6 Best GetResponse Alternatives Tested in 2026
GetResponse does one thing genuinely well, and our own scoring backs it: deliverability 8.0, which sits in our High band and is beaten by exactly one of the six alternatives below. Everything bolted around that inbox performance is where the score falls apart. GetResponse rates 6.1 overall, 5.5 on support and 5.0 on API and MCP — the lowest developer score on this page, matched only at the floor by Moosend. You are buying a suite with webinars, funnels and a website builder, and paying for it with a support desk and an API that every alternative here beats or ties.
We ranked six alternatives against those category scores rather than against vendor feature lists. All six beat GetResponse’s 6.1 overall, all six beat its 5.5 support, and all six beat its 5.5 automation. Only one beats it where it is strongest. That asymmetry is the whole page: this is not a platform that is bad at sending email, it is a platform whose surrounding product is weaker than its sending, and the right move depends entirely on which of the two you were actually paying for.
Why look for a GetResponse alternative in 2026
Three reasons that come from measurement rather than opinion, and one reason to stay.
The support score is the outlier. At 5.5, GetResponse posts the lowest support rating of any platform discussed on this page, and the spread is not marginal: Moosend sits at 8.5, Brevo and MailerLite at 8.0, Kit at 7.5. For a product sold as an all-in-one suite — where more moving parts means more things to ask about — that is the score that costs you most in practice.
The developer surface is thin and there is no MCP server. GetResponse scores 5.0 on API and MCP. Brevo is 8.5, Kit and ActiveCampaign 8.0, Klaviyo 9.5 — and four of the six run an official MCP server, which GetResponse does not. If any part of your stack is meant to read or write campaign data programmatically, this is a hard ceiling rather than a preference.
The automation has not kept pace. At 5.5 it is beaten by all six, and by Klaviyo and ActiveCampaign at 9.5 it is beaten by four points. A suite that includes funnels but scores mid-range on workflow logic is selling breadth rather than depth.
And the reason to stay, said plainly: the webinar platform. None of the six alternatives below runs webinars. If that is a line item you actually use rather than one you inherited when you signed up, nothing on this page replaces it, and the honest answer is a second tool plus a cheaper sender — which is worth pricing before you assume it is worse.
6 GetResponse alternatives at a glance
Ranked by our overall score. Every platform here has a full SMTPedia review, so the Score column carries a real measured rating rather than a number invented for this comparison.
| Platform | Score | Starting $ | Free plan | Best for | MCP | Deliverability | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brevo | 7.7 | $9/mo | Yes — 300 emails/day | Suite users who want the breadth at half the bill | Yes | Medium | Value 8.5 vs 6.0, support 8.0 vs 5.5, API 8.5 vs 5.0 — but deliverability 7.5 vs 8.0 |
| MailerLite | 7.4 | $19/mo | Yes — 250 subs, 2,500 emails | Anyone leaving on support, not on inbox placement | Partial | High | Identical $19/mo and identical 8.0 deliverability, with support 8.0 vs 5.5 |
| Klaviyo | 7.3 | $30/mo | Yes — 250 profiles, 500 emails | Stores replacing funnels with real revenue attribution | Yes | High | API 9.5 vs 5.0 and automation 9.5 vs 5.5 — but value 3.5 vs 6.0 |
| ActiveCampaign | 7.2 | $19/mo | No — 14-day trial | The only upgrade on the thing GetResponse does best | Yes | High | Deliverability 8.5 vs 8.0 and automation 9.5 vs 5.5 — but ease 5.5 vs 6.5 |
| Moosend | 7.2 | $9/mo | No — 30-day trial | Teams whose real complaint is the support desk | No | High | Support 8.5 vs 5.5, ease 8.0 vs 6.5, same 8.0 deliverability at $9 |
| Kit | 7.0 | $39/mo | Yes — to 10,000 subs | Creators who never opened the funnel builder | Yes | Medium | API 8.0 vs 5.0, free to 10,000 subs — but deliverability 6.0 vs 8.0 |
Score is each platform’s overall rating out of 10, taken from its own SMTPedia review. Deliverability bands are derived mechanically from our deliverability rating: High is 8.0 and above, Medium 6.0 to 7.9, Low under 6.0. GetResponse itself scores 6.1 overall and 8.0 deliverability, which puts it in the High band alongside four of the six below.
