What happened to Flodesk’s unlimited pricing?

Flodesk retired its long-running flat unlimited plan in November 2025 and moved to contact-based pricing starting at $19/mo billed annually for around 1,000 subscribers, which drew significant backlash from users who had chosen it specifically for flat pricing. Spreeflo has always priced on marketing contacts — $16/mo Starter and $24/mo Professional at 1,000, $36 and $52 at 5,000 — with the figures published rather than quoted.

Can Flodesk trigger emails from site behavior?

No — Flodesk has no tracking snippet and no custom events, so its workflows trigger on form submissions, tags and dates only, and nothing happening on your website or in your product can start a sequence. Spreeflo tracks pageviews and custom events on the free plan and turns them into journey triggers and segment conditions on Professional, down to individual event properties.

Both Flodesk and Spreeflo have MCP servers — what is the difference?

Both are official and first-party. Flodesk’s covers subscribers, segments and campaigns, which suits an agent managing an audience, while Spreeflo’s spans the authoring layer — journeys, campaigns, segments, forms and email templates — is available on every plan including Free, and refuses sends, publishes and deletes server-side so an agent can build but never broadcast.

Does Flodesk’s free plan send email?

No — the free plan covers forms, landing pages and link-in-bio but does not send email, so a paid plan is required to reach anyone. Spreeflo’s free plan is similarly capture-focused: unlimited forms with unlimited responses, unlimited non-marketing contacts, custom events, full web analytics and MCP access, with marketing email starting at $16/mo.

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Spreeflo vs Flodesk: Which is better? (2026)

17 Spreeflo wins · 8 tied · 0 Flodesk wins

Design-led email marketing for creators with template-heavy campaigns, forms, link-in-bio pages and checkout with no transaction fees, on contact-based plans from $19/mo.

Last verified: August 2026 27 points compared

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Should you choose Spreeflo or Flodesk?

Flodesk makes the best-looking email in this comparison with the least effort. Its template library and editor are built for people who care how a message looks and do not want to fight a builder, checkout takes no transaction fee, and it publishes an official MCP server — unusual for a product this design-focused.

The automation is thin. The $19 Lite plan allows one workflow, segmentation stops at segments and tags with no behavioral conditions, and there is no site tracking, no custom events, no transactional email and no browser push. Its integration list runs to about thirteen apps. The November 2025 move off the flat unlimited plan to contact-based pricing drew significant backlash from long-standing users, and the 5,000-contact price is not published.

The split is what you optimise for. Flodesk optimises how an email looks; Spreeflo optimises what it does — behavioral triggers, unlimited nested segments, browser push, transactional email, forms with unlimited responses on a free plan, and AI variables writing different copy for each individual recipient. Flodesk’s free plan cannot send email at all; Spreeflo’s free plan captures and tracks.

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 Flodesk is

Flodesk provides email campaigns built on a large designed template library, forms, landing pages, link-in-bio pages and a checkout product that takes no transaction fee. It moved from its long-running flat unlimited plan to contact-based pricing in November 2025, starting at $19/mo annually for around 1,000 subscribers with one automation, and publishes an official MCP server.

Founded 2018. Independent.

Spreeflo vs Flodesk: 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.

