BEEHIIV
vs
FormeFORME

Your readers signed up for you.

Beehiiv's Boost Marketplace pays publishers to recommend other newsletters and takes a 20% cut of the referral fee. It also injects third-party content into your subscriber flow. Your readers signed up for you, not for what you recommend for money.

What lands in your subscriber’s inbox

Same newsletter. Different platform. Very different email.

Beehiiv
Mail
The Weekly Dispatch
From: newsletter@beehiiv-send.com · To: reader@example.com
Your actual content that your subscribers signed up for...
Sponsored
via Beehiiv Boost
Check out The Other Newsletter
Recommended by publishers like you. Beehiiv earned a referral fee for this placement.
...the rest of your content, after the interruption.
Your readers didn’t sign up for this.
Forme
Mail
The Weekly Dispatch
From: hello@yourpublication.com · To: reader@example.com
Your actual content that your subscribers signed up for...
More of your content. Still just you talking to them.
That’s it. Just your words.

The ad injection problem.

Beehiiv's Boost network works by having publishers recommend other publishers, injecting third-party newsletter promotions into your subscriber emails. Beehiiv takes 20% of the referral fee.

forme has no ad network, no boost marketplace, no injection. Your subscribers receive exactly what you send.

Deliverability on shared infrastructure.

When many publishers share sending infrastructure, one bad actor raises spam complaint rates for everyone. Users have reported emails going to spam without explanation.

forme's sending reputation is yours, isolated, not pooled.

The pricing reality.

Beehiiv's free tier is capped. Meaningful analytics, paid subscriptions, and advanced features require Scale ($49/month) or Max ($109/month).

forme is $19/month with everything included. No tier exists where Beehiiv is meaningfully cheaper for a publisher who needs the full feature set.

The security difference.

Beehiiv stores your drafts in plaintext. A breach or subpoena exposes your unpublished work.

forme's zero-knowledge encryption means your drafts are locked in your browser before they reach our servers. We don't have the key. This isn't available on any Beehiiv plan at any price.

Verified click analytics

Beehiiv charges $149/month for verified click analytics. Forme includes it at $19. We shipped bot-filtered, HMAC-authenticated click tracking because it matters — not because it's a pricing lever.

The numbers at different plan levels
Launch (Scale plan)
Beehiiv costs
$49/mo
Forme costs
$19/mo
You keep extra$360/yr
Growth (Max plan)
Beehiiv costs
$109/mo
Forme costs
$19/mo
You keep extra$1,080/yr
Plus verified clicks
Beehiiv costs
$149/mo (Scale +)
Forme costs
$19/mo
You keep extraIncluded
What you keep, in real dollars

Beehiiv's plan + Boost cut vs Forme's flat $228/year.

2,500 subscribers with Boost revenue of $180/month
Beehiiv Scale plan
$1,788/yr
$149/mo
+ Boost cut (20% of $180/mo)
$432/yr
$36/mo
Forme cost
$228/yr
No Boost cut
$1,992/yr extra — plus full control of your inbox
Math: Beehiiv Scale $149/mo + 20% of Boost revenue ($36/mo) = $185/mo = $2,220/yr. Forme: $19/mo = $228/yr. Difference: $1,992/yr. Ad channels on Forme are opt-in and yours to keep.
Your numbers

Platform fees and Boost cuts, combined.

Most Beehiiv publishers only calculate the plan cost. Add your Boost revenue and the gap gets much larger.

Billed annually
annual savings on Forme
$780
per year
Beehiiv annual cost
$1,008
vs
Forme annual cost
$228
Forme charges $19/month flat. No tiered pricing. No feature gating.
Start publishing →30-day money-back guarantee

Full-featured, honestly priced.

Beehiiv Free
$0
Capped features, no paid subs
Beehiiv Scale
$49/mo
Analytics + paid subscriptions
Forme
$19/mo
Everything, no limits, no ads

Side by side

See the difference

Beehiiv
Beehiiv marketing page screenshot

Beehiiv dashboard — ad injection built into the platform by default

Formeforme

Built for writers,
not developers.

→No ad injection — your readers see only your content
→Unsplash, Pexels, and Klipy built into the editor
→No subscriber caps — grow without hitting a paywall

forme — publishing built for the reader era

Import your subscriber CSV from Beehiiv.

Any CSV with an email column. Takes about 2 minutes.

Start publishing →Migration guide