Switching reason · Pricing & plans · Causes churn
Canceled over Standard plan pricing
1 source thread · first seen 2025-07
Summary
The user canceled Mailchimp after reaching Standard plan limits, saying $230 per month for 15,000 subscribers felt too expensive compared with their own infrastructure costs.
- Affects
- Newsletter operator
- Workaround
- Started building a self-hosted newsletter platform using their own SMTP.
Evidence
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“$230/month to send emails to 15k subscribers feels insane when my entire server infrastructure costs $50/month”