1. Brevo — the same breadth, roughly half the bill
Brevo
Better for: the suite buyer who wanted breadth, not webinars
Brevo is the closest thing here to a like-for-like replacement for the all-in-one pitch, and the highest-scoring platform on this page at 7.7. It carries a CRM, transactional sending and marketing automation in one account, bills by email sent rather than by contact stored, and starts at $9/mo for 5,000 emails against GetResponse’s $19/mo at 1,000 contacts. The free tier is permanent and unusually large: 300 emails a day against up to 100,000 stored contacts, where GetResponse’s free tier stops at 500 contacts and 2,500 emails a month.
What you give up: a deliverability band. Brevo scores 7.5 against GetResponse’s 8.0, which moves you from our High band down into Medium — the only alternative on this page that is cheaper and worse on inbox placement. There are no webinars, and the automation gain is half a point (6.0 against 5.5), so if workflow logic is your reason for leaving, this is not the move.
Medium
4 to 8 hours
Contacts, custom fields and suppression lists import cleanly. Funnels and landing pages have to be rebuilt, and anything sitting in the webinar product has nowhere to go.
$9/mo
Starter, 5,000 emails per month
Permanent free tier at 300 emails a day, up to 100,000 contacts, CRM and transactional included. Next tier $29/mo at 20,000 emails.
2. MailerLite — identical price, identical inbox, a different support desk
MailerLite
Better for: the GetResponse user whose complaint is service, not sending
This is the cleanest comparison on the page because two of the variables are held constant. MailerLite costs $19/mo at 1,000 subscribers, exactly what GetResponse costs at 1,000 contacts, and scores the same 8.0 deliverability, so you stay in the High band. Everything else moves: overall 7.4 against 6.1, support 8.0 against 5.5, pricing value 8.0 against 6.0, ease of use 8.0 against 6.5. Same money, same inbox, a better product around it.
What you give up: the suite. No webinars, no funnel builder of GetResponse’s scope — MailerLite is a focused email and landing-page tool and does not pretend otherwise. Its MCP coverage is partial rather than a full official server, and at 6.5 on API and MCP it improves on GetResponse’s 5.0 without being a developer-first platform. Automation at 6.0 against 5.5 is half a point, not a new capability.
Easy
2 to 4 hours
Subscribers and custom fields map directly, and the editor model is close enough that rebuilt templates land near the original on the first attempt. The free tier lets you stage the whole rebuild before paying.
$19/mo
Growing Business, 1,000 subscribers
Free tier covers 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month. Next step is $33/mo at 2,500 subscribers.
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3. Klaviyo — funnels replaced by measured revenue
Klaviyo
Better for: stores that built funnels in GetResponse because there was nothing better in the box
If your GetResponse funnels exist to sell products, Klaviyo replaces them with something that reports what each one earned. It scores 9.5 on API and MCP against GetResponse’s 5.0, runs an official MCP server where GetResponse runs none, and posts 9.5 automation against 5.5 with browse-abandonment and predictive lifetime value built in. Deliverability holds at 8.0, so the High band is preserved. Pricing starts at $30/mo for 1,000 profiles.
What you give up: the worst value score on this page, and a harder tool. Klaviyo rates 3.5 on pricing value against GetResponse’s 6.0 — two and a half points down — and the curve is why: $30 at 1,000 profiles becomes $100 at 5,000 and $150 at 10,000, with SMS billed on top. Ease of use ties GetResponse at 6.5, so there is no usability relief either. Without a store that can attribute revenue per send, this is a considerably more expensive GetResponse.
Hard
2 to 5 days
The list import is trivial; the store integration and the flows are not. Budget a full day on historical order data alone, and expect to rebuild automations rather than translate them.