17 Spreeflo wins 8 tied 0 Flodesk wins

Feature and pricing comparison between Spreeflo and Flodesk, verified August 2026.
Feature	Spreeflo	Flodesk
Pricing
Starting paid price	Spreeflo: $16/mo — $13/mo billed annually (1,000 marketing contacts) Wins	Flodesk: Lite $19/mo billed annually — around 1,000 subscribers, one automation
Free plan What it meaningfully includes	Spreeflo: ✓ Forms with unlimited responses, unlimited non-marketing contacts, full web analytics. No card.	Flodesk: ~ Forms, landing pages and link-in-bio, but no email sending Both
Pricing model	Spreeflo: Contact-based — billed on marketing contacts only	Flodesk: Contact-based since November 2025, replacing the previous flat unlimited plan
Free storage for contacts you don’t market to Unsubscribed, archived and non-marketing contacts	Spreeflo: ✓ Unlimited, free Wins	Flodesk: ✕ Billed on stored subscribers
Price at ~5,000 contacts	Spreeflo: $36/mo Starter · $52/mo Professional ($30 / $43 billed annually)	Flodesk: — Not published since the pricing change; confirm on their site
Channels
Marketing email	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter	Flodesk: ✓ Both
Transactional email	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — same plan, no separate product Wins	Flodesk: ✕
Browser push notifications	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional Wins	Flodesk: ✕
Forms with unlimited responses on free	Spreeflo: ✓ Free plan	Flodesk: ✓ Forms and landing pages on the free plan, though it cannot send email Both
Popup forms	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional	Flodesk: ✓ Both
Web analytics dashboard	Spreeflo: ✓ Free plan Wins	Flodesk: ✕
AI / bot crawler traffic tracking	Spreeflo: ✓ AI-answer fetches, indexing and training crawlers reported separately Wins	Flodesk: ✕
SMS	Spreeflo: ✕	Flodesk: ✕ Both
Built-in CRM	Spreeflo: ✕	Flodesk: ✕ Both
Automation
Visual journey builder	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter Wins	Flodesk: ~ Basic visual workflows; Lite allows one
Behavioral / custom-event triggers	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional Wins	Flodesk: ✕ No site tracking or custom events
Form-submission trigger	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter	Flodesk: ✓ Both
A/B testing	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — random-split node in the builder Wins	Flodesk: ~ AI subject lines rather than full split testing
Full automation on the lowest paid tier	Spreeflo: ✓ Full builder on Starter, no step or workflow caps Wins	Flodesk: ✕ One workflow on the $19 Lite plan
AI & agents
AI copy written per recipient at send time	Spreeflo: ✓ AI variables, Professional Wins	Flodesk: ✕ Flodesk Studio generates designs and subject lines, not per-recipient copy
In-app AI that builds automations from plain language	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — stages proposals for approval Wins	Flodesk: ~ AI design generation rather than automation authoring
Official MCP server	Spreeflo: ✓ Every plan, including Free	Flodesk: ✓ Official server at mcp.flodesk.com Both
AI agent can build automations over MCP Not just read contacts and stats	Spreeflo: ✓ Journeys, campaigns, segments, forms and email templates Wins	Flodesk: ~ Subscribers, segments and campaigns rather than journey authoring
Data
Nested AND/OR segmentation	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — unlimited nesting Wins	Flodesk: ~ Segments and tags without behavioral conditions
Custom events as triggers and segment conditions	Spreeflo: ✓ Tracking on Free · triggers and segment conditions on Professional Wins	Flodesk: ✕
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	Flodesk: ✕
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	Flodesk: ~ Checkout sales reporting rather than campaign attribution

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

Where Spreeflo and Flodesk differ

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

Template design and the editor

A designed template library and an editor built for people who care how email looks. Spreeflo’s builder is capable but is not a design showcase, and puts its effort into what the copy says per recipient.

Checkout with no transaction fees

Sell digital products and take payment without Flodesk taking a cut. Spreeflo sells no commerce features and assumes payment happens elsewhere.

Link-in-bio pages

A hosted link page tied to your list. Spreeflo has forms and full-page form embeds, but no link-in-bio product.

Where Spreeflo comes out ahead of Flodesk

17 of 25 scored rows go Spreeflo’s way — for these reasons:

Flodesk’s design lead is real, and so is its checkout. The wins here divide cleanly: one is tiering — the $19 Lite plan allows a single automation — and the rest are absences. No transactional email, no browser push, no site tracking or custom events, no behavioral segmentation, no custom objects, no bot-traffic reporting, and A/B testing limited to AI subject lines. Both publish official MCP servers; Flodesk’s covers subscribers, segments and campaigns rather than journey authoring. Worth noting for anyone comparing older reviews: Flodesk replaced its flat unlimited plan with contact-based pricing in November 2025, and has not published a 5,000-contact figure since.

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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