AWeber vs Mailercloud Comparison 2026
AWeber's free plan is capped by subscriber count: 500, with automations included. Mailercloud's free plan is capped by volume instead: 12,000 emails a month, no card required, with no stated subscriber limit. One rewards a small list that mails often. The other rewards a bigger list that stays under the monthly send cap, at the cost of a plainer tool with ordinary reporting.
Email marketing with a free plan that lasts
Twelve thousand free emails every month
At a glance
- Mailercloud starts cheaper, at $10.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
- Mailercloud takes no share of what you earn. AWeber takes 0.6%.
Side by side
AWeber | Mailercloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $12.50 | From $10 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | 14 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
AWeber
Email marketing with a free plan that lasts
AWeber has been sending newsletters since before most of its competitors existed, and it shows in both directions: the deliverability is dependable and the interface is dated. The free plan runs to 500 subscribers with automations included, which is more than most rivals give away. Its ecommerce feature charges a small percentage of each sale on the cheaper plans.
Our note
AWeber's free plan holds 500 subscribers with the automations switched on, twice what MailerLite gives away, so it suits a list that needs sequences before it needs size. The editor is the part that shows its age.
Mailercloud
Twelve thousand free emails every month
Mailercloud gives twelve thousand emails a month on a free plan that needs no card, which is one of the larger permanent allowances in this category. Above it, a single cheap tier lifts the send limit rather than adding features. A separate email API is sold beside the marketing product for anybody who needs transactional sending too. The list-management and reporting tools are ordinary rather than clever, and the free allowance is the reason to be here.
Why people weigh these two
- Mailercloud instead of AWeber
- Mailercloud measures its free plan in sends, twelve thousand emails every month, rather than AWeber's 500-subscriber cap, then $10 against AWeber's $12.50.
- AWeber instead of Mailercloud
- AWeber has a free plan that lasts and paid plans from $12, with a long history of deliverability.
Which one should you pick
Pick AWeber if automations and a fuller feature set matter more than raw send volume. Free covers 500 subscribers with automations, landing pages and forms included, and paid tiers start at $12.50 a month billed annually.
Pick Mailercloud if the list is bigger than 500 and mostly needs to be mailed within a monthly cap rather than run through automations. Free covers 12,000 emails a month with no card, enough for around three thousand subscribers mailed weekly, and the first paid step is $10 a month for unlimited emails at that same contact band. The tools and reporting are plainer than AWeber's, the trade for the bigger free allowance.
Common questions
- Which free plan holds more subscribers?
- Mailercloud's free plan has no stated subscriber cap; it is limited by volume instead, 12,000 emails a month. AWeber's free plan caps the list itself at 500 subscribers, with automations included at that size.
- How does Mailercloud's 12,000 free emails translate to subscribers?
- Roughly three thousand subscribers mailed weekly, or fewer mailed more often. Once you are paying, Mailercloud switches to contact bands instead, starting at $10 a month for unlimited emails at the first band.
- Which one is cheaper once you outgrow the free plan?
- Mailercloud, at $10 a month for its first paid step against AWeber's $12.50 a month Lite plan. Mailercloud's bands rise steeply further up, though: $50 a month at 10,000 contacts and $125 at 25,000.
- Does Mailercloud match AWeber on automation depth?
- Not by its own description: the list-management and reporting tools are called ordinary rather than clever, and the free allowance is the main draw. AWeber includes automations free to 500 subscribers, the main thing its own free plan is built around.
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