Constant Contact and MailerLite both target small businesses sending regular email, and their entry prices are within two dollars: Constant Contact Lite at $10.20 per month billed annually and MailerLite's Comfort plan starting at $12 per month. What differs is how sends are metered and what the next tiers cost. Constant Contact defines monthly email sends as a multiple of your contacts: 10x on Lite, 12x on Standard and 24x on Premium, and its pricing footnote states the plan price is based on number of contacts and email sends with overage fees that may apply.
TL;DR
Constant Contact prices Lite at $10.20 per month billed annually, Standard at $29.75 and Premium at $68, with monthly email sends set as a multiple of your contact count (10x on Lite, 12x on Standard, 24x on Premium) and 1, 3 and 3 users respectively; its page notes the plan price depends on contacts and sends, with overage fees possible. MailerLite's Free plan covers up to 250 subscribers, 2 user seats and 2,500 monthly emails; Comfort starts at $12 per month with the full template and testing toolkit, and Power at $25 adds unlimited user seats, unlimited monthly emails, digital products and bookings. Constant Contact is the more complete small-business suite with events, ads and phone support; MailerLite is the cheaper path to unlimited sending and unlimited seats.
MailerLite takes the more conventional subscriber-cap approach, with a Free plan that lists up to 250 subscribers, 2 user seats and 2,500 monthly emails alongside campaigns, automations, a website, landing pages and signup forms. Comfort at $12 per month adds unlimited templates, dynamic emails, campaign auto-resend, multivariate testing and an AI writing assistant; Power at $25 adds unlimited user seats and unlimited monthly emails, plus digital products and bookings, multiple automation triggers and 24/7 live chat.
The suite boundaries are visible in the feature lists. Constant Contact bundles social media posting, advertising managers, events with payments and 300 integrations, and its Standard tier adds an AI campaign builder and automatic resend to non-openers; live phone and chat support starts at Lite. MailerLite's paid strength is what a creator or small shop needs to sell directly: digital products and bookings on Power, an AI writing assistant on Comfort, and unlimited seats so adding teammates does not change the bill.
| Feature | Constant Contact | MailerLite |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No free tier listed; trial available | 250 subscribers, 2 seats, 2,500 emails/month |
| Entry paid | Lite at $10.20/mo billed annually | Comfort from $12/mo |
| Mid tier | Standard at $29.75/mo billed annually | Power from $25/mo |
| Top tier | Premium at $68/mo billed annually | Enterprise by quote |
| Monthly sends | 10x contacts (Lite), 12x (Standard), 24x (Premium) | Unlimited on Power; 2,500 emails on Free |
| Users | 1 (Lite), 3 (Standard), 3 (Premium) | 2 on Free; unlimited on Power |
| Automation | 1 template (Lite), 3 plus AI builder (Standard), unlimited (Premium) | Included on Free; multiple triggers on Power |
| Extras | Events with payments, social ads manager, 300 integrations | Digital products, bookings, website and landing pages |
Pick Constant Contact if
Events with ticketing and payments, a social ads manager and live phone support from the $10.20 Lite tier make Constant Contact the fuller small-business suite. If your email program is regular sends to a modest list and you value talking to someone, it is the safer buy.
Pick MailerLite if
Power at $25 per month removes both the send cap and the seat cap, and even Comfort at $12 brings multivariate testing and an AI writing assistant. If you have more than a handful of subscribers or more than one person sending, MailerLite's flat tiers cost less than scaling up Constant Contact's contact-and-send multiples.
We did not survey users or aggregate third-party reviews for this pair. Every statement above comes from Constant Contact's and MailerLite's own pricing pages as published on the date shown.
MailerLite, because its Free plan covers 250 subscribers and 2,500 monthly emails at no cost. Constant Contact's entry is Lite at $10.20 per month billed annually, with a trial rather than an ongoing free plan.
As a multiple of your contacts: 10x on Lite, 12x on Standard and 24x on Premium. The pricing page notes that plan price depends on contacts and email sends and that overage fees may apply.
The Free plan includes 2 seats; the Power plan at $25 per month lists unlimited user seats. Constant Contact's Lite includes 1 user and Standard includes 3.
Constant Contact's Standard tier adds an AI campaign builder and automatic resend to non-openers, while Premium unlocks unlimited templates and custom automations. MailerLite includes automations from Free and adds multiple triggers on Power; both are straightforward rather than workflow-heavy compared with dedicated automation platforms.
Constant Contact lists events, ticketing and payments on all plans. MailerLite's answer is digital products and bookings on the Power plan, which covers selling but is a different feature set from event management.
Constant Contact lists live phone and chat with marketing experts from Lite upward. MailerLite's 24/7 live chat support arrives on Power; lower tiers rely on email and self-serve resources.
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