Constant Contact was built for the newsletter. We built for the signal.
Constant Contact is a capable, approachable broadcast tool with per-contact pricing and shared sending infrastructure. AeroCampaign trades its hand-holding for two things it cannot offer: delivery through your own provider account at list price, and copy generated from each contact's behaviour.
The comparison, without the asterisks
| Capability | AeroCampaign | Constant Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing basis Their bill grows with your list whether or not you mail it. | Flat platform fee | Per contact, tiered |
| Cost per 1,000 emails | ~$0.10 at SES cost | Bundled, marked up |
| Sends through your own provider Your domain reputation is not pooled with other tenants. | Yes — SendGrid or SES | No |
| Own your sender reputation | Yes | Shared IP pools |
| AI copy per cohort | Yes | Basic assist |
| AI copy per individual contact | Yes | No |
| Industry-trend grounding | Yes | No |
| Billed for unsubscribed / dead contacts The single largest line of waste on a per-contact plan. | No — cleaning bundled | Yes, counted in tier |
| List cleaning and dedupe included | Yes, every tier | Third-party add-on |
| Autonomous outbound SDR | Yes | No |
| Managed campaign delivery | Yes, via services partner | Limited |
| Cross-provider suppression | Unified, two-way sync | Platform-internal only |
| Bounce / complaint health thresholds | Surfaced at SES review levels | Partial |
| RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe | Every send | Yes |
| Export your event stream | Full, normalized | Limited |
| Contact list is portable | CSV in, CSV out, always | Export available |
Three reasons people leave Constant Contact
Delivery at provider cost
Constant Contact bundles sending into a per-contact tier. AeroCampaign charges a flat platform fee and lets you pay Amazon roughly $0.10 per 1,000 emails directly. On a large list mailed frequently, the gap is most of the bill.
Segmentation that writes itself
Building segments by hand and then writing copy for each one is the work most teams skip. The engine forms cohorts from behaviour and drafts each variant, so segmentation stops being a chore you abandon after two campaigns.
Deliverability you can actually see
A rolling 30-day bounce and complaint rate against the exact thresholds where providers place accounts under review, plus a unified suppression list synced two ways with your provider. Not a support ticket — a number on the dashboard.
Where Constant Contact is still the better choice
Constant Contact has been shipping for two decades. Pretending otherwise would waste your time and ours.
Onboarding and support
Constant Contact's guided setup and phone support are genuinely strong, and for a small organisation without technical staff that matters more than architecture.
Events, surveys, and social
Event registration, survey tools, and social posting come bundled. AeroCampaign does email broadcasts and nothing else.
Template-first workflow
A large template library aimed at non-technical users. Our composer assumes you are comfortable with HTML or with letting the engine draft for you.
- You are paying for stored contacts you rarely email
- Your list has outgrown the tier where per-contact pricing stayed reasonable
- You want per-cohort or per-contact copy without writing every version
- You care about owning your sender reputation and your suppression data
- You would rather pay AWS for delivery than a platform markup
- You rely on the bundled event, survey, or social tooling
- Phone support and guided onboarding are decisive for your team
- Your list is small enough that the per-contact tier is genuinely cheap
- No one on the team will set up a SendGrid or SES account
Try it alongside Constant Contact.
Connect a provider, import one list, and run a single campaign through the engine before you move anything else.
No credit card. Bring your own SendGrid or Amazon SES account.