The Mailchimp alternative
that sends receipts too

Choose Mailchimp if you're a marketer who needs a drag-and-drop email builder and prefers a marketing-first interface. Mailchimp excels at visual design and non-technical users. Choose Plunk if you're a developer who values API-first design, wants transactional + marketing in one platform, and prefers code over drag-and-drop.

Mailchimp charges per contact stored, regardless of how many emails you send. Plunk uses a pay-as-you-go model where you only pay for emails sent. This means with Mailchimp, your cost increases as your contact list grows, while with Plunk, you only pay when you actually send emails.

Yes, that's one of Plunk's key advantages. Transactional emails (receipts, password resets) and marketing emails (newsletters, campaigns) are built into one platform. With Mailchimp, transactional email is a paid add-on, Mailchimp Transactional, available on Standard plans and above.

Yes, significantly. Plunk has a modern RESTful API designed for developers. Mailchimp's API is built around marketing concepts like audiences and merge fields. Plunk sends an email with one request: a recipient, a subject and a body or template.

Plunk has a visual editor and an HTML editor side by side, with contact fields and fallbacks. If your team wants a drag-and-drop builder with a large template library, Mailchimp offers more. If you prefer code and want beautiful, responsive emails, Plunk is the better choice.