category · Email
Email software after AI
35 tools in this category. 1 are rated killed and 22 survived — together the non-survivors add up to $334 a month.
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tools tracked
1
killed
22
survived
$334
$/mo at risk
most-voted in Email
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ActiveCampaign
mail Email
Marketing automation survived on deliverability and automation logic.
why
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $29/mo.
OpenAI · 2024-05 $29/mo
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Constant Contact
mail Email
The small-business email veteran, undercut on both price and features.
why
MailerLite and Brevo cover the headline feature free, so the $12/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
OpenAI · 2024-05 $12/mo
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GetResponse
mail Email
A veteran ESP squeezed between free tiers and newer tools.
why
Brevo and MailerLite cover the headline feature free, so the $19/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
OpenAI · 2024-05 $19/mo
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Campaign Monitor
mail Email
Beautifully designed email, in a year design got cheap.
why
MailerLite covers the headline feature free, so the $12/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
OpenAI · 2024-05 $12/mo
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Spark Mail
mail Email
Smart inbox with AI writing.
why
Gmail and Outlook cover the headline feature free, so the $8/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
OpenAI · 2024-06 $8/mo
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Substack
mail Email
Newsletter publishing and subscriptions.
why
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
OpenAI · 2024-06 free
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35 of 35· $334/mo at riskL
Litmus
mailEmail· $99
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OpenAI · 2025-04 · AI email builders producing responsive, client-safe HTML that needs far less manual previewing
Mailtrap and Stripo now cover the same core job on a free tier, so the $99/mo is optional.
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Lemlist
mailEmail· $39
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-06 · GPT-4o personalization
Instantly and Apollo.io cover the headline feature free, so the $39/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Flodesk
mailEmail· $35
KINDA
OpenAI · 2025-05 · AI email design and template generation eroding the visual-polish advantage Flodesk sells
MailerLite and Kit cover the headline feature free, so the $35/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Fyxer
mailEmail· $30
KINDA
Microsoft · 2025-04 · Gmail and Outlook shipped native AI triage and drafting
Inbox Zero covers the headline feature free, so the $30/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Superhuman
mailEmail· $30
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-06 · Gemini in Gmail + free AI drafting
Gmail and Shortwave cover the headline feature free, so the $30/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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GetResponse
mailEmail· $19
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-05 · Free AI email tools plus cheaper modern ESPs
Brevo and MailerLite cover the headline feature free, so the $19/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Omnisend
mailEmail· $16
KINDA
OpenAI · 2025-02 · AI campaign generation inside Shopify and Klaviyo narrowing the gap for mid-market merchants
Klaviyo and MailerLite cover the headline feature free, so the $16/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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ConvertKit
mailEmail· $15
KINDA
OpenAI · 2022-11 · ChatGPT drafts newsletters and email sequences instantly
ChatGPT and Beehiiv cover the headline feature free, so the $15/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Constant Contact
mailEmail· $12
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-05 · AI content generation plus cheaper alternatives
MailerLite and Brevo cover the headline feature free, so the $12/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Campaign Monitor
mailEmail· $12
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-05 · Template design and copy became free
MailerLite covers the headline feature free, so the $12/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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MailerLite
mailEmail· $10
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-05 · AI copy generation removed the reason to pay for campaign templates
Kit covers the headline feature free, so the $10/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Shortwave
mailEmail· $9
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-06 · Native Gmail AI features
Gmail and Notion Mail cover the headline feature free, so the $9/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Spark Mail
mailEmail· $8
KINDA
OpenAI · 2024-06 · Native AI compose in Gmail and Outlook
Gmail and Outlook cover the headline feature free, so the $8/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
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Customer.io
mailEmail· $100
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-03 · AI writes the messages but not the behavioural triggers
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $100/mo.
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MailReef
mailEmail· $99
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-08 · AI made cold-email volume infinite, moving the bottleneck to infrastructure
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $99/mo.
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Loops
mailEmail· $49
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-03 · AI drafting made email copy cheap but not deliverable
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $49/mo.
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Klaviyo
mailEmail· $45
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-06 · ChatGPT copy
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $45/mo.
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Smartlead
mailEmail· $39
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-06 · ChatGPT copy
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $39/mo.
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Beehiiv
mailEmail· $39
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-06 · ChatGPT drafting
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $39/mo.
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MillionVerifier
mailEmail· $37
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-02 · Sequencers bundle basic verification
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $37/mo.
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Instantly
mailEmail· $37
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-06 · ChatGPT copy
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $37/mo.
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ActiveCampaign
mailEmail· $29
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-05 · AI writes the email; deliverability sends it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $29/mo.
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Kit
mailEmail· $29
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-06 · ChatGPT newsletter drafting
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $29/mo.
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SendGrid
mailEmail· $20
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2022-11 · LLMs write email content, but not the delivery infrastructure
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $20/mo.
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Resend
mailEmail· $20
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-03 · AI codegen writes the send call but not the sending infrastructure
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $20/mo.
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ZeroBounce
mailEmail· $16
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-02 · AI-generated sending volume made list hygiene more critical
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $16/mo.
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Inbox Zero
mailEmail· $15
NOT REALLY
Microsoft · 2025-04 · Native AI in Gmail handles summarising and drafting
Microsoft's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $15/mo.
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Mailgun
mailEmail· $15
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-09 · AI-assisted code generation making it trivial to wire up any competing sending API
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $15/mo.
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Postmark
mailEmail· $15
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-03 · AI coding assistants commoditised the integration, not the delivery
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $15/mo.
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Mailchimp
mailEmail· $13
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-06 · ChatGPT copy + native AI
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $13/mo.
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Brevo
mailEmail· $9
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-10 · AI copy generation removing the drafting work while sending infrastructure stays untouched
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $9/mo.
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Buttondown
mailEmail· $9
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-03 · AI newsletter writers flooded inboxes and devalued generated sends
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $9/mo.
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EmailOctopus
mailEmail· $8
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-08 · AI newsletter writing tools competing for attention while sending remains the hard part
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one still earns its $8/mo.
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Substack
mailEmail· free
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2024-06 · AI-generated newsletters
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
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Plunk
mailEmail· free
NOT REALLY
OpenAI · 2025-03 · Codegen makes rolling your own sender look deceptively easy
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the email job, so this one is still worth keeping open.