Starter
For your first email program.
$16USD / month
$192 billed yearly.
20,000 emails / month
Choose Starter- 5 brands · 3 seats
- 5 custom sending domains
- 500 email verifications/month
- $1.50 / 1,000 extra emails
Nitrosend is the best GetResponse alternative for teams that run email from AI. It has the top score of 76.5 out of 100, and 9 out of 10 on the heaviest test, working from your AI assistant. Automated flows come on every plan, Free included, so you never pay a higher tier to unlock the thing you chose an automation platform for. Your AI assistant, whether Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, can build those flows and write campaigns in your brand's colors, fonts and voice without anyone opening a dashboard. To run it from an assistant, add Nitrosend's MCP server at api.nitrosend.com/mcp and sign in with OAuth; campaigns and flows stay drafts until they are approved. Contacts are unlimited, and it is $20 a month for 20,000 emails and $650 for a million emails on Scale including overage. Brevo comes next at 74, then Systeme.io at 65.5.
The ranking
Rank 1Nitrosend
76.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Emails sent
- Free plan
- 5,000 emails, then 500 a month
- Entry plan
- $20 a month, 20,000 emails
- Works from your AI assistant9 out of 10Official MCP server runs campaigns, flows and sends from the chat; campaigns and flows stay drafts until approved (MCP registry).
- Emails in your brand, no designer9 out of 10Brand Kit scans the site for colors, fonts and voice, and applies them to every draft on every plan (docs).
- Price8.5 out of 10Unlimited contacts on every plan. $20 a month for 20,000 emails and $650 for a million emails on Scale including overage (pricing).
- Free plan7 out of 105,000 emails to start, then 500 a month, unlimited contacts. New accounts start at 100 recipients per rolling 24 hours (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan9 out of 10Transactional and marketing email share one allowance and one API on every plan, Free included (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand6 out of 10A block builder exists for editing by hand, but it is plainer, because the agent is the main way in.
- Integrations, support and track record5 out of 10Shopify, Stripe, HubSpot, Attio and Mailchimp, five bring-your-own sending providers, a Node SDK, a CLI and signed webhooks for transactional email, but a young product from a small team (docs).
Nitrosend
Ask your agent for the next campaign
Connect Nitrosend to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, point Brand Kit at your site, and describe the email. Contacts are unlimited on every plan.
Free: 5,000 emails to start, then 500 a month. No credit card.
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Rank 2Brevo
74 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Emails sent
- Free plan
- 300 emails a day, 100,000 contacts
- Entry plan
- $9 a month, 5,000 emails
- Works from your AI assistant7 out of 10Official MCP server manages campaigns, contacts and templates, but lists no module for automations (Brevo developers).
- Emails in your brand, no designer7 out of 10Brand library fetches logo, colors, fonts and links from your site into the editor, not voice (Brevo help).
- Price6 out of 10Priced by emails sent. $69 a month for 20,000 on Standard, $32 on Starter without automation, and $999 for a million on Professional (pricing).
- Free plan8 out of 10300 emails a day, up to 100,000 contacts, transactional email included, free forever (Brevo help).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan9 out of 10Every plan, Free included, has transactional email by API and SMTP in the same volume (pricing FAQ).
- Editor for building by hand8 out of 10Drag-and-drop editor and templates, 4.5 of 5 across 2,722 reviews, Ease of Use the top tag (G2).
- Integrations, support and track record8 out of 10150+ integrations, SMS, WhatsApp and a CRM in one account, phone support on Professional (pricing).
Rank 3Systeme.io
65.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Contacts, unlimited emails
- Free plan
- 2,000 contacts, unlimited emails
- Entry plan
- Startup, $17 a month, 5,000 contacts
- Works from your AI assistant7 out of 10Official MCP creates and sends newsletters with confirmation, but campaign steps must be activated by hand (help).
- Emails in your brand, no designer4 out of 10Templates styled by hand. No brand import from your website is described (pricing).
- Price8 out of 10Unlimited emails on every plan. $47 a month for 10,000 contacts, $97 for unlimited contacts (pricing).
- Free plan9 out of 10Free forever for 2,000 contacts with unlimited emails, funnels and a course (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan3 out of 10Sends its own checkout emails, but offers no transactional API for an outside app (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand7 out of 10Easy all-in-one builder, 4.8 of 5 across 751 reviews, though templates are limited (G2).
