Constant Contact vs GetResponse

Compared on	Constant Contact Free trial · from $10.20/mo VisitRemove	GetResponse Free plan · from $15.58/mo VisitRemove
What it is	Email, SMS and social marketing for small businesses, priced by contacts, with live phone and chat support	Email marketing and automation with unlimited sends on paid plans and a free plan for 500 contacts
Free plan	No	Up to 500 contacts (inactive contacts count) and 2,500 newsletters a month; landing pages limited to 1,000 unique visitors a month; GetResponse badge on every message; no A/B tests; scheduling, autoresponders and publishing automation workflows are premium features; AI generator limited to 3 uses; webinars up to 10 people
Cheapest paid plan	$10.20/mo billed annually (Lite)Constant Contact pricing	$15.58/mo billed annually (Starter)GetResponse pricing
What it covers	For 0-500 contacts; email sends up to 10x contacts; 1 user. $10.20/mo when prepaid for 12 months. Sends over the allowance cost $0.002 each. The price rises with the contact tier ($25.50/mo prepaid at 501-1,000 contacts).	For 1,000 contacts (the smallest paid tier) with unlimited email sends; 1 custom automation workflow. Yearly billing saves 18%. The price rises with list size.
Free trial	Free trial with no credit card required (length not stated on the pricing page); 30-day money-back guarantee	Premium features free for the first 14 days on a free account, no credit card required; 30-day pilot program for Enterprise
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android	Web, iOS, Android, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	300+ integrations including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Canva, LinkedIn, Vimeo, Zapier, Shopify and Eventbrite	170+ integrations
Open source	No	No
Good for	Small businesses and nonprofits that want live phone and chat support Promoting events with registration and payments alongside email Running email and social posting from one account	Businesses that send often and want unlimited sends at a fixed price Course creators selling courses and webinars to an email list Ecommerce stores recovering abandoned carts with automation
Watch out for	No free plan; a free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee instead Lite has 1 user, 1 automation template and no email scheduling Custom automations and dynamic content need Premium	Starter allows only 1 custom automation workflow The smallest paid tier is 1,000 contacts The free plan cannot publish automations or schedule newsletters and adds a GetResponse badge
Made by	Constant Contact, Inc.	GetResponse S.A.

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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