Buttondown vs. Mailerlite

Buttondown offers the crucial features that MailerLite lacks to get your newsletter off the ground.

Mailerlite is very similar to Buttondown in a lot of ways ¬– it's a tool explicitly tailored for simpler use cases and smaller businesses.

But Mailerlite lacks a handful of features that Buttondown offers, and it doesn't have the same level of polish or simplicity. Take it from this guy on Reddit:

I looked at a lot of services and landed on MailerLite. Months have gone by and there are so many problems: no syntax highlighting for code, so stuck with writing my own HTML emails, I can't separate people by cohort to get accurate statistics; I can't publish the emails online. content is stuck but I would actually like to refer previous emails in my newsletter as references to previous lessons.

Krister Viirsaar

Conversely, Buttondown's got great archives out of the box, and it's got a great API that lets you do a lot of things with your newsletter.

Buttondown is the better option if you're looking for a tool that lets you start quickly, easily, and for free — and grows as your newsletter grows. Not only that, we're more affordable:

	Mailerlite	Buttondown
Price per month
1000	$30.00	$9.00
5000	$50.00	$29.00
10000	$110.00	$79.00
20000	$162.00	$139.00

Features
Privacy-first	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Write in Markdown	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Concierge migration	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Run by humans	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Command Line Interface	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Paid subscriptions	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Analytics	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Comments	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
RSS-to-email	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Surveys	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Attachments	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Integrations	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Host on custom domain	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Send from Gmail (or wherever)	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Multiple newsletters	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Webhooks	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Automations	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Teams	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Whitelabeling	Mailerlite —	Buttondown
Dedicated IP	Mailerlite —	Buttondown

Feature comparison: Buttondown vs. Mailerlite

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