Mautic alternatives (2026)
The best Mautic alternatives in 2026 are Listmonk for teams whose install is really a newsletter, Dittofeed for journeys you still self-host, Brevo for the closest managed match to Mautic's feature shape, and ActiveCampaign for campaign depth. Contacts carry over; campaigns, forms, and landing pages do not. fromHello stays copyleft and self-hostable (AGPL) and adds an AI growth team, still in early access.
- Contacts, custom fields, and segment definitions carry over with rework. Campaign logic, landing pages, forms, lead scoring, Focus Items, plugin dependencies, and the sending setup you tuned yourself do not — budget rebuild time, not just a subscription.
- Leaving Mautic does not mean leaving open source. Listmonk is AGPLv3, Dittofeed is MIT, and fromHello is AGPL; Brevo and ActiveCampaign are Proprietary (SaaS). Trading the code for someone else's operations team is a real decision, not a default.
- Only Brevo and ActiveCampaign replace Mautic's landing pages and forms. Listmonk is a sender, Dittofeed and fromHello are journey platforms, and none of the three capture leads — that has to live in your site or a separate tool.
- Price the move against maintenance, not against the license. Brevo starts at $9/mo billed by email volume, ActiveCampaign at $15/mo for 1,000 contacts on annual billing, Dittofeed cloud at $75/mo including 10,000 monthly unique users; official managed Mautic starts at around €247.50/mo.
Mautic is not the problem. Version 7.2 shipped on 2 September 2026, and the project is community-governed with commercial hosting sold by third parties. Teams leave anyway, and rarely because of the software: they leave because of upgrade weekends, cron and queue reliability, and a sending domain nobody wants to own. So cost the exit against that, not against a subscription. Mautic is also deliberately AI-agnostic — its published AI Manifesto states that the project does not host or maintain AI services and leaves the choice of model to plugins you install yourself. That is a stance about data sovereignty, not a missing feature. What follows sorts five destinations by how much of Mautic each one actually replaces, and says plainly what has no equivalent on the other side. The general playbook for moving senders is covered in our guide to switching email platforms; this page is about what is Mautic-specific.
Five destinations, ordered by how much of Mautic you are choosing to leave behind rather than by preference. Listmonk keeps the sending and drops the rest. Dittofeed keeps journeys and segments on a stack you still run yourself. Brevo and ActiveCampaign keep the campaign-and-page surface and run the upgrades for you. Every card answers the same two questions: what carries over and what has no destination equivalent. We build fromHello, so it is listed last and held to the same standard, early-access caveat included. Vendor facts on pricing, channels, licenses, and 2026 releases come from each vendor's own pricing pages, docs, changelogs, and repositories, checked on 6 September 2026.
- 01ListmonkAGPLv3
Best for: Mautic installs that are really a newsletter — you send broadcasts to a list, and the campaign canvas, forms, and landing pages have been sitting unused for a year.
Strengths- Carries the part of Mautic you actually use: subscribers, list membership, and sending. One Go binary and a Postgres database to operate, and you keep your own SMTP or ESP, so the sending setup you tuned does not change.
- Free under AGPLv3 with no first-party paid tier, so the ownership question that brought you to Mautic stays answered. The bill is a server, Postgres, and whatever you already pay to send.
- v6.2.0 (June 2026) added per-domain SMTP server selection, inline CID images, an Outlook compatibility mode in the visual builder, and Azure bounce webhooks — practical sending work, which is where the project's attention goes.
Watch-outs- The biggest drop on this list. There is no campaign builder, no forms, no landing pages, no lead scoring, and no event-triggered automation — anything that ran on a Mautic campaign canvas either moves somewhere else or stops.
- Segments are SQL queries over the subscriber table. That is precise and fast, and it is also a hand rewrite of every Mautic segment filter.
- AI reaches it from the outside rather than from the product: the REST API is complete enough to drive from an agent, and a community MCP server (MIT, third-party, not referenced in the docs) exposes it to LLM clients.
- 02DittofeedMIT
Best for: Teams leaving Mautic for operational reasons rather than architectural ones — you want the journeys and segments back on a stack you can still run yourself.
Strengths- Keeps what Mautic campaigns were doing: event-triggered journeys and segments, with email (Resend, Amazon SES, Postmark, SendGrid, SMTP), SMS (Twilio, Signalwire), and webhook as a first-class channel and template type.
