Comparison

The best Moosend alternatives

Moosend leads on unlimited sending, a 30-day trial with no card, and a credits option for lumpy volume. People leave because there's no permanent free plan and because the brand carries no weight when you need internal sign-off.

Nineteen alternatives below, with what each costs, what its free tier really gets you, and what it is bad at. We make one of them. It's marked, and its gaps are listed like everyone else's.

19 options Prices checked 2 August 2026 No affiliate links

The short answer

Pick by the reason you're leaving

Nobody replaces a platform in the abstract. Something specific stopped working. Start from that, not from a feature matrix.

Cheapest with a free tierMailerLite

From $12/mo, also EU-based, and a permanent free plan Moosend doesn't have.

Cheapest overallEmailOctopus

$9/mo billed yearly, plus 2,500 free subscribers.

Best free tier for a large listBrevo

300 emails a day forever against a large stored list, also EU-based.

Best automationActiveCampaign

When the workflows need logic Moosend's builder can't express.

Best when you also send product emailEmail Bump

Campaigns and a transactional API on the same plan and key. That's us.

Context

What actually goes wrong with Moosend

Moosend is good value and the complaints are mostly about what surrounds the product rather than the product.

No permanent free plan. A 30-day trial with no credit card — genuinely one of the most generous trials here — and then a card. If you want somewhere to park a second list indefinitely, that isn't Moosend.

Pricing is a calculator, not a table. Pro is priced by subscriber count through a slider, so comparing against a published ladder means entering your number first. The credits option — $350 for 350,000 sends — is at least a fixed figure.

Brand recognition is low. This matters more than it should. If you need a marketing director or a client to approve the tool, Mailchimp and ActiveCampaign are names people know and Moosend isn't, whatever the feature comparison says.

A smaller integration catalogue. Fewer native connectors than the big names, so more of your stack gets wired up through Zapier or the API. Fine if you have someone to do it; a real cost if you don't.

The baseline

How Moosend's pricing is shaped

Everything below is compared against these numbers, read on 2 August 2026.

Priced by subscriber count

The plans

Calculator

Unlimited sendsPro — Automation, landing pages, forms, SMTP and transactional email

Custom

Unlimited sendsMoosend+ — Add-ons and contact count negotiated

Quote

Unlimited sendsEnterprise

$350

350,000 sendsCredits — Also $500 for 500,000 and $1,000 for 1,000,000

Worth knowing

The fine print

Unlimited email campaigns and sends on every paid plan.
A 30-day trial with no credit card — among the longest in this category.
A credits model for irregular volume: $350 buys 350,000 sends.
SMTP and transactional email are included rather than a separate product.
Discounts of 15% for bi-annual and 20% for annual billing.

