The Ultimate Autoresponder List – Which One Should You Use

For all online websites or projects, one of the most critical tasks is to start building responsive email lists - the most important online asset of all businesses.

I've started implementing autoresponder many years back, starting with Aweber which is one of the most well-known tier 1 autoresponder used by many internet marketers. Other than the initial free trial, I have had paid the monthly $19 for years.

At that time (the beginning stage), as with many internet marketers, our list building effort didn't reap much ROI initially. But one thing's for sure - the monthly autoresponder deduction via credit card never fail to happen.

While I don't mind paying for this critical autoresponder, but at $19 monthly (my gosh), that is much higher than most good shared hosting (usually under $10 monthly). Seeing the autoresponder transactions, month after month, appearing in the credit card statements somehow cause a cringe at the heart.

To reduce expenditure, I switched over to the "cheaper" GetResponse at $15 monthly. For a while, I was happy with GetResponse as its UI is better than Aweber IMHO. But the $15 transactions appearing in credit card statements isn't reducing that cringe to feel any better.

The thoughts of using those entirely free autoresponders crossed my mind. But weighing in factors like reliability, delivery rate and control, I guess using a free autoresponder is out of the equation. After all, if it's free, how do they sustain? Via advertisements, of course. Plus, my switch and lists migration from Aweber to GetResponse wasn't any smooth sailing, hence, I know the "next one" must definitely be very robust, sustainable and reliable.

While researching for my next ultimate autoresponder, I have compiled an intensive and comprehensive list of over 30+ top autoresponders :

LAST UPDATE : AUGUST 2018

1. SendinBlue

URL : https://www.sendinblue.com
Free Plan : 300 emails/day; unlimited subscribers
Starting Plan : $7pm / unlimited subscribers / 40K emails pm
Remarks : Pay As You Go plan available

2. Pepipost

URL : https://pepipost.com
Free Plan : Up to 30K emails pm
Starting Plan : $15pm / unlimited subscribers / 100K emails
Remarks : The only ESP that won't charge on emails opened

3. Amazon SES

URL : https://aws.amazon.com/ses/
Free Plan : 62K emails pm
Starting Plan : $0.10 per 1K emails / unlimited subscribers
Remarks : Kind of technically tedious to implement

4. MailerLite

URL : https://www.mailerlite.com
Free Plan : 1K subscribers / unlimited emails
Starting Plan : $10 pm / 2500 subscribers / unlimited emails
Remarks : Affordable email marketing for small businesses

5. Mandrill

URL : https://www.mandrill.com
Free Plan : NIL
Starting Plan : $20 per block / unlimited subscribers / 25k emails per block
Remarks : Pay per use

6. SendGrid

URL : https://sendgrid.com
Free Plan : Unlimited subscribers / 100 emails daily
Starting Plan : $9.95 pm / 2K subscribers / 10K emails pm
Remarks : Popular transactional email service provider

7. MailChimp

URL : https://mailchimp.com
Free Plan : 2K subscribers / 12K emails pm
Starting Plan : $10 pm / unlimited subscribers / unlimited emails
Remarks : Not for affiliate marketing

8. Aweber

URL : https://www.aweber.com/
Free Plan : 30-Day free trial
Starting Plan : $19pm / 500 subscribers / unlimited emails
Remarks : Aweber is the most well-known autoresponder which is very popular with internet marketers.

9. GetResponse

URL : https://www.getresponse.com/
Free Plan : 30-Day free trial
Starting Plan : $15 pm / 1K subscribers / unlimited emails
Remarks : Another well-known autoresponder highly popular with internet marketers.

10. sendPulse

URL : https://sendpulse.com/
Free Plan : 2500 subscribers / 15K emails pm
Starting Plan : $9.85 pm / 2500 subscribers / unlimited emails
Remarks : SMTP service offers 12K emails free monthly; Pay As You Go plan available.