ActiveCampaign
Email marketing and marketing automation platform with segmentation, CRM integrations and conditional content.
Who it fits: A marketing-automation platform with CRM features, priced by contacts rather than seats; fits a team whose main job is behaviour-based email follow-up to a list.
ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation platform centred on email, with a workflow builder, segmentation, CRM add-ons and e-commerce integrations. It has no free plan (14-day trial) and suits SMBs that need multi-step, behaviour-based automations.
Key facts
Verified facts — An editor checked this value against the official source on the date shown.- 1,000
- No
Our assessment
Editorial — Our editors' view, not vendor data.Strengths
- Priced by contacts: Starter $15, Plus $49, Pro $79, Enterprise $145 per month at 1,000 contacts, billed yearly.
- User seats included: 1 in Starter and Plus, 3 in Pro, 5 in Enterprise.
- Multi-step marketing automation is included in every plan.
- 14-day free trial, no credit card needed.
- Zapier and Make list a create-or-update contact operation.
Limitations
- No free plan.
- A deal pipeline is the Pipelines add-on and is not available in Starter; its price is not shown on the pricing page.
- Only yearly billing is shown; no monthly price and no extra-seat price are published there.
- The price rises with the number of contacts.
- It is a marketing-automation platform with a CRM component, not a sales-pipeline CRM.
Plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | Conditions and source |
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| Starter | $15 /mo, billed annually (12-month commitment) |
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| Plus | $49 /mo, billed annually (12-month commitment) |
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| Pro | $79 /mo, billed annually (12-month commitment) |
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| Enterprise | $145 /mo, billed annually (12-month commitment) |
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Features and specifications
- Contacts at the priced tier
- 1,000
- Free plan
- No