Mailjet vs Sender

Mailjet compared with Sender

Both are cheap EU-based platforms doing marketing and transactional email in one account, but they meter opposite ways. Mailjet prices on emails sent with unlimited contacts, Sender on subscribers with a send multiplier. Mailjet wins for a large list mailed rarely; Sender wins for a small list mailed often, and its free tier at 2,500 subscribers is far more usable than Mailjet's 200-a-day cap. Sender has better automation, landing pages, popups, and SMS; Mailjet has the stronger transactional API, inbound parsing, sub-accounts, and the collaborative editor.

Sender compared with Mailjet

Both are cheap EU-based platforms that do marketing and transactional email in one account, but they meter differently. Mailjet prices on emails sent with unlimited contacts, which is far cheaper for a huge list mailed rarely. Sender prices on subscribers with a send multiplier, which is cheaper for a small list mailed often. Sender has better automation, landing pages, popups, and SMS; Mailjet has a much stronger transactional API with inbound parsing, sub-accounts, and proper message logs. Model your own send frequency, then pick.

Mailjet

Metered on monthly emails sent rather than on contacts stored, with unlimited contacts on the Essential tier and above. Four published tiers plus a quoted Custom tier, scaling with send volume.

• Free$0
• Starter$9
• Essential$17
• Premium$27
• CustomQuoted

Because Mailjet meters sends rather than contacts, the standard comparison points need translating. A 1,000-contact list mailed once a month is 1,000 emails, comfortably inside the free plan, though the 200-a-day cap means the send takes five days; $9 on Starter fixes that. A 10,000-contact list mailed once a month is 10,000 emails, inside the $17 Essential tier with room to spare, against $120 to $275 on Constant Contact and $100 to $135 on AWeber for the same list. A 50,000-contact list mailed once a month is 50,000 emails, which needs a higher volume step but still lands far below the $430 to $575 Constant Contact charges. Mail that same 50,000-contact list weekly and the picture changes: 200,000 emails a month moves Mailjet up several volume steps while the contact-priced platforms charge exactly the same as before. Mailjet is outstanding value for a large list mailed occasionally and merely competitive for a small list mailed often. Add the transactional API on the same account, which replaces a separate Postmark or Resend subscription for low-volume application mail, and the total-cost case for a small business gets stronger still.

Sender

Subscriber-based subscription with a monthly send allowance set as a multiple of list size, priced on a slider rather than in a published static table. Prepaid email credits are available as an alternative for occasional senders.

• Free Forever$0
• StandardFrom $7
• ProfessionalFrom $14
• EnterpriseCustom

At the volumes this directory compares, Sender is the cheapest credible option on the list. A 1,000-subscriber list is entirely free, including automation, landing pages, and popups, where Constant Contact would charge $30 to $110 and AWeber $20 to $45. A 10,000-subscriber list moves onto a paid tier whose price the slider sets from the $7 and $14 entry points, and which in practice lands well below the $120 to $275 Constant Contact charges and the $100 to $135 AWeber charges at the same size. Fifty thousand subscribers likewise sits far below the $430 to $575 range at Constant Contact. The send multipliers of twelve and twenty-four times are competitive, sitting between Constant Contact's ten to twenty-four and AWeber's ten to twelve. What the low price does not buy is depth: the automation is a tier below the serious platforms, the reporting is thinner, there are no events or webinars, and support is a small queue rather than an organisation. For a business whose email needs are a newsletter, a welcome flow, a cart recovery sequence, and occasional SMS, Sender delivers all of it for less than anything else here.