AWeber vs MailChimp vs GetResponse – The Good, Bad & Ugly

Email Marketing

Comparing email marketing software providers is not easy. Each of them, offer different features associated with tiered plans. Those plans, include varied pricing per the amount of subscribers. That is a lot of data to try and match-up to another service that presents it in an entirely different way.

With the charts below, you will find it easier to compare their features & pricing.

Provider Name	More Info	Plan Features	0-500	501–1,000	1,001–1,500	1,501–2,000	2,001–2,500	2,501–5,000	5,001–7,500	7,501–10,000	10,001–25,000	25,001+
MailChimp Free Plan	Visit Site	Click here to see	Free	Free	Free	Free	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
MailChimp Growing Business Plan	Visit Site Special Offers	Click here to see	$10	$15	$20	$25	$30	$35 - $50	$55 - $75	$75	$80 - $150	See on Site
AWeber	Visit Site Special Offers	Click here to see	$19	$29	$29	$29	$29	$49	$69	$69	$149	Get a quote
GetResponse Email Plan	Visit Site Special Offers	Click here to see	$15	$15	$25	$25	$25	$45	$65	$65	$145	Get a quote
GetResponse Pro Plan	Visit Site Special Offers	Click here to see	$49	$49	$49	$49	$49	$49	$75	$75	$165	Get a quote

MailChimp also offers a Pay As You Go method. This would be useful for those with a smaller email list but still need automation features. You can see the pricing in the graphic below:

Provider Name	More Info	Starting Price	Free Trial	Support: Phone	Support: Live Chat	# of Emails	Email Templates	Automation	Autoresponder	Landing Pages	Signup Forms	File Hosting	Manage Subscribers	Subscriber Segmentation	Surveys	Mobile App	Tracking/Analytics	Integrations	Multi-User	Money-Back Guarantee	Misc
MailChimp	Visit Site Special Offers	Free	Up to 2,000 contacts	No	Yes w/ a paid plan	12,000	Yes	Yes w/ a paid plan	Yes w/ a paid plan	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, iOS, Android	Yes	Click here to see	Yes	No
AWeber	Visit Site Special Offers	$19/mo	Yes, 30 Days - 500 Contacts	Mon-Fri 8am-8pm est Sat-Sun 9am-5pm est	Yes	Unlimited	Yes, 700+	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	via 3rd party	Yes, iOS, Android	Yes	Click here to see	Yes	No
GetResponse	Visit Site Special Offers	$15/mo	Yes, 30 Days	Mon-Fri 9am-5pm est	Yes	Unlimited	Yes, 500+	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, iOS, Android, Kindle	Yes	Click here to see	Yes	No	Hosted Webinars starting in Pro plan

Let’s start by scoring these email marketing software competitors based on the features provided.

Scoreboard

Starting Price:
Free Trial: Best Trial up to 2,000 subscribers.
Deliverability Rate: Tie (To see how this is calculated head over to this page and look for the Deliverability heading.)
Support Phone: &
Support Live Chat: Tie (Either way, you are paying for it on all services.)
Support Email/Help Desk: Tie
Support Knowledge Base: Tie
# of Emails: Tie (With a paid plan MailChimp’s email limit is lifted.)
Email Templates: Tie
Automation: Tie
Autoresponder: Tie
Landing Pages: It’s important to know that each service can use 3rd party apps to implement landing pages. GetResponse has them built-in to their service.
Signup Forms: Tie
Media Library: Tie
File Hosting: Tie
Manage Subscribers: Tie
Subscriber Segmentation: Tie
A/B Testing: Tie
Surveys: & for built-in options. Each service supports 3rd party survey integrations.
Mobile App: Tie
Tracking/Analytics: Tie
Scheduling: Tie
Integrations: Tie. All of them support Zapier so the integrations are almost endless.
Social Media Marketing: Tie
Multi-User: Tie
Money-Back Guarantee: Tie

Ties: 21

AWeber wins: 1

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GetResponse wins: 3

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MailChimp wins: 3

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Not everything fits on the scoreboard, though.

Pros & Cons

More features & drawbacks that you should consider before making your choice.

AWeber

The Good

Deep analytics and reports. You could spend hours looking at different data sets.

Tagging

It’s simple to tag individual subscribers by their interests. Based on the links they click inside your emails.

The Bad

Let’s get right into the ugly.

The Ugly

Subscribers on more than one list count each time towards your total subscriber count.
Subscribers on deactivated lists will still count towards your total subscriber count.
Unsubscribed subscribers still count toward your total subscriber count.

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GetResponse

The Good

Visual workflows

Present Webinars to Your Subscribers (Pro or higher)

getresponse webinars

The Bad

Their email templates need to be updated.

The Ugly

Pricing, plans, and features associated with them could be simplified. If they all did this then there probably wouldn’t be any need to read comparisons such as this.

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MailChimp

The Good

Pay as you go option for customers with smaller email lists that need automation.

Final welcome email can be used to deliver free gifts for subscribing.

The Bad

Phone support should be offered to paid plans.

The Ugly

Certain affiliate links are blacklisted in their system. They are not allowed inside your campaign emails. MailChimp has been known to shutdown accounts without warning due to this. Using affiliate links in your campaign emails on MailChimp overall carries a high risk. You could chance losing your entire email list.

You should view their Acceptable Use policy to see which industries are prohibited from using their service. It will also show you which industries emails will forego increased scrutiny.

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