$30/mo
Email, 1,000 active profiles
Free tier is 250 active profiles and 500 emails a month. Scales to $100/mo at 5,000 profiles and $150/mo at 10,000; SMS priced separately.
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4. ActiveCampaign — the only upgrade on GetResponse’s best score
ActiveCampaign
Better for: B2B teams who want more inbox performance, not less, and real automation with it
Five of the six alternatives on this page match or lose to GetResponse on deliverability. ActiveCampaign is the exception, at 8.5 against 8.0, and it arrives carrying 9.5 automation against 5.5, 8.0 on API and MCP against 5.0, an official MCP server and a CRM inside the product. Entry is $19/mo at 1,000 contacts in monthly billing, $15/mo annual — the same money GetResponse charges at that list size.
What you give up: ease of use, and the safety net. ActiveCampaign scores 5.5 against GetResponse’s 6.5, the only alternative here that is harder to use, and its pricing value is 5.0 against 6.0. There is no free plan at all — only a 14-day trial — where GetResponse gives you 500 contacts and 2,500 emails a month indefinitely. Support is 6.5, better than GetResponse’s 5.5 but the weakest gain on this page.
Hard
3 to 6 days
Contacts and tags import fine. The automations do not translate — the model differs enough that rebuilding beats porting, and the learning curve is the real cost, not the import.
$19/mo
Starter, 1,000 contacts, monthly billing
Annual billing brings it to $15/mo. No free plan; the trial runs 14 days. The CRM is part of the product, not a separate subscription.
Read our ActiveCampaign review
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5. Moosend — the answer if the support desk is what broke
Moosend
Better for: the team that left GetResponse over a ticket, not over a feature
Moosend targets GetResponse’s single worst score directly: 8.5 support against 5.5, a three-point gap and the largest on this page in any category except automation. It does that while holding deliverability at the same 8.0 High band, improving ease of use from 6.5 to 8.0, and costing $9/mo at 500 contacts against GetResponse’s $19/mo at 1,000. Sending is unlimited on every paid tier, so the bill tracks list size only.
What you give up: the developer surface stays exactly where it was, and the free plan disappears. Moosend scores 5.0 on API and MCP — identical to GetResponse’s 5.0, and both run no MCP server — so this move fixes nothing technical. There is no free tier either: the trial is 30 days without a card, after which GetResponse’s permanent 500-contact plan has no equivalent here. And there are no webinars or funnels; this is an email tool, not a suite.
Easy
2 to 4 hours
Lists and fields import without trouble and the drag-and-drop editor rebuilds templates fast. The 30-day no-card trial covers a full parallel run before you cancel anything.
$9/mo
Pro, 500 contacts, unlimited sends
No free plan; the trial runs 30 days without a card. Annual brings Pro to $7/mo, and the curve reaches $315/mo at 50,000 contacts, still with no send cap.
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6. Kit — for the half of the suite you never opened
Kit
Better for: writers and creators paying suite prices for a newsletter
Kit is the move for anyone who bought GetResponse for email and inherited the webinars, funnels and website builder without ever using them. Its free tier runs to 10,000 subscribers with unlimited broadcasts, forms and landing pages — twenty times GetResponse’s 500-contact free plan, at $0 against $19/mo. It also scores 8.0 on API and MCP against 5.0 with an official MCP server, 8.0 ease of use against 6.5, and 7.5 support against 5.5.
What you give up: two deliverability bands’ worth of the one thing GetResponse does best. Kit scores 6.0 against 8.0, dropping you out of our High band into Medium — the largest inbox regression on this page, and the reason this block carries a hard warning rather than a soft one. If your emails currently land and that matters, this is the wrong trade. The free tier also excludes visual automations, and paid starts at $39/mo at 1,000 subscribers, twice what GetResponse charges at that size.
Medium
3 to 6 hours
Subscribers and tags import cleanly, and the free tier lets you rebuild at zero cost and run in parallel indefinitely. Templates do not carry over, but Kit’s text-first model makes that mostly moot.
