Head to head

Email Bump vs Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor caps Lite at 5× your subscriber count and sells design quality. We don't cap sending and sell a transactional API alongside the campaigns.

Eight rows below, including the three where Campaign Monitor is the better choice.

8 rows Checked 2 August 2026
The short version

Which one you want, in three sentences

Pick Campaign Monitor if you're an agency managing client accounts, or if template quality is what wins your work. Both are genuine strengths and neither is something we've built.

Pick Email Bump if the 5× send cap is the reason you're shopping, or if the list sits alongside a product that also needs receipts and password resets.

Pick neither if you want the cheapest capable tool, which is MailerLite, or the deepest automation, which is ActiveCampaign.

Line by line

8 differences that matter

Campaign Monitor's column comes from their published pricing and documentation on 2 August 2026.

 
Campaign Monitor
Email Bump
Send allowance
5× subscribers on Lite; unlimited from Essentials.
No multiplier on any plan. Uncapped under fair use.
Pricing transparency
Banded by contact count; no static price table published.
A published ladder: $19 at 10,000 contacts, $29 at 25,000, $99 at 100,000.
Free plan
500 contacts and 500 emails a month, plus a 30-day trial.
5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails a month, permanently.
Automation
Journeys, less expressive than the automation specialists'.
Flows with triggers, waits and branches on every plan, including free.
Agency client accounts
A long-standing strength.
None — no client-account model.
Templates and design
The best in the category, by reputation.
A block editor with themes; competent, not a differentiator.
Transactional email
Not part of the marketing plans.
Included — same plan, same key, SMTP on the same credential.
Team seats
Varies by plan.
Unlimited on every plan, including free.
Against us

Three places Campaign Monitor is the better choice

Templates that win pitches. Their design output is genuinely the best in this category and has been for years. Ours is a competent block editor. If your emails need to look like a designer made them without a designer, that difference is worth money.

Agency client accounts. Managing and handing over separate client accounts has been part of the product for a decade. We have projects and workspaces, not a client-billing model.

Send-time optimisation and engagement segments. On Premier. We schedule per recipient timezone but don't model individual engagement patterns the way they do.

FAQ

Email Bump vs Campaign Monitor, asked and answered

Is Email Bump cheaper than Campaign Monitor?

Hard to state precisely, because Campaign Monitor bands its prices by contact count rather than publishing a table. Our ladder is published: $19 at 10,000 contacts, $29 at 25,000, $99 at 100,000, with sending uncapped throughout.

The clearer comparison is the send cap — Lite's 5× multiplier is the tightest here, and we don't have one.

Can I import my Campaign Monitor lists?

Yes — a CSV export of subscribers and custom fields imports cleanly. Take the export with subscription status attached so unsubscribes arrive as unsubscribes.

Do you support agency client accounts?

Not as a billing model. There are workspaces and projects, so you can separate clients' data and keys, but there's no client-billing or hand-over flow.

If you run an agency on Campaign Monitor, that's a real gap.

Try it against your own list

Import a segment and compare

5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails free. Run one campaign through both and let the delivery and click numbers decide.