10 Best Campaign Monitor Alternatives
Can’t find the perfect email marketing services?
Are you looking to move away from Campaign Monitor?
Say no more. Today, in this post, we’ll talk about some pros and cons of Campaign Monitor and why you might need an alternative. Then we’ll go through a list of its 10 best alternatives so you can find the one that perfectly meets your needs.
Let’s start, shall we?
Campaign Monitor: Pros and Cons
Campaign Monitor is an email marketing platform powered by Marigold. It recently added SMS support for the USA so that users can add that service to their plan.
It has all the basics an email marketing software requires: segmentation, email automation and even an AI writer.
Campaign Monitor’s lower plan costs $68 per month if you have 5,000 contacts.
However, it doesn’t have a free plan and its free trial is very limited. You can’t send a campaign to more than five people!
It also lacks multichannel functionality, besides SMS and email. You can’t send web push notifications or manage Facebook ads.
Finally, another thing that might be troublesome for some people is the support. While all plans include email support, only the premier — which costs $149 per month — has phone support. So forget about getting help on something that’s too confusing to explain over email.
10 Best Campaign Monitor Alternatives
1. GetResponse
The first on our list is GetResponse. Trusted by big brands like Ikea and Carrefour, it is a powerful yet simple tool to send emails and automate your marketing.
GetResponse has 24/7 live chat in 8 different languages, email, tutorials and a help center.
Although its lower plans focus on email, you can get SMS marketing and push notifications on its higher plans. Plus, you can get much more done on the free plan, compared to Campaign Monitor’s.
Pricing
- Free: send up to 2,500 monthly emails to 500 contacts.
- Email marketing: $19 per month. Send unlimited emails and access the AI email generator.
- Marketing Automation: $59 per month. Access advanced automation features.
- Ecommerce Marketing: $119 per month. Includes abandoned cart recovery.
- GetResponse MAX: $999 per month. Access to SMS marketing, AI recommendations and transactional emails.
It also has a 30-day free trial.
2. Omnisend
Omnisend is another great Campaign Monitor alternative. It’s easier to use and it also has more features.
Just on its free plan, you are able to send up to 500 web push notifications. That’s right, it has a free plan and it allows you to reach up to 250 contacts and send up to 500 emails per month!
Omnisend also has unlimited segmentation, A/B testing and 24/7 email and live chat support.
Pricing
- Free: send up to 500 emails per month to 250 contacts.
- Standard: $16 per month. Send up to 6,000 emails per month to 500 contacts.
- Pro: $59 per month. Send unlimited emails to 2,500 contacts.
3. Constant Contact
Constant Contact is an email and digital marketing platform that’s been in the market since 1995 and whose lowest plan is only $12 per month!
Its new AI helps you create the perfect message in a blink and ensures your email is opened every time with recommended subject lines.
Pricing
- Lite: $12 per month. Includes 10k contacts and marketing CRM.
- Standard: $35 per month. Access to contact segmentation and drill-down reporting.
- Premium: $80 per month. View the email engagement heat map and access ad features.
It also has a 60-day free trial.
4. AWeber
AWeber is a great alternative, especially for creators. One of its differences with Campaign Monitor is it lets you send web push notifications.
It has a free plan and low prices and it has recently launched an AI writing assistant to help you generate content.
It also has Canva built-in and it integrates with tons of apps, allowing you to automate all your tools and save a lot of time.
Pricing
- Free: up to 500 subscribers. Basic email support and one email automation.
- Lite: $12.50 per month. Get advanced message analytics and support 24/7.
- Plus: $20 per month. Unlimited landing pages and email automation.
- Unlimited: $899 per month. Unlimited subscribers.
5. ConvertKit
Another Campaign Monitor alternative that’s also great for creators is ConvertKit. Its user experience is top-notch, it has migration services to help you move and its plans are very affordable.
ConvertKit also has tons of integrations and advanced automation. And you can cross-promote with other creators thanks to the Creator Network.
