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Email Marketing · Comparison

Campaign Monitor vs. Constant Contact

Last verified 28 days ago · 16 sources · Updated automatically

Campaign Monitor and Constant Contact 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.

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Campaign Monitor

Design-focused email marketing with polished templates, a simple drag-and-drop builder, automation, and segmentation.

HQ Nashville, TN
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Constant Contact

Established email marketing for small businesses and nonprofits — large template library, automations, and hands-on support.

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Company facts

Headquarters
Nashville, TN HQ of parent Marigold
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Employees
1k Parent Marigold (small-business brands) after Nov-2025 Zeta divestiture; lower bound, uncertain
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Pricing

Free Plan
No
No
Starting Monthly Price (USD)
$11 Lite plan, 500 contacts
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Pricing Basis
contacts
contacts

Campaigns & content

Drag-and-Drop Builder
Yes
Yes
Prebuilt Templates
Yes
Hundreds of email templates
A/B Testing
Yes
Subject-line A/B testing
Landing Pages
Yes
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AI Content Assistance
Yes
AI copy generator / AI campaign builder

Automation & audience

Automation Workflows
Yes
Automations gated/scaled by plan (e.g. 1 template on Lite)
Advanced Segmentation
Yes
Contact/engagement segmentation; custom segments gated by plan
Signup Forms & Popups
Yes
Web signup forms and pop-ups
Built-in CRM
No
Sales CRM is a separate product (Lead Gen & CRM, ex-SharpSpring), not the core email plans

Channels & deliverability

SMS Marketing
US, Canada, Australia, UK; contracted customers
Premium includes 500 messages; Lite/Standard add-on from $10/mo
Transactional Email
Yes
No
Ecommerce Integration
Native Shopify integration
Ecommerce automations, product blocks, store selling

Platform & integrations

Native Integrations
Yes
Integrations marketplace (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Shopify, etc.)
Public API
REST API v3.3
Public v3 REST API

The verdict

Campaign Monitor logo Campaign Monitor
Best for transactional email and landing pages

Campaign Monitor sends transactional email and builds landing pages; Constant Contact does neither in this comparison. It also publishes a clear $11/mo entry price (Lite, 500 contacts). Pick it if you need marketing and transactional sends, plus landing pages, from one tool.

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Best for bundled SMS without a contract

Constant Contact's Premium plan bundles 500 SMS messages, with a Lite/Standard add-on from $10/mo. Campaign Monitor offers SMS only to contracted customers in select countries. It also advertises hundreds of email templates. Pick it for SMS access without a sales contract.

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Sources · 16 verified references

meetmarigold.com linkedin.com campaignmonitor.com constantcontact.com help.campaignmonitor.com developer.constantcontact.com

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