AWeber vs Mailtrap

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

Founded in 2011 by Railsware Product Studio, Mailtrap is a bootstrapped product owned by Railsware with company headquarters in Kyiv, Krakow, and Los Angeles.

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.

The service is geared for developer and product teams. Although not easy for the general public, its interface makes it easy for professionals to adopt the tool.

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

SMEs and enterprises who require detailed, well-laid-out analytics, high deliverability, as well as transactional and marketing emails within a highly scalable and stable solution.

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.

Yes, 3,500 emails per month with 150 emails/day throughput, one domain and one user seat.

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

Mailtrap offers four pricing plans, billed monthly, and based on the number of emails and contacts, features, data retention and additional services.

Basic starts from $15 per month for 10,000 emails and up to 50,000 contacts.

• No daily email throughput limit
• 5 domains
• 5 days of email log and body retention
• Click rate tracking
• 3 user seats 
• 2FA

Business starts at $85 per month for 100,000 emails and up to 750,000 contacts.

• Everything you get in Basic +
• 3,000 domains
• 15-day email log retention
• 7-day email body retention
• Max email size up to 30MB
• Dedicated IP
• Auto warm-up
• HTTPS link branding
• 1,000 user seats
• 2FA & SSO
• 24/7 customer support (email & live chat)
• Priority support
• Deliverability expert assistance
• Migration assistance

Enterprise starts at $750 per month from 1,5M emails and up to 2.5M contacts.

• Everything you get in Business +
• 30-day email log retention
• 15-day email body retention
• Activity logs

Mailtrap for big senders

• Custom pricing
• Deliverability manager
• Onboarding assistance
• Unlimited user seats

• 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

Email support available to all plans, Knowledge Base, well-documented APIs and SDKs, YouTube tutorials, documentation available on all plans. 

Live chat and priority support available on higher plans (Business, Enterprise, and Mailtrap for big senders). This also includes migration and deliverability expert assistance and live chat and priority support – available 24/7.

On lower-tier plans, email support is available 20-hours per day, Monday to Friday.

• 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

• Separate sending streams for bulk and transactional emails
• SMTP & API (+SDKs for major programming languages)
• Email campaigns with scheduling, segmentation and automation
• Industry best analytics 
• Drag-and-drop email builder with AI assistance and fee image library
• Email template code editor
• Email templates and the template API
• Fast delivery and high inboxing rates.

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

• Two simple out-of-the-box templates with the option to import your own. 
• Templates API that allows you to programmatically send emails from your app or service.

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

18+ integrations including VS Code, Cursor, Replit, Gemini, Heroku, Zapier, Make, 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.

✅Available only on the web.
❌No installable solution.

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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

Setting triggers, actions, and rules available in Alpha at the time of writing.

• 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

✅ High inboxing rates

✅ Fast email delivery 

✅ Industry best analytics

✅ Safe and fast scaling

✅ 24/7 expert support

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

❌Automations in Alpha stage
❌Requires intermediate coding skills