Side by side

All 19, on the things that decide it

Provider	Starts at	Free tier	What it covers	Licence	Data region
Email BumpHosted	$19/mo at 10,000 contacts	5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails a month	The whole product — campaigns, live segments, multi-step flows and behavioural triggers	Proprietary	United States (Amazon SES, us-east-1)
MailerLiteHosted	Comfort from $12/mo; Power from $25/mo	250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month, 2 seats, 3 automations	Campaigns, automations, landing pages, forms and websites	Proprietary	European Union (Lithuania)
BrevoHosted	Paid plans start at 5,000 emails a month; the price scales with send volume	300 emails a day, forever, with contact storage into the tens of thousands	Campaigns, automation, plus SMS, WhatsApp, a CRM and landing pages	Proprietary	European Union (France)
EmailOctopusHosted	Pro from $9/mo billed yearly	2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails a month, with EmailOctopus branding	Campaigns, simple automations, landing pages and forms	Proprietary	United Kingdom
MailchimpHosted	Essentials $13/mo at 500 contacts	250 contacts and 500 sends a month, capped at 250 a day, 1 seat	Campaigns, journeys, landing pages, forms, ads and a light CRM	Proprietary	United States
ActiveCampaignHosted	Priced per tier and contact count; no static price table is published	None — a 14-day trial	The whole product, plus a sales CRM on the higher tiers	Proprietary	United States (Chicago-headquartered)
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)Hosted	Creator $33/mo at 1,000 subscribers ($390/year)	Up to 10,000 subscribers with one basic visual automation	Broadcasts, sequences, visual automations, landing pages, forms and digital product sales	Proprietary	United States
GetResponseHosted	Starter $19/mo at 1,000 contacts ($15.58/mo billed annually)	None — a 14-day trial with feature limits	Campaigns, automation, funnels, landing pages, webinars and courses	Proprietary	European Union (Poland)
Campaign MonitorHosted	Lite and Essentials are priced by contact count on a slider	500 contacts and 500 emails a month	Campaigns, automated journeys, segments and a website builder on Premier	Proprietary	United States, with Australian origins
Constant ContactHosted	Lite from $9/mo; Premium from $69/mo	None — a free trial	Campaigns, events, social posting, surveys and basic automation	Proprietary	United States
AWeberHosted	Lite $15/mo at 500 subscribers; $35/mo at 2,500	None — a 14-day trial with no subscriber limit	Campaigns, automations, landing pages and sales tracking	Proprietary	United States
KlaviyoHosted	Priced by active profiles on a slider; no static price table is published	250 active profiles and 500 email sends a month, plus $5 of mobile messages	Campaigns, flows, ecommerce segmentation, SMS and push	Proprietary	United States
OmnisendHosted	Standard $11.20/mo for 500 contacts; Pro $41.30/mo for 2,500	250 contacts, 500 emails a month and 500 web push notifications	Ecommerce campaigns and automations, SMS and web push	Proprietary	European Union (Lithuania)
LoopsHosted	Priced by subscribed contacts via a slider, not published as a fixed table	1,000 contacts and 4,000 sends a month, with a Loops footer on your email	Campaigns and loops (their term for automations), plus transactional	Proprietary	United States
Customer.ioHosted	Essentials includes 5,000 profiles and 1 million emails a month; the price isn't published as a flat figure	None, but early-stage startups can get a full year free	Event-driven campaigns and journeys across email, push, SMS and in-app	Proprietary	United States, with an EU data centre option
HubSpot Marketing HubHosted	Starter $7/mo per seat with 1,000 marketing contacts	Free Marketing Hub for up to 2 users, with basic email, forms and live chat	Campaigns, omni-channel workflows, landing pages, ads and a full CRM	Proprietary	United States, with EU hosting available
FluentCRMSelf-hostable	$90/year for one site; $174/year for five	A free version of the plugin	Campaigns, sequences, automations, segmentation and forms, inside WordPress	Commercial plugin, with a free edition	Wherever your WordPress site is hosted
MauticSelf-hostable	Free to run; you pay for hosting and a sending provider	Self-hosted — the software is free	Full campaign builder, segmentation, landing pages, forms and lead scoring	Open source	Wherever you deploy it
listmonkSelf-hostable	Free to run; you pay your SMTP provider for the sending	Self-hosted — the software is free	Lists, subscribers, campaigns and templates	AGPL-3.0	Wherever you deploy it

Read off each vendor's own pricing or documentation page on 2 August 2026. Where a vendor renders prices from a slider and publishes no static table, the cell says so instead of repeating a number from someone's affiliate post.

In detail

Every option, and what it's bad at

01Hosted service

Email Bump

Best for: Teams tired of send multipliers, seat limits and paid add-ons

Contact-priced marketing automation with the transactional API included rather than sold as an add-on. Sending isn't a multiple of your list size, seats aren't rationed, and unsubscribed contacts stop counting toward the bill.

