What does VerticalResponse cost at 5,000 contacts?

Roughly $58/mo, up from a $13/mo Basic plan that includes unlimited sends, landing pages and popups, though its pricing pages are inconsistent enough that confirming at signup is worthwhile. Spreeflo is $36/mo on Starter and $52 on Professional at the same contact count, with the full journey builder and unlimited nested segmentation included from the first paid tier.

Does VerticalResponse have a journey builder?

No — it offers autoresponders and follow-up series triggered by signups and dates, with no visual canvas, no branching and no behavioral triggers, so sequences run in a straight line regardless of what anyone does. Spreeflo’s journey builder includes if/else branching, multi-way splits, merges, mid-journey engagement checks and custom-event triggers from the $16 Starter plan.

Does VerticalResponse have AI or agent access?

Only a basic copy assistant, and no MCP server exists for it, so no external AI agent can read or build in the account. Spreeflo writes AI variables per individual recipient at send time on Professional, ships an in-app AI assistant from Starter, and exposes roughly 67 MCP tools on every plan including Free with sends and publishes refused server-side.

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Q: Is VerticalResponse still supported?

It still operates, but Deluxe is consolidating it into the wider Deluxe Marketing Suite, product development has largely stopped, and independent review coverage has thinned to the point of being a signal in itself. Spreeflo is independently operated and actively developed, with published pricing, monthly billing and no minimum term, so evaluating it costs nothing but the time.

20 Spreeflo wins · 5 tied · 1 VerticalResponse wins

Low-cost email marketing with autoresponders, unlimited landing pages and popups on its entry plan, owned by Deluxe and being folded into the Deluxe Marketing Suite.

Last verified: August 2026 27 points compared

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Should you choose Spreeflo or VerticalResponse?

VerticalResponse is inexpensive and includes more than its price suggests: unlimited sending, unlimited landing pages and popups on the $13 Basic plan, surveys, phone support and a 60-day trial that is four times what most competitors offer.

It is also being absorbed. Deluxe is folding it into the Deluxe Marketing Suite, review coverage has thinned to the point of being a signal in itself, and the product shows it — an antiquated interface, around eight templates, autoresponders rather than a journey builder, shallow list-and-field segmentation, and recurring deliverability complaints. A/B testing is paywalled to Pro.

Spreeflo starts at the same $16 monthly headline ($13 billed annually) with an actively developed product behind it: journeys that branch on behavior, custom-event triggers, unlimited nested segments, browser push, transactional email, web analytics, custom objects, revenue attribution, per-recipient AI copy and a hosted MCP server. It has no landing-page builder and no surveys.

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 VerticalResponse is

VerticalResponse sends email campaigns with autoresponders and follow-up series, alongside unlimited landing pages, popups and surveys on its $13/mo Basic plan, with unlimited sending and phone support. Deluxe is consolidating it into the wider Deluxe Marketing Suite, and A/B testing sits on the Pro tier.

Founded 2001. Acquired by Deluxe Corporation in 2013.

Spreeflo vs VerticalResponse: 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.

20 Spreeflo wins 5 tied 1 VerticalResponse wins

Feature and pricing comparison between Spreeflo and VerticalResponse, verified August 2026.
Feature	Spreeflo	VerticalResponse
Pricing
Starting paid price	Spreeflo: $16/mo — $13/mo billed annually (1,000 marketing contacts)	VerticalResponse: Basic $13/mo — unlimited sends, landing pages and popups Both
Free plan What it meaningfully includes	Spreeflo: ✓ Forms with unlimited responses, unlimited non-marketing contacts, full web analytics. No card. Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ A 60-day trial; the legacy free tier is no longer advertised
Pricing model	Spreeflo: Contact-based — billed on marketing contacts only	VerticalResponse: Contact-based tiers plus pay-as-you-go credits; pricing pages are inconsistent
Free storage for contacts you don’t market to Unsubscribed, archived and non-marketing contacts	Spreeflo: ✓ Unlimited, free Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ Billed on stored contacts
Price at ~5,000 contacts	Spreeflo: $36/mo Starter · $52/mo Professional ($30 / $43 billed annually) Wins	VerticalResponse: ~$58/mo
Channels
Marketing email	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter	VerticalResponse: ✓ Unlimited sends Both
Transactional email	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — same plan, no separate product Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕
Browser push notifications	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕
Forms with unlimited responses on free	Spreeflo: ✓ Free plan Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ No free plan
Popup forms	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional	VerticalResponse: ✓ Unlimited popups on the Basic plan Wins
Web analytics dashboard	Spreeflo: ✓ Free plan Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕
AI / bot crawler traffic tracking	Spreeflo: ✓ AI-answer fetches, indexing and training crawlers reported separately Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕
SMS	Spreeflo: ✕	VerticalResponse: ✕ Both
Built-in CRM	Spreeflo: ✕	VerticalResponse: ✕ Both
Automation
Visual journey builder	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ Autoresponders and follow-up series, with no journey canvas
Behavioral / custom-event triggers	Spreeflo: ✓ Professional Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ No site tracking or custom events
Form-submission trigger	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter	VerticalResponse: ✓ Both
A/B testing	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — random-split node in the builder Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ Pro tier only
Full automation on the lowest paid tier	Spreeflo: ✓ Full builder on Starter, no step or workflow caps Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ Basic has autoresponders; A/B testing needs Pro
AI & agents
AI copy written per recipient at send time	Spreeflo: ✓ AI variables, Professional Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ A basic copy assistant
In-app AI that builds automations from plain language	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — stages proposals for approval Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕
Official MCP server	Spreeflo: ✓ Every plan, including Free Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ No MCP server found
AI agent can build automations over MCP Not just read contacts and stats	Spreeflo: ✓ Journeys, campaigns, segments, forms and email templates Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕
Data
Nested AND/OR segmentation	Spreeflo: ✓ Starter — unlimited nesting Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕ Shallow list and field filtering
Custom events as triggers and segment conditions	Spreeflo: ✓ Tracking on Free · triggers and segment conditions on Professional Wins	VerticalResponse: ✕
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	VerticalResponse: ✕
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	VerticalResponse: ✕

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

Where Spreeflo and VerticalResponse differ

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

Unlimited landing pages and popups on the entry plan

Included at $13/mo where Spreeflo has no landing-page builder at all and reserves popups for its $24 Professional tier. Spreeflo covers capture with forms and full-page embeds on its free plan instead.

Unlimited sending

No volume metering at any tier. Spreeflo’s plans carry send allowances, generous enough that most senders never reach them.

A 60-day trial

Four times Spreeflo’s 14 days. Spreeflo’s free plan does not expire at all, though it does not send marketing email.

Where Spreeflo comes out ahead of VerticalResponse

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

The entry prices match, and after that almost everything runs one way — and by absence rather than tiering. VerticalResponse has autoresponders rather than a journey builder, no site tracking or custom events, no nested segmentation, no transactional email, no browser push, no web analytics, no custom objects, no revenue attribution and no MCP server; A/B testing is the one genuinely gated feature, sitting on Pro. At 5,000 contacts it is roughly $58/mo against $36. The context matters as much as the table: Deluxe is folding the product into its wider Marketing Suite, and review coverage has thinned to the point where that is itself worth weighing.

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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