2021 Substack Newsletter Price Guide

This annual price guide—released July 1, halfway through each year—orders single-author Substack newsletters by their monthly subscription rates. Publications must include a named author to be listed.

Introduction

This is not a ranking of newsletter quality. It is merely a pricing guide for Substack readers.

The most common reason for a Substack subscriber to unsubscribe from a newsletter is not absolute or relative cost but the total financial burden of being a Substack user. Most news readers have a limited budget for news consumption, so a guide tha…