While we usually focus on influencer marketing, there are still many other forms of online marketing that businesses use regularly. One of the oldest, yet still highly effective types is email marketing. As much as email is a comparatively mature technology, email marketing still exists because it works. Over the years, many firms have developed email marketing tools to help automate the process.
Obviously, you would expect to pay for high-level automation, particularly if it saves you time and money. However, there are quite a few companies that are happy to over a free service for small users. All the email marketing tools listed here either include a free trial or free plan for smaller users, usually with a maximum of 2,000 – 2,500 subscribers/recipients. In most cases, the price then rises proportionally to the number of subscribers and the number of emails that need to be sent each month.
Top Free Email Marketing Tools for 2025:
1. Omnisend

Free Plan: Up to 500 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $16 per month
Omnisend is an all-inclusive marketing automation platform. The free plan, though, is designed for merchants starting to promote their products with email marketing. While the free plan comes with a limited number of international SMS credits and Web Push notifications, you can purchase additional SMS credits if needed. In addition, the free plan allows you to use email campaigns and automated workflows to reach your customers with relevant messages – if you don’t exceed sending 500 emails per month.
Read more2. Campaigner

Free Plans: While Campaigner doesn’t exactly have a free plan, it does offer a generous 30-day full-featured free trial. This lets you access the platform’s more than 60 advanced features, including email automation workflows, triggered campaigns, dynamic content, subject line testing, and more.
Paid Plans: Campaigner’s Starter plan starts at $59 per month for email marketing for up to 5,000 contacts. It also offers a whole host of features like that include conversion tracking, 900+ responsive templates, social integration, basic segmentation, and a Facebook Audience Builder.
Campaigner lets you leverage customer data so you can create personalized interactions for business growth, audience engagement, and enhanced customer lifetime value.
Read more3. Brevo (formerly Sendinblue)

Free Plan: Up to unlimited subscribers and 300 emails per day
Paid plans: Start at $25 per month
Brevo offers a range of plans aimed at firms at different stages of their growth:
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- Free – for those getting started with Brevo
- Starter – for new marketers
- Business – for growing businesses
- Brevo Plus – for marketing pros
The Free plan limits users to sending 300 emails per day to unlimited contacts. Higher plans remove the daily sending limit (replacing it with a monthly figure), remove the Brevo logo from emails, and expand channels to include Facebook ads, landing pages, and marketing automation.
Read more4. SMTP

Free trial: It offers a 30-day free trial.
Paid plans: Start at $25 per month for up to 50,000 monthly emails.
For help with email deliverability, you can check out SMTP. While it doesn’t offer a free plan, they offer a very generous, 30-day free trial and a range of plans aimed at different budgets and email needs:
Read more5. EmailOctopus

Free Plan: Up to 2,500 subscribers and 10,000 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $8 per month
Email Octopus runs via Amazon SES. It offers all the main features required for email marketing and automation. All its plans follow a “fishy” theme, and the name for the free plan is the Shrimp Plan. This plan allows you to run email campaigns only, with the emails including Email Octopus branding. The sending stats are only kept for 90 days. Although Email Octopus permits you to send unlimited emails, Amazon charges you $0.10 for every additional 1,000 emails, once you exceed 62,000 emails per month.
Read more6. Convertkit

Free Plans: Allow you to start building your audience with useful features like unlimited landing page templates and forms to choose from and managing up to 300 subscribers.
Paid Plans: Paid plans range from $9 to upwards of $1,916 depending on how many subscribers you have
Read more7. Mailchimp

Free Plan: Up to 2,500 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $13 per month
MailChimp is probably the best-known emailing mailing tool covered here. They regularly update their product and add new features. They have recently expanded to become an all-in-one marketing platform.
Read more8. MailerLite

Free Plan: Up to 1,000 subscribers and 12,000 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $9 per month
MailerLite was born in 2010 to give businesses a simple yet powerful email solution to help them grow. It offers a limited free plan for those with fewer than 1,000 subscribers wanting limited features. All the paid plans offer the full feature set (and allow you to send unlimited emails), varying only by the number of subscribers,
Read more9. Moosend

Free Plan: Up to 1,000 subscribers and unlimited emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $9 per month
Moosend could be an excellent choice for somebody with a small email list, as it allows you to send unlimited emails to 1,000 subscribers per month. You gain access to all Moosend’s features and only begin paying once you exceed that 1,000-subscriber limit (at which point you have built a successful list).
Moosend provides custom sign-up forms to help you build your email list. You can segment your list to help you better target your emails.
Moosend offers a user-friendly drag and drop editor with a free template library. It includes multiple tools to help you design your emails.
Read more10. Sender