- Integrations, support and track record6 out of 10Funnels, courses, webinars and checkouts in the same account, with free migration on Unlimited (pricing).
Rank 4Klaviyo
64 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Active profiles
- Free plan
- 250 profiles, 500 emails a month
- Entry plan
- $20 a month, 500 profiles
- Works from your AI assistant8 out of 10Official remote MCP server with more than 300 tools, including
send_campaignandcreate_flow(Klaviyo developers). - Emails in your brand, no designer7 out of 10Brand library detects logos, colors, buttons and fonts from your site, but not voice (Klaviyo help).
- Price2 out of 10Billed by active profiles. $150 a month at 10,000, and 500,000 is by quote (pricing).
- Free plan4 out of 10250 active profiles and 500 emails a month, with email support for 60 days (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan6 out of 10Transactional runs as approved flow messages on the same plan, with each message reviewed by Klaviyo first (help).
- Editor for building by hand9 out of 10Mature editor and flow builder, 4.6 of 5 across 1,362 reviews, Ease of Use the top tag (G2).
- Integrations, support and track record9 out of 10400+ pre-built integrations, deep Shopify data, and SMS, WhatsApp and reviews in one account (Klaviyo).
Rank 5MailerLite
61.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Subscribers
- Free plan
- 250 subscribers, 2,500 emails a month
- Entry plan
- $12 a month, 500 subscribers
- Works from your AI assistant8 out of 10Official MCP server with
create_campaign,schedule_campaignandcreate_automationtools (MailerLite help). - Emails in your brand, no designer7 out of 10Brand styles pull logo, colors, fonts and links from your site's URL, but not voice (MailerLite help).
- Price3 out of 10Priced by subscribers. $89 a month at 10,000 on Comfort, and a quote above 200,000, where Comfort is $819 (pricing).
- Free plan5 out of 10250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month, with 3 automations and knowledge base support (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan5 out of 10Transactional email is MailerSend, a separate product the pricing table links out to (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand8 out of 10Three editors on every plan, drag-and-drop included, and 4.6 of 5 across 1,113 reviews (G2).
- Integrations, support and track record7 out of 10100+ integrations, sites and landing pages built in, and 24/7 live chat on Power (pricing).
Rank 6ActiveCampaign
58.5 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Contacts held
- Free plan
- None, a 14-day trial
- Entry plan
- $15 a month, 1,000 contacts, billed annually
- Works from your AI assistant8 out of 10Official MCP server creates a campaign and sends or schedules it once you approve its summary in the chat, and manages contacts, lists, tags and automations (tools).
- Emails in your brand, no designer7 out of 10AI Brand Kit imports colors, fonts and logos from your URL and builds templates in its editor (ActiveCampaign).
- Price2 out of 10Priced by contacts. Starter is $149 a month at 10,000, billed yearly because no monthly price is published, and above 50,000 it is by quote (pricing).
- Free plan1 out of 10No free plan. A 14-day trial with up to 100 email sends (help).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan5 out of 10Transactional email is Postmark, a separate product with its own account and bill, linked by an app (ActiveCampaign).
- Editor for building by hand8 out of 10Mature email designer and automation builder, 4.4 of 5 across 14,799 reviews (G2).
- Integrations, support and track record9 out of 101,000+ apps and integrations, premium Salesforce and Dynamics connectors, and a built-in CRM (apps).
Rank 7Kit
52 out of 100Total
- Priced by
- Subscribers
- Free plan
- Up to 10,000 subscribers, unlimited broadcasts
- Entry plan
- Creator, $39 a month at 1,000 subscribers
- Works from your AI assistant5 out of 10Official Kit MCP drafts broadcasts, but a send only fires when someone clicks Confirm inside the Kit app (Kit help).
- Emails in your brand, no designer4 out of 10Brand settings for name, colors, font, favicon and links are entered by hand, with no import from a website (Kit help).
- Price3 out of 10Priced by subscribers. Creator is $139 a month at 10,000, and the published slider stops at 400,000 subscribers, $2,299, with a demo request above that (pricing).
- Free plan9 out of 10Free for up to 10,000 subscribers with unlimited broadcasts, but no automations, sequences or MCP (pricing).
- Receipts and newsletters on one plan2 out of 10The pricing page lists no transactional email on any plan (pricing).
