Hashnode

What it is for

Hashnode is a hosted blog editor: you open a draft, publish from the same chrome, and Free is $0 forever. Use it when the job is a developer blog you start at a public $, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

Soft-note: older brand.

What makes it unique: the cover is Hashnode’s official drafts + editor chrome (Joseph Gordon's blog, FAVORITES, MY DRAFTS Blogging to advance your dev career, PUBLISHED, New Draft, editor title Blogging to advance your career, Publish) from hashnode.com — not a wordmark. The drafts list + Publish chrome themselves are ops of the editor.

Key features

• Drafts list — My Drafts rows (cover still; product). One desk. Cover Improving Hashnode's blog editor sits here.
• Editor canvas — title + body next to the list (cover Blogging to advance your career). An editor, not a Growth tile.
• Favorites — pinned drafts (cover FAVORITES). A pin desk, not a Publish button.
• Published list — shipped posts under PUBLISHED (cover). A published desk, not a $5 seat.
• Cover image — the header still in the editor (cover patterned blue header). A cover, not a New Draft CTA.
• Search drafts — the find field on the list (cover Search drafts). A search, not an AI-in-editor extra.

Publish / New Draft on the cover are CTAs (not desks). Free / Pro / Growth tiles stay in Pricing. “AI in the editor” on Pro is an AI extra, not a sixth drafts desk.

Who it's for

Best fit: developers who will stay on Free at $0 forever (hosted blog, unlimited posts, Markdown) while they open a first draft, then Pro at $5/month per seat when they need a custom domain / headless API — not Growth $34/month unless they need AI citations.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from hashnode.com printed cards (the /pricing URL served the same marketing HTML). Figures below are USD.

• Free — $0 forever. Hosted blog. Unlimited posts. Markdown editor. Comments, series, analytics. Agent-ready and search-ready.
• Pro — $5 a month per seat. Own domain + SSL. Headless GraphQL API. MCP, CLI and agent skill. AI in the editor, no branding.
• Growth — $34 a month, Pro included. Citations in four assistants. AI traffic by assistant. Live AEO score. FAQ blocks, llms.txt, crawler controls.
• Do not invent a $50/year or $340/year tile — those annual figures were not on the cards we fetched.

Page compares Ghost Publisher $29 and beehiiv Pro $95 — those are other products, not Hashnode plans.

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Limitations / costs

• Custom domain prints on Pro $5/seat. Free stays on a Hashnode host.
• Growth is $34/month, not a per-seat table we invent past Pro.
• A blog editor, not Substack’s Posts list. For that list see Substack.

Alternatives

• Substack — a Posts list when you want publishing free + 10% take-rate, not Hashnode’s MY DRAFTS.
• beehiiv — a Compose canvas when you want Free $0 / 2,500, not Pro $5/seat.
• Kit — a Subscribers list when you want Newsletter $0, not Growth $34.

Official tutorial

Official Hashnode channel video: Customizing Hashnode Blog Starter Kit using TailwindCSS — Headless Hashnode Demo (oEmbed author: Hashnode; co-founder). First-party how-to; the drafts/editor still is the cover. Starter-kit chrome on the video is ops of Headless, not generate-on-the-draft-row.

Written path: hashnode.com plus Hashnode/starter-kit.

Website

https://hashnode.com/

Repository

https://github.com/Hashnode/starter-kit

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Hashnode’s official drafts + editor chrome (Joseph Gordon's blog + FAVORITES / MY DRAFTS / PUBLISHED + Publish). Soft-note older brand. Dollars checked on hashnode.com (Free $0 forever; Pro $5/seat/mo; Growth $34/mo — no annual $ printed on the cards we fetched). Tutorial oEmbed author: Hashnode.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.