- MIT-licensed and free to self-host with no contact cap, so the exit costs no license. Managed cloud is $75/mo including 10,000 monthly unique users if you would rather stop operating a mail platform altogether.
- Webhook templates cover mobile push, WhatsApp, and Slack, which is how a small team adds channels without adding a vendor — and you keep your own ESP, so deliverability does not restart.
Watch-outs- No landing pages, no forms, and no lead scoring. If Mautic was your lead-capture layer as well as your sender, half the job needs a different home.
- Officially in maintenance mode — the maintainer wrote in August 2026 that feature development has been halted, with infrequent bug fixes. Weigh that if you are moving specifically to reduce maintenance risk.
- Its own README roadmap still lists LLM integration as not started.
- 03BrevoProprietary (SaaS)
Best for: The closest managed match to Mautic's feature shape — you keep forms, landing pages, a CRM, and EU hosting, and someone else runs the upgrades.
Strengths- Most of Mautic's surface survives the move: signup forms, landing pages, a built-in CRM, live chat, plus email, SMS, and web push from Starter up; on-site popups, WhatsApp campaigns, and mobile push sit on Professional and above.
- Ad-audience sync to Google Ads and Meta ships natively, along with LinkedIn Lead Ads capture — on Mautic that was a community plugin or an iPaaS hop. The Aura layer adds AI features: subject-line and content drafting, a workflow built from a plain-language objective, and predictive churn-risk and lifetime-value scores written back onto the contact.
- The bill follows monthly sends, not the size of your contact table, so a large dormant Mautic list costs nothing to bring over: free to 300 emails a day, Starter from $9/mo, Standard $18/mo. Contact storage is a per-tier cap rather than the thing you are billed for.
Watch-outs- Closed-source and cloud-only. You trade the code and the database for someone else's operations team — the one thing Mautic gave you that this does not, and the reason to be honest with yourself about why you are leaving.
- Landing pages are capped at one on Standard and ten on Professional, so a page-heavy Mautic install outgrows both. Predictive scoring needs ecommerce data, and consent groups with the self-serve preference center are gated to the Pro and Enterprise tiers — if your Mautic preference center is load-bearing, check it has a destination before you cut over.
- The free plan is single-user and carries Brevo branding, and both Free and Starter cap marketing automation at 2,000 contacts — unlimited automation starts on Standard at $18/mo. A Mautic-sized list will not sit on the free tier, and Professional is $499/mo, a long way above Standard.
- 04ActiveCampaignProprietary (SaaS)
Best for: Mautic installs where the campaign canvas was the product — multi-branch automations, scoring, and forms feeding them.
Strengths- Keeps the most of Mautic's campaign depth: a deep visual automation builder, landing pages and modal forms, contact scoring, and a light sales CRM in the same account, so the logic you built has somewhere to be rebuilt.
- Native ad-audience sync to Facebook Custom Audiences and Google Ads Customer Match, plus lead capture from Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok Lead Ads, and a native WhatsApp line with Inbox, Broadcasts, Flows, and Templates — all of which Mautic reached only through third-party plugins.
- Active Intelligence shipped steadily through 2026: Autonomous Insights on the account homepage, a Google Ads connector for Performance Max campaigns on Plus and above (July 2026), and version 2.8 with memory across sessions and campaign generation from an uploaded brief.
Watch-outs- Billing is per contact and per seat, the two axes Mautic never charged you on. From $15/mo at 1,000 contacts on annual billing ($19 monthly), with Starter capped at 25,000 contacts and one seat. Starter also limits every automation to five actions and ships no landing pages or ad sync, so the campaign depth this card describes starts on Plus at $49/mo; Professional is $79/mo at the same contact band with three seats.
- SMS and WhatsApp are metered add-ons, CRM pipelines are priced separately, and there is no native push — it arrives through marketplace integrations such as OneSignal. Mautic shipped push in core, though it too ran on a OneSignal integration.
- Closed-source and cloud-only, with no free plan: a 14-day trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee instead. Site messages, the in-app surface, starts at Professional.
- 05
Best for: Mautic teams who want to keep the license and the self-host option, and who are leaving because there was nobody to run the platform — not because the platform was wrong.
