Klaviyo alternatives
Providers that compete with Klaviyo on at least one of: Marketing
Ecommerce-focused marketing automation.
Switching as growth and lifecycle teams
Growth work lives or dies on targeting and measurement. What matters is whether behavioral triggers can be built without engineering time, whether the event stream supports attribution past the open, and whether deliverability holds when broadcast volume shares a reputation with product email.
Klaviyo does not cover operating track record and multi-tenant support. Elastic Email, Customer.io, and SendGrid close that gap. The order below weighs this audience's priorities first, so it differs from a general popularity ranking.
ranked for growth and lifecycle teams
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Elastic Email
Transactional MarketingLow-cost email API and SMTP relay with marketing features nearby.
Adds multi-tenant support over Klaviyo, with nothing given up on these priorities.
$0/mo test plan with limited sending only to yourself · $19/mo for Email API up to 50,000 emails/mo - 02
Customer.io
Marketing TransactionalBehavior-driven lifecycle messaging.
Adds multi-tenant support over Klaviyo, with nothing given up on these priorities.
No permanent free tier; trial only · $100/mo (Essentials) - 03
SendGrid
Transactional MarketingTwilio-owned veteran with broad SDK coverage.
Adds multi-tenant support over Klaviyo, with nothing given up on these priorities.
60-day free trial only (permanent free tier was removed May 2025) · $19.95/mo for 50,000 emails - 04
Loops
Marketing TransactionalModern lifecycle and broadcast email for SaaS.
Matches Klaviyo on every priority weighed here, so the decision is price and preference.
1,000 contacts and 4,000 sends/mo on the Free plan · $49/mo for 5,000 contacts - 05
Userlist
MarketingSaaS lifecycle email with account-level data.
Matches Klaviyo on every priority weighed here, so the decision is price and preference.
14-day free trial, card required · Dynamic slider pricing; Basic includes 10,000 users and $10/mo per additional 1,000 users - 06
Brevo
Transactional MarketingAll-in-one with a generous daily free tier.
Matches Klaviyo on every priority weighed here, so the decision is price and preference.
300/day permanent · $9/mo for 5,000 emails - 07
Encharge
MarketingSaaS-focused marketing automation with behavior-based flows.
Matches Klaviyo on every priority weighed here, so the decision is price and preference.
14-day free trial · $99/mo monthly for Growth up to 2,000 subscribers, or $79/mo billed yearly - 08
Plunk
Self-hosted MarketingOpen-source unified email platform.
Matches Klaviyo on every priority weighed here, so the decision is price and preference.
3,000/mo on hosted free plan · $19/mo or self-host
Klaviyo and its alternatives, side by side
Columns are the priorities growth and lifecycle teams weigh, in order. Klaviyo is the first row so the trade in each direction is readable at a glance.
| Provider | Scheduling | Event stream | Operating since | Suppressions API | Best published rate per 1,000 | Multi-tenant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klaviyo | Yes | Yes | 2012 | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | No |
| Elastic Email | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | Yes |
| Customer.io | Yes | Yes | 2012 | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | Yes |
| SendGrid | Yes | Yes | 2009 | Yes | $0.40 | Yes |
| Loops | Yes | Yes | 2022 | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | No |
| Userlist | Yes | Yes | 2017 | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | No |
| Brevo | Yes | Yes | 2012 | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | No |
| Encharge | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | No |
| Plunk | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes | Tiers not published in comparable form | No |
Elastic Email, Customer.io, and SendGrid add capability without giving anything up on these priorities. The rest trade one thing for another.