Newsletter platforms: Creator Platform Pricing Index

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

29 of the 46 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 17 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 312 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): median, minimum and maximum entry price per CATEGORY across every platform whose own pricing page carries a figure, computed only over publishers - plus the three things no vendor states and no listicle measures: the METER each ladder is priced in (subscriber, contact, member, active client, seat, subscriber-of-yours, flat), normalised so a 2,500-subscriber rung and a 1,000-contact rung can be compared at all; the annual-versus-monthly gap the same page states; and the free rung - which categories still have one and at what ceiling.

Beside them the repriced-since column that only a dated series of reads can see, and the currency finding: the same URL served EUR to the box's European IP on Mailchimp, Thinkific, Sender and Shopify while an American reader sees USD, so every price is stored with its currency and the reading location.

312 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.