Switching reason · Pricing & plans · Causes churn
Mailchimp costs rise sharply as lists grow
3 source threads · first seen 2012-07 · last seen 2018-10
Summary
The user found that Mailchimp’s costs increased quickly for their list size and switched to a lower-cost self-hosted mailing setup.
- Switched to or considered
- phpList + Amazon SES
Evidence
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“We switched to phplist + Amazon SES several years back after calculating what our MailChimp bill would be for our list size”
“If you're using Mailchimp to handle a list of 10 million users you're definitely doing it wrong”
“Mailchimp gets brutally expensive at the higher tiers, especially if you have a large list but only send 1 or 2 newsletters a month”