Constant Contact alternatives

Reachkit makes a cold email tool, and it’s not one of the picks here: it doesn’t send newsletters to people who signed up, which is the job Constant Contact does. I checked every price on this page in October 2026 on each vendor’s own pages. Where a vendor hides its tier prices, I say the figure comes from a third-party check.

Which one fits depends on what you want fixed:

• The closest swap, plus a free plan: Mailchimp, a little cheaper than Constant Contact at 10,000 contacts on third-party price tables.
• A smaller bill for the same newsletter: MailerLite, or Zoho Campaigns, where 10,000 contacts cost $49 a month on Standard.
• Unlimited sends on a cheap plan: Moosend, which Constant Contact has owned since June 2025.
• A large list you only mail now and then: Brevo, priced by emails sent.
• A phone line at a lower price: AWeber.
• Automations that branch on behavior: ActiveCampaign.
• Webinars, courses or a paid newsletter: GetResponse.
• Lots of logins or client accounts: Campaign Monitor.

Mailchimp is the one most Constant Contact users price first. Like every tool here, it only allows email to people who opted in.

Mailchimp, part of Intuit since November 2021, covers the same ground as Constant Contact for small businesses: audiences, sign-up forms, an email builder, automation flows and reports, with SMS as a paid add-on.

Price, October 2026. Free holds 250 contacts and 500 sends a month. Essentials starts at $13 and Standard at $20 a month for 500 contacts; Premium starts at $350 for 10,000. Third-party price tables put 10,000 contacts at $110 on Essentials and $135 on Standard.

Where it’s ahead:

• A free plan, which Constant Contact doesn’t offer, and three seats on Essentials against one on Lite.
• 300+ integrations, predictive segments for stores on Standard, and a Mailchimp app in ChatGPT and Claude for accounts in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

What to watch:

• Unsubscribed contacts count toward your plan until you archive them. An accepted answer on Constant Contact’s community forum says it doesn’t bill unsubscribed contacts.
• Phone support is a Premium feature. Trustpilot shows 2.5 from 1,553 reviews (October 2026), with slow help and billing among the complaints.

Next to Constant Contact: at 10,000 contacts, Mailchimp comes in $10 to $25 a month lower on the third-party figures, but only Premium includes a phone line. See our Mailchimp profile and Mailchimp alternatives.

Entries 2 to 4 cost less than Constant Contact once a list passes a few thousand contacts.

MailerLite is newsletter and automation software for small businesses and creators, owned by the Polish company Vercom since 2022. Landing pages, websites and digital product sales sit in the same account.

Price, October 2026. Free holds 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month. Comfort costs $12 and Power $25 a month for 500 subscribers, 10% less billed yearly, after new prices took effect on June 16, 2026. Third-party readings of the slider put 10,000 subscribers at $89 on Comfort and $129 on Power.

Where it’s ahead:

• Unsubscribed and bounced subscribers stay off the bill, and a one-off spike in sends upgrades you only until renewal.
• Every plan includes MailerLite’s official MCP server, so you can ask Claude to pull a subscriber group or write a draft inside your account. Free accounts can’t send through it.

What to watch:

• Comfort caps sends at 10 times your tier, and live chat on Comfort only starts at the 50,000-subscriber tier.
• Sudden suspensions are the main theme of its one- and two-star Trustpilot reviews, against 4.1 overall from 3,388 (October 2026). Its anti-spam policy lists the bounce, complaint and unsubscribe rates that can get an account suspended.

Next to Constant Contact: at 10,000 subscribers Comfort’s $89 sits $31 under Lite, with three seats and up to 50 active automations. See our MailerLite profile.

Zoho Campaigns is the email, SMS and WhatsApp marketing app in Zoho’s suite, built to sync with Zoho CRM since it launched in 2012.

Price, October 2026. Forever Free covers 2,000 contacts, 6,000 emails a month and 5 users. Standard starts at $4 and Professional at $6 a month for 500 contacts, or $3 and $4.50 billed yearly (25% off). Zoho’s own price data puts 10,000 contacts at $49 on Standard and $81 on Professional, both with unlimited emails.

Where it’s ahead:

• Standard has the lowest contact-based price on this page, and seats are included: 10 users on Standard and 20 on Professional.
• Zoho’s plan comparison lists phone and email support on every plan, and it syncs with Zoho CRM, Salesforce, HubSpot and Shopify.

What to watch:

• Support is the repeat complaint. A Zoho community thread left a duplicate-email bug unsolved from January to April, and the Reddit post that ranks first for a Zoho Campaigns review search says: “There’s no real phone support, despite it being advertised.”
• Reviewers call the editor dated. Zoho has rebuilt the app, but for now only new accounts get the new version.