Free Plan: Up to 2,500 subscribers and 15,000 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $8.33 per month
Sender provides a full range of features to help lead to effective email marketing. The free plan allows you to access all the features, with the only limitations being the subscribers and maximum monthly emails.
All the company’s technical servers and legal entities are based in the EU, so it makes a point of being GDPR compliant.
Read more11. Campayn

Free Plan: Up to 500 subscribers and 12,500 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $19 per month
As its name indicates, you can use Campayn to build quality email campaigns. If you only have a small email list (fewer than 500), then you can access their free Basic Plan. This offers all the core features.
As with most modern email marketing tools, Campayn features a simple drag and drop interface. You can set the perfect backdrop for your email message with a beautiful design that reflects your brand. You can use one of their templates or design your own.
Read more12. SendPulse

Free Plan: Up to 500 subscribers and 15.000 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $8 per month
SendPulse calls itself a multi-channel marketing platform – more than just an email service. With the paid plans, you can coordinate a range of services on the central platform – email, web push, SMS, SMTP, Viber, and Facebook Messenger. You can send different types of messages separately or combine them into autoresponders.
Read more13. Zoho Campaigns

Free Plan: Up to 2,000 subscribers and 6,000 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $4 per month
Zoho is a collection of multichannel CRM software that allows you to engage prospects, automate your sales process, and close more deals. It offers a vast range of integrated apps – more than 40 – covering a whole range of business functions. They integrate into Zoho One.
Zoho Campaigns is the part of the suite relate to running email campaigns (it is also part of the larger tool, Zoho CRM). You can obtain the Zoho Campaigns app separately, as part of the Zoho CRM package, or in the full Zoho One suite.
Read more14. HubSpot

Free Plan: Free email tools are limited to 2,000 sends per month, with HubSpot branding.
Paid plans: HubSpot’s paid marketing plans start at $540 per year.
HubSpot is best known as a CRM, but they also have a free email marketing tool to support small business transactional email needs. This easy-to-use drag-and-drop tool features a visual editor with pre-built templates to get you ready to go fast. HubSpot’s email marketing service offers native integration with its other marketing tools and provides a centralized database of contacts where you can organize lists, as well as manage and track the performance of your emails.
15. Stripo

Free Plans: Limited free plan includes 2 email templates, 5 test emails daily, and 1,000 monthly views.
Paid Plans: Stripo paid plans start at $15 per month.
Stripo offers two types of email editors: one for marketers with little (or no) design experience and the other for email developers (with an HTML code editor). You can use Stripo’s drag-and-drop editor to create personalized emails.
16. Mailjet

Free Plan: Up to 6,000 emails per month / 200 emails per day
Paid plans: Start at $15 per month
Mailjet describes itself as the email solution for fast-moving teams. You have one platform to create, edit, and send emails as a team.
Its free plan is designed for those wanting to send fewer than 6,000 emails per month. You can then choose either the Basic or Premium plans, both of which come in five pricing levels depending on the number of emails you intend to send. Finally, there is a customized Enterprise pricing plan with dedicated account management services for those sending more than 900,000 emails per month.
Read more17. CleverReach

Free Plans: Includes up to 250 subscribers and 1,000 emails per month.
Paid Plans: Paid plans start at $10 per month.
CleverReach is an enterprise-level email marketing service that includes features like automation, forms, a campaign calendar, and reports. If your email list is small and you want to make sure you’re GDPR compliant, CleverReach is a great option.
18. Benchmark Email

Free Plan: Up to 3,500 emails per month
Paid plans: Start at $8 per month
Benchmark Email allows you to send beautiful, responsive campaigns in minutes with customizable email templates. The free starter plan allows you to send email campaigns to up to 3,500 of your subscribers. All paid plans include Automation Pro and personal contact follow-up tools (CRM).
The free plan includes a wide range of email features, including the drop and drag editor, responsive templates, and multiple forms, campaigns, reports, and integrations. You do need a paid plan, however, if you want to engage in A/B testing and targeted emailing. All plans with 3,500 subscribers and above include 133 features.
19. Mailgun

Free Plans: Includes up to 5,000 emails per month and a max of 5 Authorized Recipients.
Paid Plans: Mailgun’s paid plans start at $35 per month. There’s also a pay-as-you-go flex plan.
Read more20. TinyLetter

Free Plans: TinyLetter is free
Paid Plans: No paid plans; you can sign up with TinyLetter creator Mailchimp, though.
Read more21. Pepipost

Free Plans: You can send up to 30,000 emails for 30 days for free. After that, you’re limited to 100 emails per day on the free plan.
Paid Plans: Paid plans start at $25/month for up to 50,000 emails per month when paid annually.
Read more22. Kickbox