Starts at: $19/mo at 10,000 contacts
Free tier: 5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails a month
Marketing: The whole product — campaigns, live segments, multi-step flows and behavioural triggers
Data region: United States (Amazon SES, us-east-1)

What it does well

No send multiplier. Most of this list caps you at 10–15× your contact count; sending here is uncapped under fair use.
Unlimited team seats on every plan, including free — seats are the quiet upsell everywhere else.
Unlimited sending domains, also on every plan.
Unsubscribed and bounced contacts stop being billable, so the number you pay for is your real audience.
The transactional API, SMTP and inbound email are included, not add-ons.
A CLI, an MCP server and agent skills cover the same surface as the API, including creating the account itself.

What to watch for

No sales CRM — no pipelines, deals or lead scoring. If you're replacing ActiveCampaign's sales side, this isn't it.
No SMS or WhatsApp. Email and inbound email only.
No landing page or form builder.
US-only sending; no EU data region.
A much smaller integration catalogue than the incumbents' hundreds of connectors.
The free plan puts a 'Powered by Email Bump' badge on marketing footers.

02Hosted service

MailerLite

Best for: Small teams who want a clean builder and a cheap entry price

The most consistently recommended ActiveCampaign alternative for people who found ActiveCampaign too much. Well-designed, inexpensive, and the Power plan drops the send multiplier entirely.

Starts at: Comfort from $12/mo; Power from $25/mo
Free tier: 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month, 2 seats, 3 automations
Marketing: Campaigns, automations, landing pages, forms and websites
Data region: European Union (Lithuania)

What it does well

Power removes the send cap entirely — unlimited monthly emails and unlimited seats.
$12/mo entry is among the cheapest real plans in this category.
The editor and templates are genuinely pleasant to use.
24/7 support even on the cheaper paid tier.

What to watch for

Free is 250 subscribers and 3 active automations — small.
Comfort caps you at 50 active automations and a 10× send multiple.
Automation logic is shallower than ActiveCampaign's; complex branching gets awkward.
No sales CRM.

03Hosted service

Brevo

Best for: Large lists you email infrequently, and teams that want EU-based billing

Formerly Sendinblue. The structural difference from almost everything else here is that Brevo meters emails sent rather than contacts stored — so a big dormant list costs nothing to keep.

Starts at: Paid plans start at 5,000 emails a month; the price scales with send volume
Free tier: 300 emails a day, forever, with contact storage into the tens of thousands
Marketing: Campaigns, automation, plus SMS, WhatsApp, a CRM and landing pages
Data region: European Union (France)

What it does well

Priced on emails sent, not contacts stored — the cheapest way to hold a large, rarely-mailed list.
French company with EU data handling, which settles a lot of procurement reviews.
SMS, WhatsApp, CRM and landing pages included in the platform rather than bolted on.
The free plan is genuinely usable for a small list.

What to watch for

The free plan's 300-a-day ceiling is a hard daily wall, not a monthly allowance.
Breadth over depth — the automation builder is less capable than ActiveCampaign's.
Deliverability on shared infrastructure gets mixed reports; warm up carefully.
The interface carries the scars of a product that has absorbed a lot of modules.

04Hosted service

EmailOctopus

Best for: The cheapest way to email a list of a few thousand people

Deliberately minimal and priced accordingly. No CRM, no funnels, no ecommerce data model — a list, a campaign, a simple automation, and a bill that stays small.

Starts at: Pro from $9/mo billed yearly
Free tier: 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails a month, with EmailOctopus branding
Marketing: Campaigns, simple automations, landing pages and forms
Data region: United Kingdom

What it does well

2,500 free subscribers and 10,000 free emails a month — ten times most free tiers.
Pro adds unlimited users, which is rare at $9/mo.
Reports kept forever on Pro, against 30 days on free.
Nothing to learn. It does one thing.

What to watch for

Free puts EmailOctopus branding on your email and limits you to 1 landing page and 1 form.
Automation is basic — no branching journeys.
No CRM, no SMS, no ecommerce data.
Not the tool you grow into.

05Hosted service

Mailchimp

Best for: Teams who need the name procurement already recognises

The default answer for a decade, now part of Intuit. Enormous integration catalogue, and a pricing model built around send multipliers and seat counts that gets expensive at the top.

