Head to head

Email Bump vs Mautic

Mautic is free software with no per-contact cost that you administer yourself. We're a hosted platform priced on contacts with sending included. The comparison is cost against operational load.

Eight rows below, including the three where Mautic wins outright.

8 rows Checked 2 August 2026
The short version

Which one you want, in three sentences

Pick Mautic if you have a large list, a server administrator, and a genuine reason to keep customer data on your own infrastructure. The per-contact saving at scale is enormous.

Pick Email Bump if you'd rather not own cron, upgrades and inbox placement, and want a transactional API on the same plan as the campaigns.

Pick ActiveCampaign if what you want is Mautic's automation depth without either the server or our narrower feature set.

Line by line

8 differences that matter

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

 
Mautic
Email Bump
Licence
Open source, self-hostable.
Proprietary. No self-hosted build.
Contact pricing
None, at any list size.
Metered — $19 at 10,000, $99 at 100,000, $399 at 500,000.
Who runs it
You — PHP, MySQL, cron, upgrades, backups.
Us.
Sending
None — you configure SES, Mailgun or SMTP.
Included, through Amazon SES.
Deliverability
Entirely yours.
Ours — reputation monitoring, bounce and complaint handling.
Automation
Campaign builder with lead scoring and landing pages.
Flows with triggers, waits and branches; no lead scoring or landing pages.
Transactional API
Not what it's for.
Included — same plan, same key, SMTP on the same credential.
Where data lives
Your infrastructure, wherever you put it.
Our infrastructure, in the United States.
Against us

Three places Mautic is the better choice

No per-contact cost, at any size. A 500,000-name list costs the same as a 500-name one. Our top published tier is $399/mo at that size. If the list is large and the budget isn't, nothing we offer changes that arithmetic.

Lead scoring and landing pages. Both included, and neither exists here. For a marketing team that scores leads before handing them to sales, that's a functional gap rather than a price difference.

Your data stays on your infrastructure. Nothing leaves your servers except the mail. For a privacy review or a data-residency requirement, that's an answer we can't give — we're US-only and hosted.

FAQ

Email Bump vs Mautic, asked and answered

Is Email Bump more expensive than Mautic?

Always, and it should be — Mautic's licence is free and you supply everything else. What the difference buys is not administering cron, not chasing upgrades, and not owning inbox placement.

At very large list sizes with a server administrator, Mautic wins on cost decisively.

Can I import my Mautic contacts?

Yes — a CSV of contacts, fields and segment membership imports cleanly. Take the export with subscription status attached so unsubscribes arrive as unsubscribes.

Campaigns rebuild as flows rather than importing, which is true between any two platforms.

Do you have lead scoring?

No. Contacts, custom fields, behavioural events and live segments — you can approximate scoring with a field you increment, and it isn't the same thing.

Mautic, ActiveCampaign and HubSpot all do it properly.

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.