Ghost

Publishing platform with newsletters

Free tier + paidCMS & content infrastructureghost.org

What it is

Ghost is an MIT-licensed publishing platform with a genuinely polished writing editor, membership and paid-subscription billing, and email newsletters built in. It can run headless through its Content API while keeping the native admin for writers.

Why it earns a slot

The only option here that ships paid subscriptions and newsletter delivery out of the box — if the publication's business model is paying readers, Ghost skips months of build work.

Know before you commit

Going headless means giving up its themes and much of its built-in SEO and membership front end. Self-hosting adds mail delivery costs of roughly $15-$35/mo. Content modeling is fixed to posts, pages, tags and authors.

Getting started

npm i -g ghost-cli

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Pricing snapshot

Self-host free (MIT). Ghost(Pro) Starter $18/mo yearly (1k members, 1 staff), Publisher $29/mo (3 staff), Business $199/mo (10k members, 15 staff).

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Context: Publishing platform with newsletters. Ghost is an MIT-licensed publishing platform with a genuinely polished writing editor, membership and paid-subscription billing, and email newsletters built in. It can run headless through its Content API while keeping the native admin for writers.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The only option here that ships paid subscriptions and newsletter delivery out of the box — if the publication's business model is paying readers, Ghost skips months of build work.
Watch out for: Going headless means giving up its themes and much of its built-in SEO and membership front end. Self-hosting adds mail delivery costs of roughly $15-$35/mo. Content modeling is fixed to posts, pages, tags and authors.
Pricing: Self-host free (MIT). Ghost(Pro) Starter $18/mo yearly (1k members, 1 staff), Publisher $29/mo (3 staff), Business $199/mo (10k members, 15 staff).
Setup: npm i -g ghost-cli
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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