Campaign Monitor pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Campaign Monitor (campaignmonitor.com) is a newsletter platform. Monthly plans (Lite, Essentials, Premier) priced by contact tier up to 50,000 contacts, 10% off for annual billing; larger lists and Enterprise need sales.. No free plan.
What Campaign Monitor costs
- 1k subscribers: $47/mo (Lite, 501-2,500 contact tier: $47/mo monthly; sends capped at 12,500/mo (5x contacts), covers ~4,300 needed)
- 5k subscribers: $75/mo (Lite, 2,501-5,000 tier: $75/mo; 25,000 sends/mo covers ~21,500)
- 10k subscribers: $117/mo (Lite, 5,001-10,000 tier: $117/mo; 50,000 sends/mo covers ~43,000)
- 25k subscribers: $241/mo (Lite, 15,001-25,000 tier: $241/mo; 125,000 sends/mo covers ~107,500)
- 50k subscribers: $397/mo (Lite, 25,001-50,000 tier: $397/mo; 250,000 sends/mo covers ~215,000)
- 100k subscribers: custom pricing (Lists over 50,000 contacts go to 'Contact sales')
Plan compared: Lite (10,000-contact tier, 50,000 emails/mo). Cheapest paid plan that can send a weekly newsletter to the whole list, billed monthly. Plans priced by emails sent assume one issue a week, about 4.3 emails per subscriber a month.
Campaign Monitor price hikes
- Campaign Monitor raised all plan prices about 7-10% · May 2026
List prices rose across every contact tier between the March 12 and May 12, 2026 page captures: Lite at 10,000 contacts went from $109 to $117/mo, at 500 from $12 to $13, at 50,000 from $369 to $397; Essentials 10k $169 to $182, Premier…
Cheaper alternatives to Campaign Monitor
At 10k subs, Campaign Monitor costs $117/mo. 8 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: $89/mo (Comfort plan)
- Ghost(Pro): $105/mo (Starter (Publisher above 1k))
- Mailchimp: $110/mo (Essentials (Standard above 50k))
Campaign Monitor alternatives: 8 cheaper newsletter platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- May 2026 · Price increase: List prices rose across every contact tier between the March 12 and May 12, 2026 page captures: Lite at 10,000 contacts went from $109 to $117/mo, at 500 from $12 to $13, at 50,000 from $369 to $397; Essentials 10k $169 to $182, Premier 10k $279 to $300.
Sources
Pricing page: campaignmonitor.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices read from the data attributes of the official pricing page (monthly list prices; the page's script applies x0.9 for annual). Increase dated by Wayback captures of 2026-03-12 (old) and 2026-05-12 (new), corroborated by CostBench; PricingSaaS's July 2026 'increase' was only a 25% first-year promo ending, not counted.