# Mailercloud review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Email marketing platform priced by contacts with unlimited sends Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Mailercloud is an email marketing platform with a drag-and-drop builder, automations, A/B testing and form building. Paid plans are priced by the number of contacts stored rather than emails sent, and the company also sells a separate transactional Email API and an email verifier. - **Category:** Email Marketing & Newsletters - **Made by:** Mailercloud - **Website:** https://www.mailercloud.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 1,000 contacts and 1 advanced automation. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Mailercloud has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month for up to 1,000 contacts, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1,000 contacts and 12,000 emails a month, with the drag-and-drop builder and basic automation. No credit card needed. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1,000 contacts and 12,000 emails a month, with basic automation (1 advanced automation) and email support. | | Premium | $10 per month for up to 1,000 contacts, billed monthly | Unlimited emails (fair use), 25 advanced automations, A/B testing, AI subject lines, priority chat. The page's table lists $50 at 10,000 contacts. | | Enterprise | Custom | Everything in Premium plus dedicated IPs, a dedicated account manager, SLA, SSO and custom integrations, priced to sending volume. | Read from https://www.mailercloud.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Mailercloud before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **25% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page says annual billing saves 25% compared with paying month to month, charged once for the year. Source: https://www.mailercloud.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Drag-and-drop builder and templates:** A template gallery, a drag-and-drop builder and a custom HTML editor, with AMP email support on Premium. - **Automation:** Basic workflows on Free; Premium adds advanced workflows, with 25 advanced automations on Premium and unlimited on Enterprise. - **Segmentation and contact rating:** Contacts can be segmented, monitored and rated, and a form builder collects signups. - **A/B testing and AI subject lines:** Premium includes A/B testing and an AI subject line generator. - **Reports and inbox tools:** Advanced reports, an inbox tracker, blacklist monitoring and delivery by time zone are listed among the features. ## Good for - Senders with large volumes but modest contact counts, since sends are not metered - Small lists that fit within the free plan's 1,000 contacts - Teams that also need a separate transactional email API from the same vendor ## Worth knowing - Pricing steps up by contacts stored, and the contact slider runs from 1,000 to 500,000 before a custom quote. - Unlimited sending on paid plans is subject to a fair use policy. - Dedicated IPs, SSO and a dedicated account manager are Enterprise features. - The Email API for transactional sending starts at $7 a month and is billed separately from the marketing platform. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Mailercloud has a drag-and-drop builder, automation and A/B testing, and a free plan with 1,000 contacts and 12,000 emails a month. Premium is $10 a month at 1,000 contacts and climbs by contact count, $50 at 10,000. Dedicated IPs, single sign-on and an account manager are Enterprise only. - **Value for money: C.** $10 a month for 1,000 contacts is the cheap end of the category, but the price steps up with contacts to $50 at 10,000. Unlimited sending is subject to a fair use policy. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan with 1,000 contacts and 12,000 emails a month, no card needed, though it allows only 1 advanced automation. - **Features: C.** Builder, automation, segmentation, A/B testing and AI subject lines. Dedicated IPs, SSO and an account manager are Enterprise features, and the Email API for transactional sending is billed apart from the marketing platform. - **Ease of use: C.** A web app with no rating on record. You build lists, templates and automations yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento connections. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mailercloud's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email marketing and newsletter tools - Mailercloud's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 27 of the 57 other email marketing and newsletter tools we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 43 of 57) and worst on features (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 12 of the 47 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-marketing ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Mailercloud you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $120 a year. - You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. - You could not: Splitting visitors between versions and telling you which won. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento **Tags:** Email campaigns, Marketing automation, A/B testing, Forms, AI features ## Alternatives - [MailerLite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailerlite): Email newsletters, automations, sites and paid subscriptions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailercloud-vs-mailerlite) - [Sender](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sender): Email and SMS marketing with a free plan for 2,500 subscribers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailercloud-vs-sender) - [Moosend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/moosend): Low-cost email campaigns and automation priced by contacts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailercloud-vs-moosend) - [Brevo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brevo): Email, SMS and WhatsApp marketing priced by emails sent, with a CRM. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brevo-vs-mailercloud) - [EmailOctopus](https://toolgpa.com/tools/emailoctopus): Simple, low-cost email marketing with a free plan for 2,500. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailoctopus-vs-mailercloud) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.mailercloud.com/pricing/ - https://www.mailercloud.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailercloud Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).