🆚 Recurly vs. Substack

Type

Subscription management tool
Social media platform

About

Recurly is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that enables businesses to automate subscription lifecycles, payments, and revenue operations.

It provides flexible plan configuration, automated billing and invoicing with tax calculation in over 45 countries, subscriber self-service portals, and advanced analytics for metrics such as monthly recurring revenue and plan performance.

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

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

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
$249+/month
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

Subscriptions › Rank #24
Subscriptions › Rank #4
Social Media › Rank #29
Email Marketing › Rank #9
Blogging Platforms › Rank #5

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Substack social media platform is 36 times more popular than Recurly.
Total websites

Market share

Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Substack is more popular than Recurly in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Italy
France
Germany
Spain
Netherlands
Brazil
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Substack is more popular than Recurly in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
General News
Sports
Politics/Opinion
Online Shopping
Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,944
#5,739
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Rank
#1,382
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See also

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