# Mautic review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open source marketing automation you can self-host Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Mautic is an open source marketing automation product with a drag-and-drop campaign builder, email and landing page builders, contact scoring and a REST API. You can self-host it on your own infrastructure at no software cost, or buy managed hosting through Dropsolid, the project's official hosting partner, priced in euros. - **Category:** Email Marketing & Newsletters - **Made by:** Mautic project - **Website:** https://mautic.org - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you do not want to host a server or pay for a hosting partner. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Mautic has a free plan, and paid plans start at €247.50 per month, billed annually (€275 billed quarterly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** The open source software is free to self-host on your own infrastructure. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Mautic Essential | €247.50 per month for up to 50K contacts, billed annually (€275 quarterly) | Shared managed hosting by Dropsolid, 50K emails a month, 100 emails a minute, standard workflows. Priced in euros. | | Mautic Professional | €1237 per month and up | Dedicated managed hosting from 50K contacts, extendable to 3M, with a dedicated IP, dynamic content and a support manager. | | Mautic Enterprise | Custom | Dedicated infrastructure, up to 6M emails a month, SSO, custom plugin support. Sold through sales. | | Self-hosted | $0 | The open source software, which you host and maintain yourself; email sending is separate. | Read from https://www.mautic.org/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Mautic before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off managed Essential billed annually** (Annual discount): Mautic Essential is €247.50 a month billed annually against €275 a month billed quarterly, a 10% discount. Source: https://www.mautic.org/pricing ## Key features - **Campaign builder:** A click-and-drag builder for multi-step campaigns that respond to what contacts do. - **Email and landing pages:** Drag-and-drop email and landing page builders, built for mobile and cross-client use. - **Lead nurturing and scoring:** A central contact overview with point scoring to prioritize leads. - **REST API and plugins:** A REST API and a plugin ecosystem let teams connect Mautic to other systems and extend it. - **Data control:** Self-hosting keeps data on your own infrastructure, and the project lists privacy features aimed at data-protection laws. ## Good for - Teams that want marketing automation without per-contact software fees - Organizations with data sovereignty requirements - Companies with developers or a hosting partner to run it ## Worth knowing - Managed plans come from Dropsolid, not Mautic itself, and are priced in euros: from €247.50 a month billed annually. - Self-hosting means you run, update and secure the install, and email sending is set up separately. - Essential covers up to 50K contacts and 50K emails a month; Professional starts at €1237 a month. - Setup and migration fees vary by hosting partner and are not stated on the pricing page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Mautic is open-source marketing automation with campaigns, landing pages, lead scoring and a REST API. You can host it yourself for free or buy managed hosting from a partner, from about 247.50 euros a month. Either way there is real setup, and email sending is arranged separately. - **Value for money: C.** The software is free, but you run, update and secure it, and sending is separate. Managed hosting from Dropsolid starts at 247.50 euros a month, so one person pays either way. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The open-source software is free to self-host. There is no free managed plan, and no trial is listed. - **Features: B.** Campaign builder, email and landing pages, lead nurturing and scoring, a REST API and plugins. The listing shows no gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: D.** Self-hosting means a server, updates and security, and setup and migration fees vary by hosting partner. No rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with a REST API, plugins and a Drupal integration. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mautic'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 - Mautic'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 ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $276.51 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 46 of the 47 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 28 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 Mautic you would be making email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $3,318.08 a year. Mautic is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Drupal among them, and has an API. - 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 Drupal **Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable, Marketing automation, Email campaigns, Public API ## Alternatives - [listmonk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/listmonk): Free self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/listmonk-vs-mautic) - [ActiveCampaign](https://toolgpa.com/tools/activecampaign): Email marketing and multi-step automation priced by contacts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/activecampaign-vs-mautic) - [Sendy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendy): Self-hosted newsletter app that sends through Amazon SES. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mautic-vs-sendy) - [Mailcoach](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailcoach): Email campaigns priced by emails sent, hosted or self-hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailcoach-vs-mautic) - [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-mautic) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.mautic.org/pricing - https://www.mautic.org/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mautic Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).