All ten tools compared / Klaviyo
Best for ecommerce lifecycle. If you sell online and have order history, Klaviyo reads it better than anything else in this price band.
Starts at
Free, then $20/mo
Free tier
Yes, to 250 profiles
Priced on
Active profiles, excluding suppressed
Best for
Online stores
If you sell online and have order history, Klaviyo reads it better than anything else in this price band. Predicted lifetime value, predicted next order date and product recommendations are useful rather than decorative. Outside ecommerce the advantage mostly disappears, because the predictions have nothing to predict from.
Overall, the plain average7.1
Every criterion is defined on the methodology page.
What it does well
Where it costs you
Free to 250 active profiles with 500 email sends a month. The Email plan runs about $20/mo at 500 profiles, $30 at 1,000, $100 at 5,000 and $400 at 25,000. Email plus SMS starts at $35/mo for 251 to 500 profiles and meters SMS separately, around a cent per US message.
A store with real order volume and a list old enough to have a dormant tail, since active-profile billing excludes suppressed contacts and rewards list hygiene.
B2B teams and anyone without a storefront. You would be paying a premium for machinery you cannot feed.
Our buyer's guide asks the five things that actually narrow the list, starting with the one most people answer last: what do you already have to send?