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 "summary": "Email marketing and automation for small businesses and creators: drag-and-drop newsletters, prompt-built landing pages, autoresponders and sign-up forms, AI writing help, and since August 2026 a ChatGPT plugin and Claude connector that read a whole automation back with its engagement numbers.",
 "best_for": "small businesses and creators who want reliable, simple email marketing with a genuinely usable free tier",
 "skip_if": "you need advanced, behaviour-driven automation — newer tools go deeper for the money",
 "honest_knock": "The free and low tiers are generous, but Lite and Plus prices climb with your subscriber count, so budget for growth. It's a dependable, no-frills veteran — just not the most modern automation on the market.",
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  "plans_source": "hand-curated from the vendor's pricing page",
  "notes": "(re-verified 1 Oct 2026) A free plan still exists (up to 500 subscribers, 3,000 emails a month) but it is reached through the separate free-signup page, not the pricing page; Lite shows $12.49/mo and Plus $19.99/mo at 500 subs (annual billing; both scale by subscriber count). The ~$899 flat Unlimited tier is served to about one visitor in eighteen rather than withdrawn: on 5 Sep 2026 we loaded the pricing page 18 times in fresh cookie-less browsers, 17 returned Lite and Plus with no flat tier and one returned a three-card variant with “Go Unlimited” at $899/mo for unlimited subscribers, so it exists but you cannot count on seeing it. AWeber runs aggressive limited-time launch promos (an ‘87% off’ banner striking $599 to $79 at research time) — treat banner prices as promos, not list prices. AWeber's own affiliate newsletter of 5 September 2026 describes a single paid plan, 'AWeber Pro', starting at $16.15 a month billed annually, and does not name Lite or Plus at all; the pricing page served us Lite and Plus the same day, so the plan names appear to be mid-change. Check the live page before quoting a tier name. Re-checked 6 September 2026 in twelve cookie-less loads: the pricing page named Free, Lite, Plus and Unlimited on all six of its loads, so the flat Unlimited tier that showed once in eighteen loads the day before was served every time; the free-email-marketing page named only Free. No load carried a plan called Pro and the newsletter figure of $16.15 appeared nowhere; the entry amounts read $12.50 and $20.00. Read again on 9 October 2026: the pricing page shows Lite and Plus, plus 'Done For You' (Plus with a setup fee shown as $599 struck to $79), with a Monthly/Annually switch and a subscriber slider. Lite billed monthly: $15 up to 500, $25 up to 1,000, $35 up to 2,500, $60 up to 5,000, $85 up to 7,500, $100 up to 10,000, $150 up to 15,000, $185 up to 20,000, $210 up to 25,000, $275 up to 35,000, $375 up to 50,000, $500 up to 75,000, $600 up to 100,000, $920 up to 150,000 subscribers; billed annually, per month: $12.50, $20.83, $29.17, $50.00, $70.83, $83.33, $125.00, $154.17, $175.00, $229.17, $312.50, $416.67, $500.00, $766.67. Plus billed monthly: $30, $45, $55, $90, $120, $135, $180, $215, $250, $350, $400, $600, $750, $1,050; billed annually, per month: $20.00, $37.50, $45.83, $75.00, $100.00, $112.50, $150.00, $179.17, $208.33, $291.67, $333.33, $500.00, $625.00, $875.00.",
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   "evidence": "(re-verified 1 Oct 2026) A free plan still exists (up to 500 subscribers, 3,000 emails a month) but it is reached through the separate free-signup page, not the pricing page; Lite shows $12.49/mo and Plus $19.99/mo at 500 subs (annual billing; both scale by subscriber count).",
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  "name": "Mailchimp or MailerLite",
  "why": "other beginner-friendly email tools"
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  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/aweber-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/aweber/",
  "vendor_site": "https://aweber.com"
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  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.aweber.com/easy-email.htm?id=561874",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
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  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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