Nobody searches for GetResponse alternatives with a rival already in mind. They search because something specific has gone wrong: the bill jumped when the list crossed a threshold, the webinar tier they are paying for has never been used, or an automation they wanted to build hit a wall on the plan they are on. That is why this page is organised by complaint rather than by logo. Find the sentence that sounds like your situation and the recommendation underneath it is the one that fits.
Every price on this page was read off each vendor’s own live pricing page on 9 September 2026, and each vendor’s URL is named next to its figures. Prices in this category move constantly, so treat these as a snapshot and check the page before you buy. Where a vendor does not publish a price in a form I could read, I say so rather than estimating.
Disclosure, before the first link. The links to GetResponse, Kit, Omnisend, Systeme.io and AWeber in this article are monetised affiliate links and pay Ecommerce Paradise a commission if you sign up through them. The links to MailerLite, Brevo and ActiveCampaign are not monetised and pay us nothing. I have deliberately left the unpaid options in and recommended them where they are the better answer, because a switching guide that only names the tools that pay is not a switching guide. The Shopify, Bizee and Hiscox links in the closing section are affiliate links too and they pay us.
Before You Leave, Check Whether You Are on the Wrong Plan
A lot of GetResponse frustration is tier frustration, not platform frustration. At 1,000 contacts the Starter plan is $19 a month and Creator is $69. If you are on Creator and never run a webinar, moving down two tiers solves the problem without a migration. Prices are per month at 1,000 contacts and rise with list size.
What GetResponse Actually Costs, Verified
You cannot judge an alternative without knowing what you are leaving. GetResponse prices on a list size slider, and the price for the same plan roughly doubles between 1,000 and 5,000 contacts. Here is the monthly billed ladder as published on getresponse.com/pricing on 9 September 2026.
| List size | Starter | Marketer | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $19/mo | $59/mo | $69/mo |
| 2,500 | $29/mo | $69/mo | $79/mo |
| 5,000 | $54/mo | $95/mo | $109/mo |
| 10,000 | $79/mo | $114/mo | $134/mo |
| 25,000 | $174/mo | $215/mo | $249/mo |
| 50,000 | $299/mo | $359/mo | $414/mo |
| 100,000 | $539/mo | $599/mo | $690/mo |
Yearly billing is advertised on the same page at 18% off, and Enterprise is custom pricing behind a demo booking. All three paid plans include unlimited monthly email sends, which is genuinely unusual and is the thing most alternatives do not match. Starter includes one custom automation workflow. Webinars, the website builder, the course creator and premium newsletters sit on Creator only. Our own GetResponse pricing breakdown goes tier by tier if you want the full feature map.
Read the table before you read the rest of this article, because two of the six most common reasons people leave are solved by moving inside that table rather than off it.
“I Am Paying for Webinars I Have Never Run”
This is the single most common reason a GetResponse account feels overpriced. Creator at 1,000 contacts is $69 a month against Starter at $19, and the gap is mostly webinars, the course creator and the website builder. If you signed up during a launch, ran two webinars and never went back, you are paying $600 a year for a feature you used twice.
The cheap fix is to downgrade. The real fix, if you have also outgrown the rest of the platform, is a creator focused tool that does not bundle a webinar suite at all.
Kit, if you sell to an audience rather than a customer list
Kit prices at 1,000 subscribers as follows on kit.com/pricing: Free at $0 a month and advertised as free up to 10,000 subscribers, Creator at $33 a month or $390 billed yearly, and Pro at $66 a month or $790 billed yearly. Paying yearly is advertised at 17% off, the trial is 14 days with no card, and migrations are free.
The free tier is the headline. Unlimited landing pages, unlimited forms, unlimited broadcasts, tagging and segmentation, and the ability to sell digital products, all at zero up to 10,000 subscribers. What you give up on free is visual automations and email sequences, which is exactly the ceiling you would eventually pay to lift. For a store owner who mostly sends newsletters and runs one welcome sequence, starting free on Kit and upgrading only when the automations matter is a genuinely cheaper path than any GetResponse tier.
Where Kit loses is ecommerce depth. It has no webinar tool, no landing page funnel builder in the GetResponse sense, and its abandoned cart story is weaker than a purpose built store platform. If you sell physical products, skip to the Omnisend section below.
“The Bill Jumps Every Time My List Grows”
Look at the table again. Going from 1,000 to 5,000 contacts on Starter takes you from $19 to $54 a month, and 5,000 to 10,000 takes you to $79. You are paying for people who are stored, not for people you email. If half your list is dormant, you are paying full freight for dead weight, and the incentive is to prune your list rather than grow it.
Two platforms attack this differently.
