Unitpost vs MailerLite

MailerLite is an email marketing platform for small businesses, with drag-and-drop, rich-text and HTML editors, landing pages, websites, automations and digital products in one plan. Unitpost covers transactional and marketing email in one product with unlimited contacts on paid plans and a free tier of 5,000 emails a month. Across 9 compared capabilities, Unitpost leads on 4 and MailerLite leads on 4.

Which should you choose?

Choose MailerLite if

Marketers build most of your email in a visual editor
You want landing pages, a website and automations in the same tool
Your list is small and your email is marketing only

Choose Unitpost if

You want room on the free plan: 5,000 emails a month and 10,000 contacts, where theirs is 250 subscribers
You send receipts and resets too, without buying a second product for them
You want the full API, webhooks and sending through the API on the free plan
You want SMS on the same contacts, API key and bill

What MailerLite does well

Stated plainly, because a comparison that pretends otherwise is not worth reading.

Three editors on every plan, free included: drag-and-drop, rich text and custom HTML
Landing pages and websites built in
Automations on the free plan, with up to 3 active
Low entry prices for small lists

Pricing and free tier

Unitpost: 5,000 emails/month, 200/day, no credit card; On paid plans your monthly price is a sending allowance you spend at your tier's rate, and it refreshes every month. Marketing and unlimited contacts are included rather than billed as add-ons.
MailerLite: 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month; Priced by subscriber count: Comfort from $12 a month, with monthly emails capped at ten times the tier, and Power from $25 with unlimited emails under fair use. Yearly billing is 10% cheaper. Transactional email is a separate product, MailerSend.

MailerLite pricing and free-tier details last verified 2026-11. Providers change these often — check their pricing page before making a decision.

Feature comparison

Feature and pricing comparison between Unitpost and MailerLite
Capability	Unitpost	MailerLite
Free plan	5,000 emails/month, 200/day, no credit card	250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month
Editors	Hybrid visual and code editor over one document	Drag-and-drop, rich-text and custom HTML editors on every plan
Landing pages and websites	Not offered	1 of each on Free, 10 on Comfort, unlimited on Power
Automations	Campaigns ship today; automations are in early access	3 active on Free, 50 on Comfort, unlimited on Power
Transactional email	Included on every plan, on the same contacts and bill as campaigns	Not included; sold separately as MailerSend
API on the free plan	The full API, webhooks and sending	API and webhooks limited, with no sending
Entry paid plan	$10 a month for 20,000 emails, priced by sends	Comfort from $12 a month, priced by subscribers
Selling to readers	Not offered	Digital products and bookings: 1 on Free, 5 on Comfort, unlimited on Power
One-key import from MailerLite	Migration Assistant reads your account with a MailerLite API token and previews what it can import before writing anything; the migration guide lists exactly what moves	n/a

How do I migrate from MailerLite?

Paste a MailerLite API key into the Migration Assistant (it only reads with it) and it previews what it can bring across before anything is written. MailerLite keeps sending the whole time, so there is no gap in delivery.

Imports: contacts, unsubscribes and consent, suppressions (bounces and complaints). Partly imports: groups and segments, templates, sending domains, webhooks. Rebuild: topics, api keys, sms consent. Stays behind: send history and analytics, automations, forms, landing pages, websites and products.

Read the MailerLite migration guide

Switching from MailerLite?

Try it on the free tier first

5,000 emails a month free. Verify a domain, send a test, preview the migration.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Unitpost a MailerLite alternative?

For teams whose app sends email as well as newsletters, yes: transactional and marketing email on one API, one contact list and one bill, with a bigger free plan. For marketers who want MailerLite's editors, landing pages and websites, MailerLite is the better tool, and our automations are in early access.

Can I import my MailerLite subscribers into Unitpost?

Yes, with an API token from a current MailerLite account. The Migration Assistant brings subscribers with their status and fields, groups and segments, and bounced and spam-complaint subscribers as suppressions. MailerLite's API returns no email HTML, so campaigns arrive as plain-text drafts you rebuild in the editor. Accounts still on MailerLite Classic, from before March 2022, use a different API the importer doesn't read.