Next to Constant Contact: the same 10,000 contacts cost $49 instead of $120 on Lite, and you give up the event pages and social posting. G2 and Capterra both show 4.3 (October 2026). See our Zoho Campaigns profile.

Moosend is email marketing and automation from a London-registered company with roots in Athens. Constant Contact bought it from Sitecore in June 2025, and its homepage now says “Moosend is now a Constant Contact company”.

Price, October 2026. Pro is priced by subscribers, with no cap on sends. Moosend’s slider hides the amounts, so these are third-party readings: $9 a month for 500, $48 for 5,000 and $88 for 10,000, or 20% less billed yearly. There’s no free plan, only a 30-day trial with no card.

Where it’s ahead:

• Mailing every day costs the same as mailing once a month, and Pro includes landing pages, forms, automation workflows and five team members.
• Seasonal senders can skip the plan and buy email credits instead ($350 for 350,000), which don’t expire.

What to watch:

• Its terms make fees non-refundable and renew a subscription unless you give written notice 60 days before the term ends. Auto-renewals and refused refunds recur in its recent Trustpilot reviews (2.9 from 85, October 2026), while G2 shows 4.7 from about 745.
• No SMS, social posting or events: Moosend’s homepage points you to Constant Contact for those.

Next to Constant Contact: a lower bill and no send allowance, from the same parent company. If billing is why you’re leaving, read Moosend’s renewal terms before you prepay. See our Moosend profile.

Entry 5 changes what you pay for: emails sent instead of contacts stored.

Brevo, called Sendinblue until 2023, is a Paris-based marketing suite with email, SMS, WhatsApp, push, live chat and a sales CRM in one account.

Price, October 2026. Free sends 300 emails a day and stores up to 100,000 contacts. Starter starts at $9 and Standard at $18 a month for 5,000 emails. The email tier also caps contacts: 500 at 5,000 emails, 2,500 at 15,000, then 500,000 from the 20,000-email tier up. Professional starts at $499.

Where it’s ahead:

• A weekly newsletter to 10,000 people is about 43,000 emails a month. Brevo’s price list puts that at $56 on Starter ($68 with the Brevo logo removed) or $97 on Standard.
• Transactional email by API and SMTP is on every plan.

What to watch:

• Suspensions make up 8 of the 20 reviews on the first page of Brevo’s one- and two-star Trustpilot filter (October 27, 2026), and several reviewers describe getting stuck with a support bot. Its overall score that day was 3.8 from 7,249.
• Phone support starts on Professional, and yearly plans can’t be paused.

Next to Constant Contact: that weekly newsletter costs less than half of Constant Contact Lite’s $120, and a list mailed twice a month fits the $32 tier. See our Brevo profile.

Entries 6 to 9 each fix one gap: phone help, automation, online events, or many logins.

AWeber is email marketing for small businesses and creators, around since 1998. Its homepage promises 24/7 phone, live chat and email support from in-house staff.

Price, October 2026. Free covers 500 subscribers and 3,000 emails a month. Lite costs $15 and Plus $30 a month for 500 subscribers, and AWeber’s own tier table puts 10,000 at $100 on Lite and $135 on Plus. Done For You adds a setup service to Plus, advertised in October 2026 at a limited-time $79 setup fee instead of $599.

Where it’s ahead:

• A person to call for less than Constant Contact charges, and every tier price printed on the pricing page.
• Unsubscribes don’t count toward the bill, and AWeber’s AI writing tools and its MCP server for ChatGPT and Claude come with every plan, Free included.

What to watch:

• Like Constant Contact, it moves you up a tier on its own but only lowers it when you contact support, and one person on two lists counts twice.
• Trustpilot (4.3 from 178, October 2026) has reviews about hard cancellations and disputed charges, and the 14-day trial rolls into a paid plan on its own.

Next to Constant Contact: at 10,000 subscribers Lite is $100 against $120, and Plus at $135 undercuts Standard’s $160 with unlimited users and lists. See our AWeber profile.

ActiveCampaign is a Chicago company founded in 2003 and built around marketing automation, with a light CRM, SMS and WhatsApp sold as add-ons.

Price, October 2026. The pricing page lists Starter at $15, Plus at $49, Pro at $79 and Enterprise at $145 a month, billed yearly for 1,000 contacts. Third parties put Starter at $19 on monthly billing, and Venture Harbour lists Plus at about $189 a month for 10,000 contacts.

