Email marketing for small business teams
What this situation needs
Once two or three people touch the campaigns, the seat count in the plan decides as much as the feature list. The ranking below reads the seats and the published monthly price from each vendor's pricing page.
Suitability scores follow a published rubric: 35 points when three or more seats are included at the entry tier, 30 points when the entry price is published and under US$20 a month, 20 points for stated automation, and 15 points for a free tier or a trial that lets a team test it first.
Ranked for Email marketing for small business teams
Suitability is an editorial score out of 100; facts on each row are verified- Rank 1No preview yet
Sender
Low-cost email and SMS sender with a permanent free plan for 2,500 subscribers and paid tiers from US$7.
Free plan, paid from $7/mo
Suitability 90 of 100. Three seats at US$7 a month, with a free tier of 2,500 subscribers to start on.
Not yet scored - Rank 2No preview yet
MailerLite
Newsletter and automation tool with a 250-subscriber free plan and two paid tiers priced by subscriber count.
Free plan, paid from $12/mo
Suitability 84 of 100. Three seats at US$12 a month; the free tier already includes two.
Not yet scoredCompare with Sender - Rank 3No preview yet
Mailchimp
Marketing platform priced by contact tier, with a 250-contact free plan and Essentials, Standard and Premium tiers.
Free plan, paid from $13/mo
Suitability 80 of 100. Three seats on Essentials at US$13, five on Standard at US$20, each with a fourteen-day trial.
Not yet scoredCompare with Sender - Rank 4No preview yet
AWeber
Long-running small-business sender with annual-billing prices from US$12.49 and an unlimited-subscriber plan at US$19.99.
Flat rate from $12.49/mo
Suitability 76 of 100. Three users on the US$12.49 Lite plan, unlimited users from US$19.99, both on annual billing.
Not yet scoredCompare with Sender - Rank 5No preview yet
GetResponse
Email, automation, landing pages and webinars in one suite, priced by contact tier in euros on the observed page.
Flat rate from €16/mo
Suitability 72 of 100. Three users at €16 a month, five from €54, with a fourteen-day trial.
Not yet scoredCompare with Sender - Rank 6No preview yet
Brevo
Multi-channel platform priced by monthly email volume rather than contact count, with a free tier and transactional sending included.
Free plan, paid from $9/mo
Suitability 64 of 100. Automation and A/B testing at US$18, but the published seat allowance only reaches ten at the Professional tier.
Not yet scoredCompare with Sender - Rank 7No preview yet
Mailjet
Campaign and transactional sender priced by monthly email volume, with unlimited contacts from the Essential plan.
Free plan, paid from $9/mo
Suitability 60 of 100. US$17 removes the contact limit and keeps transactional sending in the same account; seats are not stated on the pricing page.
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