GetResponse vs Mailmodo
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedGetResponse compared with Mailmodo
Mailmodo starts at $149 a month for 500 contacts and its differentiator is interactive AMP email where forms, polls, and checkouts run inside the inbox. GetResponse is far cheaper, sends unlimited volume, and covers webinars and courses Mailmodo does not touch. Take Mailmodo only if interactive email conversion is a specific, tested priority; otherwise GetResponse gives more platform for less money.
Mailmodo compared with GetResponse
GetResponse Marketer costs around $59 a month at 1,000 contacts with unlimited sends, unlimited workflows, five seats, web push, and native webinars. Mailmodo costs $149 for 500 contacts, 2,000 sends, one seat, and one journey, and gives you interactive AMP email that GetResponse does not have. Unless in-email interaction is a measured revenue driver for your audience, GetResponse wins on every other axis by a wide margin.
Choose GetResponse if
Small businesses, creators, coaches, and small ecommerce operators who want serious list-driven email automation with unlimited sends, plus landing pages, funnels, webinars, and course tools in one subscription, at a price bracketed by list size rather than by seat.
Choose Mailmodo if
Consumer-facing businesses with meaningful Gmail share on their list who run surveys, feedback requests, NPS, bookings, or quick-conversion campaigns often enough that removing the click-through step measurably changes revenue, and who can absorb a $149 to $199 monthly floor at small list sizes.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | GetResponse | Mailmodo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Automation | Automation |
| Starting price | $19 per month at 1,000 contacts (Starter) (free plan available) | $149 per month for 500 contacts (Lite, billed annually) (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Subscription bracketed by contact list size across 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000, and 100,000 contacts, with unlimited monthly sends and included user seats. Two billing periods, monthly or twelve-month prepay at an 18 percent discount. | Tiered subscription metered on contacts and email sending credits simultaneously, with seat, active-journey, custom-domain, and API rate limits set per tier. Annual billing saves 20 percent against monthly. |
| Free plan | A free account persists after the 14-day trial with the GetResponse badge on messages, landing pages capped at 1,000 unique visitors a month, webinars limited to 10 people, unlimited courses for up to 250 students, and restricted marketing automation. | No |
| Free trial | 14 days with full access to premium features and no credit card required. | Self-serve free signup is offered from the site; the pricing page does not publish a fixed trial length. |
| Best for | Small businesses, creators, coaches, and small ecommerce operators who want serious list-driven email automation with unlimited sends, plus landing pages, funnels, webinars, and course tools in one subscription, at a price bracketed by list size rather than by seat. | Consumer-facing businesses with meaningful Gmail share on their list who run surveys, feedback requests, NPS, bookings, or quick-conversion campaigns often enough that removing the click-through step measurably changes revenue, and who can absorb a $149 to $199 monthly floor at small list sizes. |
| Setup time | A few hours to import a list, authenticate a domain, and send a first campaign. A week to migrate existing autoresponders and rebuild two or three workflows properly. | A day to import contacts, authenticate a domain, and send a static campaign. Longer for the AMP path, because Google, Yahoo, and Mail.ru whitelisting are separate approval processes with their own turnaround times and nothing interactive renders until they complete. |
| Learning curve | Low to moderate. The email side is immediately familiar, and the workflow canvas is one of the more approachable in the category. The main friction is the breadth: webinars, funnels, courses, and the website builder each have their own logic, and new users often wander through modules they will never use. | Low for the editor and journey builder, which are conventional. The genuinely new learning is strategic rather than technical: working out which of your campaigns benefit from in-email interaction and which are just newsletters that do not. |
| Platforms | Web application, iOS and Android apps, REST API, Hosted landing pages, funnels, websites, and webinar rooms | Web application, REST API, Transactional email API, Hosted AMP and HTML email rendering |
| Compliance | GDPR with EU-based processing, CAN-SPAM compliant unsubscribe handling, Double opt-in and consent field tooling, ISO 27001 certified operations | GDPR tooling for consent and data requests, CAN-SPAM compliant unsubscribe handling, SOC 2 posture published by the vendor |
| Founded | 1998 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Gdansk, Poland | San Francisco, United States, with operations in Bengaluru, India |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped and founder-run | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
GetResponse
Strengths
- Unlimited monthly email sends on every paid plan, with list size as the only meter, which removes the send-volume anxiety that shapes behaviour on metered competitors.
- User seats are included rather than charged, so a five-person team pays the same as a solo operator on the Marketer plan.
- Native webinars, course creation, paid newsletters, and a website builder mean the Creator plan genuinely replaces three or four separate subscriptions.
- Twenty-eight years of deliverability operations and a long-standing European compliance posture, from a vendor that has never had to cut corners for an investor timeline.
Limitations
- No product event stream, no real-time recomputing segments, and no warehouse or reverse ETL connector, which rules it out for product-led SaaS lifecycle messaging.
