O

    Freelance marketplace

    $55 for 150 words, plus $20 per additional 100 words

    One newsletter with research; the word-count add-on is read from the gig's embedded package data (150 words included, +100 words for $20)

    $195

    Cheapest route to 800+ words: Compact $55 + 7 x $20 (700 extra words) = $195 for 850 words. Other routes: Standard $135 + 5 x $20 = $235; In-depth $185 (500 words) + $95 per extra 500 words = $280.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr seller John Crawford

    Freelance marketplace

    $210 (MEDIUM SALES COPY, 800 words)

    800 words of copy (word count from package data), 4 revisions, 7-day delivery

    $210

    Package is 800 words; $210 as published.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Geri (Prague, Czech Republic)

    Freelance marketplace

    $95 (Advanced, 350 words), plus $15 per additional 50 words

    One email, 2 subject lines, 3 revisions

    $230

    $95 + 9 x $15 (450 extra words) = $230 for 800 words.

    2026-10-12

  • Upwork seller Shweta (Toronto, Canada)

    Freelance marketplace

    $95 (Advanced, 350 words), plus $15 per additional 50 words

    One newsletter, 2 subject lines, 3 revisions

    $230

    $95 + 9 x $15 (450 extra words) = $230 for 800 words.

    2026-10-12

  • Fiverr seller Sophia (nero_design9)

    Freelance marketplace

    $50 (Outreach Email), plus $35 per additional 125 words

    One email, 5 subject lines and preview text (the only marketplace package that names preview text)

    $260

    The package data includes 125 words with +125 words for $35: $50 + 6 x $35 = $260 for 875 words. Counted at the price a buyer could be charged; if the description's 'up to 300 words' held, it would be $50 + 4 x $35 = $190.

    2026-10-12

  • Contra seller Damaris Ramirez (United States)

    Freelance marketplace

    $200 per newsletter; $0.40 per word; $50 per hour; $750 for 4 a month

    Newsletter copy with one round of edits

    $320

    $0.40 x 800 words = $320. The per-newsletter option ($200) states no length; marketplace rows convert on a stated length, so the per-word price is the one counted. The 4-a-month retainer is $187.50 an issue.

    2026-10-12

How the marketplace prices were drawn: (1) Fiverr, read 2026-10-12 in a real Chrome window over the DevTools protocol (an off-screen window on its own debugging port), with Fiverr's currency cookies set to USD; gig data reports currency USD at rate 1. Search URL https://www.fiverr.com/search/gigs?query=newsletter%20writing, default sort 'Relevance', 392 results. Took listings in order and applied skip rules stated before reading: design, template or layout only (positions 15-18, 41), not an email newsletter (24 press releases, 27 LinkedIn newsletter, 39 blog articles), non-English output (21), religious consumer niche (12, 22). Kept the first 20 (positions 1-11, 13, 14, 19, 20, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29). Opened each gig and read every package from the gig's embedded package data (title, description, price, delivery, feature ticks and the word-count add-on), cross-checked against the Compare packages table (which renders word count as a selector). (2) Upwork Project Catalog, read the same day in the same browser: https://www.upwork.com/services/search?q=newsletter%20writing, default order, 1,449 projects, first page of 24. Same skip rules removed 14 (design or platform setup 5, 8, 14, 16, 19, 22; not an email newsletter 3, 6, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17; sports niche 4); 10 kept, tier table and add-ons read from each project page. A second query ('b2b newsletter', 514 projects) added only setup and management listings. (3) Contra: one listing with a published newsletter price, found by search. Normalisation to an 800-word issue (the spec's midpoint): the cheapest single-issue package of 800+ words; otherwise the cheapest combination of one package and that package's own extra-words add-on reaching 800 words; a package whose single email stops below 600 words with no add-on, a bundle of several short emails, or a package with no stated length is recorded with normalisedUsd null, because on these marketplaces length is the unit packages are sized by. Where a seller's description and package data disagree, the price a buyer could be charged is counted. Prices exclude marketplace service fees.

Checked, and publish no price

14 of 63 providers checked

Not a criticism. Quoting per project is normal when the work varies. It does mean the ranges above describe the providers who publish, and the ones who do not are rarely the cheapest.