- Editor for building by hand7 out of 10A block-based editor with starting point, classic and HTML templates, and 4.4 of 5 across 236 reviews (G2).
- Integrations, support and track record7 out of 10100+ direct app integrations, a Kit App Store, and 24/7 email and chat support on paid plans (pricing).
How they compare
How each one scores
Scores out of 10, November 10, 2026| What we compared | Nitrosend | Brevo | Systeme.io | Klaviyo | MailerLite | Kit | ActiveCampaign |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works from your AI assistant20 points | 9 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 5 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 |
| Emails in your brand, no designer10 points | 9 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 |
| Price20 points | 8.5 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 |
| Free plan10 points | 7 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 9 out of 10 | 4 out of 10 | 5 out of 10 | 9 out of 10 | 1 out of 10 |
| Receipts and newsletters on one plan10 points | 9 out of 10 | 9 out of 10 | 3 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 | 5 out of 10 | 2 out of 10 | 5 out of 10 |
| Editor for building by hand15 points | 6 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 9 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 |
| Integrations, support and track record15 points | 5 out of 10 | 8 out of 10 | 6 out of 10 | 9 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 7 out of 10 | 9 out of 10 |
| Total scoreout of 100 | 76.5 out of 100,1st | 74 out of 100,2nd | 65.5 out of 100,3rd | 64 out of 100,4th | 61.5 out of 100,5th | 52 out of 100,7th | 58.5 out of 100,6th |
Here are the seven yes-or-no questions people usually ask before they move off GetResponse. A tick means the platform does it, as described on its own pages today. A dash means the answer is not a clean yes or no.
7 services, side by side
Checked November 10, 2026QuestionNitrosendBrevoSysteme.ioKlaviyoMailerLiteKitActiveCampaign
NitrosendBrevoSysteme.ioKlaviyoMailerLiteKitActiveCampaignSend a campaign from the chatCan an agent send a marketing campaign without anyone opening the web app?Nitrosend: Yes.Brevo: Not a yes or no.Systeme.io: Yes.Klaviyo: Yes.MailerLite: Yes.Kit: No.ActiveCampaign: Yes.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes, through the MCP server. Campaigns stay drafts until approved. |
| Brevo | Not a yes or no. Its MCP server creates and manages email campaigns. Its docs list no module for automations. |
| Systeme.io | Yes. Yes, newsletters, with a confirmation step. |
| Klaviyo | Yes. Yes. The official MCP server has a send_campaign tool. |
| MailerLite | Yes. Yes. Its MCP server can create and schedule campaigns. |
| Kit | No. No. The MCP drafts and schedules, but the send fires only after a Confirm click inside the Kit app. |
| ActiveCampaign | Yes. Yes, once you approve its summary in the chat. |
Official MCP serverIs there a first-party MCP server an AI assistant can connect to?Nitrosend: Yes.Brevo: Yes.Systeme.io: Yes.Klaviyo: Yes.MailerLite: Yes.Kit: Yes.ActiveCampaign: Yes.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes. Listed as com.nitrosend/nitrosend on the official MCP registry. |
| Brevo | Yes. Yes, remote-hosted, with 27 modules. |
| Systeme.io | Yes. Yes, for ChatGPT and Claude. |
| Klaviyo | Yes. Yes, remote-hosted, with more than 300 tools. |
| MailerLite | Yes. Yes. It can also build automations, with create_automation. |
| Kit | Yes. Yes. Kit hosts its own server at app.kit.com/mcp, on paid plans. It is not on the official MCP registry. |
| ActiveCampaign | Yes. Yes, a remote MCP URL on every plan. |
Brand kit from your siteDoes it pick up your logo, colors and fonts from your website?Nitrosend: Yes.Brevo: Yes.Systeme.io: No.Klaviyo: Yes.MailerLite: Yes.Kit: No.ActiveCampaign: Yes.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes. Brand Kit reads colors, fonts and voice from your site. |
| Brevo | Yes. Yes. The brand library fetches logo, colors, fonts and links. |
| Systeme.io | No. Not described. |
| Klaviyo | Yes. Yes. The brand library detects logos, colors, buttons and fonts. |
| MailerLite | Yes. Yes. Brand styles pull logo, colors, fonts and links. |
