Price comparisons

Cheapest paid plan by list size

The lowest-priced paid plan that holds each list size, at list price, monthly and yearly, as each vendor's own pricing page showed it. When a list falls between a vendor's price steps, the cell shows the step you'd pay for. Free plans and one plan limit or billing rule worth knowing are in the last columns.

Prices checked on October 10, 2026, in US dollars before tax. Prices change; check the vendor's page before you buy.

Order: by the yearly-billed per-month price at 1,000 contacts, lowest first; vendors with no annual price are placed by their monthly price and marked. Until October 10, 2026 the table was ordered by the monthly price at 1,000 contacts, so a few rows have moved.

1. systeme.io: systeme.io charges flat plans with contact caps (Free 2,000, Startup 5,000, Webinar 10,000), so one price covers a range of list sizes.
2. Sender: Sender's yearly cell is its standard annual bill shown per month, with the annual total under it; the page shows 30% off the first year.
3. Omnisend: Omnisend bills every 30 days, not by calendar month, so a year holds about 12.2 bills (365 ÷ 30); a year costs that many times the cell price.
4. Omnisend: Omnisend has no annual plan; a 30% discount applies if you pay 3 months upfront.
5. AWeber: AWeber's "$79 setup fee" belongs to its optional Done For You service, not to Lite or Plus.
6. Mailchimp: At the 5,001–10,000 tier Mailchimp shows $93.50/mo for the first 12 months, then $110/mo; the table uses $110.
7. Mailchimp: No published annual price for Essentials; overages apply above contact or send limits.
8. Kit: Kit's Pro plan shows a first-year discount; this table uses Creator at its standard price.
9. beehiiv: beehiiv's new plans apply to existing customers from their first renewal on or after November 1, 2026.

How to read it: "yearly" is the per-month price when billed annually. Where a vendor's page shows only the annual bill (Sender, systeme.io), the cell divides it by 12 and gives the annual total in brackets. Intro and first-year discounts are left out and noted. A tool that prices by emails sent rather than contacts is shown on its own line instead of being converted. Rows are ordered on one basis, the yearly-billed per-month price at 1,000 contacts, never by commission; Mailchimp and Omnisend publish no annual price, so they are placed by their monthly price and marked. Warnings in bold are contact-counting rules that can put you in a higher tier than your subscriber count suggests. Names link to the guide that prices that tool in detail.