Starts at: Essentials $13/mo at 500 contacts
Free tier: 250 contacts and 500 sends a month, capped at 250 a day, 1 seat
Marketing: Campaigns, journeys, landing pages, forms, ads and a light CRM
Data region: United States

What it does well

The largest integration catalogue in the category.
Template and content tooling that non-marketers can use without training.
Predictive segmentation and reporting on Standard and above.
Every agency and freelancer already knows it.

What to watch for

Free is 250 contacts and 500 sends — a demo, not a plan.
Send multipliers apply: 10× on Essentials, 12× on Standard, 15× on Premium.
Seats are rationed at 1 / 3 / 5 until Premium, which is $350/mo at 500 contacts.
You pay for unsubscribed contacts unless you archive them yourself.

06Hosted service

ActiveCampaign

Best for: Teams that need marketing and sales automation in one system

The deepest automation builder in the mid-market, with a CRM alongside it. Four tiers, priced on contacts, with sending capped at a multiple of your list and most of the interesting parts sold as add-ons.

Starts at: Priced per tier and contact count; no static price table is published
Free tier: None — a 14-day trial
Marketing: The whole product, plus a sales CRM on the higher tiers
Data region: United States (Chicago-headquartered)

What it does well

Automation depth that most of this list doesn't match.
Marketing and sales in one system, with custom objects on Enterprise.
Over 1,000 integrations.
Free migration and onboarding, and no setup fees.

What to watch for

Sending is capped at a multiple of your contacts: 10× on Starter and Plus, 12× on Pro, 15× on Enterprise.
Seats are rationed — 1 user on Starter and Plus, 3 on Pro, 5 on Enterprise.
Starter limits automations to 5 actions each.
CRM, transactional email and SMS are paid add-ons on top of the plan.
No free plan, and the price scales with contacts whether or not you email them.

07Hosted service

Kit (formerly ConvertKit)

Best for: Creators, newsletters and anyone selling their own digital products

Built for individual creators rather than marketing departments, and it shows in the best way: unlimited sending, a free tier that goes to 10,000 subscribers, and commerce built in.

Starts at: Creator $33/mo at 1,000 subscribers ($390/year)
Free tier: Up to 10,000 subscribers with one basic visual automation
Marketing: Broadcasts, sequences, visual automations, landing pages, forms and digital product sales
Data region: United States

What it does well

The most generous free tier here by subscriber count — 10,000, not 250.
Unlimited email broadcasts on every paid plan; no send multiplier.
Sells digital products and subscriptions natively.
Pro includes unlimited users, which most competitors reserve for their top tier.

What to watch for

The free tier allows one basic automation — the sequences are the paid product.
Creator is $33/mo at 1,000 subscribers, well above MailerLite or Mailchimp at that size.
Commerce takes a transaction fee on product sales.
Built around a creator's mental model; a B2B lifecycle team may find it thin.

08Hosted service

GetResponse

Best for: Course creators and anyone who needs webinars in the same tool

An all-in-one that includes things nobody else bundles — webinars, course hosting, a website builder — with unlimited sending on every plan.

Starts at: Starter $19/mo at 1,000 contacts ($15.58/mo billed annually)
Free tier: None — a 14-day trial with feature limits
Marketing: Campaigns, automation, funnels, landing pages, webinars and courses
Data region: European Union (Poland)

What it does well

Unlimited monthly email sends on every plan, including the $19 entry tier.
Webinars, courses and a website builder in the same subscription.
Polish company, so EU data handling comes as standard.
Abandoned-cart recovery and sales funnels on Marketer.

What to watch for

Starter allows exactly 1 automation workflow — the automation is really on Marketer at $59/mo.
No free plan.
Users are capped at 3 on Starter and 5 on Marketer and Creator.
Breadth means some modules feel less finished than the email core.