Free Plans: Your first 100 email addresses are free.
Paid Plans: Paid plans start at $5/month for up to 500 email addresses.
Kickbox is an integrative email verification software you can use to make sure that your emails are getting where they’re supposed to go. When your emails are verified, it’s less likely that email providers will mark your emails as spam. This means better deliverability for your emails. Kickbox will go through your email list to ensure that the recipients are real and not outdated, saving you time and money with a more accurate email list.
23. YMLP

Free Plans: YMLP is free for up to 1,000 contacts.
Paid Plans: Paid plans start at $3.75 per month for unlimited contacts and additional features.
YMLP (Your Mailinglist Provider) is a bare-bones free email marketing tool. You’ll need to have an understanding of HTML (or have someone around who does) to get the most from this tool. You can also use MS Publisher to create your emails and YMLP does have some email templates available in its builder.
Read more24. VerticalResponse

Free Plans: VerticalResponse no longer has a “forever free” plan, but it does offer a 60-day trial that should be more than enough to let you know if this is the email marketing tool for you.
Paid Plans: Paid plans start at $11 per month and are based on the size of your email list.
VerticalResponse offers several nice features even for the pared-down 60-day free trial. It has an easy to use email editor with an HTML editor, customizable mobile templates, and access to a stock image library. VerticalResponse also includes contact list management, basic reports and analytics, automated email, Facebook and Twitter sharing, customizable popup forms, and more.
25. EngageBay

Free Plan: Up to 250 contacts per month
Paid plans: Start at $12.74/mo for the Basic Marketing plan, paid biennially
EngageBay offers a range of products to attract targeted web visitors, engage and capture leads, nurture and turn them into happy customers. Email marketing is included in both their Marketing Bay plan and their All-in-One Suite.
You can choose from a wide array of email marketing templates to suit your business needs. You can use pre-designed templates or personalize one to meet your requirements. Use their drag and drop interface to create a template that suits your business needs. Design beautiful email templates with rich text formatting.
Read more26. Sendwithus

Free Plans: Sendwithus offers a free plan with up to 100 recipients and 1,000 emails per month.
Paid Plans: The Starter plan from Sendwithus starts at $149 per month.
Sendwithus is a service that makes sending emails through a transactional email service easier. It has an easy to use visual editor you can use to create your emails. It’s a great tool to manage your HTML email templates or turn your blog posts and announcements into emails you can send to your mailing list. Sendwithus is a bit technical, making it harder to set up, but once you’ve set it up correctly, you have a flexible email marketing tool that will do just about anything you need it to.
27. Django Drip

Free Plans: Django Drip is a free, self-hosted app.
Paid Plans: You’ll need to pay for your transactional email service.
Django Drip is a free, self-hosted app for sending emails from Zapier’s development team. You can use it to send drip emails, updates, newsletters, and more. Django Drip can be hosted on your server for free. After that, you’ll need to use other tools to send your messages using a transactional email service like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or Mandrill. If you’re sending up to 62,000 emails each month, you’ll stay within the free tier on Amazon SES.
28. Freshmarketer

Free Plans: Freshmarketer offers a free plan for up to 100 contacts and includes the basic email builder, web form tracking, contact and list management, and some conversion optimization features.
Paid Plans: Freshmarketer has three paid plans. The Growth plan is $19 per month (billed annually) and includes the same features as the free version as well as the drag-and-drop builder, segmentation, conversion rate optimization, and more. The Pro plan is the most popular one, and comes for the price of $149 per month (billed annually). This plan includes everything in Growth plan, plus advanced webhooks, offline events, and custom roles. The Enterprise plan is $299 per month (billed annually) and includes everything to software has to offer.
Read more29. SendLoop

Free Plans: You can sign up for a free SendLoop account that offers 10,000 free email credits.
Paid Plans: SendLoop’s paid plans start at $9 per month for up to 500 subscribers and unlimited emails.
SendLoop is a marketing tool that helps you automate your email marketing. You can use it to create and send mobile-friendly emails with SendLoop’s drag-and-drop email builder. When you sign up for a free SendLoop plan you get:
Read more30. RedCappi

Free Plans: If you have fewer than 100 contacts you’ll be able to use RedCappi for free while still getting access to all of the email marketing features including API functionality and analytics.
Paid Plans: RedCappi’s paid plans are priced based on the number of contacts you have. The cost ranges from $90 per year for up to 500 contacts to $12,582 per year for up to 500,000 contacts. If your email list has more than 500,000 contacts, you’ll need to contact RedCappi for a quote.
Read more31. AWeber

