Mailchimp alternatives? You can just use Laureo
Mailchimp alternatives for teams that sell to the people they email: campaigns, the pipeline, quotes and invoices on every plan, with unlimited contacts.
What is the best Mailchimp alternative for a small business?
For a small business that sells to the people it emails, Laureo is a strong Mailchimp alternative: campaigns go out from the CRM on every plan, beside the pipeline, booking pages, quotes and invoices, with unlimited contacts on all plans. Mailchimp prices each paid plan by contact total and lists no sales pipeline, deals, quotes or invoices.
Mailchimp's own pages state where the bill climbs. Unsubscribed and non-subscribed contacts count toward the billed contact total. Going over the contact limit on a paid plan adds an extra charge to the bill. The table holds each limit as Mailchimp stated it on October 28, 2026, October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026, beside Laureo.
| Where it stops | Mailchimp | Laureo |
|---|---|---|
| Contacts per plan | Mailchimp Essentials stores up to 50,000 contacts, Standard up to 100,000 and Premium up to 200,000; past that, Mailchimp builds a custom plan. | Unlimited contacts and companies on every plan, with no contact tiers to outgrow. |
| Fees outside the plan | Transactional email, SMS, website plans and pay as you go credits are separate add-on fees outside the marketing plan. | One plan and one bill cover your CRM, inbox, email campaigns, booking pages, and quotes and invoices, so you stop paying for separate tools. |
| Quotes and invoices | Mailchimp's marketing CRM page and plan comparison list audiences, segments, tags, the audience dashboard, automation flows and email features; they list no sales pipeline, deals, quotes, invoices or help desk, and name booking, scheduling and customer service only as integration categories. | Quotes, invoices and payment reminders are built in on every plan, with no billing add-on. |
| AI and your data | Mailchimp's terms let it use AI inputs and outputs, including Customer Data, for machine learning to improve its AI model and services. | The AI never trains on your data, and every AI request goes only to providers that keep none of it. |
Is there a Mailchimp alternative without contact limits?
Yes: Laureo has unlimited contacts on all plans, so a list that grows never adds a charge or a contact tier. Mailchimp stores up to 50,000 contacts on Essentials, 100,000 on Standard and 200,000 on Premium, counts unsubscribed and non-subscribed contacts in the total, and adds a charge when the total passes the contact limit.
On the Free plan, Mailchimp stops sending past 250 contacts until the account upgrades to a paid plan or removes contacts.
How do I move my Mailchimp audience to Laureo?
Export the audience from Mailchimp, which gives one CSV file per contact status, then import the subscribed contacts into Laureo, where the import maps the columns and shows any row that looks like a contact you already have. Only a Mailchimp Owner or Admin can export an audience.
Rebuild your segments as contact groups and your flows as Laureo workflows; one-click unsubscribe and email preference categories come on every plan.
Why Laureo wins against Mailchimp
- Unlimited contacts and companies on every plan, with no contact tiers to outgrow.
- One plan and one bill cover your CRM, inbox, email campaigns, booking pages, and quotes and invoices, so you stop paying for separate tools.
- Quotes, invoices and payment reminders are built in on every plan, with no billing add-on.
- The AI never trains on your data, and every AI request goes only to providers that keep none of it.
- Every plan includes monthly AI credits for the assistant, the agents and email drafting.
Why teams look for a Mailchimp alternative
- Reason 1Mailchimp prices every paid plan by contact total, unsubscribed and non-subscribed contacts included, and going over the contact limit adds a charge to the bill.
- Reason 2Each plan also stops at a contact ceiling: up to 50,000 contacts on Essentials, 100,000 on Standard and 200,000 on Premium, and past 250 contacts on Free, sending stops until you upgrade.
- Reason 3Its marketing CRM is segments, tags and an audience dashboard: Mailchimp lists no sales pipeline, deals, quotes or invoices, and points teams that need more to an outside CRM.
- Reason 4Laureo sends campaigns from the CRM in one workspace plan with one full seat included on Pro and two on Business and Ultra, with the pipeline, booking pages, quotes and invoices on every plan and unlimited contacts on all plans.
Laureo vs Mailchimp, feature by feature
- Email campaignsCampaigns to segments on every plan, with open and click tracking, A/B subject tests and send-time suggestions on Business and Ultra. By comparison, Mailchimp sends campaigns on every paid plan, with a monthly send limit tied to the contact limit.
- ContactsUnlimited contacts on all plans, so a growing list never moves you to a new price. By comparison, Mailchimp prices by contact total, counts unsubscribed contacts, and caps Essentials at 50,000 contacts and Premium at 200,000.
- AutomationWorkflow rules, waits, auto-tagging and lead scoring on every plan, with If/Else branching and Follow-up Sequences on Business and Ultra. By comparison, Mailchimp Standard and Premium include up to 200 marketing automation flows, and Essentials gets up to 4 flow steps.
- The sales sideThe pipeline, booking pages, quotes and invoices on every plan, in the same CRM the campaign sends from. By comparison, Mailchimp's marketing CRM lists no sales pipeline, deals, quotes or invoices, and names booking and scheduling only as integration categories.
- AI writing helpEmail drafting with monthly AI credits on every plan, and the AI never trains on your data. By comparison, Write with AI is on Standard and higher, and Mailchimp's terms let it use AI inputs and outputs, Customer Data included, for machine learning.
AI that drafts real work and waits for approval
Laureo runs built-in agents that start on their own and draft the work, on monthly AI credits included in your plan, and by default every agent except Ticket Triage (on Ultra) holds each change it proposes for your approval. Ask Laureo in plain language, for example Hey Laureo, draft follow-ups for every deal that went quiet this week, and review the queue before anything is sent.
Pricing side by side
What it costs
Mailchimp starts at $13/mo. Essentials shows $13 a month for the first 12 months at 500 contacts, Standard $20 and Premium $350 at 10,000 contacts, and every paid plan rises with your contact total, unsubscribed contacts included. Going past the contact limit adds a charge, and SMS, transactional email and website plans are add-on fees.
Laureo bundles the CRM, email marketing, scheduling, and AI agents in one product. One workspace plan with one full seat included on Pro and two on Business and Ultra; add seats as you grow. Pro starts at $83.33 a month billed annually ($99.99 month-to-month). Unlimited contacts on all plans, and Ultra adds cold outreach. Every plan starts with a 14-day trial for $2.99, credited to your first month.
Pricing last verified October 28, 2026. Source: As of October 2026, Mailchimp Essentials shows $13 a month for the first 12 months at 500 contacts, and every paid plan is priced by contact tier (mailchimp.com/pricing).
Your data stays yours. Role-based access, audit logging, and an approval queue: by default, every agent except Ticket Triage asks before it changes a record.
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