Pricing
- Free: for up to 1,000 subscribers. Includes unlimited landing pages, forms and broadcasts.
- Creator: $9 per month. Integrate with third parties and add one additional team member.
- Creator Pro: $25 per month. Unlock the newsletter referral system, subscriber scoring and advanced reporting.
6. Drip
Drip defines itself as a marketing automation platform, so you know that advanced automation is a guarantee with them. Besides sending emails, you’ll be able to run multi-channel marketing strategies with ease.
As to the emails, you can send unlimited emails at all times. You can also send mobile alerts!
Moreover, there are collaboration features. It’s easy for users to create subaccounts without another subscription if they need to run multiple accounts.
Pricing
Drip has only one pricing plan with a 14-day free trial. The price is flexible and varies according to how many people are on your email list. The cost for 2,500 contacts is $39 per month.
7. Mailchimp
Back in the day, Mailchimp was seen exclusively as an email marketing platform. However, it has long grown since then and now offers plenty of marketing and automation features.
Thanks to its flexible pricing, you’re able to customize your plan according to how many contacts you have and save a lot of money.
Mailchimp also has a new beta feature called Intuit Assist which uses AI to help you tackle the manual parts of marketing.
Pricing
- Free: available if you have up to 500 contacts. Integrate with up to 300 apps.
- Essentials: starts at $13 per month. Send emails to up to 5,000 contacts and add two team members.
- Standard: $20 per month. Access the generative AI features as well as branded templates.
- Premium: $350 per month. Add unlimited users.
8. Brevo (ex Sendinblue)
If you haven’t heard the name Sendinblue in a while, it’s because now it has relaunched as Brevo.
Brevo is a CRM Suite and an interesting alternative to Campaign Monitor since it doesn’t limit your contacts in each plan. On the contrary, you can have unlimited contacts even on its free plan.
With Brevo, you can run not only email campaigns but also SMS and WhatsApp campaigns, widening the ways to reach your audience.
It also has chatbots with visor intelligence. They will start conversations or trigger automated messages based on visitor insights.
Pricing
- Free: send up to 300 emails per day and customize email templates.
- Starter: $25 per month. Send up to 20k emails per month and access basic reporting and analytics features.
- Business: $65 per month. Invite team members, A/B test and automate your marketing campaign.
- BrevoPlus: custom price. Access advanced integrations and tailored onboarding.
9. EngageBay
EngageBay is an all-in-one CRM software that has received plenty of awards this year. Besides its free plan, it offers free tools such as an email tracker and email validation that you can use as a Chrome extension.
Amongst its features, you’ll find rich formatting options on emails, subscriber filtering based on created data and much more.
Pricing
- Free: for up to 250 contacts. Access video marketing and the autoresponder.
- Basic: $12.99 per month. Available for up to 500 contacts. Integrate with third parties and build landing pages.
- Growth: $49.99 per month. Email up to 3,000 contacts, code your own landing and A/B test.
- Pro: $79.99 per month. You’ll get a dedicated account manager and marketing automation.
10. Klaviyo
Finally, our last Campaign Monitor alternative is Klaviyo, a software launched in 2012.
With Klaviyo, you can create personalized, targeted messages based on your Facebook audience or your eCommerce consumer data.
It lets you send emails, SMS and MMS messages. It also has email and chat support on all its premium plans.
One of its most advanced features is its segmentation, which is hyper-precise and updates in real-time.
Pricing
- Free: send up to 500 emails monthly to 1,500 contacts.
- Email: $45 per month. Send up to 15,000 emails monthly. Includes mobile push notifications.
- Email and SMS: $60 per month. Get more credits to send SMS.
Final words
It’s time to move away from expensive email marketing tools that have limited features and even more limited free trials.
If you found that Campaign Monitor isn’t suiting you anymore, I hope this list provided you with some hope and options to change your provider.
If you want to keep exploring what other alternatives are in the market, make sure you read our post about the 10 Best Constant Contact alternatives.
Are you using any of these alternatives?
Tell us in the comments!
