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Mailchimp is an email and SMS marketing platform with audience management, campaign creation, automations, analytics, and integrations. The pricing page shows a free plan limited to 250 contacts, plus paid plans with 14-day trials for Standard and Essentials, and a 1-month Premium trial for qualified new customers.

The free plan includes email campaign creation, forms and landing pages, content studio, pre-built templates, basic reports, audience tools, and limited marketing automation preview. The paid plans add higher contact limits, more email sends, advanced segmentation, A/B testing, custom reports, multivariate testing, SMS add-ons, and support options that vary by plan.

  • 250-contact free plan
  • 14-day Standard and Essentials trials
  • 1-month Premium trial
  • Email and SMS marketing
  • Marketing automation flows
  • Forms and landing pages
  • 300+ integrations
  • Basic reports and analytics

Free Tier Value

41
FTV score
Trial length 14 days
Credit card Not required
Feature parity 55%

The page explicitly shows a Free plan at $0/month with a limit of 250 contacts and max 500 emails per month or 250/day, so this is a capped free tier rather than an always-free unbounded plan. Because the free tier is already priced at $0 and the page does not provide a concrete credit amount, the conservative free-tier value is $0/month. The page also states “No Credit Card Required” for the free trial/signup flow and shows a 14-day free trial for paid plans, so no_cc_required is true and the trial duration is 14 days.

What's included in the free tier

  • Limited to 250 contacts
  • Max of 500 emails per month or 250 per day
  • 1 audience
  • 1 user
  • Email support for first 30 days
  • Included guides and tutorials
  • Included 300+ integrations
  • Included email campaigns
  • Included forms and landing pages
  • Included Content Studio
  • Limited pre-built email templates
  • No Mailchimp branding removal
  • No email scheduling
  • Create and send custom-coded templates
  • Included basic reports
  • Included personalized product recommendations
  • Included Next Best Action
  • Included Subject Line Helper
  • Included contact profiles
  • Included tags
  • Included inbox
  • Included Mailchimp mobile app
  • Included audience dashboard
  • Included surveys
  • Included campaign engagement tracking
  • Included purchase behavior tracking
  • 1 month of app engagement data
  • Site views for website engagement
  • Basic segmentation
  • Included landing pages
  • Included social posting
  • Included pop-up forms
  • Free preview of marketing automation flows
  • Free website builder and publishing
  • Unlimited pages
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • Included SEO tools
  • Included SSL certificate
  • Included site visit analytics
  • Included free Mailchimp domain

Paid plans

Essentials

$17 / mo
contacts
up to 50,000
monthly email sends
12x contacts
admin users
3
audiences
3
marketing automation flows
up to 4 flow steps
app engagement data
1 month
  • Email marketing and design included
  • Forms and landing pages included
  • Content Studio included
  • Pre-built email templates included
  • Email scheduling included
  • Custom-coded templates included
  • 24/7 email and chat support
  • Basic reports included

Standard

$25 / mo
contacts
up to 100,000
monthly email sends
15x contacts
admin users
5
audiences
5
marketing automation flows
up to 200 flows
app engagement data
3 months
  • Email marketing and design included
  • Forms and landing pages included
  • Content Studio included
  • Pre-built email templates included
  • Email scheduling included
  • Custom-coded templates included
  • 24/7 email and chat support
  • Advanced segmentation and reporting tools

Premium

$500 / mo
contacts
unlimited
monthly email sends
15x contacts
admin users
unlimited
audiences
unlimited
marketing automation flows
up to 200 flows
role-based access
5 roles
  • Priority support
  • Phone support
  • Unlimited contacts
  • Unlimited admin users
  • Advanced reporting tools
  • Advanced segmentation
  • Customer success management included with select custom plans
  • Personalized onboarding

Pricing extracted from Mailchimp's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.