Constant Contact vs EmailOctopus

You can try Constant Contact for 60 days for free if you’re living in the US. If you’re outside of the US, you can try it for free for a month to send 2,400 emails monthly to 100 contacts. But only on the condition that you share your payment details upfront. After a month, you’re upgraded to the paid plan, which can be expensive for companies just starting out. On the other hand, Constant Contact alternatives like Mailmodo are more [affordably priced](https://www.mailmodo.com/pricing/).

We recommend you to use Constant Contact if you run events and want to manage registrations and invitations via email marketing. But we don’t recommend the tool for businesses that need advanced automation. They offer basic automations but flexible and sophisticated automation workflows are missing. Instead, Constant Contact alternatives like Mailmodo offer [custom multistep automations](https://www.mailmodo.com/features/email-automation-platform/) at a more affordable price. Mailmodo also had a way better price-performance ratio, as compared to Constant Contact.

A common complaint among Constant Contact users is that they often have to ask their customers to whitelist their emails to ensure they’re receiving newsletters. The IPs from Constant Contact are found in many blacklisted databases such as Mxtoolbox. [Constant Contact’s high spam rate](https://www.mailmodo.com/guides/constant-contact-spam/#why-do-constant-contact-emails-go-to-spam) can deter you from achieving good email deliverability.To go spam free and achieve better deliverability, we suggest using Mailmodo. We provide you domain warmup, quality product support, no spammy contacts, and abundant expert consultations.

Yes, EmailOctopus has a free trial using which you can send 10,000 emails per month to 2,500 subscribers. If you exceed the contact or monthly sending limit, you start getting charged around $8/monthly. Their free plan, however, offers basic support and limited analytics. This is why prospects prefer EmailOctopus alternatives like Mailmodo, which has affordable [pricing plans](https://www.mailmodo.com/pricing/).

Mailmodo is superior in terms of [email deliverability](https://www.mailmodo.com/features/email-deliverability-service/). The platform helps you land your emails in the user's inbox with dedicated servers, authentication protocols, warmed up SMTP, suppression management, fragmented scheduling, and an analysis of your email infrastructure.

EmailOctopus don't provide SMTP connection to set up transactional emails and their spam rate has been reported as high, which makes them rather unreliable. If you're an EmailOctopus user looking to boost your inbox placement rate, consider switching to an alternative platform like Mailmodo with a warmed up SMTP and advanced [spam filters](https://www.mailmodo.com/guides/spam-filters/).