Mailchimp is an email marketing platform founded in Atlanta in 2001 and owned by Intuit since 2021. It sends newsletters and automated emails and adds sign-up forms, landing pages and audience tools. It's also known as Intuit Mailchimp. The same list works if you're replacing Constant Contact and Kit. The European alternatives that replace it best are Brevo (France) for small businesses wanting email, SMS and CRM together, MailerLite (Ireland) for creators and small businesses sending regular newsletters and CleverReach (Germany) for German-speaking SMBs that want simple, EU-hosted newsletters.
European alternatives
11
From 8 countries
Keep data in Europe
8
By default, no setting needed
With a free plan
10
No time limit
Open source
0
Can run on your own servers
Mailchimp alternatives from Europe, compared
Best first for someone replacing Mailchimp. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.
Email, SMS and WhatsApp campaigns with a sales CRM
Formerly Sendinblue. Sends newsletters, automated emails, SMS and transactional email, with a contact database and an add-on sales CRM for deals and pipelines.
Compared with Mailchimp: Free plan of 300 emails a day and paid plans priced by email volume from €7 a month. Adds SMS, WhatsApp and a sales CRM. Servers in the EU.
Native Mailchimp integration imports contacts; guides cover lists and campaigns.
Small businesses wanting email, SMS and CRM together
2. MailerLite
Simple newsletters, automations and landing pages
Email marketing tool with a drag-and-drop editor, automations, forms, landing pages and simple websites. Built in Lithuania, now remote-first and owned by Poland's Vercom.
Compared with Mailchimp: Close like-for-like switch: drag-and-drop editor, automations and landing pages. Comfort plan from €11 a month; data in Google's EU regions.
Mailchimp importer brings over subscribers, custom fields and segments.
Creators and small businesses sending regular newsletters
3. CleverReach
Newsletter tool with German hosting
Drag-and-drop newsletters, sign-up forms, automation workflows and reports. Data is kept in European data centres. The company says it has no outside investors.
Compared with Mailchimp: German newsletter tool with EU-only data centres, free up to 250 recipients and €15 a month after that. Smaller feature set than Mailchimp.
German-speaking SMBs that want simple, EU-hosted newsletters
4. GetResponse
Email marketing, automation, webinars and course tools
Email marketing platform with unlimited sends on paid plans, automation workflows, landing pages, sales funnels, webinars and online course tools for selling digital products.
Compared with Mailchimp: Unlimited sends on paid plans from €16 a month, plus webinars and course tools Mailchimp lacks. Hosting location is not published.
Headquarters
Gdańsk, Poland
Founded
1998
Employees
468
Your data
Not stated
Price
From €16/account/month
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Marketers who also run webinars or sell courses
5. Mailjet
Newsletters plus transactional email API
Email campaigns with a collaborative editor, plus an API and SMTP relay for transactional email. Part of Sweden's Sinch; European customers contract with Mailjet SAS under French law.
Compared with Mailchimp: Newsletters plus a transactional email API, from $9 a month, with data in EU data centres. Owned by Sweden's Sinch.
Email and SMS campaigns, automations, pop-ups and landing pages at low prices, with a free plan up to 2,500 subscribers. Subscriber data is hosted in the EU.
Compared with Mailchimp: Free up to 2,500 subscribers and Standard from $9 a month, with data hosted in the EU. Smaller vendor than Mailchimp.
Free done-for-you migration on annual Pro plans with 20,000+ subscribers.
Budget-conscious small businesses and online shops
7. EmailOctopus
Plain, affordable newsletters with a generous free plan
Newsletter tool with a drag-and-drop editor, forms, landing pages and basic automations. Free up to 2,500 subscribers; data is stored on AWS in the EU, mainly Ireland.
Compared with Mailchimp: Plain newsletter tool, free up to 2,500 subscribers, Pro from $9 a month billed yearly, data on AWS in Ireland. Fewer automation and e-commerce features.
Newsletter software with templates, sign-up forms, basic automation and pay-per-send credits. Servers are in Germany. Run by Positive Group Deutschland, part of France's Positive Group (formerly Sarbacane).
Compared with Mailchimp: German newsletter service on servers in Germany, from €15 a month, no free plan. Suits occasional senders more than complex automation.
Headquarters
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Founded
2008
Owned by
Positive Group (France)
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €15/account/month
Free plan
No
Best for
Small German businesses sending occasional newsletters
9. Laposta
Dutch newsletter tool, free up to 2,000 contacts
Dutch-language newsletter software with a drag-and-drop editor, forms and an unlimited-user account. Free up to 2,000 contacts; data is stored in the Netherlands.
Compared with Mailchimp: Dutch newsletter tool, free up to 2,000 contacts and €210 a year above that, with data in the Netherlands. Interface in Dutch.
Headquarters
Zutphen, Netherlands
Your data
In Europe
Price
From €210/account/year, billed yearly
Free plan
Yes
Best for
Dutch organisations and associations sending newsletters
10. Omnisend
Email and SMS marketing for online shops
Email and SMS automation built for e-commerce, with Shopify and other store integrations, product recommendations and revenue reports. Started in 2014 as Soundest; also has offices in London and Charleston.
Compared with Mailchimp: Better fit for online shops: email and SMS with Shopify integrations, free for 250 contacts. Hosting region is not published.
Omnisend's team migrates Mailchimp accounts for free in about five days.
Email campaigns, automations and e-commerce integrations from a Prague company that also runs ecomail.cz. Priced by active contacts, with a small free plan.
Compared with Mailchimp: Czech email tool priced by contacts, from $20 a month, with a small free plan. Aimed at Czech and Slovak shops; hosting location not published.
Mailchimp is headquartered in Atlanta, United States and owned by Intuit (United States). These are the reasons buyers in Europe most often give for looking elsewhere:
Mailchimp says its servers are in the United States, so European mailing lists are transferred there.
Transfers rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, with standard contractual clauses as a fallback if it is struck down.
Mailchimp is owned by Intuit, a US company, so US law applies to the data it holds.
How this list was made
A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.
Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. Headcount, funding and founding year come from LeadWave's database of SaaS companies. No company paid to be listed or ranked.
It depends on what you use Mailchimp for. Brevo (France) for small businesses wanting email, SMS and CRM together, MailerLite (Ireland) for creators and small businesses sending regular newsletters and CleverReach (Germany) for German-speaking SMBs that want simple, EU-hosted newsletters. All 11 on this page are headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
No. Mailchimp is headquartered in Atlanta, United States and owned by Intuit (United States). As a US company it falls under US law, including the CLOUD Act, wherever it stores your data.
Brevo, MailerLite, CleverReach, Mailjet, Sender, EmailOctopus, rapidmail and Laposta store customer data in Europe by default.
Brevo, MailerLite, Sender and Omnisend document an import from Mailchimp; the details are under each one below.
No. Mailchimp says its headquarters and servers are in the United States. It relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for European data, with standard contractual clauses as a fallback.
Intuit, a US software company, bought Mailchimp in 2021 for about $12 billion and renamed the platform Intuit Mailchimp.
Yes. Brevo is free for 300 emails a day, Sender and EmailOctopus are free up to 2,500 subscribers, Laposta up to 2,000 contacts and CleverReach up to 250 recipients. MailerLite also has a free plan.