Free Plans: AWeber is free for up to 500 subscribers and includes everything you need to grow your business with email marketing. The free plan includes AWeber branding.
Paid Plans: AWeber’s Pro plan starts at $12.50 per month (billed annually).
AWeber has been around for a while and is one of the most popular email marketing service providers on the market. AWeber integrates seamlessly with most platforms giving you access to HTML email templates, list management, autoresponders, email tracking, and a whole lot more. The paid plan includes split testing, behavioral automation, advanced analytics, eCommerce tools, and several other nice features.
32. Right Inbox
Free Plans: The free version of Right Inbox lets you sync an unlimited number of emails from your CRM and includes 5 monthly, reminder, private note, and “send later,” emails.
Paid Plans: Right Inbox’s paid plan starts at $7.95 per month (billed annually).
Right Inbox is an add-on that brings additional functionality and tools to Gmail. It includes five templates and five personal signatures per account. Here are some of the things Gmail can do with Right Inbox connected:
Read more33. MailGenius

Free Plans: MailGenius is a free tool.
Paid Plans: None
MailGenius isn’t an email marketing service like the other tools on our list but it’s an excellent free email marketing tool. You can use it to inspect your emails to find possible reasons your emails might get sent to spam. MailGenius also has a deliverability test so you can be secure in the knowledge that your email will actually reach the people you want it to reach.
34. CoSchedule Subject Line Tester

Free Plans: CoSchedule’s Subject Line Tester is a free tool.
Paid Plans: None
CoSchedule is well-known for its content marketing software but the email subject line tester tool is one of the most helpful free email marketing tools we’ve found. Its sole purpose is to help you create subject lines that convert better. Here’s how your subject lines will be scored:
Read more35. Sumo

Free Plans: Sumo’s email capture tool is free.
Paid Plans: Sumo Pro is $468 per year and gives you access to the free Sumo features and tons of additional premium features.
Sumo is a collection of tools that can be used on just about any type of website, including WordPress websites. Once you’ve added Sumo to your site, here are the tools you’ll have access to:
Read more36. GroupMail

Free Plans: GroupMail Lite is a free download and can be used to send emails to up to 100 recipients at a time.
Paid Plans: GroupMail starts at $149.95 (one-time).
GroupMail is great for sending email newsletters and automated messages to smaller lists that don’t need a lot of segmentation, personalization, or customization. It’s a great service to get started with email marketing and the fact that the paid plans are a one-time fee make it an easy commitment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best email marketing tools?
There are quite a few companies that are happy to offer a free service for small users. Some of these include:
- Brevo
- Omnisend
- EmailOctopus
- MailChimp
- SMTP
- MailerLite
- Moosend
- Sender
- Campayn
- SendPulse
- HubSpot
- Stripo
- Mailjet
- CleverReach
- Benchmark Email
- Mailgun
- TinyLetter
- Pepipost
- Kickbox
- YMLP
- VerticalResponse
- EngageBay
- Sendwithus
- Django Drip
- Freshmarketer
- SendLoop
- RedCappi
- AWeber
- Right Inbox
- MailGenius
- CoSchedule
- Sumo
- Campaigner
For details, read the full article.
What is the best mass email software?
We have covered 38 high-quality free email marketing tools in this article. Views on the best mass email software are subjective, and there are many fine products to consider. Companies engaged in large-scale email marketing are unlikely to use free software and will pay for a heavy-duty product. Many of the products we have included in this list offer paid plans that have additional capabilities for those with serious needs. PCMag rates Salesforce Pardo as being best for large businesses.
How can I send bulk emails for free?
We have included 38 products in this review that allow you to send bulk email for free, up to a certain level, anyhow. How practical these are, depends on how many subscribers you have in your list and how many emails you intend to send them. Obviously, you would expect to pay for high-level automation, particularly if it saves you time and money, so the free plans generally come with limitations.
What is better than Mailchimp?
Determining what is better than Mailchimp is highly subjective. Mailchimp is a highly effective email mailing platform with an excellent reputation. However, it won’t be perfect for every user. Particularly since Mailchimp has changed its focus away from email marketing to be an all-in-one marketing platform. Take a look at the other email marketing products we look at in this article and try some (many offer free trials) to see which best meets your needs.
Is email marketing still effective?
Despite the arrival of many new marketing solutions, email marketing is still a highly effective way of promoting your business. 78% of marketers have seen an increase in email engagement over the last year. It’s obviously still beloved by marketers, as the U.S. spent over 350 million dollars on email advertising in 2019 alone. Marketers who use segmented campaigns have observed as much as a 760% increase in revenue. In one survey, 80% of business professionals believed that email marketing increases customer retention.
Is email marketing easy?
Email marketing is not just a case of rushing off an email and sending it to multiple people in the hope of success. There is quite some skill needed to run an effective email campaign. Remember, you are a guest in people’s email inbox, competing with multiple other emails each day. You also have to beat spam filters to reach the intended inboxes. Neil Patel describes 3 vital phases to email marketing:
- Get permission
- Follow through with great content
- Analytics and segmentation









