Simple, transparent pricing

The right plan for
where you're publishing.

Start lean with a single publication, then expand into subscriptions, streaming, e-paper, and multi-tenant operations as your network grows.

Starter

$29 /month

Single publication launch. Everything you need to go live.

Get started
  • Full post editor with rich text & media
  • One publication under your domain
  • Newsletter subscriber capture
  • Basic SEO tools & sitemaps
  • 3 admin users
  • 15 frontend themes
  • REST API access
  • Community support

Growth

$99 /month

Subscriptions and monetisation ready to activate.

Get started
  • Everything in Starter
  • M-Pesa, Stripe & Pesapal payments
  • Metered & hard paywall per article
  • Ad inventory & placement manager
  • Full newsletter campaign engine
  • Push notifications (Web Push)
  • Real-time analytics dashboard
  • Unlimited admin users
  • Priority onboarding call
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Publisher Pro

$249 /month

Digital editions, live streaming, and AI all on.

Start Publisher Pro
  • Everything in Growth
  • E-Paper digital edition module
  • Live streaming (YouTube/Vimeo/Twitch)
  • AI writing & SEO assistant (GPT-4)
  • Text-to-speech audio per article
  • Adwall monetisation
  • Advanced retention analytics
  • User retention engine
  • AMP pages auto-generated
  • Dedicated Slack support channel

Network

Custom

Multi-publication platform with a dedicated implementation team.

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  • Everything in Publisher Pro
  • Unlimited publications (multi-tenant)
  • Super admin cross-tenant console
  • Custom domain per publication
  • Managed WordPress migration
  • White-glove onboarding
  • Custom SLA & uptime guarantee
  • Dedicated account manager
  • Custom integrations on request

What's included in every plan

Admin loads in <1s

Even at 100,000 articles. Redis-cached, indexed queries.

🛡️

Full data isolation

Every tenant is completely isolated zero cross-publication data leakage.

🌐

REST API

17+ endpoints for posts, auth, search, categories, tags and comments.

📊

Analytics

Pageviews, scroll depth, referrers, live visitors no external tool needed.

🎯

SEO suite

Per-article meta, Open Graph, NewsArticle schema, sitemaps, AMP.

💬

Comments

Moderation, approval flow, author notifications, commenter alerts.

🔔

Push notifications

Web Push API for breaking news no mobile app required.

🖼️

Media library

Bulk upload, WebP conversion, image compression, folder organisation.

🔒

Roles & permissions

Admin, editor, author, contributor all scoped to your publication.

Common questions

Yes Pressly ships a full WordPress WXR importer. Upload your export file or point us at your WordPress REST API and we pull articles, categories, authors, tags, and media. A redirect map is generated to preserve all your SEO equity.

M-Pesa Daraja integration is available on Growth and above. No plugin, no third-party middleware it is a first-party payment module.

You own your content. On cancellation, you get a full export of all posts, categories, media, and subscriber lists in standard formats (JSON + CSV).

Yes Pressly is multi-tenant by design. The Network plan supports unlimited publications from a single install, each with its own admin, branding, and subscribers.

Pressly can be self-hosted (bring your own VPS) or fully managed by us. The Network plan includes fully managed infrastructure.

iOS & Android — included on every plan

Every plan includes
full mobile API access.

Whichever tier you choose, your publication's REST API is ready on day one. Your mobile team can ship native iOS and Android apps that pull articles, enforce paywalls, deliver push notifications, and surface e-paper editions — all without touching the admin.

17+ REST endpoints

Posts, categories, search, auth, and comments. Fully documented at /api/docs.

Web Push (VAPID)

Breaking news straight to lock screens. No third-party push service needed.

Paywall enforcement

Metered and hard paywalls apply in-app via the same subscriber tokens.

E-paper delivery

Every edition available through the API for in-app page-flip reading.

Mobile features by plan

REST API (all endpoints)
Push notifications (VAPID)
Paywall enforcement in-app
E-paper API access
Subscriber token auth
Multi-tenant API isolation
Priority mobile API support
Starter Growth Pro Network

Start with the live demo.

Open the fully-seeded demo tenant and explore every module before you commit to a plan.