Brevo, which bills on sends rather than on stored contacts
Brevo publishes a free forever plan with no credit card required, and a Starter plan at $9 a month billed monthly, or $8.08 a month billed yearly at a stated 10% discount, on brevo.com/pricing. The Starter plan is described on the page as “From 5,000 emails per month”, which is the important structural detail: the meter is on email volume, not on how many records sit in your database.
That flips the incentive. You can keep a large list of lapsed buyers for re-engagement without paying monthly rent on them, and you pay when you actually mail them. For a store with a big historical customer list and a low send frequency, this is the single biggest structural saving available anywhere on this page. Brevo also bundles SMS and WhatsApp on the same account, though SMS credits are sold separately.
Two honest caveats. Brevo’s higher marketing tier did not render a price on the plans page in my session, so I am not going to publish one. And the Brevo redirect on this site is a plain passthrough that pays us nothing, which is why you can trust that it is here on merit.
MailerLite, if you want the lowest honest price per contact
MailerLite billed monthly at up to 1,000 subscribers, from mailerlite.com/pricing: Free at $0 a month for up to 250 subscribers with 2,500 monthly emails and 2 user seats, Comfort at $19 a month with 10,000 monthly emails and 3 seats, and Power at $39 a month with unlimited monthly emails and unlimited seats. Yearly billing is advertised at 10% off.
Comfort at $19 lands exactly on GetResponse Starter at $19, so this is not a price win at the entry point. The win is what $19 buys. Comfort includes 50 automations, 10 websites and landing pages, digital products, the subscriber preference centre and logo removal, where GetResponse Starter gives you one custom automation workflow. If the automation limit is your complaint and the price is your constraint, this is the trade.
The catch is the send cap. GetResponse gives unlimited sends on every paid plan. MailerLite Comfort caps at 10,000 monthly emails at the 1,000 subscriber tier, which is ten sends a month to your whole list. Frequent senders need Power at $39, at which point GetResponse Starter is cheaper. Work out your monthly send volume before you assume MailerLite is the saving. The MailerLite link here is also unmonetised.
Unlimited Sends Is the Feature Worth Staying For
Every GetResponse paid plan includes unlimited monthly email sends. MailerLite Comfort caps at 10,000 a month at 1,000 subscribers, and Omnisend Standard caps at 12,000. If you mail your list more than twice a week, that cap is the whole decision and GetResponse Starter at $19 is hard to beat.
“I Hit a Wall Building the Automation I Wanted”
GetResponse Starter includes one custom automation workflow. That is fine for a welcome sequence and nothing else. The moment you want a separate abandoned browse flow, a post purchase sequence and a win back campaign running at the same time, you are on Marketer at $59 a month at 1,000 contacts.
If automation depth is the whole reason you are looking, the honest comparison is not with a cheaper tool. It is with a deeper one.
ActiveCampaign, where the ceiling is highest
ActiveCampaign publishes four plans on activecampaign.com/pricing: Starter, Plus, Pro and Enterprise. I could not verify the prices. The plan cards render their prices as blanks in the served page, and the live site sits behind a bot verification screen that I am not going to work around. So rather than repeat a number from memory or from another blog, I am telling you plainly that ActiveCampaign’s prices are not published in a form I can cite, and you should read them off the page yourself.
What is published is the feature ladder, and it is the useful part. Starter caps at five actions per automation with limited segmentation and one user. Plus lifts that to unlimited automation actions with standard segmentation and landing pages, still on one user. Pro adds advanced segmentation and three users. Enterprise adds premium segmentation, custom objects, single sign on and five users.
Note that Starter’s five action cap is tighter than GetResponse Starter’s single workflow in a different way: you get more workflows but each one is shallow. Anyone moving for automation reasons should be looking at Plus or above, and should price it themselves. Our existing GetResponse versus ActiveCampaign comparison covers the feature by feature detail.
“I Sell Physical Products and This Was Built for Course Creators”
GetResponse’s Creator tier is aimed squarely at people monetising knowledge. If you run a store, half of what you are paying for is irrelevant and the ecommerce features you want sit behind Marketer.
Omnisend, built for stores from the ground up
Omnisend billed monthly at a 501 to 1,000 list size, from omnisend.com/pricing: Free at $0 a month with 250 contacts and 500 monthly emails, Standard at $20.00 a month with 1,000 contacts and 12,000 emails a month, and Pro at $59.00 a month with 2,500 contacts, unlimited monthly emails and SMS starting at $0.007 per message. Paying three months upfront is advertised at 30% off, and migration is free and takes five days.
