Email marketing and newsletters · Comparison
Kit vs Klaviyo
2 products compared side by side: what you pay for with each one first, then the five access facts, entry prices, recorded plan limits and the bottom line of each review. The evidence note under the table says how each product was checked.
Side by side
| Metric | Kit | Klaviyo |
|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Built-in reachA newsletter and email platform for creators: free up to 10,000 subscribers, with paid newsletters, digital products and a recommendation network built in. | Saves engineering timeEmail marketing on top of a customer data platform: store and order data drive segments and flows, with SOC 2 Type II, SSO and MFA on paid plans. |
| Overall score | 6.8 | 7.4Best |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $39/mo | $20/mo |
| Pricing model | Tiered | Tiered |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing unit | Confirmed subscriber tier; emails are not counted | Active profile tier, with a monthly email limit |
| Free plan | Up to 10,000 subscribers, unlimited broadcasts, no sequences or automations | 250 active profiles, 500 emails/mo, flows included |
| Reference scenario (5,000 contacts, monthly) | $89/mo on Creator (3,001 to 5,000 subscribers) | $100/mo (3,501 to 5,000 active profiles, 50,000 emails) |
| Annual billing | 10 times the monthly price a year (about 17% off) | Not stated on the pricing page |
| Automation on the cheapest paid plan | Creator: unlimited visual automations and sequences | Flows on every plan |
| Users on the scenario plan | 2 users (Admin or Editor); unlimited on Pro | Not stated; custom roles on all plans |
| SMS | Listed on Creator; price not stated | Mobile messages billed by credits; $5 a month on the free plan |
| Paid newsletters | Every plan; 3.5% + 30¢ per transaction | Not offered |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 | Hosting providers' only (AWS, Cloudflare) | SOC 2 Type II; ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 |
| Data location | Not stated; transfers to the US under the DPF or SCCs | United States; Germany for new accounts (EU Residency) |
| SSO | Not listed | SAML on any paid plan |
| Contact export | CSV export of subscribers | CSV export of lists and segments |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, Kit is a creator-first platform with the largest free plan in this group and paid newsletters on every plan. Automations start on Creator, and its compliance file relies on its hosting providers. | From its public pages, Klaviyo pairs email and SMS with a customer data platform, with flows on the free plan and SOC 2 Type II, SSO and MFA on paid plans. Its user limit is not stated and its pages disagree on EU storage. |
Evidence: Kit: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Klaviyo: facts checked 2026-10-16 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Entry price
Baseline: each product's cheapest paid plan, per month. Included usage differs, so read the line under each price.
- KitCreator$39/mo1,000 subscribers; $33/mo billed yearly ($390); $89/mo for 3,001 to 5,000 subscribers
- Unlimited visual automations and email sequences
- Remove Kit branding, 2 users
- SMS marketing, RSS campaigns, 100+ apps
- 24/7 email and chat support
- KlaviyoLowest priceEmail$20/mo251 to 500 active profiles, 5,000 emails a month; $100 for 3,501 to 5,000 profiles (50,000 emails)
- Flows, campaigns, A/B tests and segmentation
- No Klaviyo branding in emails and forms
- SAML SSO, custom roles, required MFA
- Email and chat support
Prices as listed on each pricing page, in USD per month, excluding tax. Observed: Kit 2026-10-16, Klaviyo 2026-10-16.
Which one fits
- If you need to start today without a sales call
- KlaviyoSelf-serve sign-up; the highest score of the 2 self-serve products here (7.4/10).
- Lowest starter price
- Klaviyo$20/mo for the Email (251 to 500 active profiles) plan.
- Highest overall score
- Klaviyo7.4/10 (Good). The review shows the score breakdown and the run behind it.
Picked by fixed rules from the table above, not by hand. How we score
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