GetResponse alternatives

Reachkit, my company, makes cold email software, and it isn’t one of the ten: GetResponse sends to people who subscribed, which Reachkit doesn’t do. Prices on this page were checked in October 2026 on each vendor’s own pages; when a vendor only shows its entry tier, the entry names the review site behind the larger tiers.

GetResponse gets several things right: paid plans don’t charge per email, five-star reviewers keep thanking its support team, and Creator puts webinars, courses and paid newsletters on one bill. Choose by why you’re leaving:

• More room on a free plan: Sender, free for 2,500 subscribers.
• A cheaper newsletter at 10,000 contacts: EmailOctopus, $40 a month billed yearly.
• Several automations without paying for Marketer: MailerLite Comfort.
• Lots of contacts, few sends: Brevo, priced by emails sent.
• Daily sends plus automation for less: Moosend.
• Courses and webinars for less than Creator: systeme.io.
• Texts to store customers without Enterprise: Omnisend.
• Branching automation and a sales pipeline: ActiveCampaign.
• Phone support on every plan: AWeber.
• A refund window on a yearly plan: Mailchimp, 60 days, from 10,000 contacts.

The same check on GetResponse: $0 up to 500 contacts, then Starter from $19 a month at 1,000.

Entries 1 to 5 are about price.

Sender, run since 2012 by UAB Sender.lt in Vilnius, sells email and SMS marketing to small businesses and shops, with transactional sending on every plan.

Price, October 2026: the Free Forever plan stores 2,500 subscribers and sends 15,000 emails a month, for one user and with Sender’s logo. Paid plans begin at $9 (Standard) and $15 (Professional) a month for 500 subscribers, and new customers paying a year upfront get 30% off that first year. Monthly sends stop at 12 times the list on Standard and 24 times on Professional. For 10,000 subscribers Sender gives two prices: $57 in a September 2026 blog post, $69 for Standard in its calculator.

Strengths:

• Chat support runs 24/7, free accounts included.
• Trustpilot: 4.9 across 1,572 reviews, where customers often thank chat agents by name.

Drawbacks:

• Every new account gets a quality check before sending, and Trustpilot’s first page of one-star reviews is mostly suspensions, which Sender’s refund policy excludes.

Versus GetResponse: five times the free contacts and six times the free emails, and free users keep chat after day 14, when GetResponse Free drops support. Paid plans limit monthly sends; GetResponse’s don’t. Sender profile

EmailOctopus has offered email marketing for newsletters and small businesses since 2014, run independently by Three Hearts Digital Ltd.

Price, October 2026: the free Starter plan holds 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails a month, for one user, with EmailOctopus branding. Pro costs $10 a month for 500 subscribers, or $9 a month on a yearly plan. For 10,000 subscribers, EmailOctopus’s own blog (October 2, 2026) gives $40 a month billed yearly, and Tooltester reads $44.50 paying monthly. There’s no trial.

Strengths:

• Pro lets you invite any number of users, and unsubscribed, bounced and complained contacts are left off the count.
• Trustpilot: 4.8 across 340 reviews, mostly praising price and ease of use.

Drawbacks:

• No AI writing tools or official MCP server, and Tooltester found no A/B tests or automations started by opens or clicks.
• New accounts are checked before sending, and someone on two lists counts twice, as on GetResponse.

Versus GetResponse: at 10,000 contacts, paying monthly, $44.50 against Starter’s $79, and no limit on teammates where Starter allows 3. You lose the webinars, the AI writers and the MCP server. EmailOctopus profile

MailerLite began in 2010 and has belonged to Vercom, a Polish company, since 2022. Small businesses and creators use it for newsletters, websites and selling digital products.

Price, October 2026: the free plan holds 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month. For 500 subscribers, Comfort is $12 a month and Power $25, 10% less on yearly billing. After the June 16, 2026 price change, review sites read 1,000 subscribers at $19 (Comfort) and $39 (Power), and 10,000 at $89 and $129. Comfort’s monthly sends top out at 10 times the subscriber tier, while Power has no cap under fair use.

Strengths:

• Comfort runs up to 50 active automations of 100 steps each, with 3 seats.
• An MCP server on every plan (sending through it needs a paid one), and reviewers praise ease of use and support.

Drawbacks:

• Most recent one- and two-star Trustpilot reviews tell of a frozen or closed account, and MailerLite’s terms exclude refunds after a policy suspension.
• The free plan is half the size of GetResponse’s.

Versus GetResponse: past one workflow, GetResponse means Marketer at $59 for 1,000 contacts; Comfort gives 50 automations for $19, and costs $89 against Marketer’s $114 at 10,000 (review-site figures for both). Starter at $79 stays cheaper if one workflow is all you use. See the MailerLite profile and MailerLite alternatives.

Brevo is the Paris company that went by Sendinblue until 2023. One account covers email campaigns, SMS, WhatsApp, push notifications, live chat and a CRM.

