MailerLite alternatives
By Joris van Huët · each comparison from the vendors' own pricing and help pages, prices dated on the page
The short answer: 9 tools are compared with MailerLite 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 MailerLite costs and who it suits is in its entry, and how to use MailerLite walks through one job with it.
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AWeber
While your list is under 500 people and the budget is zero, AWeber gives you more room: its free plan is titled 500 subscribers and 3,000 emails a month (AWeber free plan), against 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails on MailerLite's (MailerLite pricing).
Brevo
Choose MailerLite if your job is a newsletter or creator business with a site, paid subscriptions and a few people in the account. Choose Brevo if your job is marketing email plus order and account emails from one plan, with SMS or WhatsApp to come.
Constant Contact
If your calendar is built around events, a ticketed workshop, a fundraiser or a seminar series, Constant Contact is the better fit: it runs registration, tickets, promo codes and payments inside the same account as the invitations (event guide).
Constant Contact vs MailerLite: Events, Send Rules and Price
EmailOctopus
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).
GetResponse
Choose GetResponse when a live webinar or a course is the centre of how you sell, because its Creator plan bundles both. Choose MailerLite when the work is newsletters and automations on a tight budget.
Kit
If you want an AI assistant working in your email account before you pay anything, MailerLite is the one to start with: its free plan lists MCP access, limited and without sending, and its Comfort plan opens full MCP and API access from $12 a month for 500 subscribers on monthly billing (MailerLite pricing).
Mailchimp
If you want working automations on a small budget, MailerLite gives more for each dollar at every list size: for 5,000 subscribers its Comfort plan is $49 a month and runs 50 automations of up to 100 steps, against $75 for Mailchimp Essentials, whose flows stop at 4 steps (MailerLite pricing, Mailchimp pricing,.
Moosend
If you mail a large list only a few times a year, Moosend is the cheaper tool by a wide margin, because it sells email credits that never expire: 350,000 sends for $350 (Moosend pricing).
Moosend vs MailerLite: Credits, Unlimited Sends or a Website
Sender
A small shop or service business with up to 2,500 subscribers can run its email on Sender for nothing: the free plan allows 15,000 emails a month to that many people (Sender pricing), where MailerLite's stops at 250 subscribers (MailerLite pricing). Sender stays cheaper on the entry paid plans and adds SMS.
Sender vs MailerLite: Bigger Free Plan and SMS, or More Tools
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