Pagehaus vs Bear Blog
Bear Blog and Pagehaus both make small, fast blogs from Markdown, with no ads and no tracking scripts. Bear is a blog and nothing else, with a community around it. Pagehaus is a website host with a blog built in.
| Bear Blog | Pagehaus | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A blog: a home page, posts and pages | A website (any HTML you like) with a blog in it |
| Free | A blog on a bearblog.dev address | A site on a pagehaus.site address, blog included |
| Paid | An upgrade, priced in your dashboard | Personal $4 a month, Pro $10 a month |
| Your own domain | With the upgrade | Personal and Pro |
| Writing | Markdown in the browser | Markdown in the browser with a live preview, or files over SFTP |
| Image uploads | With the upgrade | Every plan: paste into the editor |
| Design | Themes and your own CSS | Your site's own header, footer and stylesheet, or the Blog template |
| RSS feed | Yes (RSS and Atom) | Yes (Atom) |
| Discovery | A Discover feed of posts from Bear blogs | None: readers come from search, links and your feed |
| Visitor statistics | The last week for free; in-depth with the upgrade | Every plan, no cookies: 30 days to two years of history by plan |
| Email subscribers | With the upgrade: collect addresses, then send with your own email or a newsletter service | Not offered: RSS and a contact form instead |
| Beyond the blog | Pages | Contact forms, SFTP, version history, password-protected folders, an API and AI assistant tools |
Checked October 2026 against Bear Blog's home page and its documentation on analytics, email lists and styling. Bear shows its upgrade's price in the dashboard, with regional pricing, so we don't list it here.
Choose Bear Blog if
- you only want a blog, and the fewer settings the better;
- you'd like readers to find you through Bear's Discover feed and community;
- you want to collect email subscribers alongside your posts.
Choose Pagehaus if
- you want a whole website with a blog in it: a home page, an about page, a contact form, all in your design;
- you want to upload images without upgrading;
- you'd like to edit over SFTP, or let an AI assistant write and publish for you;
- you want to be able to undo changes, and leave with plain HTML files that work anywhere.