MailerLite vs Brevo

MailerLite was founded in 2005 as a web design agency but then switched to email marketing. The company is remote-first, with employees in 40 countries.

Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a French company that was founded in Paris in 2007 and rebranded in 2023.

No coding or design skills are required to create emails and web pages. The platform also offers an extensive knowledge base with tutorials, which makes it beginner-friendly.

Beginner-friendly, since the product is minimalist feature- and UI-wise

E-commerce, freelancers, small businesses

Small and medium-sized businesses, beginners in marketing automation, ecommerce businesses

A generous forever free plan with a limit of 1 user, 1,000 contacts, and 12,000 monthly emails. The free plan includes:

• Email editor and automation builder
• Website builder and 10 templates for landing pages
• Sign-up forms and pop-ups
• 24/7 email and chat support for the first 30 days

The forever free Brevo Marketing Platform plan includes:

• 300 emails/day and unlimited contacts
• 1 shared inbox
• Automation limit for 2,000 contacts
• 500 push notification impressions
• Email support
• Basic email marketing and automation features

Growing business:

• $9-205/month billed yearly, depending on the number of subscribers, with a limit of 50k contacts at the highest price
• Unlimited emails and 24/7 support
• Includes extra features like dynamic emails, selling digital products, blogs, and an unsubscribe page builder
• 3 users available

Advanced:

• $19-1,600/month billed yearly, with a limit of 500k contacts at the highest price
• An email limit if you have more than 50k subscribers, up to 6 million, depending on the number
• Includes features like custom HTML editor, AI writing assistant, Facebook integration, promotion pop-ups, and more
• Unlimited users

Entreprise:

• Depends on the scope of work
• Only available for businesses with 100k and more subscribers
• Includes the services of a dedicated success manager, onboarding, account audit, and dedicated IP and deliverability consultation

Dynamic, depending on sending volume, features, and add-on products. Brevo Marketing Platform offers 3 pricing tiers.

Starter: starts from $25/month, includes everything from Free plus:

• 20k emails/month, no daily sending limit
• Basic reporting and analytics
• Add-ons to pay for separately: Brevo logo removal and a dedicated IP

Business: starts from $65/month, includes everything from Starter plus:

• Unlimited automation
• Landing page builder
• A/B testing
• Send time optimization
• More push notification impressions and a multi-user access to pay for separately
• Advanced analytics
• Phone support

BrevoPlus: custom pricing, includes everything from Business plus

• Customized shared inboxes
• A dedicated IP
• Customized number of push notification impressions
• Multi-user access
• A dedicated manager and tailored onboarding
• SSO & SAML
• Service level agreement

Customer support is available 24/7 via email and live chat — however, it’s only available for 30 days on the free plan. Users can also hire experts in email marketing, copywriting, no code development, and more.

MailerLite also offers an extensive Customer Self-Service Center. It includes:

• A large categorized knowledge base, that includes articles about troubleshooting most common issues
• Video tutorials
• A Circle community where users can communicate with each other
• A free ML Academy with 5 free online courses about MailerLite and email marketing

Email support is available for all users, including those on the free plan. Phone and live chat support channels are only available for Business and BrevoPlus users. The support is available in 6 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German.

• Email marketing automation
• Sign-up forms
• Landing pages
• Website builder
• Blog builder
• Email verifier
• Transactional emails
• Click maps
• The ability to sell digital products like e-books and online courses
• Setting up a paid subscription for emails

• Drag-and-drop email builder
• Email automation
• SMS campaigns
• WhatsApp campaigns
• Push notification campaigns
• Facebook ads
• Landing pages
• Signup forms
• Segmentation and personalization
• Autoresponders
• A/B testing
• Native CRM
• Transactional emails
• Pipeline management
• Shared inbox
• Sales reports

70+ templates for newsletters:

• Blog digests
• Events
• Holiday emails
• Featured product
• Notifications
• Surveys and quizzes
• Deals and offers
• Emails for creative professionals

40+ templates for landing pages:

• For bloggers
• For creative professionals
• Events
• Surveys and quizzes
• Coming soon
• Celebrations
• Books
• Non-profits

18 website templates for different industries and purposes:

• Business
• E-commerce
• Education
• Events
• Food and drinks
• Portfolio
• Wellness

Templates for email campaigns, automation (i. e. birthday emails), and transactional emails with dynamic content included. All templates are responsive and optimized for dark mode.

Brevo also offers creating custom templates for your business as a separate service.

139 integrations with services for CRM, loyalty programs, e-commerce, project management, surveys, and more.

58 integrations are currently available, including WordPress, other ESPs like Mailchimp, CRMs like Zoho, e-commerce platforms like Shopify, and more. Brevo also provides an API for custom integrations.

MailerLite has a web app, an iOS app, and an iPad app only for subscribing leads on offline events.

A web app, a desktop app, and iOS and Android apps for phone calls and conversations (chatbot marketing). The two latter services are separate and not included in the Marketing Platform.

English

English French Italian Spanish Portuguese German

• 15 automation recipes for welcome emails, abandoned cart, membership renewal, online courses, and more.
• Paid versions include an AI writing assistant powered by OpenAI that allows users to write marketing copies faster.
• Automated A/B testing for up to 3 workflow variations.

Automation templates for welcome series, cart abandonment, post-purchase, email or website action, anniversaries, and page visits.

• A very simple and minimalist product that is good for beginners
• Many unique features like paid newsletters and selling digital goods
• Great customer support
• A lot of integrations available
• Easy migrations from other services
• Extensive video tutorial library for new users

• Great customer support
• Easy to set up and implement
• Very clean and user-friendly interface

• May come off as too simple for experienced marketers
• You need to get approval to start working with the service
• 2FA requires a third-party app instead of a phone number
• Stripe integration can be troublesome
• Confusing categories in the interface
• Outdated documentation at times

• Limited CRM functionality compared to other tools
• Many add-ons, which leads to extra costs
• Occasionally sluggish loading