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Both cover email marketing & automation. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Emails a reader can fill in without leaving
CRM, email and checkout in one subscription
Mailmodo | Ontraport | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $27 | From $83 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Web |
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Emails a reader can fill in without leaving
Mailmodo sends interactive email: a form, a poll or a booking widget renders inside the message and submits from there, so a survey does not need a landing page and a click. Where a mail client refuses that, it falls back to an ordinary email with a link. Campaigns, journeys and the interactive blocks sit in one builder. The interactive part is the whole reason to pay, so it is worth checking whether the audience reads mail somewhere that supports it before committing.
Our note
Check where your readers actually open mail before buying, because the interactive rendering is the product and the fallback is a normal email with a link. If most of your list is on a client that supports it, the response-rate gain is real and easily worth $27.
CRM, email and checkout in one subscription
Ontraport replaces the usual stack of a CRM, an email tool, a page builder and a payment processor with one system, which is worth it precisely when the handoffs between those are where things break. Automations can move a contact, send a message, charge a card and open a task in the same sequence. Pricing is per plan rather than per contact at the entry tier. It is a large system to learn, and anybody who only needs to send a newsletter will spend weeks configuring something they did not need.
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| Email Marketing & Automation |
| Email Marketing & Automation, Landing Pages & Funnels |
| 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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Our note
Buy this to replace four tools rather than to add a fifth, because the price only makes sense once the CRM, the email tool, the page builder and the checkout have all been cancelled. Kartra and HighLevel are the direct comparisons, and the deciding question is usually which one your existing data moves into most cleanly.
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