mailcheap
You pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers. At 4,000 subscribers, MailCheap is 83% cheaper than beehiiv and 75% cheaper than Mailchimp. From $19 a month.
mailcheap launched on 10 October 2026. It ranked #97 on Daily Launch on 25 October 2026 with a Launch Score of 19, from +59 stars on 25 Oct on GitHub. It was new in the ranking that day.
What is mailcheap?
MailCheap is a newsletter app: write an issue, send it to your list, publish it on the web, from the dashboard or from your AI agent. This repository is the whole app. Self-host it with your own Amazon SES or PostShiba account, or use MailCheap Cloud, which runs this same code.
From its README on GitHub
mailcheap is a repo by marclou on GitHub. It is written in JavaScript and released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
How to get mailcheap
Get it from its repository on GitHub.
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In its own words
The affordable newsletter for the agentic era. Open source: self-host it, or use mailcheap.ai.
From its GitHub repository
Newsletters where you pay for the emails you send, not for dormant subscribers, at a fraction of the price of beehiiv and the like. Open source: self-host it, or use mailcheap.ai.
From its GitHub repository
Launch timeline
Launch Score, last 7 days
Ranked on one day so far: 19 of 100 on 25 October.
