Mailjet vs. Mautic (open source)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Mailjet
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Mailjet is an email solution designed for both marketers and developers. Mailjet allows them to create, send, and track marketing and transactional emails via a user interface or APIs. EMAIL MARKETING Mailjet’s user interface is available in 5 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian) and enables marketing teams to create, test, and send emails. Its drag & drop email builder helps users create responsive emails. The user management…
$17
per month
Mautic
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Mautic Community Edition is an open source cross-channel campaign management software solution designed to enable users to build email, nurture campaigns, personalize messages, execute A/B tests, and measure results. The open source edition is community supported. Support is available for Acquia Campaign Studio, which is based on Mautic technology acquired by Acquia in May 2019. Acquia Campaign Studio is available on the
$0
Pricing
MailjetMautic (open source)
Editions & Modules
Essential
$17
per month
Premium
$27
per month
Free
Free
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Mautic Marketing Automation
$0
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MailjetMautic
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe Essentials plan contains Mailjet’s core feature. Premium includes advanced features to leverage email strategy. A discount is available for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
MailjetMautic (open source)
Considered Both Products
Mailjet
Chose Mailjet
Much cheaper than Marketo and Pardot. And better security ratings than Campaign Monitor. I can't evaluate the integration with Salesforce; we use list management in Mailjet directly. I have been working with Marketo, Pardot, and Mailjet in the past. Mailjet's key difference is …
Chose Mailjet
To date we haven't used MailGun for all that long so I cannot comment just yet
Chose Mailjet
At first I thought Mailjet is cheap in price. But finally, the lacking of support makes it worth not a penny.
Chose Mailjet
The only real incentive to use Mailjet over Mailchimp is the price. They offer a better priced solution. A large email list can be very expensive but with Mailjet it was affordable. Only not worth the customer service lack that comes along with it.
Chose Mailjet
Mailjet was much easier to set up, and much more affordable for us than other solutions we evaluated, such as SendGrid. SendGrid may be better suited for organizations with larger volumes or more technical staff, but for us, Mailjet was a superior solution at this time. We also …
Chose Mailjet
Mautic is a more sophisticated application than Mailjet, but it's also way harder to setup. It connects with existing contact forms, which Mailjet doesn't, but then again Mautic is way more expensive. Aweber stinks in my opinion. I found it difficult to use, expensive and …
Chose Mailjet
Mailjet is just pretty straightforward there is no more "rocket science" needed to create/design templates for general marketing campaigns or for automation campaigns. For general campaigns, it can be compared with Mailchimp or Active, and yes maybe in my particular opinion …
Chose Mailjet
The pricing is very competitive and the fact that the database filters are not very strict makes life easy for small and medium business owners to reach out to current clients as well as prospective clients for business purposes and lead following. Mailchimp had too many …
Chose Mailjet
I find Mailjet much more user-friendly than Mailchimp. It is simpler to enter new contacts that I have made into the system. Entering graphics and plugging in text with cut and paste from another application works much better and maintains a good format. Mailjet is just much …
Chose Mailjet
I have used Mailchimp, Constant Contact, and a few others. To be honest, I prefer the Mailchimp platform, BUT where Mailjet outdoes all of the competition is in the quantity of emails sent. They deliver where others don't, including with the ease of reviewing their "Reports". …
Chose Mailjet
Hubspot mail is very clunky. Definitely not focused on mail as a core competency. Just not as built up and not equipped to mail in these volumes. Mailchimp feels and works more like a tool for smaller brands. Maybe they have a different enterprise tour but it didn't feel bent …
Chose Mailjet
The free version offers more flexibility, and the interface is easier to navigate. Unlike competitors, Mailjet immediately offers an ability to add alternative text when adding an image to a campaign, which is required for our organization to meet ADA compliance. Great preview …
Chose Mailjet
Its email layout are very well designed for my products. They are very much relate-able. So I always prefer to use it for building customer relationship even after our sales process. My CRM team utilize this software effectively for proper communication with our clients. My …
Mautic
Chose Mautic
Salesforce and Dynamics may be fine if you can afford them, but don't offer much more than what you get from Mautic, for free and with total control and longer term active development.

