MailCheap pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
MailCheap (mailcheap.ai) is a newsletter platform. Priced by emails sent, not subscribers; open source. No free plan.
What MailCheap costs
- 1k subscribers: $19/mo
- 5k subscribers: $39/mo (Starter ($19) if you send 4 issues a month or fewer)
- 10k subscribers: $39/mo (Starter ($19) if you send 2 issues a month or fewer)
- 25k subscribers: $79/mo (Growth ($39) if you send 3 issues a month or fewer)
- 50k subscribers: $149/mo (Pro ($79) if you send 4 issues a month or fewer)
- 100k subscribers: $149/mo (Pro ($79) if you send 2 issues a month or fewer)
Plan compared: Plan for one issue a week (~4.3 emails per subscriber). 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.
MailCheap price hikes
No price hikes on record for MailCheap.
Cheaper alternatives to MailCheap
At 10k subs, MailCheap costs $39/mo. 1 newsletter platform costs less:
- Sendy + SES: $4.30/mo (Self-hosted, SES à la carte at $0.10 per 1k)
MailCheap alternatives: 10 newsletter platforms compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: mailcheap.ai/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Built by Marc Lou after he left beehiiv; launched Oct 10, 2026. Each plan caps both emails and subscribers; the pricing page's "for up to N subscribers" assumes about 2 emails a month. We price a weekly issue (about 4.3 emails per subscriber a month), the same method MailCheap's own comparison page uses (Growth at 10k, Scale at 50k). Sends pause at the cap instead of charging overage. The code is open source and can run on your own Amazon SES account.