Discover Sendinblue, a cheaper alternative to ActiveCampaign

Sendinblue: the same features at half the price of ActiveCampaign

Sendinblue works out a lot cheaper than ActiveCampaign for sending bulk emails.

This is because ActiveCampaign charges you based on your number of contacts while Sendinblue lets you store unlimited contacts at no extra cost. This way, you only pay for email usage and not for growing your business.

Sendinblue’s free plan offers a flexibile way to test-drive the platform by sending up to 300 emails a day. ActiveCampaign, on the other hand, only offers a 14-day free trial limited to 100 contacts and 100 emails.

Number of contacts	Sendinblue	ActiveCampaign
Free plan	300 emails/day, unlimited contacts
Send a monthly newsletter to 1000 contacts	$25	$29
Send a monthly newsletter to 2500 contacts	$25	$55
Send a monthly newsletter to 5000 contacts	$25	$99
Send a monthly newsletter to 10,000 contacts	$25	$155
Send a monthly newsletter to 25,000 contacts	$54	$259
Send a monthly newsletter to 50,000 contacts	$69	$345
Send a monthly newsletter to 100,000 contacts	$99	$505

Based on ActiveCampaign “Pay Monthly” prices, taking cheapest offering available. Source: activecampaign.com/pricing Date: 10/22/2021.

Sendinblue: Manage your marketing and transactional emails all from one platform

If your business relies on time-sensitive transactional emails (order updates, password resets, etc.), you’ll be able to send these through Sendinblue’s dedicated SMTP server. Sendinblue lets you manage both marketing and transactional emails from the same platform as part of your monthly email plan. 

ActiveCampaign does not have a transactional email server. For this you’ll have to use another service which will mean paying even more for email.   

Available Features	Sendinblue	ActiveCampaign
Transactional emails		Paid add-on (Mandrill)
Email marketing campaigns
Advanced marketing automation
Send time optimization
Real-time reporting
Click heat map
HTML email editor
Landing page builder
Telephone support	From $65/month	From $279/month

Go multichannel with Sendinblue's all-in-one sales and marketing platform

Sendinblue isn’t just for email. Tap into a range of other features to grow your small business.

Connect with your audience wherever they are via SMS and live chat, drive online traffic with Facebook ads, and use the CRM to keep track of all your interactions with contacts.

Available Features	Sendinblue	ActiveCampaign
Sales CRM
SMS marketing		Plus plan
Facebook Ads	Premium
Live chat

Deliverability: Land your emails in the inbox with Sendinblue

At Sendinblue, deliverability is a top priority. We work hard to protect the sender reputation of our shared IPs.

• We have a rigorous anti-spam policy and account validation process.
• Our team of deliverability experts actively monitor servers and work with clients to resolve any issues.
• Our platform automatically removes hard bounce contacts from your campaigns.

If you’re a high volume sender, Sendinblue gives you more control over your deliverability with dedicated IPs. You can also set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC authentication to help improve your deliverability. These options are also available with ActiveCampaign.