  • InboxArmy · The pricing URL serves the agency's main page: results and testimonials (one client mentions 'bi-weekly e-newsletters'), no prices
  • Goodman Lantern · Newsletter writing service page with no prices
  • Content Bureau · Newsletter work page with no prices
  • Brafton · Newsletter writing services page with no prices
  • Animalz · No prices published; a competitor's roundup attributes '$5,000+/mo' to it
  • Beam Content · No prices published
  • Optimist · Publishes a content programme floor ('Starts at $3,000/mo') but no newsletter price
  • OnlineVisibilityPros · Email newsletters service page with no prices
  • Jenkins Group · Newsletter ghostwriting page with no prices
  • Mazkara Studio · Newsletter ghostwriting studio; no prices on the site (its blog quotes a '$750-2,000/month' market range)
  • April Ray Creative · Publishes Flodesk setup packages ('Starting at $395', '$495', '$899' for a sequence) but no price per newsletter issue
  • Classy Writing (freelance) · Newsletter writer's site with no prices; the newsletter services URL returns 404
  • Susan Greene (freelance copywriter) · Rates page lists newsletters among services and says 'Affordable Rates' with no figures
  • Ginny Peterson (freelance copywriter) · Lists newsletters as a service; no prices
Keeping it live

What sending it costs every year

The writing is priced per issue. Sending is billed by list size every month, whoever writes it: these are the platform plans for a list of 5,000 subscribers. 11 published prices, each turned into a twelve-month figure, from $0 to $2,028 a year.

email platform

What moves the price

Why one newsletter issue costs 52 times another

List size sets the platform bill; how often you send sets the writing bill.

  1. 01

    Length, sold by the 50 or 100 words

    Many marketplace packages stop at 150 to 400 words and sell the rest as add-ons, so reaching 800 words multiplies the price. Emma R.'s $125 email becomes $475 at $50 per extra 100 words; Daniel O's $10 email becomes $65 at $5 per extra 50.

    Fiverr gig, Emma R.
  2. 02

    Who writes the first draft

    Supplying the draft yourself cuts the price. Fabulous Copy charges $600 to $750 an issue if you write the first draft of the main article and $900 to $1,200 if he does; CompanyNewsletters.com charges $567 to edit four articles you write and $1,575 to write them.

    Fabulous Copy e-newsletters
  3. 03

    How often you send

    Sending more often lowers the price of each issue and raises the month. Stat Digital charges $700 an issue at one a month, $600 bi-weekly and $500 weekly; NewsletterAsAService charges $375 an issue for two a month and from $1,500 a month for weekly, about $346 an issue.

    Stat Digital newsletter pricing
  4. 04

    Whether design is included

    Newsletter design cost is bundled by some sellers and missing from others. LYFE Marketing's $500 plan lists 'Email Design & Copy' for two issues, while marketplace writing gigs and per-word platforms deliver text only. On the design side, one Fiverr gig in our sample sells a layout for $5, and Email Uplers codes a supplied design into a template for $59.

    LYFE Marketing email pricing
  5. 05

    Setup, priced once or not at all

    Loading the issue into your platform is rarely in the issue price, and only six providers we found price setup at all: Email Uplers' platform integration from $29, AWeber's Done For You setup at $79 'for a limited time' (regularly $599), April Ray Creative's Flodesk setup from $395, CompanyNewsletters.com at an average of $882, rasa.io at $1,500 and Fabulous Copy at $2,200 to $4,500.

    CompanyNewsletters.com prices
  6. 06

    List size, on the platform bill

    The platform prices the list, not the issue. beehiiv Lite on yearly billing is $49 a month at 1,000 subscribers, $95 at 5,000 and $119 at 10,000; Mailchimp Standard is $20 a month at 500 contacts and $100 at 2,501 to 5,000.

    Mailchimp pricing
Building it with AI

What the machine costs, and what it does not

Nine current models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google would draft this issue for between about one cent and $1.10 on our token estimate, and two newsletter tools charge $7.80 and $15.92 an issue if their allowance is used. The receipt prices one mid-range model, then the hours that turn a draft into an issue you would send.

