🆚 Medium vs. Substack (Hosted)

Type

Social media platform
Blogging platform

About

Medium is an online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system.

It provides a minimalist editor for long-form writing, supports publications for multi-author content, newsletters, and distributes content through algorithmic and editorial recommendations.

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Substack is a newsletter publishing platform that also provides hosted blogs with support for custom domains.

It provides a web-based editor, searchable archives, custom website themes, podcast publishing, SEO settings, and integrated subscriber management for free and paid publications.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
Member $5/month
Friend of Medium $15/month
Free version ✔️ .substack.com subdomain
Custom domain set-up fee $50

Categories

Social Media › Rank #28
Blogging Platforms › Rank #4
Blogging Platforms › Rank #7

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Medium social media platform is 9 times more popular than Substack (Hosted).
Total websites

Market share

Blogging Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Medium is more popular than Substack (Hosted) in all countries.
United States
Vietnam
United Kingdom
India
Germany
France
Canada
Turkey
Australia
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Medium is more popular than Substack (Hosted) in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Finance/Banking
Technical/Business Forums

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,391
#3,502
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Name
Rank
wonkette.com
#14,935
#19,535
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See also

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