Best email marketing software for creators: 4 picks

Best email marketing software for creators: four picks

Kit (formerly ConvertKit) suits a creator who wants a free list of up to 10,000 subscribers, and beehiiv a newsletter headed for 250,000 on Pro. MailerLite Comfort has the lowest monthly price of the four: $19 a month, billed monthly, at 1,000 subscribers.

Authors and newsletter writers choose from the same four tools and prices.

Kit: the largest free list

Kit Free holds up to 10,000 subscribers and puts no cap on landing pages, forms or broadcasts. Creator, at $39 a month billed monthly or $33 a month billed yearly ($390 a year), adds unlimited visual automations: flows that send emails along split paths based on subscriber behavior. Kit lists free migrations on paid plans, and a 14-day trial asks for no card. MailerLite vs Kit compares the two.

beehiiv: room for a growing newsletter

beehiiv caps Free at 2,500 subscribers, Lite at 100,000 and Pro at 250,000. At 1,000 subscribers Lite is $59 a month on monthly billing, or $49 on yearly billing, and Pro is $109 or $95. Lite and Pro offer a free trial with no card, but the page does not show its length. See MailerLite vs beehiiv.

Flodesk: forms and pages first

Flodesk Free builds forms and landing pages but sends no email. Lite is $25 a month, billed monthly, or $19 a month on annual billing, at 1,000 subscribers, and it limits workflows, Flodesk's word for automations: a trigger plus steps that send emails on their own. Pro, $28 a month billed monthly, adds unlimited workflows. The trial gives all paid features without a card, and its length is not stated. MailerLite vs Flodesk has the rest.

MailerLite: the lowest monthly price of the four

MailerLite Comfort is $19 a month, billed monthly, or $17.10 a month, billed yearly ($205.20 a year), at 1,000 subscribers. It sends 10,000 emails a month, runs 50 automations and includes paid newsletters, a subscription readers pay for through Stripe, which Free does not. Free covers up to 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month.

MailerLite's 14-day trial covers premium features such as paid newsletters, and it skips the credit card. Pick MailerLite for the lowest monthly price with automations and landing pages, Kit for the largest free list, beehiiv for a newsletter that may pass 100,000 subscribers, and Flodesk for forms and pages first.