What AI cannot do here
  • Know which of this month's news your customers care about
  • Supply the material: the interview, the result, the opinion the issue is built on
  • Check a link, a date or a price on the day the issue sends
  • Read the replies and unsubscribes, and change the next issue because of them

Receipt · one newsletter issue

  • Outline, draft, revise and write the subject line$0.22

    Claude Sonnet 5.5, $2 per 1M input tokens, $10 per 1M output tokens: 50,000 input tokens x $2/M + 12,000 output x $10/M across outline, draft, revision and subject-line calls, our token estimate. Price read 2026-10-12

Tools and model time$0.22
Human edit, 1.5 to 3 h at $53/h$79 to $158
Publishable$79 to $158

Edit hours: Our editorial estimate for choosing what goes in, checking every link, date and figure, rewriting for voice, and loading the issue into the platform with a test send. No survey measures it; one editor's estimate on the EA Forum is 3 to 5 hours for a passable curated issue written alone. The hourly rate is the same loaded in-house figure used for the in-house route, so the two are comparable.

How long it takes

Turnaround, as each route publishes it

From brief to first draft or delivery, in the provider's own words. Where a provider states no turnaround, it is not listed.

  1. Writing or production platform

    48-72 hour turnaround

    Verblio

  2. Writing or production platform

    3 business days (Self Service)

    ContentWriters

  3. Agency or studio

    Seven business days after intake (single edition)

    NewsletterAsAService

  4. Agency or studio

    Most orders ship in 6 business days

    Express Writers

  5. Freelance marketplace

    2 days

    Fiverr seller AceAli (Bronze, 250 words)

  6. Freelance marketplace

    4 days

    Fiverr seller Daniella H (1,000 words)

  7. Freelance marketplace

    3 days

    Upwork seller Elijah (600 words)

  8. Independent specialist

    Depends on frequency

    Steve Maurer
Doing it yourself

What a newsletter issue takes to do yourself

No survey times a whole issue. The Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) rate chart for 2026 gives business writing a pace of 1.5 to 4.5 pages of 250 words an hour, 0.7 to 2.1 hours for 800 words, and one editor on the EA Forum estimates 3 to 5 hours for a passable curated issue written alone. The other rows below are our estimate.

Editorial estimate

No independent survey measures this, so the hours are our editorial estimate.

At the same loaded rate as an in-house hire ($53 an hour), your 2.5 to 5.5 hours are worth $131 to $289.

  • Pick this issue's topics from recent posts and news30 to 60 min
  • Read the material and outline the issue30 to 45 min
  • Write about 800 words, at the EFA's drafting pace0.7 to 2.1 h
  • Subject line, preview text, and a check of every link and figure20 to 40 min
  • Load it into the platform, send a test and schedule it30 to 60 min

You also need

  • An email platform plan sized to your list
  • A template that displays properly in the main inboxes
  • Someone to proofread before it sends
  • A record of who agreed to receive it
Who to buy it from

Agency vs freelancer vs fractional vs in-house

The cost row prices one issue; the other five are where the routes differ in practice. The fractional column loses some of them, and none of the four removes the platform bill, which you pay whoever writes.

Agency
Freelancer or marketplace
Fractional lead
In-house hire
Cost, per issue of 600 to 1,000 words
$240 to $1,575
$30 to $1,300
Not priced by the piece. From $5,000 a month to lead the work, plus production from $2,000 a month
$569 to $1,138, with a monthly commitment of $9,100
Who decides what goes in
They research it from an intake call; you approve each issue
You, through the material you send
I do, from what customers ask sales and what earlier issues did
The hire, once they know the product and the list
Design and the template
Often bundled: LYFE Marketing's $500 plan includes design and copy
Usually text only; layout is a separate gig
Not me. Your existing template, or a designer I brief
Only if the hire also designs
Loading and scheduling the send
NewsletterAsAService schedules each approved send; Newsletter Ghostwriting leaves it to you
In no marketplace package we read; Fabulous Copy sells it inside a setup package
Part of production, sent from your own account
The hire, with access to the platform
Smallest commitment
Usually a month; NewsletterAsAService also sells one edition for $500
One issue
A month
A salary
Best when
You want issues written, designed and sent without managing anyone
You send now and then and can supply the material
Nobody decides what the list should hear or whether it is working
You send weekly and the same person writes everything else

Agency and freelancer costs are the published ranges above. The fractional column is busyless, priced as it is sold. In-house uses the salary data for AI Content Writer, loaded and divided by monthly output.

Before you sign

Where the quote and the invoice come apart

Each of these is visible on a published price list, linked where it is.

