# The newsletter platform that owns its pipes — and doesn't charge you for your audience

> Newsletters on delivery infrastructure we run ourselves: public archive, RSS, hosted forms, paid subscriptions — and unlimited contacts on every plan.

Canonical: https://emailfast.dev/creators

## Who actually sends your newsletter?

It's a question worth asking your current platform: every newsletter platform we surveyed rents its delivery: beehiiv's status page lists SendGrid components; Buttondown's subprocessor list names Mailgun and Postmark; Substack sends through Mailgun (verified on their own public pages, July 2026).

Email Fast is the other kind of company: Email Fast runs its own mail transfer agent, warmup engine, reputation breaker, and per-tenant fair queue — the pipes are ours, not resold. Deliverability isn't a
partnership — it's our own engineering, accountable to you.

## Own your audience — structurally, not as a slogan

- **Your list is portable.** Export everything, always. Contacts, consent records, engagement history.
- **Your archive is yours.** A public, search-indexable web archive on your domain, with RSS — readers can find and follow you outside the inbox.
- **Your revenue is yours.** Paid subscriptions are built in; the platform fee doesn't scale with your success.
- **Your consent records hold up.** hosted signup forms with double opt-in through our own delivery path, so every subscriber carries verifiable proof of consent.

## Send like the big senders do

| Capability | What you get |
|---|---|
| Broadcasts & segments | Predicate-based audiences — send to exactly the right slice |
| Automations | A durable, crash-safe journey engine with a visual canvas |
| A/B testing | Subject and content tests with statistics that don't lie to you |
| Preference center | Readers opt down to fewer emails instead of leaving entirely |
| One-click unsubscribe | one-click unsubscribe per RFC 8058, with the headers signed under DKIM so stripping them in transit breaks the signature |
| Honest metrics | open tracking that refuses to lie: privacy-proxy prefetch “opens” are detected and not counted as human reads |

:::tradeoffs Metrics honesty costs something
Some platforms report privacy-proxy prefetches as opens because bigger numbers feel
better. Ours will read lower — and be true. You can't grow on numbers that lie to you.
:::

## Templates without the table-HTML misery

Design in MJML or Handlebars with versioning and per-template variable schemas.
Responsive output, Gmail-clipping warnings at author time, and a strict lint that
makes template injection structurally impossible.

## When you're ready to get serious about deliverability

Warmup, reputation circuit-breakers, per-provider signals, bounce classification that
never deletes a deliverable address by mistake, and complaint feedback loops that
suppress on the first spam report. It's all one platform — [how deliverability works →](/features/deliverability)

## Do you charge per subscriber?

No: contacts and subscribers are never billed — we price sending, not the size of your audience. Grow to a million subscribers and your list itself never raises your bill — only what you actually send.

## Can readers pay for my newsletter?

Paid subscriptions are built in (card processing via Stripe), with free and paid tiers per publication. The feature arms with billing at launch — see pricing for status.

## Do I get a public archive and RSS?

Yes — every publication gets a hosted, search-indexable web archive, per-issue pages, a subscribe page, an RSS feed, and signed "view in browser" links.

## How do signups work?

hosted signup forms with double opt-in through our own delivery path, so every subscriber carries verifiable proof of consent. Embed the form or link to the hosted page — no frontend work required.

## Who actually delivers my email?

We do — and that is rarer than it sounds: every newsletter platform we surveyed rents its delivery: beehiiv's status page lists SendGrid components; Buttondown's subprocessor list names Mailgun and Postmark; Substack sends through Mailgun (verified on their own public pages, July 2026). With Email Fast there is no upstream reseller: the same company that hosts your archive runs the mail servers your issues leave from.