Head to head

Email Bump vs Userlist

Userlist models companies and sends in-app messages. We model contacts and events and send email. For B2B SaaS with account-level programmes, that's a real gap in their favour.

Eight rows below, including the two where Userlist wins outright.

8 rows Checked 2 August 2026
The short version

Which one you want, in three sentences

Pick Userlist if your messaging needs to reason about accounts — one email to the admin, another to the team, a nudge when the company's usage drops — or if you want in-app messages in the same tool.

Pick Email Bump if you're paying per user for a large free-tier user base, or if you want a permanent free plan and a published price ladder.

Pick neither if you need a proper object model, which is Customer.io, or the simplest possible setup, which is Loops.

Line by line

8 differences that matter

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

 
Userlist
Email Bump
What's metered
Users, at $10–$12/mo per additional 1,000 above 10,000 included.
Subscribed contacts. Unsubscribed and bounced stop counting.
Account-level targeting
Companies as first-class objects, with company-level automation.
None — company is a contact field, not an object.
In-app messages
Included from the base plan, alongside notifications.
None. Email and inbound email only.
Free plan
None — a 14-day trial.
5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails a month, permanently.
Transactional email
Included on every plan.
Included — same plan, same key, SMTP on the same credential.
Inbound email
Not part of the platform.
Included — receive, parse, download attachments and forward.
Campaign A/B testing
On Professional.
On every plan, with automatic winner selection.
Agent surface
A REST API.
CLI, an MCP server with 29 tools, and agent skills.
Against us

Two places Userlist is the better choice

Companies are real objects. Target an account, roll usage up across its users, message the admin differently from the team. For B2B SaaS that's the correct data model and we don't have it — company is a field on a contact here, which only gets you so far.

In-app messages. Delivered inside your product, against the same user record and the same workflow as the email. We send email. If your onboarding lives partly in-app, that's a channel we can't cover.

FAQ

Email Bump vs Userlist, asked and answered

Is Email Bump cheaper than Userlist?

It depends on your user base. Userlist includes 10,000 users then charges $10–$12 per additional 1,000; we charge $19/mo at 10,000 contacts and $29 at 25,000, and we don't bill unsubscribed or bounced addresses.

For a freemium product with a large non-paying user base, contact-based billing is usually much cheaper.

Can Email Bump target companies?

Not as objects. You can store a company identifier as a contact field and build segments on it, which covers simple cases and not the interesting ones.

If account-level messaging is central, Userlist or Customer.io is the right tool.

Do you support in-app messages?

No. Email and inbound email only. Userlist and Customer.io both deliver in-app.

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.