Ghost vs Hyvor Blogs

Ghost is an open-source blog and newsletter platform for professional publishers, with tools for publishing, memberships, analytics, and editorial workflows. It runs on the web and supports custom domains, theme customization, SEO tools, multilingual content, and CSV export. Publishers can send multiple email newsletters and offer free or paid memberships with monthly or yearly billing. The editor supports galleries, GIFs, video, audio, products, files, and bookmarks. Integrations include Stripe, Zapier, Slack, YouTube, Google Analytics, and GitHub. Paid plans start at $18/mo (annual), with a 14-day trial and no permanent free plan. Starter costs $18 a month, billed yearly, and includes 1,000 members, one staff user, and a 5 MB file upload limit. Ghost charges a 0% fee on publication revenue; payment processor fees still apply. Ghost(Pro) includes security protections, while all plans include device verification and email-based two-factor authentication.

Hyvor Blogs is an open-source platform for creating and managing blogs, with hosted and self-hosted options. Blogs can use a custom domain, a sub-directory, or a headless frontend; custom domains receive free TLS certificates. Users can select a theme or build one with HTML and CSS. Built-in tools include scheduling, SEO metadata, social cards, generated sitemaps and robots.txt, and link analysis. Teams can edit posts in real time with live cursors and suggestion mode, and content can be translated, including RTL layouts. APIs and webhooks support developer workflows. Every plan includes Hyvor Talk for comments and Hyvor Post for newsletters, with monthly allowances varying by plan. The built-in AI agent can generate content, translate posts, and suggest improvements. Hyvor says users own and can export their content in one click, and that blogs have no ads or third-party trackers. Paid Personal pricing is €5 a month, billed annually at €50/year; a 14-day trial includes all features. The free Open-Source plan is self-hosted under AGPLv3; self-hosting requires Docker, PostgreSQL, and an OIDC provider.