SugarCRM ended development and maintenance of their Community Edition around 2018. The …
Chose Mautic
Infusionsoft, at the time I tested it, had a crazy editor--very unintuitive and not very clean. Mautic (open source) makes it much easier to build up campaigns. Besides that, it didn't provide what we needed to justify the lack of possibility to self-host it and the requirement …
Chose Mautic
We had originally tested Mailchimp and Sendy, but they are best used as bulk email marketing tools. Where Mautic really shines is as a full-service contact resource center, so you can do full contact list management, as-complicated-as-you want drip campaigns, all still while …
Chose Mautic
I have used Acton Marketing Automation and Mautic is very comparable to it. Acton is very pricey for a small business and Mautic offers many of the same features. Acton does, however, have support that will setup your system for you. Mautic does not have that if you are setting …
Chose Mautic
Well, it's like the same tool, but with different features. Overall, it is a friendly tool, easy to use, reliable, and it protects private information. We love it as I said before, we recommend it. It's a great asset. Mautic has all you need for your marketing needs.
Chose Mautic
Mautic is the new kid on the block, bred from an open source product, we chose to purchase the hosted/supported version. I felt like it stacked up very well against Act-On and even Pardot. I like their data API push and pull with Salesforce - very quick, and the queue was …
Chose Mautic
Mautic's competitive advantage is cost. Other solutions can be prohibitively expensive, and some other marketing automation solutions I had used required costly up-front investment for onboarding. I chose Mautic because I had grown weary of the aggressive sales tactics and …
Features
MailjetMautic (open source)
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Mailjet
8.3
Ratings
4% above category average
Mautic (open source)
8.6
Ratings
13% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Dynamic content6.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
A/B testing5.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting10.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
List management9.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Mailjet
10.0
Ratings
26% above category average
Mautic (open source)
8.9
Ratings
20% above category average
Dashboards10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Standard reports10.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Mailjet
-
Ratings
Mautic (open source)
8.4
Ratings
7% above category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Mailjet
-
Ratings
Mautic (open source)
8.6
Ratings
15% above category average
Calendaring00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Mailjet
-
Ratings
Mautic (open source)
7.5
Ratings
0% below category average
Social sharing and campaigns00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Social profile integration00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Mailjet
-
Ratings
Mautic (open source)
6.0
Ratings
22% below category average
API00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Role-based workflow & approvals00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings4.60 Ratings
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics CRM00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Integration with SugarCRM00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MailjetMautic (open source)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MailjetMautic (open source)
Likelihood to Recommend
I raised a ticket. It’s been four days and they won’t reply. So I raised another ticket asking why they are not replying. The issue was quite urgent. Then in a very short time, I saw the ticket was closed. So they have time to close my ticket, but they don’t have time or they don’t want to reply to a ticket. Very interesting.

Their attitude of doing nothing is the worst and the rudest I’ve ever seen in my years of working with several email service companies. And I see that they blame this on the pandemic. But many other good companies, they are not doing this. Your problem is your problem, don’t try to blame someone else.

So, please DO NOT buy it, consider others.
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Mautic is well suited for users who do not require a lot of maintenance on the technical areas and have only the general requirements of the email marketing sector. In case the users have more precise requirements and are more focussed on the quality and a proper quantitative analysis, Mautic would not be an ideal choice. In other words for small companies Mautic would be an idea choice where the budget is a constraint and the extent of use is low but in cases where budget is not really a constraint against the performance and quality, Mautic would not be an ideal choice.
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Pros
  • Mailjet is good at "links", it's really easy to link your content and photos to outside links.
  • Mailjet is good at getting emails out in a timely fashion.
  • Mailjet is really cost-effective compared to their competitors for what all you get.
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  • Mautic is very good at the tagging system.
  • Mautic is very good at tracking website visitors. Visitors are first marked as unknown, however, once you get a signup Mautic automatically updates their profile.
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Cons
  • They don't have any mobile application of it. This is the major drawback of this software.
  • Their support facility takes longer time to resolve issues. They should have instant chat option also for quick solutions.
  • Post campaign reporting functionality could be more diversified. It seems basic only.
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  • Reporting can be very misleading sometimes, but you just need to get the hang of it
  • When emailing, you need to know the exact time zone the server is set on, because it may not send the task when you think it would.
  • We think it may have more room to add more templates, the one the platform has turned boring over time— I think it would be an interesting update.
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Alternatives Considered
The only real incentive to use Mailjet over Mailchimp is the price. They offer a better priced solution. A large email list can be very expensive but with Mailjet it was affordable. Only not worth the customer service lack that comes along with it
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Salesforce and Dynamics may be fine if you can afford them, but don't offer much more than what you get from Mautic, for free and with total control and longer term active development. SugarCRM ended development and maintenance of their Community Edition around 2018. The long-term roadmaps for free versions of SugarCRM or its forks were very unclear
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Return on Investment
  • Changing from active campaign to Mailjet decreased our mail spend by more than 50% in savings.
  • Been able to send so many emails for different campaigns increases our retention with active users who became engaged users. In our case, it is important to be in constant communication with customers.
  • Mailjet needs to be complemented with other tools, such as Zapier, in order to create better implementations. It might cost you for additional software but it is still cheaper than solutions that charge you by the number of users.
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  • Automating interactions with clients in an early funnel stage
  • Focusing your sales team on the best qualified leads
  • Influencing purchase decisions along the customer journey
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ScreenShots

Mailjet Screenshots

Screenshot of Passport, which is Mailjet’s email editor used to create responsive emails and collaborate in real-time with other users inside the builder.Screenshot of the real-time collaboration tool.Screenshot of the statistics dashboard used to track campaign performance.Screenshot of an example of emails sent via SMTP relay or Send API.Screenshot of the drag-and-drop email automations builder