How to access the beehiiv MCP to connect your AI tools

The beehiiv MCP (Model Context Protocol) server allows you to connect your beehiiv account to AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Once connected, your AI tool can securely access your newsletter and website data — including content, subscriber information, and performance metrics — and use it to generate insights and complete tasks on your behalf.

The current version of the beehiiv MCP provides read-only access to your beehiiv account. Once connected, you can prompt your AI tool to perform tasks using your real beehiiv data. Because your newsletter and podcast data live in the same account, you can query both in a single conversation — a level of cross-channel visibility no other podcast host currently offers through an MCP.

Below are examples based on how you create content on beehiiv: 

• Analyze subject line performance across your recent posts.
• Generate a weekly revenue and ad performance report.
• Identify subscriber segments with high unsubscribe rates.
• Build a content calendar based on your top-performing topics.
• Suggest sponsor categories matched to your audience demographics.
• Audit your beehiiv website for SEO improvements.
• Retrieve per-link click counts for any newsletter post. 
• Identify top-performing links and deep engagement insights. 

• Compare the performance of your last 5 episodes.
• Track how downloads have changed over the last quarter.
• Surface your top-performing episodes by total downloads.
• Benchmark a new episode against your historical average.
• Summarize show-level trends to inform your publishing cadence.
• Generate cross-promotion ideas pairing top newsletter posts with related podcast episodes.

The beehiiv MCP is currently in early access and available to paid plans only. 

1. Go to beehiiv.com/features/mcp.
   
   
   
2. Enter the email address associated with your beehiiv account.
3. Click Request Early Access.
4. Upon acceptance, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to connect your beehiiv account to your AI client of choice and an invitation to the beehiiv private Slack community.

The beehiiv MCP and the beehiiv API are separate surfaces with different design philosophies and should not be thought of as one sitting on top of the other, though there may be some functional overlap.

The beehiiv API is structured and deterministic, meaning, the same input returns the same output every time. It is versioned, and beehiiv will not introduce breaking changes without advance deprecation notice.

Best used for: Fixed, programmatic integrations where consistency and reliability are a priority.

The beehiiv MCP is built for AI agents, which are non-deterministic by nature. It accepts less structured queries and returns richer, more flexible responses, but with less consistency. beehiiv continuously updates MCP tools to improve how agents interact with them, so response formats may change without notice.

Best used for: Building workflows inside AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity.

What AI tools does the beehiiv MCP support?
The beehiiv MCP supports Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, as well as any AI client that supports the Model Context Protocol.
What can I do with the beehiiv MCP right now?
Version 1 of the beehiiv MCP provides read-only access to your beehiiv account. You can ask your AI tool to analyze your content, subscriber data, and performance metrics, and generate insights or reports based on that data.
Can I create or send content using the beehiiv MCP?
Not yet. Write access is not available in v1. beehiiv is actively working on v2, which will include the ability to create drafts, build automations, manage segments, and more.
Will the beehiiv MCP replace the send API for production sends?
No. When MCP write functionality becomes available, there will be some overlap with Send API capabilities. If consistency and reliability in formatting and design are a priority, the beehiiv API will remain the better choice for production sends.
Which plans include access to the beehiiv MCP?
The beehiiv MCP is available to all paid plans on a rolling basis during early access.
How long does early access approval take?
beehiiv is approving users on a rolling basis. You will receive a confirmation email once your request has been approved.
How do workspace user roles and permissions affect MCP access?
All workspace user roles can use the beehiiv MCP. However, the data accessible to each user via the MCP is limited to what that user can view in-app based on their workspace role and permissions.