Klaviyo vs Sender
Two email marketing tools side by side. Prices are the starting plan a small business would pick, in USD.
Short version
Sender costs less at 2,500 contacts.
Sender fits restaurant or café, service business, agency or studio, trades or contractor.
Klaviyo fits online store.
Klaviyo suits teams past ten people.
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| In one line | Email and SMS built around online store data | Cheap newsletters with a generous free plan |
| Starting price | From $20/mo | Free |
| At 2,500 contacts | $60/mo | Free |
| Plans | Free to 250 contacts; Email $20/mo at 500 active profiles, $30 at 1,000, $60 at 2,500, $100 at 5,000, $150 at 10,000 (monthly) | Free (2,500 subscribers, 15,000 emails/mo); Standard $9/mo at 500 subscribers, $39 at 5,000, $69 at 10,000 (monthly; yearly billing costs the same after a 30% first-year discount for new users); Professional from $15/mo monthly; 14-day Pro trial |
| Pricing model | Free tier | Free tier |
| Free trial | — | 14 days |
| Users | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Both connect to | Shopify, WooCommerce | |
| Also connects to | Freshsales, Subbly, BigCommerce, Square Online, Volusion, Shift4Shop, Apollo.io, GoHighLevel350+ listed by the vendor | No others on record |
| Team size | Just me · 2–10 people · 11–50 people · 51–200 people | Just me · 2–10 people |
| Available in | US · UK · CA · AU | US · UK · CA · AU |
| Phone support | None listed | Enterprise only |
| Live chat | Every paid plan | Every plan |
| Support hours | Email: 24/7 · Live chat: 24/5, weekend and holiday hours vary by plan | Email: 24/7 · Live chat: 24/7 |
| Incidents posted | 11 incidents posted on Klaviyo's status page, which covers all Klaviyo products and regions, in the 90 days to Oct 27, 2026; 4 marked major or critical by Klaviyo. Status page | We found no public status page for Sender. |
| Capterra score | 4.6 / 5 from 539 reviews | 4.7 / 5 from 212 reviews |
| Trustpilot score | 1.6 / 5 from 370 reviews | 4.9 / 5 from 1,571 reviews |
| Fit: Retail shop | 65 | 72 |
| Fit: Restaurant or café | 40 | 72 |
| Fit: Service business | 40 | 75 |
| Fit: Agency or studio | 50 | 65 |
| Fit: Trades or contractor | 20 | 60 |
| Fit: Online store | 96 | 70 |
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| Visit Klaviyo | Visit Sender | |
List-size prices are the vendor's published price for 2,500 contacts. How we calculate prices
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