AWeber vs Mailercloud

AWeber is an email marketing platform for small businesses and entrepreneurs, with tools for newsletters, automated message series, opt-in forms, and blog-post notifications. It also supports landing and ecommerce pages, web push notifications, audience segmentation, and A/B testing. Messages can be made with drag-and-drop, HTML, or plain-text editors, and the platform includes more than 700 responsive HTML templates. Its AI tools assist with drafting newsletters and emails, creating signup forms and landing pages, and generating subject lines. Businesses can sell products, services, subscriptions, and payment plans, track sales, and tag purchases. AWeber connects to more than 750 tools and provides a REST API with webhooks for managing subscribers, campaigns, analytics, and lists. Plans include a free option for up to 500 subscribers and 3,000 monthly emails, with one landing page and automation; free-plan messages carry AWeber branding. Lite is $12.49 per month billed annually, and a 14-day trial starts a paid subscription automatically when it ends. Dedicated mobile apps are retired; phone and tablet access is through the browser-based site.

Mailercloud provides an email marketing platform and a separate Email API for programmatic sending. The marketing service supports regular campaigns, autoresponders, automation, audience segmentation and A/B testing. A drag-and-drop builder offers 400+ mobile-responsive templates, previews for desktop and mobile, and a custom HTML editor. Automation includes a visual workflow editor, behavior-based triggers and pre-built templates.

Campaign reporting covers opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes and revenue, alongside inbox placement and spam score monitoring. Listed integrations include Zapier, WordPress, Pabbly Connect, Integrately, Make, Google Sheets and HubSpot. The Email API provides SMTP and REST interfaces, with webhooks for delivery, open, click, bounce and unsubscribe events. Marketing plans include email support; Premium and Enterprise also list priority chat support. The free marketing plan is free and includes 1,000 contacts, 12,000 emails per month and one advanced automation. Marketing Platform Premium is $10 a month for 5,000 contacts and unlimited emails. API plans start at $10 a month; a 14-day API trial includes 100 test emails.