EmailOctopus alternatives
By Joris van Huët · each comparison from the vendors' own pricing and help pages, prices dated on the page
The short answer: 3 tools are compared with EmailOctopus on this site, and the line under each one is the verdict from its comparison: who should pick which, with the figures that decide it on the comparison itself. Read the one that names your job. What EmailOctopus costs and who it suits is in its entry, and how to use EmailOctopus walks through one job with it.
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Brevo
Choose Brevo if your job also includes order emails, SMS or, later, WhatsApp and a sales CRM.
EmailOctopus vs Brevo: A Plain Newsletter or a Wider Toolkit
Mailchimp
If you send a newsletter and a few sequences and want the smallest bill, EmailOctopus Pro costs $31.50 a month for 5,000 subscribers on monthly billing, against $75 for Mailchimp Essentials and $100 for Standard, and its free plan holds 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails a month (EmailOctopus pricing, Mailchimp.
MailerLite
A newsletter of up to 2,500 readers that sells nothing fits EmailOctopus for free: its Starter plan allows 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails a month (EmailOctopus pricing), ten times the 250 subscribers MailerLite gives away (MailerLite pricing).
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