We use Beehiiv to run BuildersOS Weekly. The free tier was enough to validate the format, and the editor stays out of the way once you’re past first-time setup.
The headline value is how Beehiiv treats you as a publisher, not a marketer. The Recommendations Network alone surfaces newsletters faster than cold growth tactics, and the Ad Network removes the sales friction that usually keeps small newsletters off sponsorship revenue.
The trade-off shows up if you’ve built deeply branched email sequences in Kit or ActiveCampaign — Beehiiv’s automations are good but lean simpler. For a builder running content + product, that simplicity is usually a feature, not a limitation.