Price, October 2026: Brevo prices by emails sent a month. The free plan sends 300 a day and keeps up to 100,000 contacts, with Brevo’s logo on emails. Paid plans start at $9 (Starter) and $18 (Standard) for 5,000 emails, but those small tiers also cap contacts, at 500 for 5,000 emails and 2,500 for 15,000. At 20,000 emails, $32 on Starter or $69 on Standard, the cap rises to 500,000 contacts. Unlimited automation workflows start on Standard.

Strengths:

• From the 20,000-email tier, keeping old sign-ups costs nothing extra, up to 500,000 contacts.
• Every plan includes transactional email by API and SMTP.

Drawbacks:

• Sudden suspensions are the most common complaint in its low Trustpilot reviews, followed by support that starts with a bot. The score there is 3.8 from 7,249.

Versus GetResponse: two campaigns a month to 10,000 contacts is 20,000 emails, which Brevo Standard prices at $69 with automations, against $114 on Marketer. Send daily and the math flips, since Brevo’s bill grows with volume. GetResponse offers SMS and transactional email only on Enterprise. Brevo profile

Moosend is a London-registered email marketing and automation company with roots in Athens, owned by Constant Contact since June 2025. Its billing works like GetResponse’s: you pay by subscribers, and sends aren’t capped.

Price, October 2026: Pro starts at $9 a month for 500 subscribers, according to Moosend’s blog. Review sites that read its slider give $16 for 1,000, $48 for 5,000 and $88 for 10,000 paid monthly, with 15% off for six months upfront and 20% for a year. Instead of a free plan there’s a 30-day, no-card trial for up to 1,000 contacts.

Strengths:

• Pro has automation workflows and A/B tests; GetResponse Starter has one workflow and no A/B tests.
• G2 (4.6 to 4.7, about 745 reviews) and Capterra (4.6, 195 reviews) reviewers like the ease of use and the price.

Drawbacks:

• Refunds are no easier: Moosend’s terms say fees are non-refundable and want written notice 60 days before a renewal. On Trustpilot it has 2.9 from 85 reviews, and half of the eight newest were about billing as of October 28, 2026.

Versus GetResponse: 5,000 subscribers with several automations cost $48 here and $95 on Marketer (review-site readings for both). Moosend profile

Entries 6 and 7 are for sellers.

systeme.io, started in 2018 and run by a company registered in Ireland, puts sales funnels, email, websites, online courses, communities, webinars and checkout in one account.

Price, October 2026: the free plan stores 2,000 contacts with 3 funnels and a course. Startup costs $17 a month for 5,000 contacts, Webinar $47 for 10,000 plus 10 evergreen webinars, and Unlimited $97 with no contact limit. Yearly billing charges ten months for twelve: $170, $470 or $970. Email sends are unlimited on all four.

Strengths:

• No transaction fee on Stripe or PayPal sales, unlimited sub-accounts, and an MCP server on all plans, the free one too.
• Trustpilot: 4.9 across 8,716 reviews.

Drawbacks:

• Subscriptions can’t be refunded, and going over your plan gives you 3 days to cut back before an automatic upgrade. Free accounts stop taking payments once lifetime sales reach $10,000.
• G2 and Capterra reviewers call the design options basic and the email analytics thin, and affiliates earn 60% of each sale, so many reviews online are affiliate pages.

Versus GetResponse: 10,000 contacts cost $47 against $134 on Creator, and the free plan stores four times as many. Creator lists webinars for 100 attendees and 3 presenters; systeme.io counts evergreen webinars, so check the format first. systeme.io profile

Omnisend sends email, SMS and web push for ecommerce brands. It pulls customer, order and browsing data from Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Wix and others, and uses it in welcome, abandoned cart and post-purchase flows.

Price, October 2026: the free plan gives 250 contacts and 500 emails a month. Standard is $16 a month at 500 contacts, with sends up to 12 per contact, and Pro is $59 at 2,500 contacts with unlimited sends under fair use. At 10,000 contacts, Kanal and Email Tool Tester read $132 (Standard) and $150 (Pro). No yearly plan is offered. Its help center says new accounts since May 4, 2026 get SMS only on Pro, billed per message; a pricing-page FAQ still lists SMS on Free.

Strengths:

• Live chat and email support around the clock, including on Free.
• 4.7 from 3,195 on the Shopify App Store, 4.4 from 510 on Trustpilot.

Drawbacks:

• Buyers who never opted in still count toward the bill once an automated message reaches them.

Versus GetResponse: SMS without an Enterprise deal, and month-to-month billing: cancel and the plan runs to the end of the cycle. It costs more at 10,000 contacts: $150 on Pro against Marketer’s $114. Omnisend profile

Entries 8 to 10 each change one thing.

ActiveCampaign, a Chicago company founded in 2003, centers on marketing automation and sells an optional sales CRM. Automations start on a signup, click or purchase and split according to what each contact does next.

