Newsletter platforms
react-email-editor alternatives 34 tools ranked by verified data
Data checked Oct 14, 2026 against the vendors' own pages. How we verify
We found 34 tools comparable to react-email-editor among newsletter platforms, and scored each with the same scorecard; 26 have enough verified data to be ranked.
Flodesk ranks first with 98/100, ahead of Sender (98) and Brevo (98).
react-email-editor itself scores 56/100 on the same scorecard, so 21 alternatives score higher.
16 alternatives have a free plan.
react-email-editor's cheapest paid plan is $250 a month; 25 alternatives start lower (entry prices, not like-for-like plans).
react-email-editor alternatives ranked
| # | Tool | Score | Coverage | From, billed monthly | From, billed yearly | Free plan | Integrations | Public API | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Flodesk | 98/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 2 |  Sender | 98/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $9/mo | Yes, 2,500 subscribers | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 3 |  Brevo | 98/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $9/mo | Not offered | Yes | 150 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 4 |  notifuse | 93/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $16/mo | $24.17/mo | Yes, unlimited emails per month | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 5 |  EmailOctopus | 92/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $9/mo | Yes, 2,500 subscribers | 1,000 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 6 |  forwardemail.net | 88/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $3/mo | Not offered | Yes | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 7 |  AWeber | 85/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $15/mo | $12.49/mo | Yes, 500 subscribers | 750 | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 8 |  MailerLite | 85/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $12/mo | $10.80/mo | Yes, 250 subscribers | 100 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 9 |  Klaviyo | 84/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | Free | Free | Yes, 250 subscribers | 350 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 10 |  Mailchimp | 83/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $13/mo | Not offered | Yes | 300 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 11 |  ActiveCampaign | 82/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $15/mo | No | 1,000 | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 12 |  GetResponse | 79/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $19/mo | $15.58/mo | No | 170 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 13 |  Cocomail | 79/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $5/mo | $4/mo | No | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 14 |  warmbly | 78/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $23/mo | Yes | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 15 |  Omnisend | 74/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | $11.20/mo | Not offered | Yes, 500 emails per month | 305 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 16 |  Abstract27 | 74/100 | 65%4 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $15.83/mo | No | – | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 17 |  Lighthouse | 73/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $19/mo | Not offered | No | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 18 |  Ghost | 71/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | Not offered | $18/mo | No | 8,000 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 19 |  Emailit | 71/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $25/mo | $20/mo | Yes, 3,000 credits per month | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 20 |  NotesIQ | 63/100 | 75%5 of 8 criteria | $9/mo | Not offered | No | – | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 21 |  Astro Send | 58/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | $20/mo | Not offered | No | – | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 22 |  InternalNewsletter | 55/100 | 65%4 of 8 criteria | $49/mo | $39/mo | Yes, 1 user | – | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 23 |  Loops | 54/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | $49/mo | Not offered | Yes, 1,000 subscribers | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 24 |  Paragraph | 54/100 | 95%7 of 8 criteria | $2,500/mo | $159/mo | Yes, 1,000 subscribers | 900 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 25 |  Memberful | 51/100 | 80%6 of 8 criteria | $49/mo | Not offered | No | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| 26 |  Customer.io | 41/100 | 85%6 of 8 criteria | $100/mo | $1,000/mo | No | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Campaign Monitor | Not ranked | 50%4 of 8 criteria | Contact sales | Contact sales | No | 250 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  HeyNews | Not ranked | 50%3 of 8 criteria | $39/mo | Not offered | No | – | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Moosend | Not ranked | 50%4 of 8 criteria | Contact sales | Contact sales | No | 80 | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Buttondown | Not ranked | 25%2 of 8 criteria | – | – | – | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Mailcoach | Not ranked | 25%2 of 8 criteria | – | – | – | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  mautic | Not ranked | 25%2 of 8 criteria | – | – | – | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  NoteStack | Not ranked | 25%2 of 8 criteria | – | – | – | – | – | Oct 14, 2026 |
| – |  Sendy | Not ranked | 25%2 of 8 criteria | – | – | – | – | Yes | Oct 14, 2026 |
Each value links the vendor page it was read from (hover for the check date). Coverage is the share of the scorecard's weight with verified data, and "N of M criteria" how many criteria the score is based on; a tool is ranked at 60% or more.
– = not published by the vendor, or not verified yet.
For reference, react-email-editor scores 56/100 with 60% coverage. react-email-editor review
Why each one ranks where it does
- 1. Flodesk 98/100
Email marketing platform with a visual email builder, forms, landing pages, workflow automations and checkout and subscription tools.
- Entry price (100/100): Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
Homepage captured Oct 14, 2026 - 2. Sender 98/100
Email marketing platform for building, automating and sending newsletters, with landing pages, signup forms and transactional email.
- Entry price (100/100): $9/month billed annually on Standard; no monthly-billed price published (scored against annual-billed prices)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
From $9 per month billed yearly on the Standard plan.
- 3. Brevo 98/100
Multichannel marketing platform covering email, SMS and WhatsApp campaigns, automation, segmentation, landing pages and a sales CRM.
- Entry price (100/100): $9/month billed monthly on Starter (scored on the monthly price)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
From $9 per month billed monthly on the Starter plan.
- 4. notifuse 93/100
Open-source newsletter and transactional email platform offered as a managed cloud service or as self-hosted software with optional licences.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Self-hosted)
- Verified features (100/100): 5 of 9 tracked features verified: automations / sequences, custom domain, a/b testing, segmentation and tags, open and click analytics
From $16 per month billed monthly on the Notifuse Cloud plan.
