Plunk vs Mailchimp

Pricing

Mailchimp

Mailchimp charges per contact. The free plan allows you to have up to 1500 contacts. After that, you are forced to upgrade to one of their paid plans. Their Essentials plan starts at $26.50 per month and goes up based on the number of contacts you have.

Plunk

Plunk offers a free plan of 9000 emails per month. After that, you pay half a cent per email. This price covers all services, including transactional, marketing and broadcast emails. There are no hidden charges or add-ons to worry about.

Complete Email Solution

Mailchimp

Mailchimp is a marketing email tool. It is designed to send marketing emails to your contacts. It does offer a very limited transactional email API, but the platform is not designed for transactional emails.

Plunk

Plunk is designed for SaaS companies. It offers a complete email solution that includes transactional emails, marketing automations and broadcast emails in one API. A contact in Plunk is the same for all three services and offers a unified view of your customers.

Developer Experience

Mailchimp

Mailchimp offers a complex API that is difficult to use. Getting it set up is a pain and trying to get it out of your codebase again is even worse. Mailchimp offers a few SDKs, but they are simple wrappers around their API and don't offer much value.

Plunk

Plunk offers a simple API that is easy to use. It is designed to be easy to set up. Plunk is designed for SaaS companies. Plunk offers a set of SDKs that are designed to be easy to use. Most developers can get Plunk set up and running in less than 5 minutes from start to finish.