Hostinger Reach, Mailchimp or Brevo: which to choose for email marketing

The right question is not which tool is best, but how many people are on your list, how many emails you send a month and whether you need WhatsApp. The chart sums up the choice by what the pages of Hostinger, Mailchimp and Brevo said on October 30, 2026:

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If your list fits in the free plan of Mailchimp or Brevo, start there and pay when you pass the limit. If you already have a Hostinger site and the list is past a few hundred, Reach's published prices are the ones to compare first.

The Hostinger site has three Reach plans: Starter, Grow and Pro. At checkout, Grow shows up as “Reach 500”, for its limit of 500 recipients. The prices below are from Hostinger's global site, in US dollars, read on October 30, 2026. They can vary by country and currency, and they can change:

• Starter: 100 recipients, 200 emails a month and no AI credits.
• Grow: 500 recipients, 3,500 emails a month and 10 AI credits a month.
• Pro: 1,000 recipients, 7,000 emails a month and 20 AI credits a month. It is the only plan with WhatsApp marketing campaigns.

The renewal is what matters: on Grow and Pro it goes up compared with the first year. The plans, from the same page:

Both have a free plan, and none of the three Reach plans is free on the Hostinger pages we read. We read the Mailchimp and Brevo pages on October 30, 2026. Their paid prices are not part of this comparison, because we did not read them in US dollars:

For a list of up to 500 contacts, the comparison comes down to the price of the paid plan: check it in each tool's own simulator, with your list size and in the currency you pay.

On the Reach page, WhatsApp marketing campaigns appear only in Pro, at US$ 2.79 a month in the first 12 months (renews at US$ 3.99 a month). Starter and Grow don't have them. The page does not show how much each WhatsApp message costs, so check the dashboard before you count on this channel.

On Brevo, WhatsApp appears among the channels of the Professional plan. We did not read that plan's price in US dollars, so it is not compared here.

The first limit that matters is the number of recipients: 100 on Starter, 500 on Grow and 1,000 on Pro. The Reach plans stop there. Anyone who has or expects more than 1,000 contacts should look at Mailchimp or Brevo, which charge by contact range or by sending volume.

The second limit is sending volume. On Grow, 3,500 emails a month with 500 recipients add up to 7 sends to the whole list in a month; on Pro, 7,000 emails with 1,000 recipients also make 7. A weekly newsletter fits. Sending to the whole list more than once a week goes past the limit.

• Still without a domain? If you want your site's address on the sender, see Hostinger domain: buy it there, transfer it or register elsewhere.
• Going to change tools later? Export your contact list before cancelling the old plan, and check how the new tool imports it.

Use the code SONAR20 in the cart's coupon field, or come in through this article's link: it is 20% off the first period. We tested it on the Brazilian site, on Reach 500 for 24 months, on October 30, 2026, and the discount applied in the cart. For the other Reach plans and periods, we did not test it; check the cart. The full rule for the code is in Hostinger coupons.

The price on the page and the price in the cart can differ on the same day, so check the cart to see which price applies to you and how much SONAR20 takes off it.

Worth it for anyone who already has a Hostinger site and a list of up to 1,000 recipients. Grow covers a list of up to 500 recipients; Pro covers up to 1,000 and WhatsApp. On the global site, the renewal of Grow (US$ 2.49 a month) and of Pro (US$ 3.99 a month) is part of the decision, so check it before you pay.

Stay on the free Mailchimp or Brevo plan if your list is just starting and you don't yet know whether you will send email often. Reach has no free plan on the pages we read.

Go with Mailchimp or Brevo if your list passes 1,000 contacts or if you send to the whole list more than once a week: the Reach plans stop at 1,000 recipients and 7,000 emails a month.

Em Casa com Cecília runs on Hostinger's managed hosting, and the domain has been registered there since November 17, 2024. Nobody on the team has used Reach, Mailchimp or Brevo to send a campaign: this text gathers what the three pricing pages said on October 30, 2026, and the SONAR20 test in the cart. How Hostinger charges, renews and refunds is covered in Is Hostinger legit?.