{"name":"MailCheap","url":"https://shipradarai.com/tool/mailcheap","official_site":"https://mailcheap.ai","category":"Marketing & Sales","description":"Newsletter tool that charges for the emails you send, not the people sitting quiet on your list. Write and schedule issues, with a free signup page and website built in.","tasks":[{"slug":"write-ads-and-marketing","label":"Write ads and marketing copy","url":"https://shipradarai.com/do/write-ads-and-marketing"}],"price":{"summary":"Paid · from $19/month","type":"Paid","starting":"$19/month","note":"From $19/month (20,000 emails, up to about 10,000 subscribers); $0.95 per 1,000 emails sent, billed monthly, 2 months free billed yearly"},"skill":"Beginner-friendly","works_on":["Web"],"you_get":["Text"],"verdict":{"take":"Worth it the moment your list gets big enough that beehiiv or Mailchimp start charging for subscribers who never open your email — MailCheap only charges for emails it actually sends. The catch: it's one indie developer's year-one product, so it hasn't got beehiiv's track record, and self-hosting the open-source version is the fallback if mailcheap.ai ever has a bad week.","best_for":"A creator or small business sending a weekly or monthly newsletter who's tired of paying for subscribers who never open it.","not_for":"A huge list that rarely emails. You pay per email sent, so a list of 50,000 people getting one email a week costs real money regardless of how many actually read it.","watch_out":"It's a young, one-developer product (shipped October 2026 by indie maker Marc Lou, who also built ShipFast and other bootstrapped tools), not a company with years of uptime history like beehiiv or Mailchimp. It's open source, so you can self-host instead of trusting mailcheap.ai to stay up.","use_instead":[],"sources":[{"title":"MailCheap pricing: pay per email, not per subscriber","url":"https://mailcheap.ai/pricing"},{"title":"marclou/mailcheap on GitHub","url":"https://github.com/marclou/mailcheap"}],"checked":"2026-10-21"},"found_on":"GitHub","source_url":"https://github.com/marclou/mailcheap","first_seen":"2026-10-21","last_checked":"2026-10-21","publisher":"ShipRadar (https://shipradarai.com)"}