09Hosted service

Campaign Monitor

Best for: Design-led teams and agencies sending on behalf of clients

The prettiest templates in the category, and a long history with agencies managing multiple client accounts. Now part of Marigold, with a free tier and unlimited sends from the Essentials plan up.

Starts at: Lite and Essentials are priced by contact count on a slider
Free tier: 500 contacts and 500 emails a month
Marketing: Campaigns, automated journeys, segments and a website builder on Premier
Data region: United States, with Australian origins

What it does well

Unlimited email sends from Essentials up — no multiplier.
Template and design quality that agencies keep coming back for.
Send-time optimisation and engagement segments on Premier.
10% off annual plans and 15% off for non-profits.

What to watch for

Lite caps sending at 5× subscribers a month.
The free plan is 500 contacts and 500 emails — an evaluation allowance.
Dollar amounts aren't published as a static table; the page prices by contact band.
Automation is shallower than ActiveCampaign's.

10Hosted service

Constant Contact

Best for: Small local businesses who want a phone number to call

One of the oldest email marketing companies still operating, and still the answer for a restaurant, a gym or a non-profit that wants an event tool, a template and someone on the phone rather than a chat widget.

Starts at: Lite from $9/mo; Premium from $69/mo
Free tier: None — a free trial
Marketing: Campaigns, events, social posting, surveys and basic automation
Data region: United States

What it does well

Event management and registration built in, which almost nobody else has.
Phone support with actual humans, which small businesses value more than features.
Templates and an editor aimed squarely at non-marketers.
Decades of deliverability experience.

What to watch for

Sending is capped at a multiple of your contact list, rising with the tier.
Lite is a single user; automation and segmentation arrive on Standard.
No free plan.
Feels dated next to the newer platforms, and priced as if it doesn't.

11Hosted service

AWeber

Best for: Small businesses who want unlimited users at a low tier

One of the oldest email tools still standing, and it has aged better than most. The Plus plan gives unlimited users at $30/mo — a seat policy the newer platforms reserve for their top tiers — and there's a done-for-you setup service if you'd rather someone else built it.

Starts at: Lite $15/mo at 500 subscribers; $35/mo at 2,500
Free tier: None — a 14-day trial with no subscriber limit
Marketing: Campaigns, automations, landing pages and sales tracking
Data region: United States

What it does well

Plus gives unlimited users at $30/mo — most competitors charge far more for that.
Unlimited landing pages and automations on Plus.
A Done For You tier that includes a 1:1 setup call and weekly newsletter drafts.
Decades of deliverability experience behind it.

What to watch for

Sending is capped at 10× subscribers on Lite and 12× on Plus.
Lite allows only 3 automations and 3 landing pages.
No free plan — a 14-day trial.
Sales tracking carries a 0.6% transaction fee.

12Hosted service

Klaviyo

Best for: Ecommerce, where revenue attribution per email is the point

The ecommerce standard. Deep Shopify and store-data integration, segmentation built on purchase behaviour, and reporting that ties sends to revenue better than anything else here.

Starts at: Priced by active profiles on a slider; no static price table is published
Free tier: 250 active profiles and 500 email sends a month, plus $5 of mobile messages
Marketing: Campaigns, flows, ecommerce segmentation, SMS and push
Data region: United States

What it does well

Best-in-class ecommerce data model — orders, products and browsing drive segments directly.
Revenue attribution per flow and per campaign, out of the box.
SMS and push in the same platform as email.
Predictive analytics on customer lifetime value.

What to watch for

Free is 250 profiles and 500 sends a month.
Priced on active profiles, and the definition of active is broader than 'subscribed'.
It gets expensive fast as the list grows; that's the standard complaint.
Overkill, and overpriced, if you aren't an ecommerce store.

13Hosted service

Omnisend

Best for: Small ecommerce stores that want Klaviyo's shape at a lower price

Ecommerce-focused automation with email, SMS and web push in one plan, priced well below Klaviyo at the sizes most stores actually operate at.

