Email marketing cost checker
Which email plan fits—and is switching worth it?
For small businesses and creators choosing an email tool or reviewing a bill. See the lowest-cost covered plan at MailerLite, Kit and Mailchimp that meets the requirements you enter. Add your current bill and moving costs to compare the first year. No sign-up required.
Selected plans through 10,000 contacts · U.S. dollars · Sources checked 2026-09-13. Not every plan is covered; Mailchimp paid annual prices are not included. Integrations and email delivery still need your review.
Your plan shortlist
Check your needs to see the lowest-cost covered plan for each provider. This is a limited shortlist, not a ranking of every product or plan.
Compare the tradeoffs
Start with a focused comparison, then run your own numbers above.
How to use this decision
We filter covered plans by contacts, monthly and daily sends, seats, basic automation and branding requirements, then show the lowest subscription cost within each provider. We do not name an overall winner. Unknown or more-than-30-day-old evidence cannot produce a quote. Coverage is uneven and larger tiers are not extrapolated.
Optional active-workflow and step requirements filter out insufficient or unverified capacity. Leave them blank to compare without checking those limits. “Automation” is not feature parity: providers count steps differently, and triggers, branching, integrations, approvals and deliverability still need your review. Pricing assumes the same billable count across tools; the providers’ billing definitions can differ. No email addresses or subscriber lists are needed here.
- Keep: if the current tool meets your needs and moving would not justify the cost.
- Downgrade: check unused capacity and plan features with your current provider before migrating.
- Compare / switch: verify integrations and workflow limits, export permitted data, preserve unsubscribe/suppression records, authenticate your sending domain and test delivery before cancelling the old service.
Never delete contacts solely to fit a cheaper tier without understanding consent, suppression and billing consequences. No provider account is changed by this tool. Commercial compensation is not an input. Provider links go directly to official sites and are not affiliate links. Where privacy settings allow, we count checks and link clicks without collecting your inputs or identifying you.
Provenance
Sources and verification
- Mailchimp: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Essentials: up to 4 steps per flow. Standard: up to 200 steps. Active-flow count was not established; it remains unknown.
- MailerLite: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Read the public USD calculator tiers and billing expressions. Comfort: 10 times tier capacity in monthly sends, 3 seats, 50 automations; Power: unlimited sends subject to fair use. Annual amounts use the displayed annual-equivalent value times 12, as the page does. Promotions excluded.
- MailerLite: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: June 16 update: 250 active subscribers, 2,500 monthly emails, 2 seats and 3 automations. Do not use legacy 500/12,000 limits.
- Kit: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Creator: two users; Pro: unlimited users. Both support automation and branding removal. Exact annual charge for 1,000 subscribers is $390 for Creator and $790 for Pro; rounded monthly-equivalent headlines are not multiplied by 12.
- Kit: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Public calculator module linked by the pricing page: Creator/Pro monthly USD tiers at 1,000, 3,000, 5,000, 8,000 and 10,000 subscribers. Its annual-charge formula is 10 times the monthly price, before rounding the displayed monthly equivalent. No checkout, purchase or customer data used.
- Kit: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Free plan supports 10,000 subscribers and broadcasts. Visual automation and sequences require a paid plan. Current help page supersedes older Newsletter-plan assumptions.
- Mailchimp: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Official Essentials landing page lists $13/month for up to 500 contacts. Higher tiers not inferred from this starting price.
- Mailchimp: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Public GET response used by the pricing page, currency.code USD: Essentials and Standard monthly price.value, audience_size, sends and seats through 10,000 contacts. Exact price.value is used instead of rounded_value; first-month discounts, trials and overages excluded.
- Mailchimp: pricing and limits (opens in a new tab)Official source · U.S./USD · verified 2026-09-13 · effective date not publishedSupports: price, billing cadence, limitsEvidence: Free: 250 contacts, 500 monthly sends, 250 daily sends, one seat. Essentials: 10x tier monthly sends, three seats, single-email automations and flows up to four steps. Standard: 12x tier monthly sends, five seats and expanded automation capabilities.