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Updated September 30, 2026 · Prices verified from vendor pricing pages, September 2026 · Affiliate disclosure
GetResponse sells three plans — Starter, Marketer and Creator — each bracketed by list size and each billable monthly or as a 12-month prepay with an 18% discount. The monthly figures below come from GetResponse's own pricing page, whose plan cards embed checkout links that state the exact order total for every plan and size; the prepaid totals they link to are exactly 82% of the monthly price times twelve, matching the 18% discount the page advertises. Mailchimp's figures are its published US prices for the only band it prints, 0–500 contacts.
| List size | GetResponse Starter, monthly | GetResponse Starter, 12-month prepay | Mailchimp (published US figures) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 | No tier published below 1,000 | — | Essentials $13/mo · Standard $20 ($10 promo yr 1) · Premium $350 ($175 promo yr 1) |
| 1,000 | $19/mo · unlimited sends | $186.96/yr (≈$15.58/mo) | No per-band figure published above 0–500 |
| 2,500 | $29/mo | $285.36/yr (saves $62.64) | Not published |
| 10,000 | $79/mo | $777.36/yr (saves $170.64) | Not published; annual plans are a sales conversation from 10,000 contacts |
USD. GetResponse figures read September 30, 2026 from its own pricing page and the checkout links embedded in it; the prepay totals are GetResponse's own checkout figures ($186.96, $285.36, $777.36), not our arithmetic. Mailchimp figures read from its US pricing page, September 2026; its promotions are 50% off for the first 12 months and revert to list price at month thirteen. Full datasets: the list-size cost calculator and our Klaviyo vs Mailchimp head-to-head.
Two things in that table decide the comparison. First, the send allowance runs in opposite directions: GetResponse's paid plans carry unlimited messages — its own text anchors Starter at "$19 per month for unlimited messages to 1,000 subscribers" — while Mailchimp caps monthly sends at a multiple of your contact count, 10× on Essentials, 12× on Standard, 15× on Premium. At 500 contacts, Mailchimp Essentials buys you 5,000 emails a month; GetResponse's smallest package buys no ceiling at all for $6 more. Second, the discount structure is opposites: GetResponse's 18% prepay is a permanent, self-serve feature of every plan at every size, while Mailchimp's steepest published discount — 50% for twelve months — is a first-term promotion that reverts to list price at month thirteen, and its annual plans exist only through sales for Premium and Standard at 10,000 contacts and above.
Because GetResponse's checkout links state a figure for every plan and size, the whole staircase can be printed — something Mailchimp's page structure does not allow. Note where the steps land: the jump from 1,000 to 2,500 subscribers costs $10 a month, but the next step to 5,000 nearly doubles the bill.
| Subscribers | Starter | Marketer | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $19/mo | $59/mo | $69/mo |
| 2,500 | $29/mo | $69/mo | $79/mo |
| 5,000 | $54/mo | $95/mo | $109/mo |
| 10,000 | $79/mo | $114/mo | $134/mo |
| 25,000 | $174/mo | $215/mo | $249/mo |
| 50,000 | $299/mo | $359/mo | $414/mo |
| 100,000 | $539/mo | $599/mo | $690/mo |
USD, monthly billing, read September 30, 2026 from GetResponse's own pricing page and its embedded checkout links. Every cell also has a 12-month prepay figure at exactly 82% of the annualized monthly price — $186.96 for Starter at 1,000 subscribers through $6,789.60 for Creator at 100,000.
The plan-to-plan gaps deserve their own sentence: at 1,000 subscribers, moving from Starter to Marketer — the tier that carries the marketing automation — costs $40 a month more, a 3.1× jump. On Mailchimp's smallest band, automation (up to 200 flows on Standard) starts at $20. A GetResponse buyer comparing automation costs should price that jump before reading anything else on this page.
GetResponse's figures come from its own pricing page, whose plan cards embed checkout links stating the exact order total for each plan, size and billing cycle; we read them on September 30, 2026, and cross-checked the prepaid totals against the advertised 18% discount, which matched exactly ($19 × 12 × 0.82 = $186.96 at 1,000 subscribers). Mailchimp's figures are its published US prices for the 0–500 band, read in September 2026; its page renders one band at a time and publishes no per-band US figure above 0–500 contacts, so cells at larger sizes say so rather than carrying an estimate — the same policy as our MailerLite vs Mailchimp comparison and our Klaviyo vs Mailchimp head-to-head. Brevo, the third major vendor that prices by volume rather than contacts, is covered in our Brevo vs Mailchimp comparison. To price your own list size across every plan that publishes one, use the list-size cost calculator. Our methodology and affiliate disclosure explain how prices are verified and how the site earns.
On the sticker, Mailchimp wins below 1,000 subscribers: Essentials lists $13 a month for the 0–500 band against GetResponse's $19 smallest package, which covers up to 1,000. GetResponse's prepay equivalent of about $15.58 a month beats Mailchimp's $20 Standard list price but not the $6.50 promotional first year. Above 500 contacts Mailchimp publishes no per-band US figure, so no verified comparison exists at any larger size — which is itself the finding.
Yes. GetResponse prices by list size and includes unlimited messages on its paid plans; its own pricing text anchors the entry plan at "$19 per month for unlimited messages to 1,000 subscribers." Mailchimp caps monthly sends at 10× (Essentials), 12× (Standard) or 15× (Premium) your contact count.
On Starter, the 12-month prepay totals $186.96 at 1,000 subscribers, $285.36 at 2,500 and $777.36 at 10,000 — against $228, $348 and $948 billed monthly, savings of $41.04, $62.64 and $170.64 a year. The discount is self-serve, applies to every plan and size, and GetResponse's checkout prices it; at 1,000 subscribers the equivalent monthly cost is about $15.58.
It is a first-term promotional figure in the pricing page's own summary — about 30% off the $19 list price at 1,000 subscribers — separate from the structural 18% prepay discount. Like Mailchimp's 50%-off first year, it is not the number the bill reverts to; the published ladder ($19, $29, $54, $79 on Starter) is.
Both do. Mailchimp's free plan carries 250 contacts and 500 email sends a month. GetResponse offers a free account — the pricing page says "start free today" — which keeps a GetResponse badge, drops its premium features after 14 days and, per the page's own feature table, allows 2,500 newsletters a month where paid plans show unlimited; no contact cap for the free account is published.
Not while your list is under 1,000 and you're inside Mailchimp's promotional first year — that year is cheaper than anything GetResponse prints. The arithmetic changes when the list crosses 1,000 subscribers: there GetResponse's $19 Starter with unlimited sends and a self-serve 18% prepay meets a Mailchimp column that no longer prints a number, and the annual savings ($41.04 in year one at that size, more above it) become verifiable rather than quoted.