Starts at: Standard $11.20/mo for 500 contacts; Pro $41.30/mo for 2,500
Free tier: 250 contacts, 500 emails a month and 500 web push notifications
Marketing: Ecommerce campaigns and automations, SMS and web push
Data region: European Union (Lithuania)

What it does well

Pro gives unlimited monthly emails at $41.30/mo.
Web push is unlimited from the Standard plan.
SMS from $0.007 with no separate platform fee.
Free migration and 24/7 support even on the entry plan.

What to watch for

Free is 250 contacts and 500 emails.
Standard's 6,000-email allowance is small if you send weekly.
Built for stores; a B2B SaaS will find the data model a poor fit.
Reporting is thinner than Klaviyo's.

14Hosted service

Loops

Best for: SaaS teams who want lifecycle email without assembling it

Contact-priced, opinionated, and quick to set up, with transactional sending folded in at no extra charge. Less configurable than ActiveCampaign by design.

Starts at: Priced by subscribed contacts via a slider, not published as a fixed table
Free tier: 1,000 contacts and 4,000 sends a month, with a Loops footer on your email
Marketing: Campaigns and loops (their term for automations), plus transactional
Data region: United States

What it does well

Transactional sending included rather than billed as a second product.
Genuinely fast to set up — hours, not a fortnight.
The free plan runs a small product.
Clean, modern interface with no legacy modules.

What to watch for

Free adds Loops branding and caps you at 10 emails/second.
Paid pricing sits behind a slider, so budgeting means signing up.
Automation is deliberately simpler than ActiveCampaign's.
No CRM, SMS or landing pages.

15Hosted service

Customer.io

Best for: Product teams sending lifecycle email off real product events

The technical end of this list. You pipe in events and objects, and build messaging on top of your actual data model rather than a list. Powerful, and priced for companies that already know they need it.

Starts at: Essentials includes 5,000 profiles and 1 million emails a month; the price isn't published as a flat figure
Free tier: None, but early-stage startups can get a full year free
Marketing: Event-driven campaigns and journeys across email, push, SMS and in-app
Data region: United States, with an EU data centre option

What it does well

1 million emails a month included on the entry plan — sending is not the constraint.
Data model built on events and objects, not lists and tags.
Extra profiles are $0.009 each, so growth is predictable.
The startup programme gives qualifying companies a year at no cost.

What to watch for

You need engineers. This is not a tool a marketer sets up alone.
Pricing above Essentials is a sales conversation.
No landing pages, forms or CRM — it assumes those live elsewhere.
Overbuilt for a straightforward newsletter.

16Hosted service

HubSpot Marketing Hub

Best for: Companies buying a CRM and getting marketing with it

Not really an email tool — a CRM platform with marketing attached. The free tier is real and useful; the jump to the tier with the automation people actually want is one of the steepest in software.

Starts at: Starter $7/mo per seat with 1,000 marketing contacts
Free tier: Free Marketing Hub for up to 2 users, with basic email, forms and live chat
Marketing: Campaigns, omni-channel workflows, landing pages, ads and a full CRM
Data region: United States, with EU hosting available

What it does well

The free CRM is genuinely free and genuinely useful.
Starter at $7/mo per seat is the cheapest entry on this page.
One system for marketing, sales, service and content.
The reporting and attribution an executive team will ask for.

What to watch for

Professional is $800/mo with a $3,000 mandatory onboarding fee. Enterprise is $3,600/mo plus $7,000 onboarding.
Unlimited workflows — the actual automation — start at Professional.
Additional core seats are $45/mo each.
Marketing contacts are billed separately from CRM contacts, which surprises people.

17Commercial plugin, with a free edition

FluentCRM

Best for: WordPress sites that want the CRM inside WordPress

A WordPress plugin rather than a SaaS. Contacts, sequences and automations live in your own WordPress database, and you bring your own sending provider — so the licence is a flat annual fee no matter how big the list gets.