- The Starter plan's one-workflow limit makes the advertised $19 entry price misleading for anyone shopping for automation.
- No sales CRM worth the name: contact management exists but there are no pipelines, deals, or sales activity tracking.
- Pricing localises by region and the vendor does not publish a single canonical currency table, so cross-border buyers have to check their own figure.
Mailmodo
Strengths
- Genuinely differentiated: no mainstream competitor makes interactive AMP email practical for a non-technical marketer, and building it yourself is not realistic.
- The in-email form and rating blocks solve a real measurable problem, and response rates on feedback and survey campaigns improve materially where AMP renders.
- Automatic HTML fallback means the interactive layer never breaks the campaign for unsupported clients, so the downside is bounded.
- Mailmodo handles the fiddly Google, Yahoo, and Mail.ru whitelisting process rather than leaving it to you, which is a real service.
Limitations
- Pricing is high and multiply constrained: $149 a month buys one seat, one journey, 500 contacts, and 2,000 sends, which is a worse envelope than tools costing a third as much.
- AMP only renders in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Mail.ru, so the differentiator reaches a fraction of most lists and none of an Outlook-heavy B2B audience.
- The 500 active contacts per journey cap on Lite and Pro is a hard limit unrelated to your total contact count and is easy to miss when comparing plans.
- Email only: no SMS, no push, no in-app messaging, so any multi-channel lifecycle programme needs a second platform.
Pricing compared
GetResponse
Subscription bracketed by contact list size across 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000, and 100,000 contacts, with unlimited monthly sends and included user seats. Two billing periods, monthly or twelve-month prepay at an 18 percent discount.
- Starter$19
- Marketer$59
- Creator$69
- EnterpriseCustom
Modelled at 5,000 contacts, Marketer sits in the low hundreds per month with unlimited sends, five users, unlimited workflows, tagging, scoring, cart recovery, funnels, and web push. Nothing else in this category bundles that at that price without either a per-seat multiplier or a send meter. At 50,000 contacts the bill climbs but still compares favourably against HubSpot Professional with contact blocks or EngageBay Pro across multiple seats. The Creator plan at ten dollars above Marketer, including a webinar platform and a course host, is the single best-value line item in the small-business marketing tool market. The counterweight is architectural rather than commercial: you are buying a very good list-driven platform, and no amount of value changes the fact that it cannot act on product events.
Mailmodo
Tiered subscription metered on contacts and email sending credits simultaneously, with seat, active-journey, custom-domain, and API rate limits set per tier. Annual billing saves 20 percent against monthly.
- Lite$149
- Pro$199
- MaxCustom
Measured on conventional capability per dollar, Mailmodo is poor value: $149 a month buys 500 contacts, 2,000 sends, one seat, and one journey, where GetResponse Marketer gives unlimited sends, five seats, and unlimited workflows for around $59, and EngageBay gives a whole CRM and helpdesk besides. Modelled at 5,000 contacts you are into higher tiers on a meter that charges for both list and volume, and at 50,000 contacts you are almost certainly negotiating a Max quote. The only sound reason to accept that premium is a measured conversion lift from interactive email on your specific audience. That lift is real for feedback, surveys, bookings, and quick promotions on Gmail-heavy consumer lists, and close to zero for a B2B list full of Outlook users. Test before you commit to a year.
Editorial verdict on each
GetResponse
GetResponse is the most quietly sensible platform in this category. Twenty-eight years old, bootstrapped, founder-run, EU-hosted, with unlimited sends, included seats, and a genuinely capable list-driven automation builder for around $59 a month at a thousand contacts. The Creator plan bundling native webinars, a course builder, and paid newsletters for ten dollars more than Marketer is the best value on offer to anyone monetising an audience. Two caveats decide whether it is right for you. The $19 Starter plan allows exactly one automation workflow, so the honest entry price is the Marketer tier. And the architecture is list-driven with no product event stream, no real-time segment engine, and no warehouse sync, which permanently rules it out as the lifecycle engine for a product-led SaaS company. Within its shape, it is excellent and underrated. Outside it, no discount helps.
Read the full GetResponse profileMailmodo
InnovationMailmodo is a single good idea executed properly and priced aggressively. Interactive email genuinely works where it renders, the editor makes AMP accessible to people who would never hand-write it, the HTML fallback bounds the risk, and having the vendor handle Google, Yahoo, and Mail.ru whitelisting removes real friction. Against that, $149 a month buys 500 contacts, 2,000 sends, one seat, and one journey, which is a fraction of what GetResponse or EngageBay give you for a third of the money, and the differentiator does not reach Apple Mail or Outlook at all. Buy it if you have a Gmail-heavy consumer list and a specific conversion problem that lives in the gap between the inbox and the landing page, and prove the lift with a test before you sign an annual contract. Do not buy it as a general-purpose marketing automation platform, because judged that way it is expensive and narrow.
Read the full Mailmodo profileGetResponse profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Mailmodo last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.