Masthead
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Masthead, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Masthead's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Unlimited posts and pages · Markdown or HTML · Marketplace themes or upload your own · masthead.site address · Automatic HTTPS · Image and file uploads · Tags and drafts · Hugo import · €0 forever |
| Paid | €5 a month | Everything in Free · Custom domain · Automatic TLS certificates · Collaborators · Visitor statistics · or €50 billed yearly. Cancel any time. |
The facts
Each one read from Masthead's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- Masthead describes agencies, independent developers, theme developers and site owners as intended users.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- The paid plan lets site owners invite collaborators to a site.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Custom domains
- The paid plan includes a custom domain, and Masthead provisions TLS certificates automatically.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- Each site is available on its own Masthead subdomain and served over HTTPS.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Imports
- Masthead supports importing a Hugo site or individual Markdown and HTML files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Masthead supports signing up with GitHub and importing content from Hugo; its docs describe self-hosting with Docker or Phoenix.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Masthead is not a page builder and has no plugin directory; owners edit the fields defined by each theme.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Masthead is a publishing platform where a website's theme defines both its appearance and the editing experience.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Publishing
- Site owners can write posts and pages in Markdown or HTML and publish them on a Masthead subdomain or custom domain.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- Themes render in a sandbox and cannot query the database, run server code or access the filesystem.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- Masthead can be self-hosted as a Docker container or Phoenix application, but pre-built Docker images are not currently provided.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Statistics
- The paid plan includes visitor statistics counted without cookies or a tracking script.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Theme customization
- custom codechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Theme editor
- Themes declare site settings, post and page fields, and page types that Masthead uses to build the site's admin.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
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