Pay only when you send
Email marketing without the monthly commitment.
Collect subscribers, create professional campaigns and pay only when you send. Your purchased credits don't disappear at the end of the month — and we'll tell you honestly when another provider becomes a better fit.
No monthly subscription. No charge for storing contacts. Pay when you send.
No monthly bill
Buy credits when you send
Credits never expire
Use them at your pace
Honest comparisons
We recommend leaving when it fits
Deliverability first
Amazon SES infrastructure
A quiet philosophy
We're not for everyone.
Most software companies want every customer. We don't.
MakersMail is designed for businesses that want professional email marketing without paying a monthly subscription for features they don't use.
If your business genuinely needs enterprise CRM, advanced ecommerce automation, or extremely high-volume sending, another platform may be a better choice.
We'll tell you honestly.
Mailchimp
Klaviyo
Brevo
ActiveCampaign
Kit
MailerLite
Beehiiv
Substack
SendFox
HubSpot
SendGrid
Constant ContactProvider Fit
Find your best email platform.
Answer a few simple questions and we'll compare MakersMail with leading email platforms based on your business, your list size, your sending frequency and the features you actually need.
If MakersMail is the right choice we'll explain why.
If another platform genuinely suits you better, we'll recommend that instead.
- Compare monthly costs
- Compare feature sets
- Compare automation requirements
- Estimate your monthly savings
- See when you may outgrow MakersMail
- Receive an honest recommendation
Recommendations are based on your answers and our regularly updated provider database. Where applicable, MakersMail may receive a referral commission if you choose another provider through one of our links. This never affects our recommendation.
Collect → Create → Send
Three steps. Nothing else in the way.
Collect
Create a signup page or embed a form on your existing site. Contacts and lists stay free — no charge for storing subscribers.
Create
Write a beautiful email using a simple template and rich-text editor. Your brand is applied automatically, so it stays consistent.
Send
Buy credits when you need them. Use them whenever. They don't reset at the end of the month, and there's no monthly bill in the background.
The maths, plainly
Pay for what you send — not for what you might.
A worked example, using round numbers for clarity. The exact costs depend on your list size, your sending pattern and where you're based — try Provider Fit for numbers based on your setup.
Traditional subscription
$50/mo
Charged every month, whether you send a campaign or not.
Sent 0 campaigns this month? Still $50.
Pay-as-you-go credits
$25 in credits
Buy credits when you need them. They never expire.
Sent 0 campaigns this month? Your credits are still there next month.
Provider Fit
We don't need to be the best email platform for everyone. Just the right one for you.
We compare your actual requirements — list size, sending volume, features, country — against the leading providers. When another service would suit you better, we say so. In writing.
Compared against
Example result
Another provider is likely a better fit for you.
Based on 24,000 monthly sends across a 12k list, an annual plan on Provider X would save you around $229 a year and offer the Shopify automation you asked about.
MakersMail Rewards
Keep a small credit line in your footer. Get credits back.
Add an optional MakersMail line to your email footer or hosted signup page and earn credits back on eligible sends and verified new subscribers. Entirely optional. Paying customers can remove it and simply not participate.
- Earn credits on eligible delivered emails
- Earn credits on verified new subscribers
- Transparent monthly caps and eligibility
- No mandatory branding on paid accounts
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Deliberately simple, pay-as-you-go email marketing.
Deliberately simple
The tools that matter. Nothing that doesn't.
MakersMail gives you what small senders actually need to collect subscribers, create professional emails and build useful follow-up sequences. It leaves out the complicated features most small senders never use.
What we ship
- Simple campaigns
- Useful templates
- Hosted signup pages
- Embeddable forms
- Conversational automations
- Clear analytics
- Honest pricing
What we don't
- No full landing-page builder
- No complex CRM
- No confusing automation canvas
Start free
Send your first campaign in the time it takes to make coffee.
Create an account, connect a sending domain and try MakersMail with the credits included free. No card required.