Comparison

ActiveCampaign vs Constant Contact pricing

Both bill on stored contacts and both attach a send allowance under the list. Constant Contact Lite undercuts ActiveCampaign Starter at 500 contacts. Starter is cheaper at 1,000 and 2,500. Lite is cheaper again from 5,000 through 25,000, where ActiveCampaign Starter tops out. Above 25,000 Constant Contact shows Contact Sales.

Snapshot 3, ActiveCampaign checked 25 September 2026, Constant Contact checked 13 September 2026. Monthly billing shown first. Constant Contact stays on the watchlist outside the six vendor tables.

Cheapest paid plan each one sells

ActiveCampaign Starter against Constant Contact Lite. Plans are not feature matched.

Prices are compiled from public vendor pages and can lag behind a change. Cells marked Der are calculated from published rules and cells marked Est are rough figures. Neither is an invoice or a quote, so confirm with the vendor before you spend.

Contacts	ActiveCampaign Starter	Constant Contact Lite	Cheaper
500	$19$15 annualDer	$12$10.20 annualVer	Constant Contact by $7
1,000	$19$15 annualVer	$30$25.50 annualVer	ActiveCampaign by $11
2,500	$49$39 annualVer	$50$42.50 annualVer	ActiveCampaign by $1
5,000	$99$79 annualVer	$80$68 annualVer	Constant Contact by $19
10,000	$189$149 annualVer	$120$102 annualVer	Constant Contact by $69
25,000	$489$391 annualVer	$280$238 annualVer	Constant Contact by $209
50,000	n/aNot	n/aNot	not comparable
100,000	n/aNot	n/aNot	not comparable

ActiveCampaign Starter against Constant Contact Lite, month to month billing, with the per month cost of paying yearly underneath. The Cheaper column compares the monthly prices. Plans are not feature matched.

The plan most buyers actually land on

ActiveCampaign Plus against Constant Contact Standard. Both add the features a growing sender usually needs once the entry plan stops fitting.

Contacts	ActiveCampaign Plus	Constant Contact Standard	Cheaper
500	$59$49 annualDer	$35$29.75 annualVer	Constant Contact by $24
1,000	$59$49 annualVer	$55$46.75 annualVer	Constant Contact by $4
2,500	$119$95 annualVer	$75$63.75 annualVer	Constant Contact by $44
5,000	$179$145 annualVer	$110$93.50 annualVer	Constant Contact by $69
10,000	$239$189 annualVer	$160$136 annualVer	Constant Contact by $79
25,000	$489$389 annualVer	$310$263.50 annualVer	Constant Contact by $179
50,000	$759$609 annualVer	n/aNot	not comparable
100,000	n/aNot	n/aNot	not comparable

ActiveCampaign Plus against Constant Contact Standard, month to month billing, with the per month cost of paying yearly underneath. The Cheaper column compares the monthly prices. Plans are not feature matched.

Top plans

ActiveCampaign Professional against Constant Contact Premium. Neither pair is feature matched.

Contacts	ActiveCampaign Professional	Constant Contact Premium	Cheaper
500	$99$79 annualDer	$80$68 annualVer	Constant Contact by $19
1,000	$99$79 annualVer	$110$93.50 annualVer	ActiveCampaign by $11
2,500	$189$149 annualVer	$150$127.50 annualVer	Constant Contact by $39
5,000	$259$205 annualVer	$200$170 annualVer	Constant Contact by $59
10,000	$469$375 annualVer	$275$233.75 annualVer	Constant Contact by $194
25,000	$789$629 annualVer	$425$361.25 annualVer	Constant Contact by $364
50,000	$1,209$969 annualVer	n/aNot	not comparable
100,000	n/aNot	n/aNot	not comparable

ActiveCampaign Professional against Constant Contact Premium, month to month billing, with the per month cost of paying yearly underneath. The Cheaper column compares the monthly prices. Plans are not feature matched.

Mid list sizes on both dated ladders

500 contacts: $12; Constant Contact Lite verified. ActiveCampaign Starter is $19 derived.
10,000 contacts: $120; Constant Contact Lite verified. ActiveCampaign Starter is $189 verified.
25,000 contacts: $280; Constant Contact Lite verified. ActiveCampaign Starter is $489, or $391 a month paid yearly.

ActiveCampaign Starter is cheaper than Constant Contact Lite at 1,000, 2,500 where both publish a monthly figure. Constant Contact Lite is cheaper at 500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000.

At 1,000 contacts Starter is $19 against Lite at $30. At 10,000 contacts Plus is $239 against Standard at $160, and Professional is $469 against Premium at $275. At 25,000 contacts Plus is $489 against Standard at $310, and Starter, at the top of its range, is $489.

The headline price is not on the same billing terms

ActiveCampaign Starter: $19; $15 paid yearly, about 21 percent off and the figure the pricing page leads with
Constant Contact Lite: $30; $25.50 paid yearly from the published Save 15 percent rule
Free plans: Neither; ActiveCampaign: There is no free plan to limit. ActiveCampaign publishes no free tier, so the entry price is the floor.. Constant Contact has no free email send plan on the recorded ladder.

ActiveCampaign shows annual billing by default. A month to month buyer pays $19 at the entry stop, not the $15 headline. Constant Contact publishes Save 15 percent for annual, and the annual column here is derived from that rule rather than typed off a separate fee schedule.

Send allowances, SMS and what each one counts

Constant Contact includes 10 times the contact count in monthly email sends on Lite, 12 times on Standard, and 24 times on Premium. Past the allowance the published overage is 0.002 dollars per email. At 10,000 contacts Lite therefore includes 100,000 monthly sends.

SMS sits beside the Constant Contact email bill. Premium includes 500 messages a month on US paid plans. Lite and Standard sell SMS as an add on from $10 a month. None of those SMS dollars sit inside the email cells above.

ActiveCampaign. One question, two answers, split by a date. Accounts created on or after 3 November 2025 are billed for every contact whatever its list status. Accounts created on or before 2 November 2025 are billed for active contacts only. ActiveCampaign publishes both answers in the same help article. Send volume sits under a ten to fifteen times contact allowance, with overage and a hard stop above that.

Constant Contact. No contact counting rule for unsubscribed addresses was visible on the Constant Contact pricing page or inside the fee-schedule modal on the check date. Confidence on that question is none.