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Alternatives to Mailchimp

Twilio SendGrid, ActiveCampaign, Drip, Campaign Monitor, and Mandrill are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Mailchimp.
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What is Mailchimp and what are its top alternatives?

MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.
Mailchimp is a tool in the Email Marketing category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Mailchimp

  • Twilio SendGrid
    Twilio SendGrid

    Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's. ...

  • ActiveCampaign
    ActiveCampaign

    Recognized as the leader in the marketing and sales automation for small businesses, ActiveCampaign helps over 70k growing businesses meaningfully connect and engage with their customers with personalized, intelligence-driven messages. ...

  • Drip
    Drip

    It is the first ECRM–an Ecommerce CRM designed for building personal and profitable relationships with your customers at scale. It uses customer insight, data, and smarter email marketing automation at scale. With the best customer experience, your brand will never blend in. ...

  • Campaign Monitor
    Campaign Monitor

    Campaign Monitor makes it easy to attract new subscribers, send them beautiful email newsletters and see stunning reports on the results. ...

  • Mandrill
    Mandrill

    Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp. ...

  • SendinBlue
    SendinBlue

    It is a digital marketing toolbox that's built to scale and adapt with you as you grow. You can save time and boost performance by automating your segmentation and marketing messages. ...

  • Constant Contact
    Constant Contact

    As an industry leader in permission based online marketing, Constant Contact partners with the leading providers of online marketing and social media marketing solutions. ...

  • Klaviyo
    Klaviyo

    A cloud-based email marketing solution for e-commerce businesses. It allows users to send out targeted email campaigns based on metrics such as purchasing and viewing history and how customers have interacted with past emails. ...

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Twilio SendGrid

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PROS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
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    Easy setup
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    Cheap and simple
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    Easy email integration!
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    Reliable
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    Well-documented
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    Generous free allowance to get you started
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    Trackable
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    Heroku add-on
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    Azure add-on
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    Better support for third party integrations
  • 6
    Simple installation
  • 6
    Free plan
  • 4
    Helpful evangelist staff
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    Great client libraries
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    Great support
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    Better customer support than the competition
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    Great add-ons
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    Nice dashboard
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    Scalable
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    Web editor for templates
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    Cool setup
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    Within integration
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    Easy set up
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    Free
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    Great customer support
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    Google cloud messaging
CONS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
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    Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
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    Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
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Sr. Engineer at StackShare · | 4 upvotes · 70.5K views

At StackShare we were discussing how to increase the retention of our newly signed up users. We hypothesized that if we made certain changes to the emails in our on-boarding process we could increase our retention and activation of users.

We decided to use sendwithus because it offered us the ability to A/B test our transactional emails. We also utilized the sendwithus analytics dashboard to gain real time insight into the performance of our email campaigns. Furthermore sendwithus has a Rails gem that allowed us to easily integrate the product into our application. We were also able to integrate sendwithus with our SendGrid account. #ABTestingAnalytics #TransactionalEmail

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Julien DeFrance
Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 3 upvotes · 536.1K views

Nexmo vs Twilio ?

Back in the early days at SmartZip Analytics, that evaluation had - for whatever reason - been made by Product Management. Some developers might have been consulted, but we hadn't made the final call and some key engineering aspects of it were omitted.

When revamping the platform, I made sure to flip the decision process how it should be. Business provided an input but Engineering lead the way and has the final say on all implementation matters. My engineers and I decided on re-evaluating the criteria and vendor selection. Not only did we need SMS support, but were we not thinking about #VoiceAndSms support as the use cases evolved.

Also, on an engineering standpoint, SDK mattered. Nexmo didn't have any. Twilio did. No-one would ever want to re-build from scratch integration layers vendors should naturally come up with and provide their customers with.

Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

Many years later, Twilio demonstrated its position as a leader by holding conferences in the Bay Area, announcing features like Twilio Functions. Even acquired Authy which we also used for 2FA. Twilio's growth has been amazing. Its recent acquisition of SendGrid continues to show it.

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ActiveCampaign

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PROS OF ACTIVECAMPAIGN
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    Mirna Hughes
    Growth Marketer at Zenrise · | 2 upvotes · 37K views

    We are considering whether to use Salesforce Marketing Cloud or integrate ActiveCampaign into the Salesforce Sales and Service module.

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    Drip

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      Campaign Monitor

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      Send beautiful email newsletters
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      PROS OF CAMPAIGN MONITOR
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        Beautiful product
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        Good support
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        White labelled
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        Great team
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        Mandrill

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        PROS OF MANDRILL
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          Simple installation
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          Great api
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          Generous free allowance to get you started
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          Cheap and simple
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          Trackable
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          Well-documented
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          Doesn't go to spam
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          Great for mailchimp users
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          Webhooks
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          Client libraries
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          Heroku Add-on
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          Easy to use
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          Meaningful Metrics
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          Free
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          Advanced Tagging and Reports
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          Mobile Access
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          Status Update
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          Very chimp-like
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          Great Documentation
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          love this service
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          Free Plan
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          Webhooks for bounce mail
        CONS OF MANDRILL
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          Really hard to pull analytics out via api

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        We've moved our transactional email away from Mandrill to Mailgun. We had continued using Mandrill after Mailchimp deprecated the service awhile back, because the amount of credits we were offered essentially made it free.

        However, following a couple weeks of frequent downtime and poor service transparency from Mandrill, we decided it was time to make the switch. It appears they no longer had any engineers with the ability to identify the core problems.

        Mailgun has been more reliable, yet not as reliable as we expected. We still see issues a few times per week with the API failing when we attempt to make a call. The Reporting UI is way better.

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        Hi, I've noticed my Mandrill emails are being received fine but my Mailchimp emails, about 75% are going into junk mail. I was wondering is it possible I have missed some sort of integration or can I send my Mailchimp marketing emails via mandrill?

        Need help to somehow reduce the number of my emails going into junk mail, can someone help?

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        PROS OF SENDINBLUE
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          Cheap & Simple
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          Free Unlimited Contact Storage
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