Will I lose anyone moving from beehiiv to MailerLite?

Not from the export itself. People go missing in two ways. You cancel beehiiv before you have the file, or the new tool asks everyone to confirm they still want your emails and most of them never open that message. Do the export first, and read MailerLite's import settings before you press go.

Does MailerLite move my setup across for me?

No. Self-serve only. No done-for-you migration is offered, but they publish import guides for Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, GetResponse, beehiiv, Substack and others. So the contacts are your job, and so is everything you built around them.

How long does moving from beehiiv to MailerLite take?

The contact file is minutes. The rebuild is the job. AWeber, which does this kind of move for its own new customers, gives itself five business days to redo lists, tags, subscribers, sign up forms, campaigns, automations and up to three email templates. Here that is your afternoon, not theirs.

Should I move at all?

Only if the reason is on this page. You do give something up: 2,250 free subscriber places, so the bill starts sooner. If nothing in the gain column is a problem you actually have today, stay where you are.

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Moving from beehiiv to MailerLite

The people on your list travel in a file. Almost nothing else does. Here is what you carry over, what you build again, and the one step that costs you the list if you take it in the wrong order.

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Export your list before you cancel beehiiv

Cancelling a paid plan alone does not delete anything: downgrading to the free Launch plan "keeps your account and all your content intact," per their own help centre. Data is destroyed only if you take the separate, explicit step of deleting the publication or workspace, which their docs call irreversible and warn will delete any subscribers and segments tied to it. Their terms also disclaim any general duty to preserve data after cancellation, so exporting your list is worth doing as routine practice either way.

Read on beehiiv's own page, checked on 9 September 2026.Source

Download the file, open it, and check it has rows in it before you touch the cancel button. A file you have not opened is not a backup.

What comes across

Everyone on your list, with their names and whatever else you keep about them, in the file you export.
Who bought from you, but only if you export that as a column of its own. It is the one thing worth checking twice, because without it you will email a paying student a sales pitch for the course they already own.
A written guide for this exact move. Self-serve only. No done-for-you migration is offered, but they publish import guides for Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, GetResponse, beehiiv, Substack and others.

Read on MailerLite's own page, checked on 6 September 2026.Source

What you build again yourself

MailerLite does not offer to do the move for you. We cannot see inside anyone's import, and we will not guess at it. What we can show you is the size of the job, in the words of a company that sells this same work as a service.

AWeber does the move for its own new customers, free, and lists what its team redoes:

lists
tags
subscribers
sign up forms
campaigns
automations
up to three email templates

In plain words: the people, the labels you put on them, your sign up forms, and the emails that send themselves. Moving to MailerLite, everything after the people is yours to do again.

That list is what AWeber says about its own service, not a claim about MailerLite's import. Checked on 6 September 2026.Source

What you gain, what you give up

You gain

A welcome sequence that runs on the free plan, so new subscribers hear from you straight away
Selling your course from the same place you email people

You give up

2,250 free subscriber places, so the bill starts sooner

Worked out from both vendors' own pricing pages, on 9 September 2026.

MailerLitefree to 250 subscribersStart free on MailerLite

What it costs either way

	beehiiv	MailerLite
Free plan	2,500 subscribers	250 subscribers
Welcome emails on the free plan	No	Yes
Paid from	$43/mo	$12/mo
The catch	You cannot sell anything from the free plan: paid subscriptions and digital products both need a paid plan.	Their logo stays on your emails until you pay.

Read off their own pricing pages, on 9 September 2026.

Moving from beehiiv to MailerLite, answered

Will I lose anyone moving from beehiiv to MailerLite?: Not from the export itself. People go missing in two ways. You cancel beehiiv before you have the file, or the new tool asks everyone to confirm they still want your emails and most of them never open that message. Do the export first, and read MailerLite's import settings before you press go.
Does MailerLite move my setup across for me?: No. Self-serve only. No done-for-you migration is offered, but they publish import guides for Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, GetResponse, beehiiv, Substack and others. So the contacts are your job, and so is everything you built around them.
How long does moving from beehiiv to MailerLite take?: The contact file is minutes. The rebuild is the job. AWeber, which does this kind of move for its own new customers, gives itself five business days to redo lists, tags, subscribers, sign up forms, campaigns, automations and up to three email templates. Here that is your afternoon, not theirs.
Should I move at all?: Only if the reason is on this page. You do give something up: 2,250 free subscriber places, so the bill starts sooner. If nothing in the gain column is a problem you actually have today, stay where you are.

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Best free plan for a real welcome sequence

Start free on MailerLite Read the full MailerLite breakdown first

Not sure MailerLite is the right landing place?Answer 5 questions first, orsee the two side by side.

Moving in general, rather than this exact pair?The switching guide covers the running order, andthe free list splitter separates your buyers from everyone else before you import.