--- title: "OpenEmail vs Mailchimp" description: "OpenEmail against Mailchimp, at $13 / month at 500 contacts. What they are genuinely better at, the reason people move, and the same line by line table, with list prices checked in August 2026." url: "https://openemail.uk/compare/mailchimp" --- OpenEmail against # Mailchimp line by line. Their list price is $13 / month at 500 contacts, checked in August 2026. Ours counts domains rather than people, so the two lines below diverge with the size of your team. ## What they are better at Campaigns, audiences, landing pages and reporting that a marketing team can run without help. Decades of deliverability work behind the sending. ## Why people move The bill follows the contact list, so the cost of keeping an address is the cost of having collected it. It is also a broadcast tool rather than a mailbox: nobody replies to a campaign and reads the answer in Mailchimp. OpenEmail charges per workspace and the replies land in an inbox. People per seat everywhere but here; two or more needs Starter 5 people Domains bills only us 1 domain Sent a month per message nowhere; sets our step 5,000 sent Addresses bills only us, past ten 12 addresses You save with OpenEmail $130 a month against Superhuman $1,680 a year ![Forward Email](https://openemail.uk/brands/forward-email.svg) Forward Email forwarding only $3 /mo $36/yr Mailchimp marketing sends $13 /mo $156/yr Resend transactional sends $20 /mo $240/yr ![Fastmail](https://openemail.uk/brands/fastmail.svg) Fastmail Standard $25 /mo $300/yr ![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/black-icon.svg)![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/white-icon.svg) OpenEmail per domain $30 /mo $240/yr Proton Mail Mail Essentials $34.95 /mo $419/yr ![Google Workspace](https://openemail.uk/brands/google-workspace.png) Google Workspace Business Starter $35 /mo $420/yr HEY for Domains per person $58 /mo $696/yr ![Superhuman](https://openemail.uk/brands/superhuman.png) Superhuman + Workspace $160 /mo $1,920/yr ## Line by line. Mailchimp is not a mailbox, so it is not on this table. The table compares the places mail actually lands, which is the choice Mailchimp sits beside rather than replaces. | Compared | ![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/black-icon.svg)![OpenEmail](https://openemail.uk/white-icon.svg) OpenEmail per domain | ![Fastmail](https://openemail.uk/brands/fastmail.svg) Fastmail Standard | Proton Mail Mail Essentials | ![Google Workspace](https://openemail.uk/brands/google-workspace.png) Google Workspace Business Starter | HEY for Domains per person | ![Superhuman](https://openemail.uk/brands/superhuman.png) Superhuman + Workspace | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | What you actually pay for | The workspace | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person | Each person, twice | | Five people, every month | $30 | $25 | $34.95 | $35 | $58 | $160 | | Twentieth person costs | $0 | $5 | $6.99 | $7 | $12 | $32 | | Hosts the mail itself | | | | | | a client on top of Gmail or Outlook | | Catch-all on your own domain | yours to switch on | | paid plans | via a routing rule | aliases; catch-all not documented | whatever the host does | | Free on your own domain | one domain, ten addresses | trial only | custom domains are paid | trial only | no trial on domains | trial only | | Drafts, subjects and answers from AI | | | writing assistant only | Gemini | | Business tier | | Your own agent can work the inbox | MCP server | JMAP API | | API, no MCP | | | | End-to-end encryption | between OpenEmail mailboxes | | their whole point | enterprise tiers | | | [Compare everyone at once](https://openemail.uk/compare.md)