Constant Contact Alternatives: Strong Options Compared

Constant Contact starts at $12 a month, but Mailchimp, Brevo, Kit, AWeber, and GetResponse each beat it somewhere. Compare prices, send limits, and best fit.

By Galactic News Editorial · Published 2026-11-13T04:23:42+00:00 · Updated 2026-11-13T04:23:42+00:00

Constant Contact Alternatives: Strong Options Compared

Constant Contact is a long-running email marketing platform for small businesses. Its Lite plan starts at $12 a month, Standard at $35, and Premium at $80. It is simple to use and includes phone support. But its price rises with your contact count, and its automation tools sit behind higher tiers.

If you want a lower bill, stronger automation, or a free plan that lasts longer, there are good alternatives. This guide compares five of them on price, limits, and best fit. Every price comes from the vendors' own pricing pages, checked in November 2026.

Constant Contact alternatives at a glance

What Constant Contact costs first

Constant Contact sells three plans. Lite starts at $12 a month billed monthly, or $10.20 a month billed yearly. Standard starts at $35 a month, or $29.75 billed yearly. Premium starts at $80 a month, or $68 billed yearly. Your exact price depends on how many contacts you have.

Every plan includes email marketing, social media tools, live phone and chat support, and 300-plus integrations. Lite gives you one user, one automation template, basic reporting, and monthly sends up to 10 times your contact count. Standard adds three users, email scheduling, subject line A/B testing, automatic resend to non-openers, three automation templates, and sends up to 12 times your contacts.

Premium adds unlimited users, unlimited custom automations and segments, dynamic content, Google Ads Manager, SEO recommendations, revenue reporting, a dedicated priority support team, and 500 SMS messages a month. Sends run up to 24 times your contact count. Going over your send limit does not stop your emails. Extra sends cost $0.002 each, which is $2 per 1,000 sends over the limit.

A free trial is available with no credit card required. Every new plan carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Nonprofits can save up to 30% when they prepay for 12 months.

Mailchimp: the all-rounder

Mailchimp is the best-known alternative. Its free plan covers up to 250 contacts and 500 sends a month, with a 250-send daily cap. Essentials starts at $13 a month for 500 contacts. Standard starts at $20 a month for 500 contacts. Premium starts at $350 a month for 10,000 contacts.

Sends scale with your list. Essentials allows 10 times your contact count each month. Standard allows 12 times. Premium allows 15 times. At 5,000 contacts, Essentials costs about $75 a month and Standard about $100 a month.

Mailchimp charges for every contact stored, including unsubscribed contacts. That makes list hygiene matter. Archive unsubscribed contacts or you pay for them. Mailchimp offers no standard annual prepay discount on its marketing plans. Nonprofits get 15% off.

Pick Mailchimp if you want a mature platform with deep reporting and a large template library. Pick Constant Contact if you want phone support on every plan and a simpler interface.

Brevo: the budget pick

Brevo charges by email volume, not by contact count. That makes it cheap for a large list that sends rarely. Its free plan allows 300 emails a day and stores up to 100,000 contacts. Starter starts at $9 a month for 5,000 emails. Standard starts at $18 a month for 5,000 emails. Professional starts at $499 a month for 150,000 emails.

Starter and Standard both include 5,000 emails a month at entry. Standard adds automation without the contact cap, A/B testing, send time optimization, and landing pages. Professional adds WhatsApp, popups, mobile push, phone support, and 10 seats. Yearly billing saves 10%.

At 20,000 emails a month, Starter costs $32 and Standard costs $69. At 100,000 emails, Starter costs $82 and Standard costs $139. The jump from Standard to Professional is steep, from $18 to $499 at entry.

Pick Brevo if you have a big list and send a few campaigns a month. Pick Constant Contact if you want phone support without paying $499 a month.

Kit: the creator pick

Kit, formerly ConvertKit, is built for creators. Its free Newsletter plan covers up to 10,000 subscribers. That is the most generous free tier in this guide. Creator starts at $39 a month for 1,000 subscribers, or $33 a month billed yearly. Pro starts at $79 a month for 1,000 subscribers, or $66 billed yearly.

Prices rise with subscriber count. Creator costs $59 a month at 3,000 subscribers and $89 at 5,000. Pro costs $99 at 3,000 and $139 at 5,000. There are no sending limits on any Kit plan. You can send as many emails as you want.

Creator adds unlimited visual automations, sequences, integrations, and removes Kit branding. Pro adds subscriber scoring, deliverability reporting, the newsletter referral system, and Facebook custom audiences. Kit also sells digital products with a 3.5% plus 30 cent fee on paid plans, and a 0.6% commerce fee on top for some sales.

Pick Kit if you run a newsletter or sell digital products to an audience. Pick Constant Contact if you run a local business and need social posting and phone support.

AWeber: the simple pick

AWeber is one of the oldest email tools. It offers a free plan, plus Lite and Plus. Lite starts at $15 a month for up to 500 subscribers, or $12.50 a month billed yearly. Plus starts at $30 a month, or $20 billed yearly. At 1,000 subscribers, Lite costs $25 a month and Plus costs $45.

Lite includes unlimited email sends, 3 automations, 3 landing pages, and 3 users. It covers only one email list. Plus removes those caps. It adds unlimited automations, lists, and landing pages, removes branding, and adds phone support. Both plans allow sends up to 10 times your subscriber count on Lite and 12 times on Plus.

Pick AWeber if you want a simple tool with a low entry price and unlimited sends. Pick Constant Contact if you need more than 3 automations without paying for the top tier.

GetResponse: the webinar pick

GetResponse combines email marketing with webinars. Its Starter plan starts at $19 a month for 1,000 contacts, or $15.58 a month billed yearly. Marketer starts at $59 a month. Creator starts at $69 a month. Starter includes unlimited monthly sends, one custom automation workflow, a landing page builder, and signup forms.

At 5,000 contacts, Starter costs $54 a month billed monthly. GetResponse's prices are net amounts, so local taxes come on top. Its webinar tools are the main reason to pick it over the others here.

Pick GetResponse if you run webinars or online courses alongside email. Pick Constant Contact if you want a simpler tool without the webinar features you will not use.

How to choose between them

Start with your list size and send volume. If you send rarely to a large list, Brevo wins on price. If you send often to a small list, compare the per-contact plans at your exact count. Mailchimp and Constant Contact both price by contacts. AWeber is cheapest at 500 subscribers. GetResponse is cheapest at 1,000 contacts.

Next, check the free plan. Kit's free plan covers 10,000 subscribers. Brevo's free plan stores 100,000 contacts. Mailchimp's free plan covers only 250 contacts. Constant Contact has no free plan, only a trial.

Then check automation. Constant Contact limits automations on Lite and Standard. Brevo caps automation contacts on its lower plans. Kit gives unlimited automations on Creator. AWeber limits Lite to 3 automations. If automation matters, read the limits before you pay.

Finally, check support. Constant Contact includes live phone support on every plan. Mailchimp reserves phone support for Premium. Brevo reserves phone support for Professional. Kit offers 24-hour support on Creator and priority support on Pro.

Bottom line

Constant Contact is a solid, simple choice with phone support on every plan. Brevo is the cheapest alternative for most small businesses, especially with a large list. Mailchimp is the best all-rounder with the deepest reporting. Kit is the best pick for creators and newsletters, with the most generous free plan. AWeber is the simplest budget pick. GetResponse is the pick if webinars matter. Switch only when the alternative beats Constant Contact on the thing you actually pay for: your list size, your send volume, or your automation needs.