🆚 Ghost vs. Paid Memberships Pro
- 📈 Paid Memberships Pro is noticeably more popular than Ghost.
- 🌎 Paid Memberships Pro is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Ghost is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Turkey.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
GhostType
Content management system
Membership management software
About
Ghost is an open-source content management system built on 
Node.js that serves as a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership-based websites.
It includes a block-based editor, built-in email newsletter delivery, and native memberships with paid subscriptions via 
Stripe, along with SEO features, themes, and role-based access.
Paid Memberships Pro is a membership plugin for 
WordPress that allows you to restrict content and manage member subscriptions with recurring payments.
Headquarters
Singapore
Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Ghost(Pro)
Starter
(1K+ members)$18+/month
(1K+ members)$18+/month
Publisher
(3 staff users, 1K+ members)$35+/month
(3 staff users, 1K+ members)$35+/month
Business
(15 staff users, 10K+ members)$239+/month
(15 staff users, 10K+ members)$239+/month
Free version ✔️Open source
Standard$174/year
Plus$299/year
Lifetime$3,000
Categories
CMS › Rank #29
Subscriptions › Rank #8
Subscriptions › Rank #6
Membership Management › Rank #3
WordPress Plugins › Rank #86
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Paid Memberships Pro software is 1.7 times more popular than Ghost.
Total websites
Market share
Subscriptions
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Paid Memberships Pro is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Ghost is more popular in Germany, Russia, and Turkey.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Australia
France
Spain
Canada
India
Italy
Brazil
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Spain in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Spain in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Membership Management category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in India in the Membership Management category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Paid Memberships Pro is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Ghost is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, technical, business forums, and games sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Entertainment
Sports
Health
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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MemberPress🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,529,893 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.