Where it’s ahead:

• Automations fork on behavior: opened, clicked, bought or not, each path gets its own steps.
• Its MCP server lets you ask Claude or ChatGPT how recent campaigns did, update contacts, or create and send a campaign. First-time direct customers get a 30-day money-back guarantee, running since February 2026.

What to watch:

• Accounts created on or after November 3, 2025 pay for every stored contact, unsubscribed and bounced ones included.
• Recent Trustpilot reviewers say it’s hard to reach a human, and one wrote that ActiveCampaign “will NOT talk to you on the phone”. The score there is 2.7 from 1,450 (October 2026).

Next to Constant Contact: this is an upgrade in automation, not in price. At 10,000 contacts Plus costs more than Constant Contact Standard’s $160, or $136 prepaid. See our ActiveCampaign profile.

GetResponse is email marketing from Gdańsk, Poland, founded in 1998, with landing pages, funnels, webinars, online courses and a website builder on its higher plans.

Price, October 2026. Free covers 500 contacts and 2,500 newsletters a month. Starter costs $19, Marketer $59 and Creator $69 a month for 1,000 contacts, or 18% less billed yearly. Third-party ladders put 10,000 contacts at $79, $114 and $134, all with unlimited sends.

Where it’s ahead:

• Creator runs webinars for up to 100 attendees, sells courses and paid newsletters, and publishes up to five websites.
• Recent five-star Trustpilot reviews are mostly about support, sometimes naming the agent, and an official MCP server reached every plan at no charge on October 5, 2026.

What to watch:

• GetResponse doesn’t issue refunds. Contacts added in a month count even if you delete them, and the same address on two lists counts twice.
• Billing, blocked sending and cancelling lead its one- and two-star Trustpilot reviews; the overall score is 4.2 from 1,043 (October 2026).

Next to Constant Contact: Marketer at 10,000 contacts costs $114 against Standard’s $160 and adds abandoned-cart flows and funnels. Constant Contact’s events handle sign-ups and payments for any event; GetResponse’s webinars run the session itself. See our GetResponse profile.

Campaign Monitor is Marigold’s email marketing platform, known for its templates, with agency accounts that hold separate client sub-accounts.

Price, October 2026. The pricing page lists Lite at $11.70, Essentials at $27.90 and Premier at $153.90 a month, billed yearly for up to 500 contacts. Third-party trackers put monthly billing at $13, $31 and $171 for 500 contacts, and $117, $182 and $300 for 10,000. Lite sends up to five times your tier each month; Essentials and Premier have no send cap.

Where it’s ahead:

• Every plan includes unlimited users, against one on Constant Contact Lite and three on Standard.
• Agency tooling: client sub-accounts and an admin dashboard that can show markup and earnings.

What to watch:

• An address on several lists counts once per list, and phone support is only on Premier.
• Several recent Trustpilot reviewers say an account was deleted after a stretch without use and with no warning email. The score there is 2.2 from 200, against 4.5 on Capterra (October 2026).

Next to Constant Contact: a franchise or agency gets a login per person from Lite, where Constant Contact needs Premium (from $80) for unlimited users and sends multi-account setups to sales. The bill is close at 10,000 contacts: $117 on Lite against $120. See our Campaign Monitor profile.

Name what you want to change, then price it at your real list size:

• The bill. Zoho Campaigns if a plainer editor is fine, MailerLite if you want a polished newsletter tool, Moosend if you send often.
• 10,000+ contacts mailed once or twice a month. Brevo, because sends set the price.
• The phone line. AWeber’s homepage promises 24/7 phone help, and Zoho’s plan comparison lists it on every plan. Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor keep phone help for their top plans.
• Automation. ActiveCampaign, with a budget above what you pay today.
• Online events or courses. GetResponse Creator.
• No budget at all. Zoho’s Forever Free (2,000 contacts) or Brevo’s Free (300 emails a day).

Before you switch, export your contacts with their opt-in details and authenticate your sending domain on the new tool. If you prepaid Constant Contact, whatever is left on the balance is given up when you cancel, so time the move for the end of the term. Our Constant Contact profile has its full pricing and billing rules.

I’d pin down the one thing Constant Contact is costing you before moving anything. If it’s the bill, I’d price Zoho Campaigns and MailerLite at my real contact count, keeping in mind that Constant Contact owns Moosend. If it’s the phone line, AWeber is where I’d look first, and for automation it’s ActiveCampaign, knowing it costs more.

There’s one job none of these tools take on, Constant Contact included: writing to businesses that never joined your list. That’s cold outreach, sent from separate domains and warmed inboxes, and it’s what I built Reachkit to run (how that setup works).

Related: Mailchimp alternatives, and the Brevo and Moosend profiles.