HubSpot locks real marketing automation behind Professional at $890/mo plus a $3,000 onboarding fee. Bluey delivers automation from $30/mo — roughly a 30x first-year difference for the marketing job.
HubSpot’s CRM is excellent, but its marketing power costs $890/mo plus a $3,000 onboarding fee. Seven alternatives ranked by need — cheapest all-in-one, best free CRM, best automation, best value.
AWeber charges by subscribers, Bluey by emails sent. At 10,000 subscribers emailed monthly that is about $30 on Bluey versus $135 on AWeber Plus — but AWeber wins on 24/7 phone support and a small list emailed daily.
Drip has no free plan and starts at $39/mo. The 7 best alternatives ranked by need: Bluey Email (best value), Omnisend (best free ecommerce), Klaviyo, MailerLite, Brevo, ActiveCampaign, and Mailchimp.
Campaign Monitor charges by contacts, from $13/mo for just 500; Bluey charges by emails sent, about $30/mo on Grow with unlimited contacts. Bluey wins on price and adds a CRM and cart-recovery Campaign Monitor lacks.
Email deliverability is the share of your emails that reach the inbox. The average is just 83.1% — nearly 1 in 6 emails misses. Benchmarks and fixes for 2026.
Kit (ConvertKit) is per-subscriber — $139/mo at 10k. Bluey is ~$14 per send with unlimited contacts. Full honest comparison of pricing, features and who wins.
Email marketing automation drives 37% of email sales from just 2% of sends. Learn the three flows to build first — welcome, abandoned cart and browse.
beehiiv bills by subscriber with unlimited sends; Bluey bills by send with unlimited contacts. At 10,000 subscribers mailed monthly that is $109 vs ~$14 — but the maths flips for daily senders.
Kit Creator runs $39/mo at 1,000 subscribers and $679/mo at 100,000. Six alternatives ranked by need — cheapest, best for monetizing, best flat rate, and best value.