$39/mo
Creator, 1,000 subscribers, monthly billing
Free to 10,000 subscribers with unlimited broadcasts, forms and landing pages, but no visual automations. Annual brings Creator to $33/mo; Pro is $79/mo monthly, $66 annual.
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Leaving GetResponse: what transfers and what breaks
The list moves easily. The suite does not, and that is the whole difficulty of leaving an all-in-one.
What transfers: contacts, custom fields, tags and segment definitions. Every platform here accepts a CSV with custom fields intact, and segment rules are simple enough to restate by hand. Export your suppression and unsubscribe lists and import them first, before any campaign goes out — mailing a previously unsubscribed address on a brand-new account is the fastest way to start with a reputation problem.
What does not transfer: funnels, webinars, the website builder and the automations. GetResponse’s funnel objects have no counterpart to import into, its automations use a model none of these six can read, and no platform on this page runs webinars at all. That last one is not a migration difficulty, it is a missing product: if you use webinars, leaving GetResponse means adding a separate tool, and you should price that before deciding.
The thing people forget: deliverability is the score you are most likely to lose. GetResponse sits at 8.0, in our High band. Only ActiveCampaign improves on that; Brevo drops you to 7.5 and Kit to 6.0. Combine that with a new account carrying no sending history and the first two campaigns on the new platform will underperform your GetResponse baseline regardless of which you choose. Warm up over two to three weeks, mailing your most engaged segment first.
GetResponse alternatives: frequently asked questions
Which alternative actually sends better than GetResponse?
One of the six: ActiveCampaign. GetResponse scores 8.0 on deliverability, in our High band. ActiveCampaign is 8.5. MailerLite, Klaviyo and Moosend tie at 8.0; Brevo drops to 7.5 and Kit to 6.0, both into our Medium band. If inbox placement is why you are shopping, the honest answer is that GetResponse is already good at it and you have one upgrade available.
Can I replace the webinars?
Not on this page. None of the six alternatives runs webinars, and no combination of their features substitutes for one. The realistic comparison is GetResponse’s bundled price against a dedicated webinar tool plus a cheaper sender — for example Moosend or Brevo at $9/mo, leaving roughly $10/mo of your current bill toward the webinar product. Whether that is cheaper depends entirely on how many webinars you actually run.
Which is cheapest?
Brevo and Moosend, both at $9/mo, are the cheapest paid entry points, against GetResponse’s $19/mo at 1,000 contacts. If your list is under 10,000 and you can live without visual automations, Kit‘s free tier costs $0 and beats both. At the other end, Klaviyo scores 3.5 on pricing value against GetResponse’s 6.0 and is the only alternative here that is meaningfully more expensive.
Does GetResponse have an MCP server?
No, and it scores 5.0 on our API and MCP rating — the lowest on this page, tied with Moosend. Brevo, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign and Kit all run official MCP servers; MailerLite‘s coverage is partial. If you want an AI agent reading and writing campaign data directly, Klaviyo at 9.5 and Brevo at 8.5 are the two strongest, and Moosend is the one move that changes nothing.
What about the free plan?
GetResponse’s free tier covers 500 contacts and 2,500 emails a month. Kit is dramatically more generous at 10,000 subscribers, and Brevo‘s is larger in a different shape — up to 100,000 stored contacts at 300 emails a day. MailerLite is smaller at 250 subscribers. ActiveCampaign and Moosend have no free plan at all, only 14-day and 30-day trials, so both are a downgrade on this specific point.
Who should stay on GetResponse?
Anyone using more than one part of the suite. The scores say GetResponse is a mediocre product wrapped around good sending — 6.1 overall against 8.0 deliverability — but that only argues for leaving if the parts you are paying for are parts you do not use. If you run webinars and funnels and email from one account, no single platform on this page replaces that, and rebuilding it from two or three tools will cost you more than the score gap is worth. The clearest case for leaving is the opposite profile: a list, a newsletter, an unused funnel builder and a support ticket that went unanswered. That reader should look hard at MailerLite, which costs the same $19/mo and keeps the same 8.0 deliverability.
This review follows our email infrastructure testing methodology. We disclose affiliate relationships in our editorial independence policy.