Price, October 2026: for 1,000 contacts on yearly billing, Starter is $15 a month, Plus $49, Pro $79 and Enterprise $145; review sites put Starter at $19 paying monthly. Starter has one user and 5 actions per automation. Plus adds landing pages, and SMS (US, UK and Australia) and the Enhanced CRM are add-ons from Plus up. Venture Harbour lists Plus at about $189 a month for 10,000 contacts billed yearly.

Strengths:

• Pro adds predictive sending and conditional content, and reviewers rate the automation depth highest.
• Through its remote MCP server, Claude or ChatGPT can add contacts, read campaign results and send campaigns.

Drawbacks:

• Accounts opened since November 3, 2025 are billed for unsubscribed, unconfirmed and bounced contacts too.
• Trustpilot gives it 2.7 from 1,451, with recent reviewers struggling to reach support.

Versus GetResponse: deal pipelines (an add-on) and deeper branching, where Venture Harbour calls GetResponse’s contact management “not a real CRM”. It costs more: about $189 at 10,000 against roughly $93 for Marketer, both yearly (Marketer’s number is my math, 18% off the review-site price). ActiveCampaign profile

AWeber started in 1998, the same year as GetResponse, and offers newsletters, Workflows (its automations), signup forms, landing pages and selling through Stripe.

Price, October 2026: the free plan takes 500 subscribers and 3,000 emails a month, with AWeber branding. Lite is $15 and Plus $30 a month for 500; the published tiers show $25 and $45 for 1,000, and $100 and $135 for 10,000. A yearly plan saves about 17%, or 33% on Plus at 500. Lite’s monthly sends stop at 10 times your tier, with 3 automations; Plus allows 12 times, with unlimited automations, lists and users.

Strengths:

• AWeber advertises 24/7 phone, chat and email help from in-house staff on all plans, though its contact page lists phone as 8am to 8pm ET. Migration is free.
• Six AI tools on every plan, Free included, one of them an MCP server that saves broadcasts as drafts.

Drawbacks:

• Long-time customers’ prices went up in December 2024 (by 50 to 150%, says EmailOctopus, a competitor), and a cancellation only counts once AWeber confirms it, with support asking for your latest invoice.
• As on GetResponse, a subscriber on two lists is counted twice.

Versus GetResponse: at 1,000 subscribers, Plus ($45) undercuts Marketer ($59) with unlimited automations. At 10,000 it’s the reverse: $135 against $114, and Lite’s $100 against Starter’s $79. GetResponse keeps phone support for Enterprise. AWeber profile

Mailchimp, part of Intuit since 2021, offers email marketing with 300+ integrations and ecommerce automation.

Price, October 2026: the free plan covers 250 contacts and 500 emails a month. Essentials starts at $13 and Standard at $20 a month for 500 contacts. For 10,000 contacts, third-party price tables give about $110 (Essentials) and $135 (Standard). Essentials limits flows to 4 steps; Standard allows 200 flow points and branching.

Strengths:

• Its terms promise a 60-day money-back guarantee on yearly plans, sold on Standard and Premium from 10,000 contacts. Monthly plans aren’t refunded unless Mailchimp decides to.
• Predictive segments from Standard up.

Drawbacks:

• Unsubscribed contacts stay on the bill until you archive them.
• Trustpilot gives it 2.5 from 1,554, with complaints about errors, slow help and surprise charges.

Versus GetResponse: switch for the refund window or an app GetResponse’s 170+ integrations miss, not to save money. At 10,000 contacts it’s about $110 against Starter’s $79, and $135 against Marketer’s $114. See the Mailchimp profile and Mailchimp alternatives.

Start with why you’re leaving, then price each tool at your list size:

• A renewal you couldn’t get back. Mailchimp gives yearly plans (from 10,000 contacts) 60 days for a refund request, and Omnisend has no yearly prepay. Moosend’s and systeme.io’s terms refuse refunds, like GetResponse’s.
• Contacts billed twice. Keep one list with tags wherever you land, since EmailOctopus and AWeber also count a person on two lists twice. On Brevo, sends set the price from the 20,000-email tier.
• A list small enough for free. Sender or EmailOctopus (2,500 subscribers each), or systeme.io (2,000 contacts).
• One workflow isn’t enough. MailerLite Comfort or Moosend Pro, or AWeber Plus while the list is small.
• Courses or webinars: systeme.io. A store that wants SMS: Omnisend Pro.
• Branching automation or deal pipelines. ActiveCampaign Plus.

I wouldn’t leave GetResponse over price alone. At 10,000 contacts, Starter’s $79 undercuts MailerLite, Moosend, AWeber and Mailchimp by review sites’ figures, and no paid plan caps your sends. I’d leave when one workflow stops being enough (MailerLite or Moosend), when a free plan would cover you (Sender or EmailOctopus), or when Creator costs more than your courses bring in (systeme.io).

If a lost renewal sent you here, read the next tool’s refund terms before you prepay a year. And if the people you emailed never signed up, that’s cold email, the job I built Reachkit for: it sends from separate domains and inboxes, away from any newsletter account (how that setup works).

Related: the GetResponse profile, MailerLite alternatives and Mailchimp alternatives.