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Buttondown vs Substack
Pricing, founders, indie status and curated alternatives compared from our directory — all data points sourced from each tool's public site or press materials.
Substack
Publish a paid newsletter with the Substack social layer.
Newsletters & EmailFreemium · 10% of paid subscriptions
At a glanceButtondownSubstack
- Pricing
- $9/mo
- 10% of paid subscriptions
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Freemium
- Founded
- —
- 2017
- Location
- USA
- San Francisco, USA
- Bootstrapped
- Yes
- —
- Open source
- —
- —
- Category
- —
- Newsletters & Email
- Indie alternatives
- 0
- 5
- Founders
- Justin Duke
- Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, Jairaj Sethi
Key differences
Funding
Buttondown is bootstrapped; Substack is venture-backed.
Indie alternatives
Buttondown has 0 curated indie alternatives in our directory; Substack has 5.
Differences are derived directly from the data on each tool's page. Empty fields mean we haven't verified a value yet — never that one tool lacks the capability.
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