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Listmonk pricing
Listmonk publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Listmonk pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Listmonk plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Third-party managed hosting | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Self-hosted
FreeThe entry tier. It covers full agplv3 source, unlimited subscribers and campaigns, no feature gating and no send limits in the software, you supply the server, postgresql and smtp capacity.
Third-party managed hosting
On requestOver Self-hosted, this tier adds:
- Several unaffiliated providers offer hosted Listmonk
- No official hosted service from the maintainer
- Prices vary by provider and are not published centrally
Where Listmonk stops being free
Self-hosted, Free
- Full AGPLv3 source
- Unlimited subscribers and campaigns
- No feature gating and no send limits in the software
- You supply the server, PostgreSQL and SMTP capacity
No paid tier on record
Listmonk lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Listmonk feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Single binary deployment
- SQL segmentation
- Multi-SMTP queues
- Arbitrary subscriber attributes
- Go templating
- Transactional API
- Bounce processing
- Messenger webhooks
- OIDC SSO
People bring Listmonk 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.. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Listmonk are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Email Marketing
Too few email marketing tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listmonk (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Zoho Campaigns | Free | Per month by contact tier once on a paid plan | - | vs Listmonk |
| Amazon SES | On request | Per 1,000 emails sent, tiered by volume, no campaign features included | - | vs Listmonk |
| Campaign Monitor | On request | Per month by contact tier and plan level | - | vs Listmonk |
| Attentive | On request | quote | - | vs Listmonk |
| Keila | Free, then €8/month | Per month by emails sent | - | vs Listmonk |
| Ortto | On request | quote | - | vs Listmonk |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Listmonk badges page.
Before you pay for Listmonk
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Listmonk runs on web, self-hosted, docker, linux, macos, windows, and is published by Listmonk, maintained by Kailash Nadh of Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The full record is on the Listmonk review, and the rest of the category is under best email marketing tools.
Listmonk pricing questions
- How much does Listmonk cost?
- Listmonk publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Self-hosted up to On request for Third-party managed hosting. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Listmonk have a free plan?
- Yes. The Self-hosted tier costs nothing and covers full agplv3 source, unlimited subscribers and campaigns, no feature gating and no send limits in the software.
- What is the difference between Self-hosted and Third-party managed hosting on Listmonk?
- Third-party managed hosting costs On request against Free, and adds several unaffiliated providers offer hosted listmonk, no official hosted service from the maintainer, prices vary by provider and are not published centrally.
- Which email marketing tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 email marketing tools listed alongside Listmonk have a free tier: Zoho Campaigns, Keila.
- What am I actually paying for with Listmonk?
- The record lists 9 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is 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..
- Does Listmonk charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Listmonk prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Listmonk against before paying?
- The closest email marketing tools in this directory are Zoho Campaigns, Amazon SES, Campaign Monitor, Attentive. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Listmonk covering price, platforms and features.