Is Beehiiv or Substack more popular?

Substack is used by more websites in our catalog: 758 use Beehiiv and 1,089 use Substack.

Does Beehiiv or Substack have higher-authority sites?

Beehiiv sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Beehiiv: 34, Substack: 33).

Is Beehiiv or Substack growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Beehiiv went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while Substack went from 0.16% to 0.12%. Beehiiv is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Beehiiv and Substack?

No. A site runs a single email / newsletter platform, so Beehiiv and Substack are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Beehiiv vs Substack data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Beehiiv vs Substack — Site Stats Database

Beehiiv vs Substack

A side-by-side comparison of two email & newsletter platforms, based on the 128,885 Email Marketing sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Beehiiv	Substack
Websites	758	1,089
Market share	0.59%	0.84%
Share of top 10K sites	0.11%	0.12%

Rank	#12	#8

Median DR	34	33

Average DR	37	34

Median keywords	1,680	1,250

Median referring domains	579	485

Median domain age	9 yrs	11 yrs

Average domain age	11 yrs	12 yrs

Average monthly traffic	74,498	95,722

Combined monthly traffic	56,469,399	104,241,674

homemade-gifts-made-easy.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)61
Total Keywords161,958
Referring Domains44,576
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)6,830,669
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBeehiiv
vice.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords516,179
Referring Domains285,385
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,319,083
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBeehiiv
fieldandstream.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)75
Total Keywords118,051
Referring Domains13,302
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,994,246
Traffic Trend
Technology
denofgeek.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords407,252
Referring Domains78,878
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,778,032
Traffic Trend
Technology
eatthis.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords448,255
Referring Domains57,563
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,409,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
housefresh.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords15,036
Referring Domains2,612
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,920,645
Traffic Trend
Technology
patijinich.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)58
Total Keywords37,064
Referring Domains2,530
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,633,834
Traffic Trend
Technology
baseballamerica.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords147,793
Referring Domains16,139
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,303,013
Traffic Trend
Technology
wideopencountry.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords293,756
Referring Domains22,734
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,077,208
Traffic Trend
Technology
clark.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords163,554
Referring Domains14,872
Domain Age33 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,067,317
Traffic Trend
TechnologyBeehiiv

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
homemade-gifts-made-easy.com	English	61	161,958	44,576	17 yrs	6,830,669		Beehiiv

alexreichek.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)10
Total Keywords19,565
Referring Domains103
Domain Age4 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)21,583,539
Traffic Trend
TechnologySubstack
horoscope.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)69
Total Keywords99,094
Referring Domains7,518
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)10,014,480
Traffic Trend
Technology
themodernproper.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords229,805
Referring Domains18,216
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)9,197,484
Traffic Trend
Technology
sporked.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)62
Total Keywords282,875
Referring Domains4,981
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,331,097
Traffic Trend
Technology
astrology.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)73
Total Keywords119,893
Referring Domains12,321
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,568,567
Traffic Trend
Technology
labnol.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords24,212
Referring Domains20,681
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,038,273
Traffic Trend
Technology
tarheeltimes.com
LanguageHindi
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords32,038
Referring Domains4,565
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,553,219
Traffic Trend
Technology
pensador.com
LanguagePortuguese
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords123,585
Referring Domains13,547
Domain Age26 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,501,577
Traffic Trend
Technology
healthynibblesandbits.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords33,219
Referring Domains6,043
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,185,989
Traffic Trend
Technology
drawingsof.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)33
Total Keywords16,028
Referring Domains678
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,174,609
Traffic Trend
Technology