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Is Mailchimp still around? (2026)

Yes. Mailchimp is live and reachable, price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026.

Status LiveFrom $13/moFree tierVerified Sep 8, 2026Category · Marketing Automation with AI
Vital signs over time
Price · lowest paid plan
$13

Held steady at $13/mo the whole tracked window (51 days).

Reachability · by day

Reachable 100% of 51 tracked days.

First-party daily snapshots. One reading per day, grows over time.

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What Mailchimp is

What sets it apart Intuit Assist, a generative AI assistant integrated into the campaign editor that rewrites email copy in line and drafts campaigns, bundled at no extra cost on paid tiers rather than sold as an add-on

Best for Solo operators and small or e-commerce businesses running email and SMS campaigns who want AI-assisted copy editing built into the workflow · Pricing model Freemium with contact-based tiers. Free plan at $0 (capped at 250 contacts); Essentials from $13/mo; Standard from $20/mo; Premium from $350/mo. Each paid tier's price scales upward with the number of contacts.

Owned by Intuit, Mailchimp is an email and SMS marketing platform built for small businesses and e-commerce sellers. Its campaign builder embeds Intuit Assist, a generative AI assistant that edits email copy in line (adjusting length, tone, or grammar) and drafts product-announcement campaigns, included at no added charge on the Standard and Premium plans. Pricing runs from a free tier capped at 250 contacts to Essentials at $13 per month, with Standard at $20 and Premium at $350. Billing scales with contact count, so costs climb as an audience grows.

Sources Mailchimp Marketing Pricing (official) · Introducing Intuit Assist for Mailchimp (official newsroom) · Mailchimp homepage

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The fine print, checked

What the free plan really caps, whether your data can leave, and how cancelling works. Each fact read on Mailchimp's own pages, linked below.

Free plan limits

The Free plan caps at 250 contacts, a max of 500 email sends per month (250 per day), 1 seat, and email support for the first 30 days only. The cheapest paid plan, Essentials, starts at $13 per month.

Mailchimp pricing page · checked Aug 5, 2026

Data export

Customers can export an entire audience, a segment, a tag, or a group to CSV; the export may include a ZIP with separate CSV files per contact status (subscribed, unsubscribed, non-subscribed, cleaned). Only Owners and Admins can export audiences, exports stay available in the account for 30 days, and contact exports do not include email report data like open and click rates.

Mailchimp help center (View or Export Your Contacts) · checked Aug 5, 2026

Cancellation

Cancellation is self-serve: profile icon, Account & billing, Settings, Manage my plan, then Delete my account, with any outstanding balance paid first; deletion is permanent and removes all data tied to audiences, campaign archives, and reports. Instead of deleting, a Marketing plan can be paused for 3 or 6 months (up to 2 pauses every 12 months) to stop monthly billing while keeping data.

Mailchimp help center (Pause or Cancel Your Account) · checked Aug 5, 2026

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Use it, or see the field

Mailchimp is live and price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026. If it fits, go straight to it. If you are comparing, see the full ranked field in Marketing Automation with AI - only tools our health checks report as alive.

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If you want options

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Get told if Mailchimp's status changes

We email you the moment a new dated, sourced fact lands on Mailchimp - a price hike, a shutdown notice, or a confirmed outage. No predictions.

Double opt-in - we email you a confirm link. Only your email is stored, never your IP.
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Straight answers

Is Mailchimp shutting down?
There is no official sunset announcement for Mailchimp as of Sep 8, 2026. It is reachable and price-verified; a "dead" status is set only by an editor, never by an automated check.
How much does Mailchimp cost?
Its lowest paid plan starts at $13/mo (verified Sep 8, 2026). The price links to the vendor's live pricing page as its source, so you can confirm the current figure at any time.
Does Mailchimp have a free tier?
Yes, Mailchimp offers a permanent free plan (not just a trial) as of Sep 8, 2026.