| Kit | No. No. Brand settings are entered by hand. |
| ActiveCampaign | Yes. Yes, with the AI Brand Kit. |
Rarely emailed contacts are freeDo contacts you rarely email stop counting toward the bill?Nitrosend: Yes.Brevo: Yes.Systeme.io: Not a yes or no.Klaviyo: No.MailerLite: No.Kit: No.ActiveCampaign: No.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes. Contacts are unlimited on every plan. |
| Brevo | Yes. Yes. The bill follows emails sent. |
| Systeme.io | Not a yes or no. Emails are unlimited, but each plan below Unlimited caps contacts. |
| Klaviyo | No. No. Every active profile counts toward the plan. |
| MailerLite | No. No. The plan is set by subscriber count. |
| Kit | No. No. Paid plans are set by subscriber count. |
| ActiveCampaign | No. No. The plan is set by how many contacts you hold. |
Transactional includedAre receipts and resets in the same plan as newsletters?Nitrosend: Yes.Brevo: Yes.Systeme.io: No.Klaviyo: Not a yes or no.MailerLite: No.Kit: No.ActiveCampaign: No.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes, on every plan including Free. |
| Brevo | Yes. Yes, on every plan including Free. |
| Systeme.io | No. No. It sends its own checkout emails only. |
| Klaviyo | Not a yes or no. Through approved, metric-triggered flows rather than a send call. |
| MailerLite | No. No. Transactional is MailerSend, a separate product. |
| Kit | No. No. No transactional email is listed on any plan. |
| ActiveCampaign | No. No. Transactional is Postmark, billed separately. |
Free planIs there a free plan with no time limit?Nitrosend: Yes.Brevo: Yes.Systeme.io: Yes.Klaviyo: Yes.MailerLite: Yes.Kit: Yes.ActiveCampaign: No.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Yes. Yes. 5,000 emails to start, then 500 a month. |
| Brevo | Yes. Yes, 300 emails a day. |
| Systeme.io | Yes. Yes, up to 2,000 contacts with unlimited emails. |
| Klaviyo | Yes. Yes, up to 250 active profiles and 500 emails a month. |
| MailerLite | Yes. Yes, with a cap on subscribers and on emails a month. |
| Kit | Yes. Yes. Up to 10,000 subscribers with unlimited broadcasts. |
| ActiveCampaign | No. No. A 14-day trial with up to 100 sends. |
Mature drag-and-drop editorIs there a polished visual editor for a person building by hand?Nitrosend: Not a yes or no.Brevo: Yes.Systeme.io: Yes.Klaviyo: Yes.MailerLite: Yes.Kit: Not a yes or no.ActiveCampaign: Yes.
| Service | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nitrosend | Not a yes or no. A block builder exists. The agent is the main way in. |
| Brevo | Yes. Yes, with templates and a brand library. |
| Systeme.io | Yes. Yes, an all-in-one builder reviewers find easy. |
| Klaviyo | Yes. Yes, and reviewers rate it highly. |
| MailerLite | Yes. Yes, plus custom HTML and simple editors. |
| Kit | Not a yes or no. A block-based editor with templates, not free drag-and-drop. |
| ActiveCampaign | Yes. Yes, and a mature automation builder. |
Yes answersOut of the questions that have a yes or no for that service6 of 6 yes for Nitrosend6 of 6 yes for Brevo4 of 6 yes for Systeme.io5 of 6 yes for Klaviyo5 of 7 yes for MailerLite2 of 6 yes for Kit4 of 7 yes for ActiveCampaign
At a glance
7 services, the same 7 tests, 100 points in all. In order: Nitrosend 76.5, Brevo 74, Systeme.io 65.5, Klaviyo 64, MailerLite 61.5, ActiveCampaign 58.5, Kit 52. Nitrosend has the best score on Works from your AI assistant, Emails in your brand, no designer, Price and Receipts and newsletters on one plan. Every price and feature was read on each company's own pages on November 10, 2026.
When another platform is the better pick
Nitrosend does not win every test. Read these before you choose it.
- Pick Brevo if you want email, SMS and a CRM billed on emails sent. It scores higher on free plan, 8 to 7, and beats Nitrosend on editor and track record, and its transactional email is on every plan. Standard, with automation, is $69 a month for 20,000 emails.
- Pick Systeme.io if you used GetResponse for funnels, courses and webinars. It has GetResponse's all-in-one shape at a fraction of the price: $47 a month at 10,000 contacts and $97 for unlimited contacts and emails, the lowest here at a large size. Its free plan scores 9. It has no transactional email API.
