Starter — default
Staff users
- Staff users
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1 — Staff users are people who can log into Ghost Admin and publish posts, which includes Author, Editor, Administrator and Owner roles. Contributors and Suspended users are always free, they won't count towards your plan limits.
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File uploads
- File uploads
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5mb — You can upload unlimited files to each Ghost(Pro) plan. The file upload limit applies to how large each individual file can be, whether image, audio, video, pdf, or other upload.
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Branding
- Whitelabel branding
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Other platforms put their logo all over your website and email newsletters to try and capture your audience. With Ghost, your brand is front and center. Your logo. Your colors. Your publication.
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Domain
- Free custom domain
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All Ghost(Pro) sites come with a free ghost.io subdomain by default, and also support the use of any custom domain name via a CNAME DNS record. All Ghost(Pro) sites include a one-year free domain registration using the .link TLD. Domains registered through this promotion renew at standard rates after the first year.
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Internationalization
- Internationalization
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Write your content and present your website in any language, so your subscribers feel right at home.
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Design
- Design settings
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Themes
- Marketplace themes
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Install any theme from the Ghost Marketplace and use it on your site. Choose from hundreds of professionally designed themes.
Excluded - Custom themes
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Our Starter plan comes with a built-in default theme with plenty of layout and color settings. On higher plans, you can install and configure any custom theme you prefer from the Ghost Marketplace, or create your own from scratch!
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Audience
- Registered members
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1,000 — Members are any users who have either a free or paid account on your site with which they can subscribe or log-in, using Ghost's memberships & subscriptions feature. As your publication grows over time you'll be notified to upgrade your plan whenever needed, based on the number of members you have.
Included - Member tagging
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Organize and segment your members with tags. Apply tags automatically based on behavior, manually, or through automation to create targeted member groups.
Included - Member import/export
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Easily import your existing subscriber list or export your member data at any time. We support CSV format for seamless data migration.
Included - Community comments
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Enable commenting on your posts with options to restrict to members only or paid members only, fostering a healthy community of people who subscribe to your work.
Included - Paid subscriptions
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Accept payments from members using Stripe integration. Process subscriptions, one-time payments, and manage billing with ease.
Excluded - Tips/donations
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Collect one-time payments as tips to support your work or donations. Allow your audience to show appreciation with flexible payment amounts.
Excluded - Premium tiers
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Ghost allows you to offer multiple membership products, each with unique prices, benefits, and content access levels. A tiered pricing strategy makes it possible to grow your business by offering different products and benefits to your audience.
Excluded - Special offers
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Create special discounts for Black Friday sales or special events to drive upgrades and premium subscriptions. Set time-limited promotions to encourage member growth during key marketing periods.
Excluded - Transaction fees
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Process payments for your premium subscriptions without any additional transaction fees from Ghost. Payment processor fees still apply.
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Growth
- Social web distribution
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Connect your publication to the social web with ActivityPub integration, allowing readers to discover, follow and interact with your content across Ghost, WordPress, BlueSky, Threads, Flipboard, Mastodon, and more.
Included - Ghost Explore network
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Your site will be featured in the Ghost Explore directory, so that more new readers can discover your content.
Included - Recommendations
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Recommend other publications to your audience and get recommended by others to grow your readership through mutual discovery.
Included - Referral program
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Native integration with First Promoter enables seamless member referrals, allowing your subscribers to earn rewards for bringing new members to your publication.
Included - Advanced SEO tools
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Built-in SEO features including meta tags, structured data, XML sitemaps, and canonical URLs to help your content rank better in search engines.
Included - RSS feeds
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Email Newsletters
- Email Sends
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Unlimited — The number of emails you can send to your subscribers each month. All plans include unlimited email sends with no restrictions.
Included - Email templates
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Beautiful, responsive email templates that look great on any device. Customize colors, fonts, and layouts to match your brand.
Included - Edit links after sending
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Update links in your email newsletters even after they've been sent, allowing you to fix broken links or update destinations without resending.
Included - Managed deliverability
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Professional email infrastructure with high deliverability rates, bounce management, and reputation monitoring.
Included - Newsletters
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1 — Multiple newsletters in Ghost allow you to create more than one newsletter, each with its own subscriptions and design settings. This allows you to give your audience the option of what content they'd like to subscribe to.
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Platform
- Fully managed service
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- Automatic weekly updates
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- Worldwide CDN
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- Enterprise-grade security
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All Ghost(Pro) installs are integrated with Fastly, with 24/7 DDoS mitigation, a sophisticated Web Application Firewall, brute force protection and automatic rate limiting.
Included - Threat & uptime management
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When you're under attack or the servers catch fire, if you self-host then you're the one who loses sleep. With Ghost(Pro), we lose sleep!
Included - Automated backups
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- Free SSL certificate
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Security
- Device verification
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Automatic device verification is available on all plans, and enabled by default. If a login from an unknown device is detected, the user will be prompted to verify their device before logging in via a code sent to their email address.
Included - Two-factor authentication
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Add an extra layer of security to staff accounts with email-based two-factor authentication (2FA). Protect your publication from unauthorized access.
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