The honest Mailchimp alternative
for 2026.
If you're searching for a Mailchimp alternative, you've probably read 15 listicles already. This one is different: a working product, built on AWS SES, that ships every feature you actually used in Mailchimp at a fraction of the price.
Why people search for "Mailchimp alternative"
Mailchimp has been the email marketing default since 2001. But the company has been raising prices steadily since the Intuit acquisition in 2021, and the per-contact pricing model has become punitive for the businesses that grew with it.
- The bill keeps growing even when sends don't. A 50,000-contact list emailed once a month costs $350/mo.
- Inactive subscribers cost the same as engaged ones.
- Deliverability is shared. Your campaign leaves Mailchimp's pooled IPs.
What a real Mailchimp alternative needs
- The same product surface area: campaigns, audiences, automations, analytics, deliverability tools, drag-and-drop builder.
- A pricing model that doesn't scale with contact count.
- Sending infrastructure you can trust at any volume.
- A migration path you can complete in a workday.
SES Mailbox checks every box. The dashboard runs on Amazon SES — the same infrastructure Netflix and Reddit use. AWS charges $0.10 per 1,000 emails sent (not stored). SES Mailbox adds the dashboard, automations, segments, and analytics for $9.99/mo flat.
The numbers
How to switch in 30 minutes
- Export your Mailchimp audiences (Audience → Export, or give us your API key).
- Create an AWS account if you don't have one — free.
- Verify your sending domain (we generate the DNS records).
- Import your subscribers, templates, and flows.
- Send your first campaign.
Most teams complete the full migration in under an hour. On the Pro plan, we offer a free white-glove migration over screen-share.
Start the Mailchimp migration.
Save thousands. Forever.
Free Mailchimp importer. White-glove migration on Pro. Never pay per contact again.