Does AWeber charge you for unsubscribed contacts?

Yes — unsubscribed subscribers continue to count toward the contact total AWeber bills you for, so a list that has been running for years pays for people it can no longer email. Spreeflo bills on marketing contacts only and stores unlimited non-marketing contacts free, which means unsubscribes reduce your bill rather than sitting on it indefinitely.

How many segments does AWeber Lite allow?

One — the $12.49 Lite plan permits a single saved custom segment, and three automations, which makes anything past a welcome sequence and one re-engagement flow impractical. Spreeflo’s $16 Starter plan allows unlimited saved segments with unlimited nested AND/OR conditions and places no cap on how many journeys run at once.

How good is AWeber’s deliverability?

EmailTooltester’s published inbox-placement testing scores AWeber 3.1 out of 5, the lowest of the mainstream platforms it measures, and their review cites below-average placement across repeated test rounds. Spreeflo makes no independently-tested deliverability claim of its own, so treat this as a documented fact about AWeber rather than a measured comparison between the two — the linked source has the methodology.

Can AWeber trigger automations from activity on my website?

No — AWeber’s triggers cover email opens, clicks, form submissions and tag changes, but it has no tracking snippet and no custom events, so nothing that happens on your own site can start a sequence. Spreeflo tracks custom events on the free plan and uses them as journey triggers and segment conditions on Professional, including property-level conditions on each event.

Is AWeber cheaper than Spreeflo?

At the entry point they are effectively level — $12.49/mo annually for 500 AWeber subscribers against $13/mo annually for 1,000 Spreeflo contacts — but at 5,000 contacts AWeber Lite is about $60/mo and Plus about $90 against Spreeflo’s $36 Starter and $52 Professional. AWeber’s December 2024 restructuring raised rates by 50–150%, so older reviews understate current pricing.

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Spreeflo vs AWeber: Which is better? (2026)

16 Spreeflo wins · 8 tied · 2 AWeber wins

Email marketing for small businesses covering newsletters, autoresponders, landing pages and browser push, with phone support on every plan including the free one.

Last verified: August 2026 27 points compared

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Should you choose Spreeflo or AWeber?

Two things set AWeber apart at this price: phone support staffed around the clock on every plan, and browser push notifications on the cheapest paid tier rather than a premium one. Its free plan covers 500 subscribers, 3,000 emails a month and the automation builder, and the company has run continuously since 1998.

The constraints show up as soon as your marketing gets specific. The $12.49 Lite plan allows three automations and exactly one saved custom segment. There is no website tracking and no custom events, so nothing on your site can trigger anything. Unsubscribed contacts still count toward your bill, the December 2024 restructuring raised rates by 50–150%, and EmailTooltester’s published inbox-placement tests rate AWeber 3.1 out of 5 — the lowest score of any mainstream platform they measure.

Spreeflo overlaps more than usual here, because it has browser push too. The separation is depth and fairness: unlimited nested segments instead of one, a journey builder with no cap on how many automations run at once, custom events from your own site as both triggers and segment conditions, and billing that never charges you for someone who unsubscribed. AWeber answers the phone; Spreeflo is the one that can act on what a contact did on your website this morning.

What Spreeflo is

Spreeflo is an AI-powered marketing automation platform for founders and small teams — email, browser push notifications, forms and web analytics on one contact record, from $16/mo ($13 billed annually). Its AI writes per-recipient personalization at send time, an in-app AI assistant builds automations from plain language, and a hosted MCP server lets Claude, Claude Code or Cursor operate the whole workspace — while sends, publishes and deletes always require a person.

Founder-led businesses, one workspace. Sends, publishes and deletes always require a person — including when an AI agent is doing the building.

What AWeber is

AWeber is an email platform for small businesses covering autoresponders, broadcasts, landing pages and sign-up forms, plus browser push notifications on paid plans. Its free plan includes the automation builder, and phone, email and chat support are available 24/7 on every tier.

Founded 1998 in Pennsylvania. Founder-led and independent for twenty-seven years.

Spreeflo vs AWeber: feature comparison

The same 27 points on every comparison we publish, including the ones Spreeflo loses. Rows marked Both are genuine ties; descriptive rows like the pricing model are shown but not scored.

