Hesitating between Constant Contact and Sendinblue?

Constant Contact vs. Sendinblue pricing: Don't pay more as you grow

If you’re a small business with a fast-growing contact list and opt for Constant Contact, expect your email bill to increase over time. Constant Contact’s pricing is based on the number of contacts stored and you’ll be charged more from 500+ contacts.

Sendinblue lets you pick a plan based on the number of emails you send each month, while you can store an unlimited number of contacts at no extra cost. The Lite plan’s base price of $25 includes 20,000 monthly email sends — plenty if you’re just starting out.

Bonus: Sendinblue offers a forever free plan that lets you send up to 300 emails a day and store unlimited contacts. Meanwhile Constant Contact only offers a 60-day free trial for their email marketing tools.

Comparing email marketing features: Take it to the next level with Sendinblue

Constant Contact and Sendinblue are both easy-to-use email marketing platforms, perfect for beginners. They offer all the basic features you’d expect, including a drag and drop editor, email templates, and campaign reports.

But, Sendinblue also offers more advanced features for when you’re ready to step up your email marketing.

Want to test different content in your emails to see what works best? Or send campaigns at the best time for individual contacts? Or automatically update contact segments based on criteria you set? Sendinblue has you covered.

More good news: You can send transactional emails like shipping notifications and password resets via Sendinblue’s SMTP server. This way you can manage marketing and transactional emails all under the one roof, at no extra cost.

Constant Contact supports many of these features too, but they charge a 1.5% transaction fee on all orders.

Available features	Sendinblue	Constant Contact
Drag and drop editor
Templates gallery
Real-time reporting
Transactional emails	All plans	1.5% fee
Email client testing
Dynamic email content
A/B testing campaigns		Subject-line only
Send time Optimization
Advanced segmentation
Dynamic segmentation

Constant Contact vs. Sendinblue for marketing automation

Both platforms allow you to trigger automated email sequences based on subscriber sign-ups or engagement with your emails.

However, Sendinblue takes it a step further with custom workflow options, including conditions to take users on a more personalized journey. And with the Sendinblue tracker you can trigger automations based on users’ activity on your website too.

There is also the option to use one of the plugins for major ecommerce platforms to automatically send abandoned cart emails. Constant Contact does also offer this functionality, but only via the Shopify or WooCommerce plugins.

You can even use Sendinblue marketing automation to manage contacts in your database. For example, automatically add or remove contacts from lists and assign a score to leads based on their engagement.

To create automated email sequences with Constant Contact, you’ll need their more expensive Email Plus plan. Meanwhile, you get Sendinblue’s full suite of marketing automation tools free for up to 2000 contacts. Or you can opt for the Premium plan at $66/month for unlimited marketing automation.

Automation Features	Sendinblue	Constant Contact
Autoresponder (e.g. welcome emails)
Complex automation workflows (if/then/else)
Website tracking
Abandoned cart emails		Shopify/WooCommerce only
Lead scoring

Go multichannel with Sendinblue

Sendinblue is an all-in-one marketing platform that enables you to connect with customers wherever they are.

With additional channels like live chat and SMS, as well as a CRM for gathering contact data, Sendinblue lets you to centralize your marketing efforts in one place. With Constant Contact, you’ll need to pay for these tools separately and rely on integrations.

Available features	Sendinblue	Constant Contact
Landing page builder
Sales CRM
Facebook ads
Google search ads
Live chat
SMS marketing