Strengths- Eight AI specialists — Growth Lead, Growth PM, Growth Engineer, Performance Marketer, Lifecycle Marketer, CRO Specialist, Data Analyst, and Copywriter — coordinated by an Orchestrator. They propose; you approve, edit, or auto-ship.
- Email, SMS, in-app, web push, and native ad-audience sync in one platform, with a 16-node visual journey builder, real-time segments, GDPR consent tracking, and a first-party JS/TS SDK. Ad-audience sync is the piece Mautic left to community plugins.
- AGPL-licensed and self-hostable on Postgres + Redis, so your data stays on your infrastructure — the property you picked Mautic for in the first place. Self-hosting is free; hosted pricing is announced at general availability.
Watch-outs- The hosted product and the agents are in early access, and every other tool here is generally available today. It is a waitlist, not a migration you can schedule for next month.
- There are no landing pages and no forms, so a Mautic install built on PageBundle and FormBundle still needs a home for lead capture. Brevo and ActiveCampaign are better on that axis.
- There is no plugin marketplace and no decade of community extensions. If your install leans on a specific Mautic plugin, check for a replacement before you count the move as cheap.
Common questions
What does it actually cost to leave Mautic?
Mostly time. The subscription is the small number: Brevo from $9/mo billed by email volume, ActiveCampaign from $15/mo at 1,000 contacts on annual billing, Dittofeed cloud at $75/mo for 10,000 monthly unique users, and Listmonk, self-hosted Dittofeed, or self-hosted fromHello at infrastructure plus your own sending spend. The real bill is rebuilding campaigns, forms, and landing pages by hand, re-permissioning contacts where consent does not transfer, and giving up a sending setup you tuned yourself. Budget a week of work, not an afternoon.
Do I have to give up open source when I move off Mautic?
No. Listmonk is AGPLv3, Dittofeed is MIT, and fromHello is AGPL, and all three are self-hostable, so your data stays on your infrastructure. Brevo and ActiveCampaign are Proprietary (SaaS): you gain an operations team you do not have to hire and you give up the code and the database. Both are defensible. If you ran Mautic for control rather than for cost, the three open-source options are your shortlist; if you ran it because it was free, the managed two are cheaper than you expect.
Will my Mautic contacts, custom fields, and segments transfer?
Contacts and custom fields do. Mautic exports both through the interface and the API, and every destination here takes a CSV import or an API write. Segments do not transfer as objects: their filters have to be rebuilt as SQL queries in Listmonk and as segment rules in Dittofeed, Brevo, ActiveCampaign, or fromHello. Campaign histories and per-contact scores generally stay behind. Export your unsubscribes and bounces first and load them as a suppression list on day one — that part is not optional.
Mautic has landing pages, forms, and lead scoring. Which alternatives have those?
Brevo and ActiveCampaign. Brevo has signup forms, on-site popups, and landing pages, though the page count is tiered — one on Standard, ten on Professional. ActiveCampaign has landing pages, modal forms, and contact scoring inside its automation builder. Listmonk, Dittofeed, and fromHello have none of the three: Listmonk is a sender, Dittofeed and fromHello are journey platforms, and pages and forms would live in your own site or a separate tool. If Mautic is your lead-capture layer, that fact alone decides the shortlist.
Is a managed platform cheaper than self-hosting Mautic once you count maintenance?
It depends whose hours you are counting. Self-hosted Mautic costs a server, a database, and your sending spend. Official managed Mautic through the project's hosting partner starts at around €247.50/mo as of 10 August 2026, and that partnership is out to tender, so treat the figure as current rather than fixed; independent managed hosts price well below it without the project's endorsement. Brevo at $9 to $18/mo and ActiveCampaign at $15/mo at 1,000 contacts both undercut the official tier, and neither asks you to run a PHP upgrade. If upgrades cost you two hours a quarter, self-hosting stays cheapest. If they cost you a weekend, it does not.
What happens to my deliverability when I stop sending from my own Mautic server?
You inherit your new vendor's sending infrastructure. On Listmonk, self-hosted Dittofeed, or self-hosted fromHello you keep your own SMTP or ESP, so the reputation you built follows you and very little changes. On Brevo or ActiveCampaign it does not: the domain and IP reputation you warmed yourself is not part of the contact export, and you ramp volume again on shared infrastructure. Carry the suppression list before the first send, then ramp gradually — our guide to switching email platforms covers the sequence.
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