Email campaigns and sending
Send volume is hard-capped at a multiple of the contact tier you're already paying for, so growing your list and growing your send budget are the same lever.
What people actually say
✕Send limits are 10x your contact total on Essentials, 12x on Standard and 15x on Premium per month — overages apply automatically if you blow through.
Source: Mailchimp KB, about pricing plans ↗✕The free plan was cut from 2,000 contacts to 500, then again to 250, and automation was fully stripped from the free tier — Mailchimp pricing rose roughly three times in three years post-Intuit acquisition.
Source: DigitalEdgeLab, 247 users on Mailchimp pricing ↗✕Transactional email is billed separately via Mandrill add-on blocks (around $20 per 25k emails) on top of your marketing plan, with no unified send budget.
Source: Retainful, Mailchimp pricing 2026 ↗
We wire your sends straight to Amazon SES, Resend or Postmark, where a transactional or marketing send costs fractions of a cent and scales linearly with volume — no contact-tier multiplier. Suppression and bounce handling are first-class, you can fire a 200k blast or a one-off receipt through the same pipe, and the only ceiling is the sending domain's reputation.