# MailCheap

> 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.

- ShipRadar page: https://shipradarai.com/tool/mailcheap
- Official site: https://mailcheap.ai
- Category: Marketing & Sales
- Price: Paid · from $19/month (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 level: Beginner-friendly
- Works on: Web
- You get: Text
- Good for: [Write ads and marketing copy](https://shipradarai.com/do/write-ads-and-marketing)
- Last checked: 2026-10-21

## ShipRadar verdict

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 great 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.

### Sources
- [MailCheap pricing: pay per email, not per subscriber](https://mailcheap.ai/pricing)
- [marclou/mailcheap on GitHub](https://github.com/marclou/mailcheap)

Found on GitHub, first seen 2026-10-21. Published by ShipRadar, an independent guide to AI tools for everyday people: https://shipradarai.com