16 Spreeflo wins 8 tied 2 AWeber wins

Feature and pricing comparison between Spreeflo and AWeber, verified August 2026.
Feature	Spreeflo	AWeber
Pricing
Starting paid price	Spreeflo: $16/mo — $13/mo billed annually (1,000 marketing contacts)	AWeber: Lite $12.49/mo billed annually ($15 monthly) — 500 subscribers Both
Free plan What it meaningfully includes	Spreeflo: ✓ Forms with unlimited responses, unlimited non-marketing contacts, full web analytics. No card.	AWeber: ✓ 500 subscribers, 3,000 emails/mo, automation builder and phone support — but AWeber branding, one list, no saved segments and forced double opt-in Wins
Pricing model	Spreeflo: Contact-based — billed on marketing contacts only	AWeber: Contact-based with send caps — 10× contacts on Lite, 12× on Plus
Free storage for contacts you don’t market to Unsubscribed, archived and non-marketing contacts	Spreeflo: ✓ Unlimited, free Wins	AWeber: ✕ Unsubscribed contacts count toward your billed total
Price at ~5,000 contacts	Spreeflo: $36/mo Starter · $52/mo Professional ($30 / $43 billed annually) Wins	AWeber: ~$60/mo Lite · ~$90/mo Plus
Channels
Marketing email	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter	AWeber: ✓ Both
Transactional email	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — same plan, no separate product Wins	AWeber: ✕
Browser push notifications	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional	AWeber: ✓ Included on paid plans — rare at this price Wins
Forms with unlimited responses on free	Spreeflo: ✓ Free plan Wins	AWeber: ✕ Free plan responses consume the 500-subscriber allowance
Popup forms	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional	AWeber: ✓ Both
Web analytics dashboard	Spreeflo: ✓ Free plan Wins	AWeber: ✕ No site analytics dashboard
AI / bot crawler traffic tracking	Spreeflo: ✓ AI-answer fetches, indexing and training crawlers reported separately Wins	AWeber: ✕
SMS	Spreeflo: ✕	AWeber: ✕ Both
Built-in CRM	Spreeflo: ✕	AWeber: ✕ Both
Automation
Visual journey builder	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter	AWeber: ✓ Autoresponders plus behavioral rules — reviewers consistently describe it as short of full marketing automation Both
Behavioral / custom-event triggers	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional Wins	AWeber: ~ Email opens, clicks and tags only — no site events
Form-submission trigger	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter	AWeber: ✓ Both
A/B testing	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — random-split node in the builder	AWeber: ✓ Split tests on paid plans; not on Free Both
Full automation on the lowest paid tier	Spreeflo: ✓ Full builder on Starter, no step or workflow caps Wins	AWeber: ✕ Lite caps you at 3 automations and 1 saved custom segment
AI & agents
AI copy written per recipient at send time	Spreeflo: ✓ AI variables, Professional Wins	AWeber: ✕ AI Writing Assistant drafts a campaign, not per-recipient copy
In-app AI that builds automations from plain language	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — stages proposals for approval Wins	AWeber: ✕ AI writes copy; it does not build automations
Official MCP server	Spreeflo: ✓ Every plan, including Free Wins	AWeber: ✕ No first-party MCP server — Zapier wrapper only
AI agent can build automations over MCP Not just read contacts and stats	Spreeflo: ✓ Journeys, campaigns, segments, forms and email templates Wins	AWeber: ✕
Data
Nested AND/OR segmentation	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — unlimited nesting Wins	AWeber: ✕ Tag-based, and Lite allows a single saved custom segment
Custom events as triggers and segment conditions	Spreeflo: ✓ Tracking on Free · triggers and segment conditions on Professional Wins	AWeber: ✕ No custom-event tracking
Custom objects on the contact record Orders, subscriptions or accounts as related records, not just flat attributes	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional — orders, subscriptions and accounts linked to the contact Wins	AWeber: ✕
Multi-touch revenue attribution Credit split across touches, not only the last click	Spreeflo: ✓ Last-touch and linear (multi-touch) models, with a lookback window Wins	AWeber: ✕ PayPal sales tracking only

Spreeflo prices shown are for 1,000 marketing contacts unless the row says otherwise. AWeber figures were last checked in August 2026 — pricing moves, so confirm on their site before deciding.

Where Spreeflo and AWeber differ

The two tools are built around different assumptions, so some of what AWeber covers has no Spreeflo equivalent. Here is exactly what that is, who it actually matters for, and what Spreeflo does in its place.

Phone support, on every tier

Real people on the phone at any hour, including on the free plan. Spreeflo has general support on all plans and priority support on Professional, but no phone line — its answer to "I am stuck" is an in-app AI assistant that builds the segment or journey for you rather than talking you through building it.

Browser push on the cheapest paid plan

AWeber includes web push from $12.49/mo where Spreeflo reserves it for the $24 tier. What arrives with it differs: on AWeber push sits beside three automations and one saved segment, on Spreeflo beside unlimited journeys, unlimited nested segments and custom-event triggers.

A free plan that sends email

500 subscribers and 3,000 emails a month with the automation builder included. Spreeflo’s free plan does not send marketing email — it captures and tracks instead, with unlimited form responses, unlimited non-marketing contacts and full web analytics, none of which AWeber offers at any price.

A larger template library

Over 700 email templates against Spreeflo’s smaller set. Templates decide how a message looks; Spreeflo’s AI variables decide what it says to each individual recipient, which is the axis AWeber does not compete on.

Where Spreeflo comes out ahead of AWeber

16 of 26 scored rows go Spreeflo’s way — for these reasons:

AWeber has browser push and a free plan that sends email, so the wins concentrate on depth and billing fairness. The $12.49 Lite plan allows three automations and exactly one saved custom segment; there is no site tracking and no custom events, so triggers stop at opens, clicks and tags; there is no transactional email; and unsubscribed contacts still count toward what you pay. Spreeflo places no cap on how many journeys run, nests segments without limit, and costs $36/mo at 5,000 contacts against $60–90.

Spreeflo is a marketing automation platform rather than a CRM, a page builder or an SMS gateway. The comparison above marks every row where that shows — nothing is hidden in a footnote.

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