AWeber vs Drip
Both ladders below were read from the vendors’ own pricing pages, in this market, on the dates shown. Nothing is converted: what you see is what each page showed a reader here.
What each one is
AWebersite ↗pricing ↗
A long-established email marketing service for small businesses, covering newsletters, autoresponders and landing pages. Paid plans start at $12.49/mo (Lite); no free plan is published. The ladder we hold runs 3 paid tiers, topping out at $20/mo (Done). It bills by country — entry $12.5/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads. Its published prices moved on 2026-09-20 — the change log holds the rows.
Dripsite ↗pricing ↗
An e-commerce marketing automation tool aimed at shops that want behavioural email without a full enterprise suite. Paid plans start at $39/mo (Drip); no free plan is published.
The two ladders
AWebersite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-10-19 · USD
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Done | $20/mo |
| Plus | $19.99/mo |
| Lite | $12.49/mo |
Dripsite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-09-07 · USD
| Plan | Price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Drip | $39/mo | 'Price per month' by list size, read 2026-09-07: 2,500 people $39 · 10,000 people $154 · 25,000 people $369. 14-day free trial, no credit card. Live chat support on '$99/mo + plans'. |
Where they differ
- Cheapest way in: AWeber at $12.49/mo, against Drip at $39/mo. That is the entry price in this market on the dates shown, not a judgement about which suits you.
- Free plans: neither publishes one. Any free access here is a trial, which is a deadline.
- How far each ladder goes: AWeber tops out at $20/mo, Drip at $39/mo. A deeper ladder is not a worse deal — it is a bill that keeps climbing if you keep growing.
- Recently moved: AWeber (2026-09-20). A change only counts once a second clean read agrees.
- AWeber: It bills by country — entry $12.5/mo in the eurozone, from our same-day reads.
How to choose in this category
- Most tools price by list size — a quoted price is only true at a stated subscriber count, so re-check the ladder at yours.
- Free tiers differ in what they cap: subscribers, sends or features. Two ‘free plans’ are rarely the same thing.
- Headline prices are often the annual-billing rate; the pay-monthly figure sits higher.