Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
Both cover email marketing & automation. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Embeddable drag-and-drop email, page, and popup builder SDK with AI agents.
Email for lists that outgrew a free plan
Dragble | EmailOctopus | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $99 | From $9 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 14 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
Embeddable drag-and-drop email, page, and popup builder SDK with AI agents.
Dragble is an SDK for SaaS products that need to embed content creation inside their own app. It provides a drag-and-drop HTML email template builder, landing page builder, and popup builder with AI agents connected via Model Context Protocol (MCP). Your product stays in control of authentication, storage, and approvals while Dragble handles the editor UI, responsive preview, and clean HTML export for email clients like Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail. Built for engineering teams that want to skip 3–6 months of development maintaining a production editor. White-label by default: theme the interface, match your typography and colors, and users never see Dragble's name. Ships as React, Vue, Angular, or Vanilla JS packages that drop into your app in minutes. Export to HTML, JSON, PDF, image, or ZIP. AI agents call structured tools to draft, edit, and export content on the live canvas without JSON hallucination or bouncing between separate tools.
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Email for lists that outgrew a free plan
EmailOctopus is deliberately plain: lists, campaigns, a drag-and-drop editor and simple automations, at a price that undercuts the platforms with more features than a newsletter needs. The free tier goes to 2,500 subscribers with the company's branding on every send. Reports only go back 30 days until you pay, which is the free plan's real limit rather than the subscriber count.
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| Data export | Everything, in an open format | Not stated |
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| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
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| Runs on (they differ) | Web, Windows | Web |
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| Covers | Email Marketing & Automation, AI Content Tools, Design & Graphics | Email Marketing & Automation, Newsletter & Email |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Our note
Against MailerLite this comes down to the free tier: 2,500 subscribers here against 1,000 there, with fewer features in return. Start here if the list is the thing growing and the automations can wait.
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