# MailWizz review (2026): is it worth $59 a year? > Self-hosted email marketing software sold as a license Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. MailWizz is email marketing software that you install on your own server. Administrators manage customers, user groups, delivery and bounce servers, sending domains and templates, while customers create email lists, segments, campaigns, autoresponders and surveys. It sends through SMTP servers or providers such as Amazon SES, SendGrid and Mailgun. The vendor sells annual subscriptions or lifetime licenses with no fees based on subscribers, lists or messages, and an Extended license for running it as a paid service. - **Category:** Email Marketing & Newsletters - **Made by:** MailWizz (since 2013) - **Website:** https://www.mailwizz.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try it free, as there is no trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, MailWizz is a paid product, starting at $59 per year (Regular license); lifetime license $79 once. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Regular subscription | $59 per year for 1 license | For managing your own lists and campaigns. Includes updates and 1 month of premium support. 3 licenses cost $159 a year, 5 licenses $239. | | Extended subscription | $219 per year for 1 license | Adds the right to run MailWizz as a paid service for customers. 3 licenses cost $589 a year, 5 licenses $879. Includes 1 month of premium support. | | Regular lifetime license | $79 one-time | Personal-use license valid for the life of the product, with 1 month of premium support. Extra support is sold in separate support packs. | | Extended lifetime license | $275 one-time | Lifetime license that allows using MailWizz as a SaaS business and charging customers, with 1 month of premium support. | Read from https://www.mailwizz.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with MailWizz before buying. ## Key features - **Lists, segments and campaigns:** Unlimited email lists, segments, subscribers and recurring campaigns, plus autoresponder (follow-up) campaigns and surveys. - **Template builders:** Several drag-and-drop template builders to choose from, including Basic, GrapesJS and Stripo, and uploads of existing email templates. - **Delivery and bounce handling:** Multiple delivery servers (SMTP or email providers), bounce servers, feedback loop servers, sending and tracking domains with DKIM signatures. - **Customer groups and limits:** Customers and administrators sit in groups with fine-grained permissions and limits, so one install can serve many accounts. - **SaaS features:** With an Extended license: price plans, payment gateways (PayPal and offline included), orders, promo codes, currencies and taxes. - **Extensions and themes:** Extensions, themes and language packs can be added; the vendor mentions backup managers and list cleaning services as examples. ## Good for - Teams that can run a PHP application and want one flat license instead of per-subscriber fees - Developers and agencies reselling email marketing under an Extended license ## Worth knowing - You host it yourself; the license does not include servers, sending or deliverability, and the vendor's hosted MailWizz is a separate service. - Subscriptions last one year. If one lapses, the vendor says the application goes offline after a 5-day grace period, though the data stays untouched. - Each license includes 1 month of premium support; longer support is sold separately. - The Regular license is for personal use only; charging customers for access requires the Extended license. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. MailWizz is email marketing software you run on your own server, with no fees by subscriber, list or message. The lifetime licence is $79, but sending and deliverability are separate, and the annual version goes offline after a grace period if it lapses. - **Value for money: A.** The Regular lifetime licence is $79 once, well under a year of this category's middle price of $20 a month. Servers and sending are extra. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no trial is offered, only a demo. - **Features: B.** Lists, segments, campaigns, autoresponders, surveys, bounce handling and customer groups. We found no gap named in the listing for the core job. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. You install and host it yourself, so a D. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, on your server. It connects to Amazon SES, SendGrid and Mailgun among others. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from MailWizz's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email marketing and newsletter tools - MailWizz's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 42 of the 102 other email marketing and newsletter tools we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 97 of 102) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $4.92 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $19 for the category: 1 of the 78 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 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 MailWizz 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 $59 a year. - You could make: Templates: 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: It plugs into other products, Amazon SES, SendGrid and Mailgun among them, and has an API. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Stripo, GrapesJS, PayPal **Tags:** Email campaigns, Marketing automation, Self-hostable, One-time purchase, Templates, Public API ## Alternatives - [AcelleMail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/acelle-mail): Self-hosted email marketing software sold as a one-time license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/acelle-mail-vs-mailwizz) - [Sendy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendy): Self-hosted newsletter app that sends through Amazon SES. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailwizz-vs-sendy) - [Interspire Email Marketer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/interspire-email-marketer): Self-hosted email marketing software with a one-time license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/interspire-email-marketer-vs-mailwizz) - [Mailcoach](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailcoach): Email campaigns priced by emails sent, hosted or self-hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailcoach-vs-mailwizz) - [Mumara](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mumara): Email marketing and sending platform, cloud-hosted or self-hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailwizz-vs-mumara) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.mailwizz.com/pricing/ - https://www.mailwizz.com/ - https://www.mailwizz.com/features/ - https://www.mailwizz.com/integrations/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailwizz Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).