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Updated October 2, 2026 · All 21 plan prices read from GetResponse's own checkout links, October 1, 2026, and re-verified against the live pricing page, October 3, 2026 · Plan names, promotional line and free-plan terms read from GetResponse's pricing page, October 3, 2026 · Affiliate disclosure
GetResponse's paid plans — Starter, Marketer and Creator, the names its own page and FAQ carry — price one quantity: the size of your subscriber list, in seven published steps: 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000 and 100,000. Seven sizes times three plans is 21 prices, and every paid plan sends unlimited messages — the page's own anchor text reads "unlimited messages to 1,000 subscribers." What the page does not do is print the grid. Only one figure appears on it ($19 a month, the smallest plan at the smallest size); the other twenty live inside the order link of each plan card, where the checkout URL states its exact total. The full grid, read from those links:
| Subscribers | Starter, monthly | Starter, billed yearly | Marketer, monthly | Marketer, billed yearly | Creator, monthly | Creator, billed yearly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $19 | $186.96 | $59 | $580.56 | $69 | $678.96 |
| 2,500 | $29 | $285.36 | $69 | $678.96 | $79 | $777.36 |
| 5,000 | $54 | $531.36 | $95 | $934.80 | $109 | $1,072.56 |
| 10,000 | $79 | $777.36 | $114 | $1,121.76 | $134 | $1,318.56 |
| 25,000 | $174 | $1,712.16 | $215 | $2,115.60 | $249 | $2,450.16 |
| 50,000 | $299 | $2,942.16 | $359 | $3,532.56 | $414 | $4,073.76 |
| 100,000 | $539 | $5,303.76 | $599 | $5,894.16 | $690 | $6,789.60 |
The billed-yearly figures are the checkout links' own totals, not our arithmetic — and they check out as arithmetic: every yearly total is exactly 82% of twelve monthly payments, the 18% discount the page advertises for 12-month prepayment, at every rung of all three plans. The grid also folds onto itself at two points: Marketer at 2,500 subscribers bills exactly what Creator at 1,000 bills — $69 a month, $678.96 a year — and Creator at 2,500 bills exactly what Starter at 10,000 bills — $79 a month, $777.36 a year.
The steps are not smooth. From 1,000 to 2,500 subscribers the Starter bill rises $10, a 53% increase; from 2,500 to 5,000 it rises $25 — 86%, the steepest small-list step; 5,000 to 10,000 adds $25 again, 46%; and the largest percentage step on the ladder is 10,000 to 25,000, $95 more a month for a list two and a half times the size — a 120% increase. Per subscriber the direction reverses: $0.019 per subscriber a month at 1,000, $0.0079 at 10,000, $0.0054 at 100,000. The ladder rewards size, but the road there is uneven, and a list growing through the 5,000 band feels the 86% step before it feels any economy.
Compare the three vendors on this site that publish complete ladders. MailerLite prints all ten Comfort bands on its page. Klaviyo's pricing engine publishes 49 rungs on request. GetResponse prints one figure — the $19 anchor — and prices the other twenty inside the URLs of its own order links: each plan card's checkout address carries the exact total, from $186.96 a year for Starter at 1,000 subscribers to $6,789.60 for Creator at 100,000. Nothing is concealed; the totals are exact and the links sit on the page. But nothing is displayed either, and a buyer assembling a budget by hand has to read URLs to do it. This page exists to save that step — the head-to-head where the same ladder is priced against Mailchimp's printed figures is in our GetResponse vs Mailchimp comparison.
The seven sizes start at 1,000. A 500-subscriber list is billed on the 1,000 tier — $19 a month, $186.96 a year — the smallest bill GetResponse can issue, for a tier twice the list size. The same list costs $12 a month on MailerLite's published Comfort band ($129.60 billed yearly, $57.36 less than GetResponse's floor), $20 on Klaviyo's 500-profile rung, and $9 on Brevo's Starter — though Brevo bills emails sent rather than contacts stored, so that comparison holds only while the calendar stays light. The entry price on any contact-tier platform is the price of the tier you are assigned, not the size you are; GetResponse simply makes the gap between the two as wide as a whole tier.