- 5. EmailOctopus 92/100
Email marketing service for sending campaigns and automations with a drag-and-drop editor, forms, landing pages and reports.
- Entry price (100/100): $9/month billed annually on Pro; no monthly-billed price published (scored against annual-billed prices)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Starter)
From $9 per month billed yearly on the Pro plan.
- 6. forwardemail.net 88/100
Open-source email service offering domain email forwarding, encrypted mailboxes, outbound sending, newsletters and an API.
- Entry price (100/100): $3/month billed monthly on Enhanced Protection (scored on the monthly price)
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
From $3 per month billed monthly on the Enhanced Protection plan.
- 7. AWeber 85/100
Email marketing platform for small businesses with automations, landing pages, signup forms, ecommerce pages and web push notifications.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- Verified features (100/100): 5 of 9 tracked features verified: paid subscriptions, automations / sequences, landing pages and forms, segmentation and tags, open and click analytics
From $15 per month billed monthly ($12.49 billed yearly) on the Lite plan.
- 8. MailerLite 85/100
Email marketing platform with a drag-and-drop editor, automations, landing pages, signup forms, websites and digital product sales.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- Verified features (100/100): 7 of 9 tracked features verified: paid subscriptions, automations / sequences, a/b testing, landing pages and forms, segmentation and tags, newsletter website, open and click analytics
From $12 per month billed monthly ($10.80 billed yearly) on the Comfort plan.
- 9. Klaviyo 84/100
Customer data and marketing platform that sends email, SMS and mobile messages, with a built-in helpdesk and AI agents for campaigns and service.
- Entry price (100/100): Free: the pricing page lists no paid plan
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- 10. Mailchimp 83/100
Email and SMS marketing platform with automations, audience tools, templates, popup forms and reporting.
- Free plan or trial (100/100): Free plan (Free)
- Pricing transparency (100/100): 4 of 4 plans have a public price
From $13 per month billed monthly on the Essentials plan.
How we picked
Every one of these newsletter platforms is scored by the same 8 criteria (scorecard v2). Each criterion gives 0 to 100 from the vendor's published data; the total is the weighted average. A criterion without verified data is left out and the other weights are re-normalised. A tool with under 60% of the weight covered is listed as not ranked, and so is a tool with no verified price and fewer than 2 verified features (“needs a verified price”); each score shows how many criteria it is based on. The core criteria are the same in every category; the category criteria are specific to newsletter platforms. Nobody gets custom weights, including our own products.
| Criterion | Weight | Type | What we measure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | 25% | Core | Price per month of the cheapest paid plan, against the prices of other newsletter platforms on the same billing basis (monthly-billed prices against monthly, annual-billed against annual).Log scale. Billed monthly: $9/month or less = 100, $100 or more = 0. Only billed annually: $9/month or less = 100, $159 or more = 0. Only free plans = 100. Usage-priced and one-time plans are not scored. |
| Free plan or trial | 15% | Core | Whether you can use the tool before paying: a free plan, or failing that a free trial, as shown on the vendor's pricing page.Free plan = 100. No free plan but a free trial = 60. The pricing page lists plans but shows neither = 0. No plans read = not scored. |
| Pricing transparency | 10% | Core | How much of the pricing is public: the share of plans with a published price ("contact sales" counts against), and whether there are at least 3 published tiers.80 x (plans with a public price / plans listed) + 20 x (public plans, up to 3) / 3. No plans read = not scored. |
| Verified features | 15% | Core | How many of the 9 features we track for this category the vendor's own pages verifiably show (paid subscriptions, automations / sequences, custom domain, referral programme, a/b testing, landing pages and forms, segmentation and tags, newsletter website, open and click analytics). This counts verified features only: a tool that documents less scores lower here, and only here.Linear: verified features / 5 (half the tracked list) x 100, capped at 100. No tracked feature verified = not scored. |
| API, integrations and export | 10% | Core | Whether a public API exists, how many integrations the vendor states, and whether the vendor documents a way to export your data.Average of the parts with data: public API yes = 100, no = 0; integrations on a log scale (100 or more = 100); a documented data export = 100. None verified = not scored. |
| Cost at 1,000 subscribers | 10% | Category | Monthly price of the cheapest paid plan that allows at least 1,000 subscribers.Log scale: $5/month or less = 100, $100 or more = 0. Plans that do not state a subscriber limit are not used. |
| Free plan limits | 10% | Category | What the free plan allows: subscribers (full marks at 2,500), emails per month (full marks at 10,000).Each stated limit linear up to its full mark (unlimited = 100), averaged. Tools without a free plan, or whose free plan states none of these limits, are not scored here. |
| Paid subscriptions | 5% | Category | Whether writers can charge for subscriptions, and the platform's fee on that revenue.No paid subscriptions (verified) = 0; paid subscriptions: linear, 0% fee = 100, 15% or more = 0. Fee not stated = not scored. |
Sources are vendor pricing pages, docs and changelogs, each with the date we checked it. We did not test these tools hands-on unless a listing says so. Full formulas: methodology.
Questions, answered from the data
What is the best alternative to react-email-editor?
Flodesk, with 98/100 on our scorecard; Sender is second with 98/100.
Is there a free alternative to react-email-editor?
Yes: Flodesk, Sender and Brevo have a free plan; Flodesk ranks highest of them.
What is the cheapest react-email-editor alternative?
By entry price, forwardemail.net: $3 per month billed monthly on the Enhanced Protection plan.