Email Marketing · Comparison

ActiveCampaign vs. AWeber

Last verified 28 days ago · 17 sources · Updated automatically

ActiveCampaign and AWeber compared across Company facts, Pricing, Campaigns & content, Automation & audience, Channels & deliverability and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

ActiveCampaign logo

ActiveCampaign

Marketing automation and email with deep branching workflows, advanced segmentation, and a built-in CRM.

HQ Chicago, IL
AWeber logo

AWeber

Long-running email marketing for small businesses and creators — autoresponders, drag-and-drop builder, templates, forms, and landing pages.

HQ Doylestown, PA

Company facts

Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Doylestown, PA
Employees
800 800+ global team members (vendor-stated)
125 LinkedIn range 51-200

Pricing

Free Plan
No
No
Starting Monthly Price (USD)
$15 Starter plan, 1,000 contacts (billed annually)
$15 Lite plan, 500 subscribers
Pricing Basis
contacts
contacts

Campaigns & content

Drag-and-Drop Builder
Yes
Yes
Prebuilt Templates
Yes
Yes
A/B Testing
Yes
Email split testing; Plus tier and above (not on entry Lite)
Landing Pages
Yes
3 on Lite; unlimited on Plus
AI Content Assistance
Active Intelligence
AI Subject Line Assistant + AI writing tools; Plus tier and above (not on Lite)

Automation & audience

Automation Workflows
Yes
3 automations on Lite; unlimited on Plus
Advanced Segmentation
Yes
1 custom segment on Lite; unlimited on Plus
Signup Forms & Popups
Yes
Yes
Built-in CRM
Yes
No

Channels & deliverability

SMS Marketing
Yes
No
Transactional Email
Yes
No
Ecommerce Integration
Native Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix
Native Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy; in-app selling on Plus and above (not Lite)

Platform & integrations

Native Integrations
1,000+ apps
Hundreds of native integrations
Public API
REST API (v3)
Public REST API + webhooks

The verdict

ActiveCampaign logo ActiveCampaign
Best for multi-channel automation with built-in CRM

ActiveCampaign adds a built-in CRM, SMS marketing, and transactional email that AWeber lacks entirely. Its automation, segmentation, A/B testing, and AI content all ship without tier gating, and it lists 1,000+ native integrations versus AWeber's hundreds. At $15 it covers 1,000 contacts to AWeber's 500 subscribers.

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AWeber logo AWeber
Best for a simpler, focused email tool

AWeber matches ActiveCampaign on the email core: drag-and-drop builder, templates, signup forms, landing pages, and a public API. It skips the CRM, SMS, and transactional email, so buyers who want plain email marketing without those modules face a narrower, less complex product. Note its A/B testing, AI, and unlimited automation require the Plus tier, not entry Lite.

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Sources · 17 verified references

activecampaign.com aweber.com linkedin.com developers.activecampaign.com api.aweber.com

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