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Wait, so is there more detailed pricing information somewhere? I'm trying to figure out how this will affect us. What does a "a paid monthly MailChimp account"
by losvedir 11y ago
Wait, so is there more detailed pricing information somewhere? I'm trying to figure out how this will affect us.
What does a "a paid monthly MailChimp account" mean? The cheapest such plan seems to be +$20/mo, so that's not so bad. Effectively just a small price bump.
However, the MailChimp plans are confusing. Does every transactional recipient need to be a "subscriber"? If that's the case, then we're looking at more than a +$1000/mo increase! An order of magnitude more than we're paying for Mandrill now!
Edit: Just saw I missed this from the post - "Our billing and pricing model is also changing ... Mandrill credits will be sold in blocks of 25,000 emails. Blocks will start at $20 per month." So the transactional pricing seems to be increasing about 4x as well.
- stotro 11y agoI just contacted the mailchimp service twice and they confirmed it to me. you have to take the monthly plan that matches your mandrill users. So if you are using mandrill to send mails to 90.000 users, you have to buy a monthly plan of 90.000 users AND the mandrill package prices, which means 450$/month for mailchimp and 4*20$ for mandrill.
- elif 11y agobased on the comments on the blog post, i don't think that's the case. I think you just need to buy the minimum paid mailchimp account ($9/mo)
- verelo 11y agoThis cant be right (but if it is, they're morons). In this scenario, we'll need a package for millions of members. With the rough math I just did, this would make our monthly Mailchimp bill a larger cost for us than our AWS accounts monthly cost. That would be insane... Mailchimp, PLEASE CLEAR THIS UP ASAP. YOU'RE FUCKING WITH MY LIFE AND I DON'T LIKE IT OR NEED IT!
- losvedir 11y agoI don't think it's right. I contacted Mandrill about it, and they pointed me to this support article[0]. > Is this cost included in my MailChimp plan? > No. Mandrill is becoming a paid add-on for monthly MailChimp accounts. Any paid monthly MailChimp plan will satisfy the new requirements. Monthly MailChimp plans start at $10/month, and you can find more information on MailChimp’s Pricing Page. Purchasing Mandrill blocks will incur monthly charges in addition to your MailChimp plan. [0] https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217467117 https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217467117
- stotro 11y agocorrect, the information provided to me seems indeed to be wrong, since a third(!) support person contacted me, stating that you indeed "just" need a monthly account, no matter how big it is.
- verelo 11y agoGood! This still means the pricing will go from the 3k we paid today to around 10k/month. This is madness.
- techdragon 11y agoThis confirms my worst fears. We just added a large wave of new email addresses to one of our routine emails, taking it from 2k per day to 17k per day. We currently expect to pay approximately $75 to $100 USD per month with this volume of email. With the new "MailChimp pricing", this will cost us $150 for a MailChimp account with enough subscribers, then between $270 and $400 USD per month in data packs. So from about $75 to $100 USD we get forced up to $420-$550 About a 5x price rise. Nice going MailChimp... Clearly this is an attempt to squeeze more profit out of Mandrill. Was there a management change at MailChimp or something?
- stotro 11y agook, i just received a mail from mailchimp that the information provided to me by two of their service agents is indeed wrong. You really "just" need a monthly paid account, which still is pointless.