AWeber vs GetResponse

AWeber was founded in 1998 by Tom Kulzer. Headquarters in Chalfont, PA.

GetResponse was founded in 1998 in Gdansk, Poland, and it focuses on newsletters and marketing automation.

No coding or design skills are required. The software is intuitive with many pre-made templates and automations but lacks advanced features like photo editing inside the email builder.

Beginner-friendly

Small to medium companies that only need an email marketing platform with basic features.

E-commerce businesses, solopreneurs

Has a free plan for up to 500 subscribers and 3,000 emails a month. The features are limited, only basic templates and support are available on the free plan.

Free plan includes:

• 2,500 emails/month
• Contact list limit of 500 contacts
• Landing pages
• Sign-up forms
• Website builder with a 5GB bandwidth
• Connect a domain

There’s also a 30-day free trial for all paid plans.

For up to 500 contacts, billed yearly/monthly:

• Lite $12.50 / $14.99
• Plus $20 / $29.99
• Unlimited $899

Other pricing features:

• 3 months of service free and up to 60.5% discount for nonprofits
• 20% discount for students
• Customer referral program
• Account hold package for $4.99 a month

GetResponse includes 4 pricing tiers, depending on the features, contact list, and extra services.

Email Marketing: starts from $13.3/month for 1,000 contacts billed biannually and includes

• Newsletters
• AI email generator
• Autoresponders
• AI campaign generator
• Website and landing pages
• Signup forms and popups
• Email and live chat support

Marketing Automation: starts from $41.3/month for 1,000 contacts billed biannually, includes Email Marketing features and

• Marketing automation
• Event-based workflows
• Webinars
• Advanced segmentation
• Contact scoring
• Sales funnels

Ecommerce Marketing: starts from $83.3/month for 1,000 contacts billed biannually, includes Marketing Automation features and

• Ecommerce integrations
• Quick transactional emails
• Abandoned cart recovery
• Promo codes
• Product recommendations
• Web push notifications

GetResponse MAX: starts from $999/month billed biannually for contact lists larger than 100,000, includes E-commerce Marketing features and

• Dedicated, priority support + phone and Slack support
• Dedicated infrastructure
• Personalized onboarding
• SMS marketing
• AI recommendations
• Transactional emails
• FTP contact imports

• 24/7 support via email
• Live chat: Mon-Fri 7:00 am — 10:00 pm ET (UTC-5)
• Sat-Sun 8:00 am — 5:00 pm ET (UTC-5)
• Support phone line: 8 am — 8 pm ET (UTC-5)
• Guides and YouTube tutorials
• 24/7 paid email marketing master class
• AWeber expert service

All paid users and users on a free trial have access to 24/7 support:

• Email — in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Polish, and Italian.
• Live chat — in Polish or English.

GetResponse MAX users have access to dedicated priority support via the same channels, and also phone and Slack support. Free plan users have no access to support.

• Email automation and pre-built autoresponders
• Landing page and sign-up forms builder
• Custom sales pages
• Web push notifications
• Integrations with various services
• Drag-and-drop email builder
• Custom template design service
• Free migration services
• 3 mobile apps for iOS and Android with various features

• Email builder with templates
• AI email generator
• AI campaign generator
• Send time optimization
• Autoresponders
• Automation workflow builder with pre-built templates
• Web events and advanced triggers
• Pop-ups and forms
• Other channels: SMS, web push notifications, live chat management
• Segmentation
• List management
• Lead magnet and conversion funnels
• E-commerce features: transactional emails, promo codes, recommendations, abandoned cart emails
• Website builder with AI wizard
• Paid ads: Google, Meta, goal-focused
• Webinars
• Reports and analytics
• A/B testing

600+ templates and 600+ free stock photos
Custom email template design service

Templates for:

• Newsletter
• Holiday
• Various industries (real estate, food services, agencies, etc.)
• Birthdays and anniversaries
• Events

150+ free email templates categorized by purpose and industry:

• Business
• Education
• Events
• Holidays
• Sales

GetResponse offers templates for transactional and triggered emails (like cart abandonment), company newsletters, different types of promotional emails, and more.

700+ integrations including WordPress, PayPal, Intercom, Pipedrive, Shopify, Facebook, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Twilio, Zapier, and more

291 integrations with e-commerce tools like Shopify, landing page builders like Instapage and Leadpages, website builders like Squarespace, and more.

• Website
• 3 mobile apps for Android and iOS (possible to check email marketing stats, add new subscribers, create and send newsletters)

• No installable solution.

Web app, fully functional mobile apps for iOS and Android, including separate mobile apps for webinars and live chat management

English

English Polish German Spanish Portuguese Italian French Russian Vietnamese Indonesian Dutch

Offers 3 types of email marketing automations:

• Open-based to track and reward the most engaged subscribers
• Click-based to send campaigns based on subscribers’ actions
• List-based to easily organize lists

GetResponse offers a visual automation workflow builder with behavioral conditions and pre-made templates for welcome messages, retargeting, win-back campaigns, and more. You can also build your own sequence from scratch.

• Only necessary email marketing features
• 700+ integrations
• 3 mobile apps for different purposes
• Easy-to-use no-code automations
• 24/7 email support
• Landing page builder

• Good updated email builder
• Customizable dashboard
• Very easy to use
• A lot of marketing channels available at one place

• Dynamic content requires coding
• Free plan and Lite plan are very limited
• Relatively high prices
• Lacks advanced features (like photo editing)

• Trouble accessing customer support
• Can be slow and buggy, some reviewers report an outdated UI
• Can get expensive and many cool features are only available on high tiers
• Limited website and landing page builder