In short
- Decide first whether you pay per stored contact or per email sent.
- Check whether you can send through your own SMTP or authenticated domain.
- Insist on a real free tier so you can test deliverability before paying.
- BulkMailer starts free with 500 stored contacts and 1,000 emails a month.
Work out your real sending shape
Before comparing features, write down two numbers: how many contacts you store, and how many emails you send in a busy month. A shop with 20,000 contacts that sends twice a year has a completely different cost profile from a studio with 800 contacts that sends weekly.
Contact-based pricing suits frequent senders with small lists. Send-based pricing suits larger lists that are emailed in bursts — seasonal promotions, launches, event invitations.
Features that matter for a small team
- Import and clean lists without a spreadsheet specialist — duplicate removal and syntax checks built in.
- Personalization fields that fail safely when a row is missing a value.
- Domain authentication guidance (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) rather than a bare DNS help article.
- Live sending progress, so a bad campaign can be stopped rather than discovered afterwards.
- Plain, exportable reporting — sends, failures, and reasons.
Features that are usually oversold
Long automation builders, lead scoring, and CRM pipelines are genuinely useful at scale, but they are the most common reason a small team pays for a tier it never uses. If nobody on your team owns automation, an unused workflow canvas is not a feature — it is a cost.
Where BulkMailer fits
BulkMailer is built for send-based economics. The free plan gives you 500 stored contacts and 1,000 emails a month, one SMTP server, and the full NVIDIA AI campaign writer, so you can send a real campaign before spending anything. Paid plans start at $9.99/month in USDT for 500,000 emails a month, billed in USDT with no card and no recurring charge.
You connect your own SMTP server — or buy from the in-app marketplace — so the sending reputation is yours and portable. Emails go out one by one in real time, and you watch each result as it happens.
Checklist
- Count stored contacts and monthly sends separately.
- Confirm the pricing model matches the larger of those two numbers.
- Verify SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are published for your sending domain.
- Send a real test campaign on a free tier before committing.
- Check you can export your list and your reporting.
Run these checks now
Questions people ask
What is the cheapest realistic way to start?
Start on a free plan and only pay when your list outgrows it. BulkMailer's free plan covers 500 stored contacts and 1,000 emails a month with BulkMailer branding on outgoing campaign emails.
Do I need my own SMTP server?
Not necessarily, but it helps. Owning the SMTP means the sending reputation and the deliverability decisions stay with you. BulkMailer supports both your own SMTP and marketplace SMTPs.
How many emails can a small business send per month?
That depends on your plan and your domain reputation. BulkMailer plans range from 1,000 emails a month on Free up to 10,000,000 on the top plan.