Kit vs MailerLite
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
Kitsite ↗pricing ↗
An email platform built for creators — writers, course sellers, podcasters — organised around subscriber tagging and selling rather than around campaigns. Paid plans start at $33/mo (Creator); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $66/mo (Pro). We read the same $33/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country. It quotes USD here rather than local currency, so your bank sets the conversion. Kit gives away up to 10,000 subscribers, so people looking past it are almost always after a feature rather than a price.
MailerLitesite ↗pricing ↗
A deliberately simple email marketing tool: newsletters, automations, landing pages and forms, aimed at creators and small businesses who want the essentials without a suite around them. Paid plans start at $12/mo (Comfort); a free plan exists. The ladder we hold runs 2 paid tiers, topping out at $25/mo (Power). MailerLite is already the cheap answer in this category, so people leaving it are usually after something it does not do rather than a lower bill.
The two ladders
Kitsite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-08-29 · USD
| Plan | Price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | |
| Creator | $33/mo | |
| Pro | $66/mo |
MailerLitesite ↗pricing ↗
read 2026-08-26 · USD
| Plan | Price | What the page says |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 2,500 monthly emails, 2 seats, 3 automations, 1 landing page, community support |
| Comfort | $12/mo ($10.8 ↓) | 5,000 monthly emails, 3 seats, 50 automations, 10 landing pages, removes MailerLite logo |
| Power | $25/mo ($22.5 ↓) | Unlimited emails, unlimited seats, unlimited automations & landing pages, 24/7 live chat |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom volume, dedicated support |
Where they differ
- Cheapest way in: MailerLite at $12/mo, against Kit at $33/mo. That is the entry price in this market on the dates shown, not a judgement about which suits you.
- Free plans: both publish one — a plan priced at zero, not a trial. What each caps differs.
- How far each ladder goes: Kit tops out at $66/mo, MailerLite at $25/mo. A deeper ladder is not a worse deal — it is a bill that keeps climbing if you keep growing.
- Kit: We read the same $33/mo in every market we check, so this vendor does not price by country. It quotes USD here rather than local currency, so your bank sets the conversion.
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.