MailerLite cut its free tier
Free plan subscriber cap halved.
What changed
- Free tier cut, Sep 2025
- Before: 1,000 subscribers, 12,000 emails/mo
- After: 500 subscribers, 12,000 emails/mo
- Existing customers: unknown
Cheaper alternatives to MailerLite
At 10k subs, MailerLite costs $89/mo. 5 newsletter platforms cost less:
- Sendy + SES: $4.30/mo (Self-hosted, SES à la carte at $0.10 per 1k)
- MailCheap: $39/mo (Plan for one issue a week (~4.3 emails per subscriber))
- Flodesk: $72/mo (Lite plan (Pro above 25k))
- Buttondown: $79/mo (Base plan, no add-ons)
- Bento: $79/mo (Marketing Platform)
MailerLite alternatives: 5 cheaper newsletter platforms compared, at every size.
Sources
Every price and change for MailerLite: MailerLite.