- Pick Klaviyo if you ran a store on GetResponse. It scores 9 on the editor and 9 on track record, with the deepest store data in email.
- Pick ActiveCampaign if you hit GetResponse's automation limits and need to go deeper. Its branching and built-in CRM earn it a 9 on track record, though there is no free plan.
- Pick MailerLite if GetResponse was more product than you needed. Its editor scores 8, and it is the shortest route from deciding to send to sending.
- Pick Kit if your list is an audience you publish to. Its free plan holds 10,000 subscribers with unlimited broadcasts, a free plan score of 9.
Why people leave GetResponse
The automation is what GetResponse is sold on, and the entry plan barely has it.
Starter ships one custom automation workflow, with no contact tagging, no lead scoring and no store tools. Those unlock on Marketer. On September 25, 2026, with billing set to monthly, Starter was $79 a month for 10,000 contacts and Marketer $114. At 100,000 contacts Starter was $539. So the feature that made you choose an automation platform costs a tier more than the price you compared on.
The same gap shows up when you hand the account to an AI assistant. GetResponse has an official MCP server, free on every account, that connects to Claude and ChatGPT with OAuth. Its help page lists what the assistant can do: read reports, search contacts, create and update newsletter drafts, and put together a landing page, an invitation newsletter and a welcome message for a campaign. Building or editing automation workflows is not on that list, and the page tells you to review everything the AI makes before sending. So the assistant can write in GetResponse, but the workflows, the part GetResponse is sold on, still need the app. Nitrosend's MCP has a flow tool that creates and edits automation flows as drafts, so a request such as a three-email welcome series a week apart becomes a flow that stays a draft until it is approved. That is the difference the heaviest test on this page measures: whether the assistant can finish the job or only start it.
Then the free plan, which is where most people meet the product. Accounts start on a 14-day trial and then stay free with up to 2,500 messages a month, per GetResponse's own blog, and its pricing page says the GetResponse badge is added to every message sent from a free account. For a small business trying to look established, another company's logo on every email is not a small thing. Nitrosend's free plan carries its branding too, and it comes off for $5 a month, or on any paid plan from Starter at $20 a month.
The reviews carry a split worth reading. Trustpilot rates GetResponse 4.3 out of 5 across 1,037 reviews, read on October 2, 2026, a good headline, and 26% of those reviews are one star. The one-star cluster is mostly about billing rather than the product, for example a customer charged two years upfront for a service they were not using, and another whose contact list was paywalled after a card expired. GetResponse also retired its old plan names in January 2025, moving existing customers onto Starter, Marketer, Creator and MAX, per a third-party review.
Two things to be fair about. GetResponse does not bill you for contacts who have gone inactive, which is a real advantage over several platforms here. Read the detail, though. GetResponse's billing help page says the bill is set by the peak number of active subscribers in the month and the total number of contacts added that month, "regardless of what happens to those contacts after they are added". So a contact imported and deleted in the same month is still paid for, and cleaning the list lowers next month's bill, not this one's. On Nitrosend, which charges per email sent, a contact you hold and never mail costs nothing. And there is no dated price rise with old and new numbers on record, only the plan-name change. The Nitrosend and GetResponse head to head goes through the two line by line.
What each one costs in 2026
The platforms here charge in two ways. Nitrosend and Brevo charge by emails sent. The rest charge by the size of your list, and Systeme.io does not meter sends at all. To compare them fairly, the table prices the same two lists on every platform: 10,000 contacts emailed twice a month, which is 20,000 emails, and 500,000 contacts emailed twice a month, which is a million.
What sending costs
List prices, USD, monthly, November 10, 2026| Service | 20,000 emails a month | 1,000,000 emails a month |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrosend (pricing page) | $20Starter, contacts unlimited | $650Scale, contacts unlimited, including overage |
| Brevo (pricing page) | $69Standard, the first plan with automation. Starter is $32 without it | $999Professional. Standard stops at 500,000 emails |
| Systeme.io (pricing page) | $47Webinar, 10,000 contacts, unlimited emails | $97Lowest. Unlimited, unlimited contacts and emails |
| Klaviyo (pricing page) | $150Email, 10,000 active profiles | Ask salesBy quote. The published slider stops at 150,000 profiles, $1,955 |
| MailerLite (pricing page) | $89Comfort, 10,000 subscribers | Ask salesEnterprise, by quote. Published tiers stop at 200,000, $819 on Comfort |
| Kit (pricing page) | $139Creator, the first plan with automations. Free covers 10,000 without them | Ask salesBy quote. The published slider stops at 400,000 subscribers, $2,299 |
| ActiveCampaign (pricing page) | $149Starter, billed yearly, 5 actions per automation. No monthly price is published | Ask salesBy quote. Published tiers stop at 50,000 contacts |
At 20,000 emails a month Nitrosend is $20. Systeme.io is $47, Brevo $69, MailerLite $89, Kit $139, ActiveCampaign $149 billed yearly and Klaviyo $150. GetResponse itself was $79 on Starter for 10,000 contacts, or $114 on Marketer, where the automation lives.
