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MarketDeals compares email marketing platforms and social media growth services on real, dated prices. AWeber, GetResponse and Mailchimp side by side; five providers for followers, views and subscribers; two free calculators and no sign-up.
MarketDeals researches and compares the leading online marketing services so you can choose the right one in minutes. Each guide covers pricing, features, guarantees and real customer reviews, side by side.
Our email marketing comparison puts AWeber and GetResponse side by side on price, subscriber limits, automation, landing pages and deliverability, including what each one gives you on its free plan and where the paid tiers start. Mailchimp vs AWeber vs GetResponse compares all three on entry price, sending limits, automation caps and the support you get when something breaks.
Our social media marketing guide compares five growth services on starting price, delivery speed, platform coverage, targeting options and money-back guarantees, across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, LinkedIn and more than fifty other networks.
Every figure is taken from the provider’s own website and dated, so you can see what a plan actually costs before you sign up. We earn a commission if you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you, and that never changes how the services are ranked.
Two free calculators sit behind these guides. The email one works out what AWeber, GetResponse and Mailchimp would each charge at your list size and monthly send volume, including the send multipliers and overage rules that the pricing pages leave out. The social one prices YouTube subscribers and views, TikTok followers and views, Instagram followers and X followers across all five providers, either from the quantity you want or from the budget you have.
Prices are re-read from each provider’s own pages every month and dated on the page, because every service on this site has changed what it charges at least once in the past year. If a figure ever looks wrong, the provider’s own page is the tiebreaker, and we would rather you check it than take our word for it.
What these services actually cost
Email, at 5,000 subscribers
On annual billing: about $75 a month on AWeber Plus, $77.90 on GetResponse Marketer and $100 on Mailchimp Standard. All three have a free tier — AWeber gives you 500 subscribers and 3,000 emails a month, GetResponse 500 contacts and 2,500 newsletters, Mailchimp 250 contacts.
Social, per thousand
A thousand TikTok followers costs between about $5 and $92 depending on who you buy from, a thousand YouTube subscribers between $36 and $276, and a thousand Instagram followers between $8 and $16. That spread is a quality difference rather than a discount: the dearer providers deliver slowly and manually, which looks less like a purchase to the platform.