# Tented vs the alternatives: every comparison

> Same scenarios, published list prices, and receipts for every claim. See how Tented stacks up against the tools it replaces, and why teams are trading drag-and-drop suites for an AI-native platform.

Human page: https://tented.ai/compare. Machine-readable site index: https://tented.ai/llms.txt. Tented pricing in full: https://tented.ai/pricing.md.

## The field at a glance

| Platform         | Entry paid plan                                            | Users                                              | Landing pages                                             | AI                                                    |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- |
| **Tented**       | $25/mo · 25,000 contacts                                   | Unlimited on every plan                            | 250 published on Pro · unlimited on Max                   | Chat is the editor · Image Agent · 1:1 pages in flows |
| Klaviyo          | $20/mo · 500 profiles                                      | Unlimited                                          | Basic, on a Klaviyo URL (launched 2026)                   | AI assists inside a manual editor                     |
| Mailchimp        | $13/mo · 500 contacts                                      | 1 / 3 / 5 seats by tier · unlimited on Premium     | Included · custom domain needs a paid plan                | Intuit Assist on Standard+ (beta)                     |
| HubSpot          | $15/seat/mo · 1,000 marketing contacts                     | Per-seat pricing ($45-75/extra core seat)          | 30 on Free (HubSpot branding) · custom domain on Starter+ | Breeze assistant + credit-metered agents              |
| Constant Contact | $12/mo · 500 contacts (jumps to $50 at 1,000)              | 1 / 3 seats · unlimited on Premium                 | Basic, on Constant Contact URLs                           | AI copy assist + BrandKit                             |
| Brevo            | $9/mo · 5,000 emails (automation capped at 2,000 contacts) | 1 seat; ~$12/extra on Standard; 10 on Professional | From Standard · 1 page at base tier                       | Aura AI assistant (copy) on all plans                 |
| ActiveCampaign   | $15/mo · 1,000 contacts · 1 user · 5-action automations    | 1 / 1 / 3 / 5 seats by tier (~$12/extra)           | Plus tier ($49/mo) and above                              | AI builders across tiers (2025)                       |
| MailerLite       | $12/mo Comfort · 500 subs · 3 seats · 10 pages             | 2 / 3 seats · unlimited on Power                   | 1 free · 10 on Comfort · unlimited on Power               | AI writing assistant from Comfort                     |
| Omnisend         | $16/mo · 500 contacts · 12x sends                          | Unlimited                                          | Included on all plans                                     | AI assistant on paid plans                            |
| Customer.io      | $100/mo · 5,000 profiles                                   | Unlimited                                          | None                                                      | AI Agent in beta (2026), credit-metered               |
| Sender           | From ~$7/mo (annual) · 12x sends                           | 3 on Standard · 10 on Professional                 | Basic builder (added Aug 2025)                            | Minimal (subject-line suggestions)                    |
| MoEngage         | Quote-only · est. ~$999+/mo · annual contract              | Negotiated per contract                            | Web personalization, not a page builder                   | Merlin AI · agentic bundles at top tiers              |

Competitor pricing and packaging are published list prices as of August 2026, converted to monthly USD, and change often; check each vendor's pricing page for current details. Tented prices come straight from tented.ai/pricing.

## The send math, kept honest

Most platforms bundle send allowances of 10x, 12x, even 24x your contact count per month, and it reads like generosity until you translate it: 12x means emailing every contact 12 times a month. No list tolerates that. Even 10 emails per contact per month is aggressive, and healthy programs typically land between 2 and 6. Inflated multiples exist to make the contact meter, the thing that actually bills you, feel like a better deal.

Tented sizes sends and database separately so you pay for what you actually do: storing a contact is cheap, so database headroom is generous, and send tiers map to real cadences. The scenarios above assume roughly 2 to 4 emails per contact per month (an actively worked list), with the Tented tier chosen to cover both the audience size and the send volume.

## What every comparison comes down to

- **More database for the money:** Paid plans start at $25/mo with room for 25,000 contacts, and scale to 1,000,000 on Pro and unlimited on Max. Most tools on this page charge multiples of that for the same list.
- **Unlimited users and assets:** Seats are never the meter. Bring the whole team on every plan, keep unlimited drafts, and publish generously: 250 tents on Pro, unlimited on Max.
- **No feature tollbooths:** Journeys, A/B testing, form-to-CRM capture, custom domains on paid plans, and the full API ship on every plan. No automation add-ons, no per-feature upsells.
- **AI-native, not AI-bolted-on:** Chat is the editor. The Image Agent paints your logo into any scene. Flows mint one-to-one personalized pages per contact. Competitors demo AI; Tented runs on it.
- **White-glove humans:** Built by a lean team from Adobe, Salesforce, Microsoft, Marketo, and Lyft. Every customer gets white-glove onboarding, with an optional private Slack channel straight to the people who built it.

## All comparison pages

- [Tented vs Klaviyo](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-klaviyo.md): More database, a fraction of the bill, and AI that builds instead of suggests
- [Tented vs Mailchimp](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-mailchimp.md): No seat caps, no charges for unsubscribed contacts, and AI past the mascot
- [Tented vs HubSpot](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-hubspot.md): Full journeys from $25/mo vs an $800/mo tier plus $3,000 mandatory onboarding
- [Tented vs Constant Contact](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-constant-contact.md): Modern AI platform vs a 30-year-old toolset with step-function pricing
- [Tented vs Brevo](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-brevo.md): Everything unlocked on one plan vs a ladder of per-feature and per-seat unlocks
- [Tented vs ActiveCampaign](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-activecampaign.md): Automation power without the learning curve, seat caps, or contact-tier creep
- [Tented vs MailerLite](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-mailerlite.md): A platform that scales with you vs a budget tool that just raised the budget
- [Tented vs Omnisend](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-omnisend.md): A platform for every team vs a tool built only for online stores
- [Tented vs Customer.io](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-customerio.md): Marketer-and-agent friendly vs engineer-required, at a quarter of the price
- [Tented vs Sender](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-sender.md): A whole AI marketing platform vs the cheapest way to send a newsletter
- [Tented vs MoEngage](https://tented.ai/compare/tented-vs-moengage.md): Self-serve AI marketing today vs a quoted enterprise deployment next quarter

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