At a million emails a month Systeme.io is $97, on a plan with unlimited contacts and emails, and Nitrosend is $650. Brevo is $999. Klaviyo, Kit, MailerLite and ActiveCampaign publish no price at that size.
What the $20 buys is the part Systeme.io does not have. Nitrosend sends your app's receipts and password resets from the same account and allowance as your newsletters, through one API, and your AI assistant builds the flows and runs the account. If you would otherwise pay for a transactional add-on, and on GetResponse transactional email sits in MAX, the plan with a custom price, add the two bills together before you compare.
How we scored
Every platform gets a score out of 10 on the same seven tests. Each test is worth a set number of points, 100 in all. Working from your AI assistant and price are worth the most, 20 points each, because they decide what running email costs you in time and money. Most platforms here now let an assistant connect, so the test turns on what it can finish: draft a newsletter, build an automation, and send it after approval, or only the first of those. The editor and track record, where the older platforms are strongest, share 30 points, so a platform that is better there gets full credit for it.
Each test is a question with one answer per service, checked against the service's own pages on November 10, 2026. A 10 means it does the job fully on its normal plans. A 5 means it does part of it, or only on a higher plan or in a second product.
Works from your AI assistant, 20 points. Can an agent inside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex compose a marketing campaign, test it, and send it, with no person opening the web app between the prompt and the send? An approval step the person answers in the chat counts as inside the agent. Moving into the web app to finish does not. Scored on one written rule for every vendor: a first-party server the vendor runs and that can send counts fully; a third-party wrapper (Zapier, Composio, Kanopi, community servers) counts for less; a server that only drafts or reads counts for less than one that sends.
Emails in your brand, no designer, 10 points. Does the product learn your logo, colors, fonts and voice from your own site and apply them to every email it drafts, on the plan most small teams start on?
Price, 20 points. What does email cost each month at 20,000 emails, a 10,000-contact list emailed twice, and at 1,000,000, a 500,000-contact list emailed twice? Scored on list prices in US dollars, paid monthly, at the cheapest plan that holds the contacts, covers the sends and includes automated emails such as a welcome series. Every ranking on this site uses the same fixed scale. At 20,000 emails, $20 or less scores 10, then $25 scores 9, $32 scores 8, $40 scores 7, $50 scores 6, $70 scores 5, $100 scores 4 and $140 scores 3. At 1,000,000, $500 or less scores 10, then $625, $800, $1,000, $1,250, $1,750, $2,500 and $3,500 step down the same way. Anything dearer, or a price given only by quote, scores 2. A free product scores 10. The score is the average of the two.
Free plan, 10 points. How far can a team get on the free plan before it has to pay: contacts, total sends, and the daily ceiling.
Receipts and newsletters on one plan, 10 points. Can receipts, password resets and newsletters go out from one account, on one bill, through one API?
Editor for building by hand, 15 points. For a person who wants to build the email themselves: how mature are the visual editor and the template library?
Integrations, support and track record, 15 points. How many tools does it plug into, what support comes with the plan, and how long has it been doing this at scale?
One thing is not scored: inbox placement. None of these platforms publishes a comparable deliverability number, so a score there would be a guess dressed up as a measurement.
Which GetResponse alternative is cheapest at 10,000 contacts?
Nitrosend, at $20 a month if you send 20,000 emails, because it charges on emails rather than contacts held. Of the platforms that bill by list size, Systeme.io is cheapest at $47 on the Webinar plan, then GetResponse's own $79 on Starter, then MailerLite at $89 on Comfort. Count your monthly sends before you compare anything, because on a per-send platform that number is the bill.
