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Mailyte vs MailerLite: campaigns, app email and mailboxes in one account
Mailyte covers campaigns, app email and your team’s mailboxes in one account on one naira invoice. MailerLite is an email marketing tool with a drag-and-drop editor, websites and signup forms; its app email is a separate product, MailerSend, with its own pricing page.
The difference
What sets Mailyte apart
App email in the same account
Send transactional email over SMTP or a REST API from the account that runs your campaigns, with a free daily allowance.
Your team’s mailboxes too
Mailyte hosts mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP, SMTP and webmail, in the same account.
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 MailerLite, row by row
This compares scope, visibility and billing — not delivery speed.
| Mailyte | MailerLite | |
|---|---|---|
| What you sign up for | ||
| Business mailboxes on your own domain | Yes. Free for up to 5, then from ₦850 a mailbox a month, billed yearly. | Not offered. Its products are email campaigns, automations, websites, signup forms and paid newsletters. |
| Email from your app, in the same account | Yes, over SMTP and REST. 500 a day free; plans from ₦4,550 a month for 25,000. | Through MailerSend, a separate product with its own pricing page. |
| Email marketing campaigns | Yes. Free up to 500 contacts; plans from ₦2,900 a month. | Yes: email campaigns with a drag-and-drop editor. |
| Campaigns and audience | ||
| Automated journeys | Yes, on every plan. Each person runs on their own clock; paid plans add steps and triggers. | Automations: 3 on Free, 50 on Comfort, unlimited on Power. |
| Contacts on the free plan | Free up to 500 contacts. | Up to 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month. |
| Email from your app (MailerSend) | ||
| Batch send in one call | Yes, up to 500 recipients a call. | Yes, up to 500 email objects per bulk request. |
| Delivery logs you can read | 3, 30 or 90 days of visible history by plan | Activity data kept 1 day on Free and Hobby, 7 days on Starter, 30 days on Professional. |
| Signed webhooks | 17 event types, each signed with HMAC-SHA256 | Yes: a Signature header, HMAC-SHA-256 with a signing secret. |
| Where Mailyte stops | ||
| Drag-and-drop email builder | No builder. Code templates with editable regions; variables are {{ name }}. | Yes: all three editors, including drag-and-drop, on the Free plan. |
| Landing pages, websites and signup forms | — | Free: 1 website, 1 landing page and 3 signup forms; more on paid plans. |
| Paid newsletters and digital product sales | — | Both are listed on its homepage. |
| SDKs | No SDK. One REST API, one key with scopes — any HTTP client works. | MailerSend lists SDKs for PHP, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby and Java. |
| Price and billing | ||
| Prices quoted in | Naira and dollars. | MailerLite: dollars or euros. MailerSend: dollars, euros or pounds, invoiced in dollars. |
| Payment methods | Card or bank transfer. | MailerSend: card and PayPal, with bank transfer on Professional and Enterprise. MailerLite’s pricing page does not say. |
| Free plan | Yes, on each product, with no time limit. | MailerLite: yes, 250 subscribers. MailerSend: yes, 500 emails a month. |
MailerLite’s details are from its own public pages, checked on 12 October 2026: MailerLite pricing, MailerLite home, MailerSend pricing, MailerSend API, MailerSend webhooks. Prices and plans change, so check MailerLite’s own pages before you decide.
One account
Campaigns and receipts, from the same place
Send campaigns and journeys to your list, and send your app’s receipts and password resets over SMTP or a REST API, from one account. Marketing leaves on a different path from transactional mail.
- SMTP relay and REST API, with a free daily allowance
- A free sandbox on every plan, with its own SMTP host
- Campaigns will not schedule without an unsubscribe link
Choose MailerLite if
- You want a drag-and-drop builder and landing pages in the same tool. MailerLite’s Free plan includes the drag-and-drop editor, a website and a landing page.
- You only need campaigns, and app email and mailboxes are already sorted elsewhere.
- You want an SDK in your language. MailerSend lists SDKs for PHP, Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby and Java.
Choose Mailyte if
- You want one account for campaigns, app email and your team’s mailboxes.
- You want to pay in naira, by card or bank transfer.
- You want sending that pauses itself if bounces spike, and new contacts checked before you email them.
- You want the option to run the mail server yourself: its core is open source under the AGPL-3.0.
Frequently asked
Do I need MailerSend as well to send email from my app?
With Mailyte, no: app email over SMTP or a REST API is part of the same account as your campaigns and mailboxes. MailerLite points to MailerSend, a separate product with its own pricing page, for transactional email.
Does Mailyte have a drag-and-drop email builder like MailerLite’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 mailboxes as well as send my campaigns?
Yes. Mailyte hosts mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP, SMTP and webmail, in the same account as your campaigns and app email, and the first ones are free.
Can I import my MailerLite subscribers into Mailyte?
Yes. Import them 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.
Can I pay for Mailyte in naira?
Yes. Mailyte is priced in naira, by card or bank transfer, and in dollars if you prefer. MailerLite’s pricing page offers a dollar or euro toggle.
Try Mailyte free.
Free mailboxes to start, with free plans for app email and marketing. No card needed.