GetResponse runs two discounts, and the page's headline figure belongs to neither the way buyers assume. The structural one: 12-month prepayment takes exactly 18% off every plan at every size — the yearly totals in the table above are 82% of twelve monthly payments, precisely, which is how the checkout totals confirm the page's own "18%" claim. The promotional one: the page's summary line advertises "from $13.30/mo — start free today!", and $13.30 is $19 × 0.70 — a 30% discount applied to the smallest Starter bill. It is not the prepay rate: $19 discounted 18% is $15.58 a month. The two numbers expire on different calendars, too. The prepay discount lasts as long as the twelve months you paid for; the 30% promotion is a first-term rate that reverts to the list price when its term ends — the month-thirteen step we track across this category in the hidden fees guide. Twelve-month plans also carry a one-year domain gift that GetResponse itself values at up to $15 — about $1.25 a month against a prepay saving worth $41.04 a year at the smallest rung. None of this is concealed. All of it is arranged so that the number which travels — $13.30 — is the most flattering one on the page.
A free plan is advertised on the pricing page — a badge, with a 14-day premium trial beside it — but the page publishes no subscriber ceiling for it anywhere. What it does publish, in its own feature table, is a sending allowance: the free plan's unlimited-newsletters label reads "2,500 newsletters/mo", where every paid tier is unlimited. So the free plan's real boundary, as printed, is sending volume rather than list size — a different axis from MailerLite's 250 subscribers or Kit's 10,000, and one you only find by reading the feature row. Our free-plan guide prices the first paid year at 500, 2,500 and 10,000 subscribers across six vendors; at GetResponse that answer starts at $186.96 a year, because the first paying tier is the 1,000-subscriber one.
All 21 prices on this page were read from GetResponse's own checkout links on October 1, 2026, and re-verified against the live pricing page on October 3, 2026 — every monthly figure and every yearly total matched. Where GetResponse publishes no figure — a subscriber ceiling for the free plan, a per-band price below 1,000 subscribers — we say so instead of estimating. Our methodology page explains the full process, and our disclosure explains what affiliate commissions do and do not change. To price a specific list size across the vendors that publish full ladders, use the list-size cost calculator; to see the same ladder priced against Mailchimp's printed figures, read our GetResponse vs Mailchimp comparison; and for the opposite transparency profile — three prices, all printed, in six currencies — our Brevo guide.
Starter runs $19, $29, $54, $79, $174, $299 and $539 a month at 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000 and 100,000 subscribers; Marketer runs $59 to $599 and Creator $69 to $690 across the same seven sizes. Every paid plan sends unlimited messages. Billed yearly, every total is exactly 82% of twelve monthly payments — $186.96 a year for Starter at 1,000 subscribers, $777.36 at 10,000.
It is a first-term promotional rate on the smallest Starter bill: $13.30 is $19 discounted 30%. It is not the 12-month prepay rate — that is the 18% structural discount, worth $15.58 a month at the same rung — and it does not last: when the promotional term ends, the bill reverts to the list price in the published ladder.
It is the only structural discount, it applies to every plan at every size, and it is exactly 18%: $186.96 against $228 a year for Starter at 1,000 subscribers, $777.36 against $948 at 10,000. Twelve-month plans also include a one-year domain gift the vendor values at up to $15. It suits a buyer certain of staying twelve months; for a buyer who might leave, the discount is priced as a commitment.
$19 a month, $186.96 billed yearly — the 1,000-subscriber Starter tier. GetResponse publishes no plan tier below 1,000 subscribers, so the smallest bill it can issue is the price of a tier twice the list size. The same 500-subscriber list bills $12 a month on MailerLite's published Comfort band.
The pricing page publishes no subscriber ceiling for the free plan anywhere. Its own feature table marks the free plan's newsletter allowance at 2,500 a month — paid tiers are unlimited — and a 14-day premium trial sits beside the plan's badge. The first paid rung above it is Starter at $19 a month for 1,000 subscribers.