Is the GetResponse free plan actually usable?
For trying the product, yes. For running a business, not really. It stays free at up to 2,500 messages a month after the trial, and GetResponse adds its own badge to every message you send from it. If a permanently free plan is what you need, Kit is free to 10,000 subscribers, Systeme.io to 2,000 contacts with unlimited emails, and Nitrosend gives 5,000 emails to start, then 500 a month, with full API, MCP and CLI access. Email MCP explains what that access lets an AI assistant do.
Do I lose my automations if I move?
Yes, on every platform here. Flows are modeled differently by every company, so they are rebuilt rather than imported. Export the contacts and the engagement history together, rebuild the two or three flows that earn money first, and leave the rest until the new domain has sending reputation to spare. Email automation workflows covers how to map them. If you use GetResponse's webinars, courses or funnels, treat those as separate projects with their own timelines.
Who does the rebuilding is the part that has changed. George Hartley, Nitrosend's co-founder, said on SaaS Stories in September 2026 that on a platform built for an agent "you are only limited by how smart your agent is because everything that you need to do can be completely driven by the MCP." If the flows are written down as rules first, an assistant can rebuild the money-making ones and you can check each one before it goes live.
How to move off GetResponse without hurting deliverability
- Export contacts, tags and engagement history together while the account is live. Engagement history is what lets you pick a safe first segment.
- Check what you exported. The email blacklist checker tells you what you are carrying, and your email bounce rate on the first sends tells you how clean it is.
- Authenticate the new sender. Keep both senders in one SPF record during the overlap. The email authentication guide covers the records.
- Warm up rather than switching in one send. How to warm up an email domain has the ramp.
- Keep GetResponse live until the new sender has two clean weeks behind it. Then cancel.
The same method applies on MailerLite's alternatives, ActiveCampaign's, Brevo's and Klaviyo's.
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Nitrosend, with the top score in this review, 76.5 out of 100. Automated flows come on every plan, contacts are unlimited, it is $20 a month for 20,000 emails, and your AI assistant can build flows and send campaigns in your brand. Pick Brevo for volume pricing with SMS and a CRM, Systeme.io for funnels, courses and webinars, Klaviyo for a store, ActiveCampaign for deeper automation, MailerLite for simplicity and Kit for creators.
Not for contacts who go inactive, which is an advantage over several platforms here, including Mailchimp and, for accounts opened from November 2025, ActiveCampaign. But GetResponse's billing help page says you also pay for every contact added during the billing month, whatever happens to them afterwards, so deleting contacts only lowers the following month's bill.
Because the automation sits a tier up. Starter includes one custom automation workflow and no tagging, scoring or store tools, and those are on Marketer. At 10,000 contacts that is $79 against $114 a month, paid monthly. If automation is why you are shopping, compare on the Marketer price.
Several, with very different limits. Kit is free to 10,000 subscribers. Systeme.io is free to 2,000 contacts with unlimited emails. MailerLite is free to 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month. Brevo is free at 300 emails a day. Nitrosend gives 5,000 emails to start, then 500 a month, with unlimited contacts and full API, MCP and CLI access.
For the email half, yes: campaigns, flows, segments, templates, contacts and transactional sending in one account, with unlimited contacts on every plan. Not for the rest. Nitrosend has no webinars, course builder or funnel product, and no cold outreach. It does not store data in an EU region yet, though a full EU region is on its roadmap, which matters if you chose GetResponse for that.
Nitrosend, with 9 out of 10 on working from your AI assistant, the heaviest test here. Its official MCP server covers campaigns, flows, contacts, templates and domains, and campaigns and flows stay drafts until they are approved. GetResponse's own MCP drafts newsletters and campaign pages, but its help page does not list building automation workflows. Klaviyo, MailerLite and ActiveCampaign score 8, Brevo and Systeme.io 7, and Kit 5. ActiveCampaign's MCP server sends a prepared campaign once you approve its summary in the chat. A Kit broadcast fires only after someone clicks Confirm inside the Kit app.
Add Nitrosend as a connector in Claude, or as an MCP server in ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex, using api.nitrosend.com/mcp, and sign in with OAuth. Then ask in plain words, for example for a welcome flow or this month's newsletter in your brand. The assistant builds a draft, sends a test if you ask, and campaigns and flows go live only once they are approved. The Nitrosend MCP docs list every tool.
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