01

The listing and the price data disagree

One Fiverr gig promises '600-800 words' for $70 while its package data includes 600 and charges $30 for each extra 100, so 800 words on that package is $130; its smallest package gets there for $40. Another promises 'up to 300 words' and includes 125. We counted the price a buyer could be charged; ask for the word count in writing before you order.

Fiverr gig, Sophia
02

Small-list prices quoted for any list

Google's AI Overview for this page's main search gives beehiiv 'Lite ($49/mo for up to 100,000 subscribers)'; $49 is the price at 1,000. VerticalResponse puts do-it-yourself software at '$0–$99/month for lists up to around 5,000 contacts', while at 5,000 beehiiv Pro is $169 to $199 a month and HubSpot Starter $150.

beehiiv pricing
03

Contact caps inside a sending plan

Brevo prices Starter by emails sent, but each tier caps contacts: the 5,000-email plan holds 500 and the 10,000-email plan 1,500. A list of 5,000 needs the 20,000-email tier, $28.75 a month on yearly billing, and removing the 'Sent with Brevo' branding is $10.80 a month extra.

Brevo pricing
04

A first-year price on the platform

Kit Pro at 5,000 subscribers is $87 a month for the first year, $1,043, then renews at the standard rate, struck on the page at $116 a month or $1,392 a year. HubSpot Marketing Hub Starter shows $1,794 a year against a struck $2,520, and AWeber's setup is '$79 for a limited time (regularly $599)'.

Kit pricing
05

AI prices that assume you use the allowance

HeyNews Hobbyist is $39 a month for five issues, $7.80 each if you use them all; a company sending one issue a month pays $39 for it. newslet's $15.92 an issue assumes a weekly send to up to 2,500 contacts, and its next plan, $149 a month, sends without your approval.

HeyNews pricing
06

Roundups written by the sellers

NewsletterAsAService's list of the best newsletter writing services ranks itself and shows CompanyNewsletters.com as 'Custom quote', though that firm publishes a full price table. Sproutworth's ranks Sproutworth first and puts Verblio at '~$50/edition'; Verblio's own rate is $0.16 a word, $128 for 800. LYFE Marketing's '$500 to $1,400 per month on average' is the span of its own three plans.

NewsletterAsAService roundup
The cost of doing nothing

What not having it costs, in your numbers rather than ours

An unsent newsletter has a cost before anyone counts lost sales: a paid platform bills for the list whether or not an issue goes out. The rest depends on your numbers, so here is where it shows up and a sum to do with figures you already have.

  • The list decays unused

    A list collected but not mailed goes stale: people change jobs and forget they opted in. The first send after a long gap meets more bounces and spam complaints, which mailbox providers weigh when they decide what reaches the inbox.

  • Paid-for content reaches only who finds it

    Posts, webinars and research the company already paid for reach only the people who happen to find them. A newsletter is the scheduled step that puts each piece in front of contacts who asked to hear from you.

  • Silence in a long deal

    B2B buying takes months. A buyer who hears nothing from you between the first contact and the decision can hear regularly from a competitor in that time, and a newsletter is the lowest-effort way to stay present without a sales call.

Work it out

Subscribers who have had no email in 90 days × your subscriber-to-opportunity rate × average deal value

Subscribers who have had no email in 90 days
A last-sent or engagement filter in your email platform
Subscriber-to-opportunity rate
Opportunities last year whose first touch was a list sign-up, divided by that year's sign-ups
Average deal value
Your CRM's closed-won report
How I price it

Why there is no per-piece price from me

busyless runs on a retainer. A Fractional Head of Content, from $5,000 a month and month to month, owns the system: which channels we bet on, the editorial standard, customer interviews, the conversion path and the monthly report.

Production sits underneath as execution capacity, from $2,000 a month, through agents I have built or people I manage. We make as much as growth needs, so a price per piece would measure the count rather than whether it worked.

Most clients start with Discovery: two weeks and $2,500 for the diagnosis and a 90-day plan, theirs to keep either way.

See how the retainer works
Discovery, two weeks
$2,500
Fractional Head of Content
from $5,000/mo
Execution capacity
from $2,000/mo
Price per piece
None
What other pages quote

The ranges you will find elsewhere, and where they come from

The top US results when we read them on 12 October 2026. 10 of 10 name no source for the figure they give, and 4 answer a different question altogether.

