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Mailchimp vs Klaviyo vs ActiveCampaign: Email Marketing Without the Contact Tax

Mailchimp, Klaviyo and ActiveCampaign raise the price as your list grows. SCiNESTA's AI email agent writes, sends and follows up for a flat $93 a year.

SCiNESTA ResearchOctober 18, 20267 min read
Mailchimp vs Klaviyo vs ActiveCampaign: Email Marketing Without the Contact Tax

Email pricing has quietly become the most annoying line item in marketing. Mailchimp bills by contact count. Klaviyo bills by contact count and profile richness. ActiveCampaign tiers up as you grow. The result is a perverse incentive: every new subscriber costs money whether they ever open a message or not, so teams prune lists instead of building them.

The real cost of a growing list

At a few thousand engaged contacts you are paying $20 to $150 a month, and that covers sends only. Writing the sequences, segmenting, and monitoring replies is still your evening.

An agent, not just a sender

SCiNESTA treats email as an agent job. Describe the campaign, and the AI drafts it in your voice, segments by behavior in the CRM, sends on schedule, reads replies, and books meetings from positive responses. Marketing stops being a blast and becomes a conversation the machine holds while you do other things.

  • AI-written campaigns and follow-ups grounded in your business facts
  • Segmentation driven by CRM data, call history and form answers
  • Reply handling: questions get answers, hot leads get booked
  • 2-way email included, so replies land in a real conversation, not a void

Price check

Flat $93 a year, no contact tiers, no send limits on plan. If you have 50,000 contacts or 500, the price does not move. See the nurture and reactivation flows or start today.

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