Email Marketing · Comparison

Klaviyo vs. MailerLite

Last verified 28 days ago · 18 sources · Updated automatically

Klaviyo and MailerLite 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.

Klaviyo logo

Klaviyo

Email and SMS marketing built for ecommerce — deep store integration, behavioral segmentation, and revenue-attributed automations.

HQ Boston, MA
MailerLite logo

MailerLite

Simple, affordable email marketing with a generous free plan — drag-and-drop editor, automations, forms, and landing pages.

HQ Vilnius, Lithuania

Company facts

Headquarters
Boston, MA
Vilnius, Lithuania Remote-first; original Lithuanian entity (MailerLite UAB)
Employees
2k 2,000+ employees (company-stated)
172 172 people (company-stated)

Pricing

Free Plan
Free up to 250 profiles / 500 email sends per month
Up to 250 subscribers / 2,500 emails/mo
Free Plan Contacts
250 250 profiles; 500 email sends/mo on free plan
250 Up to 250 subscribers
Starting Monthly Price (USD)
$30 From ~$30/mo (email plan, entry profile tier)
$12 Comfort plan, 500 subscribers
Pricing Basis
contacts Priced by active profiles (with monthly send allowance per tier)
contacts

Campaigns & content

Drag-and-Drop Builder
Drag-and-drop email editor
Yes
Prebuilt Templates
160+ customizable email templates
Yes
A/B Testing
A/B testing for campaigns and flows; Smart Send Time
Included on all plans, even free
Landing Pages
Built-in hosted landing-page builder (Klaviyo or custom domain)
1 on free; 10 combined w/ websites on Comfort; unlimited on Power
AI Content Assistance
Generative AI: subject lines, copy, Flows AI, Segment AI
AI writing assistant + subject line generator

Automation & audience

Automation Workflows
Visual flow builder with triggers, branching, conditions
Visual workflow builder, multi-trigger, branching
Advanced Segmentation
Behavior/data-driven segments across hundreds of data points
Yes
Signup Forms & Popups
Pop-ups, fly-outs, embedded and multi-step forms
Embeddable forms and pop-ups
Built-in CRM
B2C 'CRM' = unified customer profiles/data platform, not a sales pipeline with deals/stages/tasks
No

Channels & deliverability

SMS Marketing
Native SMS campaigns and automations (metered via mobile credits)
SMS only via sister product MailerSend
Transactional Email
Transactional email via API-triggered transactional flows
Transactional handled by sister product MailerSend
Ecommerce Integration
Native Shopify/WooCommerce/BigCommerce; abandoned-cart flows, revenue attribution
Shopify/WooCommerce sync, product blocks, abandoned cart

Platform & integrations

Native Integrations
350+ pre-built native integrations
Yes
Public API
Public REST API with versioned endpoints and official SDKs
Public REST API

The verdict

Klaviyo logo Klaviyo
Best for multi-channel ecommerce sends

Klaviyo adds native SMS marketing and transactional email, both of which MailerLite handles only through a separate sister product. It also pairs deeper behavior-driven segmentation with native Shopify/Woo/BigCommerce flows (abandoned cart, revenue attribution) and 350+ integrations, making it the better fit for stores running email and SMS together. The tradeoff is price: it starts at $30/mo.

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MailerLite logo MailerLite
Best for low-cost email-only senders

MailerLite starts at $12/mo versus Klaviyo's $30, and its free plan allows 2,500 emails/mo against Klaviyo's 500, with A/B testing included on every plan, even free. Both cover drag-and-drop building, automation, segmentation and ecommerce sync. It is the cheaper email-first pick, but lacks native SMS and transactional email, which Klaviyo offers in-product.

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Sources · 18 verified references

klaviyo.com dnb.com mailerlite.com help.klaviyo.com developers.klaviyo.com mailersend.com + 1 more

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