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Koltrix vs Mailchimp
Mailchimp is a marketing platform built around campaigns and audiences. Koltrix is the email stack your team and your product run on. They solve different problems — here is which one you actually have.
What Mailchimp is
Mailchimp is a marketing platform: audiences, segments, a drag-and-drop campaign builder, landing pages, automations and reporting that a marketer can run without an engineer. For a newsletter with real design requirements and a non-technical owner, it is still the obvious tool.
Choose Mailchimp if…
- Your main job is marketing campaigns with rich templates, segmentation and reporting.
- A non-technical person owns sending and needs a visual builder.
- You need landing pages, signup forms and ad integrations in the same product.
- You need to send newsletters today — Koltrix's newsletter product is not available in v1.
Choose Koltrix if…
- What you actually need is a team inbox and a way for your app to send mail, not a campaign builder.
- You want your product's email and your team's email on the same domain with one reputation to look after.
- You want agents to handle triage and follow-ups on the human side.
- You would rather pay for a workspace than for a contact count that grows whether or not you email anyone.
Side by side
| Capability | Koltrix | Mailchimp |
|---|---|---|
| Team inbox on your own domain | Yes | No |
| Marketing campaign builder and audiences | Nonot in v1 | Yes |
| Transactional sending API | Yes | PartlyA separate product in their suite |
| SMTP relay | Yes | Partly |
| Landing pages and signup forms | No | Yes |
| AI triage, drafting and follow-ups on inbound mail | Yes | No |
| Replies to sent mail land in a team inbox | Yes | No |
| Priced per workspace rather than per contact | Yes | No |
Mailchimp prices by contact count and monthly sends; current tiers are on their site. Koltrix prices per workspace. Mailchimp is a trademark of its owner; it is named here for comparison only, and we use none of its brand assets.