Standard at $20 against GetResponse Marketer at $59 is the comparison that matters, because Marketer is the GetResponse tier that carries abandoned cart recovery and product recommendations. You are paying roughly a third for a platform where those flows are the main event rather than an add on. Pro at $59 matches Marketer on price and adds unlimited sends plus SMS on the same account.
If you run a Shopify store and your email programme is mostly cart recovery, browse abandonment and post purchase, Omnisend is the straightforward answer. Our Omnisend alternatives guide covers the other direction if you want to sanity check it.
“I Want the Whole Funnel, Including Webinars, for Less”
Some people are not overpaying for webinars. They genuinely use them, plus landing pages, plus a course, plus an affiliate programme, and GetResponse Creator is the cheapest bundle they have found. There is a cheaper one.
Systeme.io, which bundles more for less and is honest about why
Systeme.io publishes four plans on systeme.io/pricing: Free with 2,000 contacts, 3 sales funnels and 1 course; Startup at $17 a month with 5,000 contacts, unlimited funnels and 5 courses; Webinar at $47 a month with 10,000 contacts, unlimited everything and the automated webinar feature; and Unlimited at $97 a month with unlimited contacts, sub accounts and a free migration service. Annual billing is advertised as two months free. All plans include unlimited email sends and zero transaction fees.
Set that against GetResponse. At 10,000 contacts GetResponse Creator is $134 a month. Systeme.io Webinar covers 10,000 contacts with automated webinars at $47. That is not a marginal difference and it is the strongest single price argument on this page.
The reason it is that cheap is that every individual tool inside Systeme.io is simpler than the specialist it replaces. The email editor is plainer, the automation builder is less capable, the webinars are evergreen rather than live, and the deliverability reputation is not in GetResponse’s league. It is the right answer for a solo operator running a lean funnel and the wrong answer for anyone whose revenue depends on email deliverability at volume. Our GetResponse versus Systeme.io head to head takes that trade apart properly.
“I Just Want to Send a Newsletter Without All This”
The last complaint is the simplest. Some people bought an all in one marketing suite and only ever wanted an autoresponder.
AWeber, the boring option that still works
AWeber at the 0 to 500 subscriber band, from aweber.com/pricing.htm: billed monthly, Lite is $15.00 a month and Plus is $30.00 a month. Billed annually those become $12.49 and $19.99 a month. There is a free plan and a 14 day trial. Lite allows sends up to 10 times your subscriber maximum each month with one email list, three landing pages and three automations. Plus lifts that to 12 times, with unlimited lists, landing pages, automations, segments and users.
Those figures are for the smallest subscriber band and they rise with list size, so price your own band before comparing. AWeber will not do anything clever. It sends reliable email, it has been doing it for a very long time, and the support is 24 hours a day. If your honest requirement is a broadcast and a welcome series, AWeber is not exciting and it is not wrong. Our AWeber alternatives roundup covers the same ground from the other side.
The Whole Set, Side by Side
Every price below is billed monthly and was verified on 9 September 2026. Contact bands differ between vendors, so the bands are stated rather than smoothed.
| Platform | Entry paid price | Band | Send limit at that price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GetResponse | $19/mo Starter | 1,000 contacts | Unlimited | Frequent senders who use one workflow |
| Kit | $0 free, $33/mo Creator | 1,000 subscribers | Unlimited broadcasts on free | Creators with an audience, not a cart |
| MailerLite | $19/mo Comfort | 1,000 subscribers | 10,000 emails/mo | Automation depth on a small budget |
| Brevo | $9/mo Starter | Billed on sends | From 5,000 emails/mo | Big dormant lists, low send frequency |
| ActiveCampaign | Not published in readable form | Not published | Not published | Deepest automation, price it yourself |
| Omnisend | $20/mo Standard | 501 to 1,000 contacts | 12,000 emails/mo | Physical product stores |
| Systeme.io | $17/mo Startup | 5,000 contacts | Unlimited | Whole funnel on a budget |
| AWeber | $15/mo Lite | 0 to 500 subscribers | 10x subscriber max/mo | Plain newsletters and autoresponders |
When You Should Not Switch
Three situations where leaving GetResponse is a mistake, and I would rather say so than sell you a migration.
The first is send frequency. Unlimited monthly sends on every paid tier is a real advantage, and most of this list caps you. If you email your list three times a week, run the numbers on the caps before you move, because you may end up on a higher tier elsewhere and pay more for less.
The second is that you are on the wrong tier rather than the wrong platform. Creator to Starter at 1,000 contacts saves $600 a year and takes about two minutes. Do that before you spend two weeks migrating.
The third is deliverability. If your list is large, warmed and producing revenue, the risk of a migration is not the subscription cost, it is the six weeks of degraded inbox placement while a new sending domain earns its reputation back. That risk is worth taking to fix a genuine ceiling. It is not worth taking to save twenty dollars a month.