Starts at: $90/year for one site; $174/year for five
Free tier: A free version of the plugin
Marketing: Campaigns, sequences, automations, segmentation and forms, inside WordPress
Data region: Wherever your WordPress site is hosted

What it does well

Flat annual licence — unlimited contacts, no per-contact pricing at all.
Data stays in your own WordPress database.
Deep integration with WooCommerce, LearnDash, membership plugins and the rest of the ecosystem.
The genuine answer to 'ActiveCampaign alternative for WordPress'.

What to watch for

It doesn't send email. You still pay Amazon SES, Mailgun or similar underneath.
Sending at volume from WordPress cron is fragile; large lists need care.
Deliverability is entirely your problem.
If your site goes down, so does your marketing automation.

18Open source

Mautic

Best for: Owning your marketing automation stack outright

The largest open-source marketing automation project — campaigns, segmentation, landing pages, lead scoring — running on your own PHP and MySQL. Free as software, expensive in attention.

Starts at: Free to run; you pay for hosting and a sending provider
Free tier: Self-hosted — the software is free
Marketing: Full campaign builder, segmentation, landing pages, forms and lead scoring
Data region: Wherever you deploy it

What it does well

No per-contact pricing, ever. The list can be any size.
Feature coverage close to the commercial platforms, including lead scoring.
Your data stays on your infrastructure, which answers most privacy requirements.
Over 10,000 GitHub stars and years of production use.

What to watch for

PHP, MySQL and correctly configured cron — this is a system you administer.
Upgrades are known to be involved.
You bring your own sending provider and own the deliverability.
The interface feels its age next to the commercial tools.

19AGPL-3.0

listmonk

Best for: Newsletters at volume, on hardware you already pay for

A single Go binary and a Postgres database that will push millions of newsletters through whatever SMTP you point it at. Mature, fast, and list-first by design.

Starts at: Free to run; you pay your SMTP provider for the sending
Free tier: Self-hosted — the software is free
Marketing: Lists, subscribers, campaigns and templates
Data region: Wherever you deploy it

What it does well

Over 22,000 GitHub stars and years of production use.
One binary plus Postgres — no queue broker, no Redis.
Handles very large lists on modest hardware.
No per-contact cost at any size.

What to watch for

No automation builder. It sends campaigns to lists.
Bring your own SMTP and your own deliverability.
No CRM, no ecommerce data, no landing pages.
The admin UI is functional rather than beautiful.

FAQ

Moosend alternatives, asked and answered

What is the best Moosend alternative?

For a permanent free tier and a similar price, MailerLite from $12/mo — also EU-based. For the lowest price, EmailOctopus at $9/mo billed yearly. For a big list you email rarely, Brevo. For deeper automation, ActiveCampaign.

If you're leaving because pricing is a calculator, our ladder is published outright: $19 at 10,000 contacts, $29 at 25,000, $99 at 100,000.

Is there a free Moosend alternative?

Moosend runs a 30-day trial rather than a free plan. Kit gives 10,000 free subscribers, EmailOctopus 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 monthly emails, Email Bump 5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails with flows included, Brevo 300 emails a day forever.

Is Moosend's unlimited sending real?

On their published plans, unlimited email campaigns and sends apply to every paid tier, which is more generous than Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, AWeber or Campaign Monitor Lite — all of which cap sends at a multiple of your list.

Sending here is uncapped under fair use, which is the same idea stated more carefully.

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Published prices, and a free plan that stays

$19/mo at 10,000 contacts with sending uncapped under fair use, a permanent free tier at 5,000 contacts, and the transactional API on the same key.

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The best Moosend alternatives

Pick by the reason you're leaving

What actually goes wrong with Moosend

How Moosend's pricing is shaped

The plans

The fine print

All 19, on the things that decide it

Every option, and what it's bad at

Moosend alternatives, asked and answered

What is the best Moosend alternative?

Is there a free Moosend alternative?

Is Moosend's unlimited sending real?

Published prices, and a free plan that stays

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