Mailchimp vs Mailcoach Comparison 2026
Both cover email marketing & automation and newsletter & email. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Email marketing with the longest integration list
Email billed per send, not per contact
At a glance
- Mailcoach starts cheaper, at $9.99.
- Only Mailchimp has a free tier.
Side by side
Mailchimp | Mailcoach | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $20 | From $9.99 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days |
| API | Not stated |
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.
Mailchimp
Email marketing with the longest integration list
Mailchimp is the default nobody gets fired for picking, and the reason is that whatever else you run already connects to it. The editor and the reporting are fine rather than good. Its pricing counts contacts rather than sends, so a large list you mail once a month costs the same as one you mail daily, which is the wrong shape for most creators.
Our note
Pick Mailchimp when integrations decide it, and only then. For a newsletter as the main product, beehiiv and Kit both cost less and were designed for the job rather than adapted to it.
Mailcoach
Email billed per send, not per contact
Mailcoach charges for emails sent rather than contacts stored, which inverts the pricing of most of this category and matters to anybody holding a large list they mail occasionally. Contacts, lists and automations are uncapped at every level. Bringing your own sending provider halves the per-email rate. A self-hosted licence exists for people who would rather run it themselves, and the hosted version is the same software with the operations included.
Our note
Do the arithmetic on your own sending pattern rather than the headline, because this wins decisively on a large occasional list and loses on a small daily one. The bring-your-own-provider rate halves the marginal cost and is the reason to choose this over MailerLite if you already run your own sending infrastructure.
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