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Alternatives to Listmonk
21 email marketing tools sit alongside Listmonk in this directory. Below is what separates each from Listmonk on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 12
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Listmonk starts at
- Free
Why people look past Listmonk
Nothing on the record flags a reason to move. Listmonk has a free tier. People still switch over fit and workflow, and those are not things a catalogue entry can measure, which is what the comparisons below are for.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Email marketing tools priced by subscriber count
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Listmonk does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 4 tiers to Listmonk's 2.
Affordable email marketing
- Publishes an entry price of $9/month, where Listmonk does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
The easiest way to start and grow your newsletter
- Publishes an entry price of $9/month, where Listmonk does not.
Email marketing tool with a genuine free tier, priced by contact count once paid
- Sold on a Per month by contact tier once on a paid plan model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 3 tiers to Listmonk's 2.
AGPL newsletter tool from Germany, self-hostable or hosted in the EU with no free plan
- Publishes an entry price of €8/month, where Listmonk does not.
- Sold on a Per month by emails sent model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 4 tiers to Listmonk's 2.
AI-powered email assistant for intelligent inbox management
- Publishes an entry price of $30/month, where Listmonk does not.
- 4 tiers to Listmonk's 2.
Every Listmonk alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listmonk (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | |
| MailerLiteIf you want a cheap hosted newsletter tool with deliverability handled for you and a visual editor a marketer can use. | Free | Subscription | 4 | vs Listmonk |
| EmailOctopusIf you want to send through Amazon SES for low cost but want the interface and deliverability tooling managed rather than self-hosted. | Free, then $9/month | Freemium | 2 | vs Listmonk |
| ButtondownIf you are an individual writer who wants simplicity and paid subscriptions and has no interest in running a server. | Free, then $9/month | - | 2 | vs Listmonk |
| Zoho Campaigns | Free | Per month by contact tier once on a paid plan | 3 | vs Listmonk |
| Keila | Free, then €8/month | Per month by emails sent | 4 | vs Listmonk |
| Shortwave | Free, then $30/month | - | 4 | vs Listmonk |
| Resend | Free, then $20/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Listmonk |
| AWeber | Free, then $15/month | Freemium | 3 | vs Listmonk |
| Brevo | Free | Freemium | - | vs Listmonk |
| Flodesk | Free | Freemium | 4 | vs Listmonk |
| Loops | Free | Freemium | 1 | vs Listmonk |
| RD Station Marketing | Free, then $16/month | Subscription | 4 | vs Listmonk |
| Amazon SES | On request | Per 1,000 emails sent, tiered by volume, no campaign features included | 3 | vs Listmonk |
| Campaign Monitor | On request | Per month by contact tier and plan level | 4 | vs Listmonk |
| SAP Emarsys | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Listmonk |
| Attentive | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Listmonk |
| Ortto | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Listmonk |
| Sailthru | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Listmonk |
| Sendy | $69/one-time | One-time purchase | 3 | vs Listmonk |
| Moosend | On request | Per month by contact count | 4 | vs Listmonk |
| Dotdigital | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Listmonk |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Listmonk badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (12)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- MailerLite , Free
- EmailOctopus , Free, then $9/month
- Buttondown , Free, then $9/month
- Zoho Campaigns , Free
- Keila , Free, then €8/month
- Shortwave , Free, then $30/month
- Resend , Free, then $20/month
- AWeber , Free, then $15/month
What you would be giving up
Listmonk is most often brought in for a publisher with hundreds of thousands of subscribers faces a five-figure annual bill from a hosted provider and can send the same volume through amazon ses for a fraction of it., a developer wants campaign audiences defined by an arbitrary sql query against subscriber attributes, which no hosted segment builder will express., an organisation under privacy or data residency rules needs subscriber data to stay on infrastructure it controls, which rules out every hosted newsletter platform., an open source project or nonprofit needs a mailing list tool with no per-subscriber cost, where the list will grow faster than any budget for it.. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Listmonk is broadly right and the question is cost, the Listmonk pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Email Marketing category lists everything the directory holds, and best email marketing tools ranks them.
Listmonk runs on web, self-hosted, docker, linux, macos, windows. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Listmonk alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Listmonk?
- 21 other email marketing tools are listed in this directory, led by MailerLite, EmailOctopus, Buttondown, Zoho Campaigns. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Listmonk?
- 12 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: MailerLite, EmailOctopus, Buttondown, Zoho Campaigns, Keila.
- Is there a reason to switch away from Listmonk?
- Nothing in the data flags one. Listmonk has a free tier. Fit and workflow are the usual reasons to move, and those are not things this record can measure.
- What would I give up by switching from Listmonk?
- Listmonk is most often brought in for a publisher with hundreds of thousands of subscribers faces a five-figure annual bill from a hosted provider and can send the same volume through amazon ses for a fraction of it., a developer wants campaign audiences defined by an arbitrary sql query against subscriber attributes, which no hosted segment builder will express., an organisation under privacy or data residency rules needs subscriber data to stay on infrastructure it controls, which rules out every hosted newsletter platform., an open source project or nonprofit needs a mailing list tool with no per-subscriber cost, where the list will grow faster than any budget for it.. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Listmonk?
- None of the email marketing tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Listmonk alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Email Marketing, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Listmonk against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Listmonk covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every email marketing tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Email Marketing category, 21 tools beside Listmonk. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.