EmailOctopus review
Free tierLow-cost email marketing on Amazon SES
Budget campaign builder riding on Amazon SES, best for founders mainly sending broadcasts and basic sequences cheaply.
Entry price
Free, then $9/mo
Free: Up to 2,500 subscribers, 10,000 emails/month, 1 landing page, 1 form, with EmailOctopus branding
Our EmailOctopus verdict
EmailOctopus costs free, then $9/mo. Nobody has reviewed it here yet, so this page is about what it costs and what it does, not how well it does it.
Cost-conscious founders wanting simple campaigns. There is a free tier: Up to 2,500 subscribers, 10,000 emails/month, 1 landing page, 1 form, with EmailOctopus branding.
- Who it is not for
- Automation much lighter than MailerLite or ActiveCampaign
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from EmailOctopus's own page on 2026-08-28, and what the product says it does. No reviews yet, so no score.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual /mo | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro (500 subs) | $10 | $9 | 500 subscribers, full design control, unlimited landing pages/forms/users |
| Pro (1,000 subs) | $13.50 | $12.15 | 1,000 subscribers |
| Pro (2,500 subs) | $20 | $18 | 2,500 subscribers |
| Pro (5,000 subs) | $31.50 | $28.35 | 5,000 subscribers |
| Pro (10,000 subs) | $44.50 | $40.05 | 10,000 subscribers |
| Enterprise | Not published | Same as monthly | 500,000+ subscribers, custom quote |
EmailOctopus price history
Every price changeEmailOctopus's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off EmailOctopus's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from EmailOctopus's own pricing page, dated on the day we read it. We only claim a change happened between two dates we actually looked, never on a date we did not.
Free tier
Yes, 2,500 subs
Automations
Basic only
Transactional email
No
Landing pages
1 free, unlimited paid
Paid newsletters
No
API/dev friendly
REST API
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