🆚 Paid Memberships Pro vs. Substack

Type

Membership management software
Social media platform

About

Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress membership plugin that allows users to restrict content, manage memberships, and sell recurring subscriptions.

It supports unlimited membership levels, content dripping, custom member profile fields, member directories, recurring billing with trial periods, discount codes, and more than 300 action and filter hooks for developers.

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Substack is an online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers.

It provides email newsletter distribution, a web-based archive, built-in payment processing, and audience analytics, and includes social features such as recommendations, comments, and a Notes feed for short-form posts and discovery.

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Headquarters

Reading, Pennsylvania, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source
Standard $174/year
Plus $299/year
Lifetime $3,000
For writers
Platform fee 10%
Payment processing
Billing fee 0.7%
Credit card fee 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee
For readers
Most content Free ✔️
Paid subscriptions Varies by writer

Categories

Membership Management › Rank #3
Subscriptions › Rank #6
Subscriptions › Rank #3
WordPress Plugins › Rank #87
Social Media › Rank #27
Email Marketing › Rank #9
Blogging Platforms › Rank #4

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Substack social media platform is 2.3 times more popular than Paid Memberships Pro.
Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Substack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy, while Paid Memberships Pro is more popular in Australia, India, and South Africa.
United States
United Kingdom
Italy
Canada
Australia
France
Spain
Germany
Brazil
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Substack is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Paid Memberships Pro is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and health sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Sports
Politics/Opinion
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#7,210
#18,592
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Rank
#1,382
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See also

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