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Mailyte vs Mailchimp: campaigns, app email and your team’s mailboxes
Mailyte runs your campaigns, your app’s email and your team’s you@company.com mailboxes in one account, on one naira invoice. Mailchimp has the fuller marketing toolkit: a drag-and-drop email builder, landing pages, signup forms, ads and more than 300 integrations.
The difference
What sets Mailyte apart
Your team’s mailboxes, in the same account
Mailyte hosts mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP, SMTP and webmail, next to your campaigns.
Your app’s receipts and password resets too
Send transactional email over SMTP or a REST API from the same account, with a free daily allowance, on a path kept apart from your campaigns.
Contacts checked before you email them
Mailyte asks each new contact’s mail server whether the mailbox exists. The answer comes back Deliverable, Risky or Doesn’t exist, and addresses that don’t exist are never emailed. Paid Marketing plans include checks.
Side by side
Mailyte and Mailchimp, row by row
This compares scope, visibility and billing — not delivery speed.
| Mailyte | Mailchimp | |
|---|---|---|
| What you sign up for | ||
| Mailboxes on your own domain, in the same account | Yes. Free for up to 5, then from ₦850 a mailbox a month, billed yearly. | Not offered. Its features cover email marketing, landing pages, forms, ads and transactional email. |
| Email from your app (SMTP and REST API) | Yes, over SMTP and REST. 500 a day free; plans from ₦4,550 a month for 25,000. | Through Mailchimp Transactional, a separate add-on for legacy, Standard and Premium plans, over an API or SMTP. |
| Email marketing campaigns | Yes. Free up to 500 contacts; plans from ₦2,900 a month. | Yes. |
| Campaigns and audience | ||
| Scheduled sends | Yes, from the Starter plan. | Email scheduling on Essentials, Standard and Premium; not on Free. |
| Automated journeys | Yes, on every plan. Each person runs on their own clock; paid plans add steps and triggers. | Automation flows: not on Free, up to 4 steps on Essentials, up to 200 flows on Standard and Premium. |
| A/B testing | Yes, in journeys. A winner is only offered at 95% confidence with at least 30 people per version. | Listed as a feature; “Multivariate and A/B Testing” appears in the Premium column of its plan table. |
| Contacts on the free plan | Free up to 500 contacts. | Up to 250 contacts; 500 emails a month and 250 a day. |
| Where Mailyte stops | ||
| Drag-and-drop email builder | No builder. Code templates with editable regions; variables are {{ name }}. | Yes: an Email Builder with drag-and-drop editing. |
| Landing pages and hosted signup forms | — | Both are listed features. |
| Social posts and ads | — | Retargeting ads are a listed feature, and its FAQ mentions organic social posts and paid ads on Facebook, Instagram and Google. |
| SMS campaigns | — | An add-on to paid plans, in select countries. |
| A directory of ready-made integrations | REST API and webhooks only. | More than 300 integrations. |
| Price and billing | ||
| Prices quoted in | Naira and dollars. | AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, INR, JPY, MXN, NZD, SEK, SGD, USD and ZAR. |
| Payment methods | Card or bank transfer. | Major credit cards, PayPal and, in select countries, direct debit. |
| Free plan | Yes, on each product, with no time limit. | Yes: 250 contacts and 500 emails a month; scheduling and automation flows are not included. |
Mailchimp’s details are from its own public pages, checked on 12 October 2026: Mailchimp pricing, Mailchimp features, Mailchimp Transactional. Prices and plans change, so check Mailchimp’s own pages before you decide.
Careful testing
We only call a winner when it isn’t luck
In a journey’s A/B test, Mailyte shows how each version is doing and offers Pick as winner only once it is at least 95% sure the result is not luck and each version has reached at least 30 people. Picking a winner sends everyone new down that version from then on.
- Each version’s results shown side by side
- A winner is only offered at 95% confidence
- At least 30 people in every version first
Choose Mailchimp if
- You want to design emails by dragging blocks on a canvas. Mailchimp has an Email Builder with drag-and-drop editing; Mailyte’s templates are code with editable regions, set up once and then edited in place.
- You want landing pages, signup forms, social posts and ads from the same tool. Mailchimp lists all of them; Mailyte does email only.
- You want SMS beside your campaigns. Mailchimp offers it as an add-on to paid plans in select countries; Mailyte does not.
- Your store or CRM connects through a ready-made app. Mailchimp lists more than 300 integrations; Mailyte connects by REST API and webhooks.
Choose Mailyte if
- You want one account for your team’s email, your app’s email and your campaigns.
- You want to pay in naira, by card or bank transfer.
- You want new contacts checked before you email them, and sending that pauses itself if bounces spike.
- You want the option to run the mail server yourself: its core is open source under the AGPL-3.0.
Compare Mailyte with Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark, MailerLite or Brevo. You can also see business email, app email and email marketing in one platform or go straight to pricing.
Frequently asked
Can I pay for Mailyte in naira?
Yes. Mailyte is priced in naira, by card or bank transfer, and in dollars if you prefer. The currencies Mailchimp bills in are listed in the table above.
Can I import my Mailchimp audience into Mailyte?
Yes. Import it as a CSV yourself and Mailyte creates the list for you. With Bounce protection on, each new contact is checked before you email it, from your plan’s monthly checks.
Does Mailyte have a drag-and-drop email builder like Mailchimp’s?
No. Mailyte’s templates are code with editable regions: a developer or designer sets a template up once, and your team edits the text, image, button and colour regions in place. Variables are written {{ name }}, with one filter, default.
Can Mailyte host my team’s you@mycompany.com email as well?
Yes. Mailyte hosts mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP, SMTP and webmail, in the same account as your campaigns, and the first ones are free.
Can I send my app’s receipts and password resets from Mailyte too?
Yes. Mailyte sends app email over SMTP or a REST API from the same account, with a free daily allowance, and keeps it on a different path from your campaigns.
What does Mailyte not do that Mailchimp does?
Mailyte has no drag-and-drop email builder, no landing pages or hosted signup forms, no social posts or ads, and no SMS. It is for email: campaigns, journeys, app email and mailboxes.
Try Mailyte free.
Free mailboxes to start, with free plans for app email and marketing. No card needed.