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MailerLite alternatives and how to move your list
MailerLite is a common first tool because it is simple and low cost. Teams move when they need deeper automation, a CRM, or ecommerce features.
What MailerLite’s pricing page says
- Free plan: 250 subscribers, 2,500 emails a month, 3 active automations with 5 steps.
- Comfort: “starting $12/month”. Emails per month are ten times the subscriber tier.
- Power: “starting $25/month”. Unlimited emails, subject to fair use.
- Prices scale with subscribers. Check the figure for your list on their page.
Checked 23 October 2026.
Where to move
OpenContact copies a MailerLite list, with fields, to:
Moving from MailerLite
- Fields are read and recreated in the destination.
- Unsubscribed, bounced and suppressed subscribers are not added to the new list.
- Tags are not read from MailerLite.
- Automations, forms, landing pages and campaigns are not copied.
- Preview first. Check what will happen shows what would be copied, excluded or skipped.
Keep the opt-outs
MailerLite events are verified with a signature, and OpenContact registers the webhook for you. With suppression sync on, an unsubscribe in the new tool also reaches MailerLite while you run both.