BYOMailer vs ActiveCampaign
ActiveCampaign shows the annual-billing price by default. Switch to monthly and it's 25% more. We're comparing against their best price here, and BYOMailer still costs a fraction.
How many contacts do you have?
25,000
ActiveCampaign Pro
per month
$629
$7,548/yr
BYOMailer Founder
$49 plan + $10 SES
$59
$708/yr
You save
$570/mo
That's $6,840/yr back in your pocket. (91% less)
ActiveCampaign shows annual prices by default. Monthly billing is 25% more. At 100K contacts, that's the difference between $1,599 and $2,000+. BYOMailer's pricing is the same either way.
ActiveCampaign uses shared IPs for all senders. One bad actor tanks everyone's deliverability. With your own SES account, your reputation is entirely yours.
ActiveCampaign caps you at 10-15x your contact count per month. When you're running multiple campaigns a week at scale, that ceiling gets real. SES has no monthly limit.
Your SES account, your domain, your sending history stay with you no matter what. If you outgrow BYOMailer, your entire email infrastructure comes with you.
BYOMailer connects to your own Amazon SES account. You get SES deliverability and pricing with a proper marketing UI on top.
Prices shown are ANNUAL billing. Monthly billing is 20-25% higher.
Starter plan caps at 5 actions per automation
10x contact email send limit on all plans
CRM and sales features require the Plus plan ($49+/mo)
BYOMailer cost = flat plan fee + Amazon SES at $0.10/1,000 emails, assuming 4 emails per contact per month. ActiveCampaign prices shown are annual billing. Monthly is 20-25% more.
BYOMailer connects to your own Amazon SES account. You keep full control of your deliverability and stop paying the ESP tax.
Free to try. Send your first 25,000 emails before you subscribe.
You should think about switching from ActiveCampaign to BYOMailer if you mainly need email marketing (newsletters, sequences, and lifecycle automations) and you already have a CRM or don't need one. BYOMailer is a fit when you want lower email cost through your own AWS SES, plus migration help, rather than a broad marketing and sales platform.
Don't switch to BYOMailer if you need CRM and sales pipeline features, advanced sales automation, or a broad all-in-one marketing and sales platform. ActiveCampaign is genuinely the better tool there, and BYOMailer isn't a CRM replacement.
Moving from ActiveCampaign to BYOMailer usually means exporting your contacts, preserving tags and lists where possible, recreating your core templates, rebuilding your most important automations as sequences, and connecting your AWS SES account. We help you make the move on every plan, not just the pricey ones.
We help you make the move on every plan, not just the pricey ones.
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. BYOMailer is email marketing and automation on top of SES, not an all-in-one marketing and sales platform. It replaces the email side of ActiveCampaign, but not its CRM and sales features.
No. BYOMailer doesn't include a CRM or sales pipeline. It's built for email marketing: newsletters, sequences, and lifecycle automations. If you need a CRM, keep one alongside it or stay on ActiveCampaign.
For the core use cases, yes. BYOMailer has sequences and automations for onboarding, lifecycle, and reactivation. You'll rebuild your most important ActiveCampaign automations as sequences during migration.
Yes. You export your contacts and import them into BYOMailer, with tags and lists preserved where the export includes them and custom fields mapped during import. We help you make the move on every plan, not just the pricey ones.
If you only use ActiveCampaign for email, you're paying for a CRM and sales suite you don't need. BYOMailer gives you the email marketing layer on your own AWS SES with flat pricing, so cost tracks sending volume rather than contact count.
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