Searched: newsletter cost

  • beehiiv.com

    Free; Lite $49/mo and Pro $95/mo at the default 1,000 subscribers (yearly billing)

    Different question
  • reddit.com

    No range: a user-built comparison tool of platform costs for paid newsletters

    Different question
  • mailpro.com

    No figure: 'There is no single fixed price for creating a newsletter'

    No source
  • thenewsletterplugin.com

    WordPress plugin licences: Professional $99 (struck $140), Agency $299 (struck $420)

    Different question

Searched: newsletter writing cost

  • reddit.com

    $200-$500 per issue by frequency; $60-$100 per email; $100 for a ~300-word weekly issue

    No source
  • wellfedwriter.com

    A guess that the client expects '$500-750', called 'awfully low for a newsletter'

    No source
  • companynewsletters.com

    $315 to $6,300 per PDF issue by page count and who writes

    No source

Searched: email newsletter pricing

  • mailchimp.com

    Plans from $0; Standard 'starts at $20' at 500 contacts

    Different question
  • lyfemarketing.com

    '$500 to $1,400 per month on average'; content $100-$250 per month

    No source
  • verticalresponse.com

    $50-$1,400 a month for most small businesses; DIY software $0-$99 a month up to ~5,000 contacts; agencies $2,500-$10,000+

    No source
Keep pricing

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FAQ

Frequently asked

  • Why does one newsletter issue cost $30 and another $1,575?
    Because the quote prices who writes it and what comes with it, not the words. Across the sellers here, one 800-word issue ran from $30 on Upwork to $1,575 for CompanyNewsletters.com's smallest written issue, four articles with custom design. Who drafts, whether design and setup are included and how often you send move the price more than length does.
  • What does a $10 newsletter gig actually buy?
    In our sample, a 250-word email. Daniel O's $10 Fiverr package is 250 words, and his $5-per-50-words add-on takes 800 words to $65. Of the 30 Fiverr and Upwork listings we read, only 12 could be bought as one 800-word issue at all, so check the word count and the add-on before comparing a gig with anything else on this page.
  • How much does the email platform add to a newsletter budget each year?
    At 5,000 subscribers, from nothing to $2,028 on the plans we read. Substack and Kit's free plan are $0, Brevo Starter is $345 on yearly billing, Mailchimp Essentials $900, beehiiv Lite $1,140 and beehiiv Pro $2,028. HubSpot Marketing Hub Starter is $1,794 a year on its current offer, against a struck $2,520. Price your own list size, not the headline.
  • What does an AI newsletter tool leave for a person to do?
    The judgement and the checking. Nine current models draft an 800-word issue for about a cent to $1.10 on our token estimate, and HeyNews and newslet charge $7.80 and $15.92 an issue. None of them knows which of this month's news matters to your customers or checks every link and figure. With those hours priced at an in-house rate, the receipt above comes to $79 to $158.
  • How quickly can a writer turn round a newsletter issue?
    As published, from 48 hours to seven business days for the writing. Verblio quotes 48 to 72 hours, ContentWriters three business days, the Fiverr and Upwork sellers we list three or four days, Express Writers six business days for most orders and NewsletterAsAService seven business days after intake for a single edition. Your own review comes on top.
  • Should a newsletter be bought by the issue or on a monthly plan?
    By the issue for an occasional send, monthly for a schedule. Stat Digital charges $700 an issue at one a month and $500 weekly; NewsletterAsAService sells one edition for $500, or two a month for $750, $375 each. Check the minimum: Newsletter Ghostwriting is $997 a month for two issues, and LYFE Marketing's smallest plan is $500 for two.
  • When does an in-house writer make sense for a newsletter?
    Rarely for the newsletter alone. A mid-level AI content writer, loaded for payroll and benefits, costs $9,100 a month, which is $569 to $1,138 an issue at 8 to 16 issues a month. A weekly newsletter is four or five issues, so the hire pays off only when the same person also writes the posts, pages and emails the newsletter draws on.
  • Does busyless run company newsletters?
    As part of the work, not by the issue. Newsletter and owned audience is one of the channels busyless runs: from $5,000 a month I lead the work, including what the list hears and whether it works, and production from $2,000 a month writes and schedules each issue, through agents or people. There is no per-issue price. If you only need issues written, the routes on this page are the way to buy them.