If You Do Move, Move Slowly
The mistake almost everybody makes is exporting the whole list, importing it into the new platform and sending a full blast on day one. New sending infrastructure with no reputation plus a large sudden volume is the exact pattern spam filters are built to catch.
Authenticate the new domain first, meaning SPF, DKIM and DMARC records published and verified before a single send. Then segment by engagement and start with your most recently active people only, perhaps the last thirty days, at a fraction of your normal volume. Add a further segment every few days and watch the open and complaint rates rather than the send count. Suppress anyone who has not opened anything in a year rather than importing them, because they are the segment most likely to sit in a spam trap and cost you the domain.
Run both platforms in parallel for a billing cycle. It costs one extra month and it means you can retreat if the numbers go the wrong way. Nobody regrets that month.
Running the Business Behind the Store
An email platform is one line in a much larger operating stack, and it matters far less than whether the underlying business is built on something worth emailing about. If you are still choosing what to sell, the high ticket niches list is the place to start rather than a software comparison.
If the model itself is still fuzzy, what high ticket dropshipping actually is explains why a small number of expensive orders changes every downstream decision, including how often you should be emailing at all.
Once the niche is settled, supplier relationships are the real constraint, and the complete step by step guide to finding high ticket suppliers covers the outreach that gets you approved.
None of that works without a legal entity behind it, and business formation for high ticket dropshipping covers the structure suppliers will ask you for.
For the tooling itself, most stores end up running the storefront on Shopify. The entity paperwork usually goes through Bizee.
Liability cover is the piece suppliers actually ask to see, and Hiscox is where most operators here get the certificate. A business phone line belongs in the same stack, and the walkthrough on setting up a business phone number with Phone.com covers provisioning it end to end.
If you would rather not assemble any of it yourself, the done for you high ticket dropshipping build and launch service handles the whole setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cheapest GetResponse alternative?
On published entry pricing, Brevo Starter at $9 a month billed monthly is the cheapest paid plan on this page, and Kit’s free tier at $0 covers up to 10,000 subscribers, which is cheaper still if you do not need automations. Systeme.io Startup at $17 a month is the cheapest option that also includes funnels and courses.
Which alternative includes webinars?
Systeme.io’s Webinar plan at $47 a month includes an automated webinar feature at 10,000 contacts. None of the other platforms on this page bundle webinars at all. If live webinars are essential, GetResponse Creator remains one of the few email platforms that includes them.
Does anything match GetResponse’s unlimited sending?
Yes, but you pay for it. MailerLite Power at $39 a month and Omnisend Pro at $59.00 a month both include unlimited monthly emails, and Systeme.io includes unlimited sends on every plan including free. MailerLite Comfort and Omnisend Standard both cap sends.
Why will you not tell me what ActiveCampaign costs?
Because the price did not render on their own plans page when I read it and the site is behind a bot verification screen. Publishing a number I could not verify is how stale pricing ends up on the internet. Read it off activecampaign.com/pricing yourself.
Will switching hurt my deliverability?
Temporarily, almost always. A new sending domain has no reputation, so plan for several weeks of warm up, authenticate SPF, DKIM and DMARC before your first send, and ramp by engagement segment rather than blasting the whole list on day one.
Should I keep my GetResponse account during the move?
Yes, for at least one billing cycle. Running both in parallel lets you compare open and click rates on the same content and gives you somewhere to retreat to if the new platform underperforms.
Which of these do you actually earn money from?
GetResponse, Kit, Omnisend, Systeme.io and AWeber pay us a commission. MailerLite, Brevo and ActiveCampaign pay us nothing and are in this article because they are the right answer for specific complaints.
The Short Version
If your list is growing and the bill is the problem, look at Brevo for send based billing or MailerLite for cheaper automations, and accept the send caps that come with both. If you sell physical products, Omnisend is built for you and costs a third of GetResponse Marketer at the entry band. If you want funnels, courses and webinars for less, Systeme.io Webinar at $47 a month against GetResponse Creator at $134 at 10,000 contacts is the clearest saving on this page. If you only ever wanted a newsletter, AWeber Lite at $15 a month does that and nothing else.
And if you send often, use one workflow and are simply on the wrong tier, the cheapest fix available to you is a downgrade inside the platform you already have.
Compare It Against Your Own Numbers
GetResponse Starter is $19 a month at 1,000 contacts and $79 at 10,000, with unlimited sends on every paid tier and a 14 day trial that needs no card. That send allowance is the reason to stay. The list size ladder is the reason people leave. Check both against your own list before deciding.
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Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.
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