Flodesk is genuinely great at email design. But great-looking emails that don't help you earn aren't enough. InfluencersKit adds paid newsletter subscriptions at 0% fee, programmatic ads from day one, and a sponsorship dashboard — the revenue layer Flodesk is missing.
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Flodesk's flat rate covers beautiful email design — but not paid subscriptions, programmatic ads, or sponsorship revenue. InfluencersKit gives you the full revenue stack.
Flodesk flat rate is $38/month (monthly) or $35/month (annual). InfluencersKit pricing based on Creator plan. Pricing verified as of July 2026 — verify at flodesk.com/pricing.
Flodesk has genuine strengths. These are the gaps that matter when monetisation is your primary goal.
Flodesk's $38/month flat rate sounds like a deal. But it only covers email sending. There's no paid newsletter subscription system, no programmatic ad network, and no sponsorship revenue tools. InfluencersKit's $29/month Creator plan includes all three — your $29 generates revenue that Flodesk's $38 doesn't.
Flodesk has no native ad network. For creators whose newsletters have 2,000, 5,000, or 20,000 subscribers, programmatic ads can add $200–$2,000+/month in revenue. InfluencersKit enables this from day one. Flodesk sends you to third-party ad networks, if you find them at all.
Flodesk is designed for selling digital products like courses and presets via Flodesk Checkout. It's not built for recurring newsletter paid subscriptions the way InfluencersKit is. If you want readers to pay you monthly for premium content, you need a different platform.
InfluencersKit includes A/B subject line testing on the Creator plan ($29/month). Flodesk does not offer A/B testing at any price point. For newsletter creators optimising open rates, this is a meaningful capability gap.
Highlighted rows are the features that directly affect your revenue.
Your subscriber data and history come across without you losing any of the list you built.
Go to your Flodesk Audience tab and export your subscribers as a CSV. You'll get email addresses, segments, and custom fields.
Upload the CSV. Subscriber email addresses and status transfer directly. Flodesk's segment structure maps to InfluencersKit tags.
Recreate your Flodesk welcome workflow as an InfluencersKit automation sequence. Our pre-built newsletter welcome template speeds this up to under 30 minutes.
Replace embedded Flodesk forms on your website with InfluencersKit forms. Update your bio link. Once you've sent your first broadcast from InfluencersKit successfully, cancel Flodesk.
One thing to know: Flodesk's email designs and campaign history don't transfer — only subscriber data and segments move. You'll need to rebuild your email templates in InfluencersKit. Our template library covers the most common newsletter styles.
Flodesk charges a flat $38/month (or $35/month on an annual plan) regardless of your list size. This is appealing at large list sizes, but the platform lacks paid subscription features, a programmatic ad network, and a sponsorship dashboard that newsletter creators need to monetise beyond digital product sales.
Flodesk has Flodesk Checkout for selling digital products and subscription access, but it is not a native newsletter subscription product in the same vein as Substack or InfluencersKit. Flodesk Checkout has no published platform fee (it uses Stripe at standard rates). InfluencersKit has a fully integrated paid newsletter subscription system at 0% platform fee.
Flodesk is excellent for visual email design and is popular with photographers, wedding planners, and lifestyle creators who sell digital products. For newsletter creators who want to monetise through paid subscriptions, programmatic ads, and direct sponsorships, Flodesk is missing the key tools.
Yes. Export your subscriber list from Flodesk as a CSV and import it into InfluencersKit. The migration takes under an hour for most creators.
InfluencersKit offers a drag-and-drop email builder with clean, modern templates. Flodesk is specifically known for highly visual, design-forward templates — if beautiful lifestyle-brand aesthetics are your top priority, Flodesk excels there. InfluencersKit prioritises revenue performance: deliverability, click-through rates, and monetisation over visual elaborateness.
“Flodesk's emails looked beautiful but I couldn't monetise properly. I switched to InfluencersKit, set up paid subscriptions and programmatic ads, and added $600/month in revenue within 90 days. The platform pays for itself many times over.”
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