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Which email marketing brands do AI assistants recommend?
Results for this public set of 20 email marketing buying questions, asked to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Measured 9 Oct 2026. One category is measured each week, so each is re-measured every 4 weeks. No comparable rank changes are available for this edition.
Each question runs up to 3 times on each engine. A brand scores out of 100 on how often and how high it is recommended. The score measures visibility in AI answers, not product quality.
Email marketing leaderboard
| Rank | Brand | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mailchimp | 57.79/100 |
| 2 | Brevo | 34.83/100 |
| 3 | ActiveCampaign | 28.67/100 |
| 4 | MailerLite | 25.54/100 |
| 5 | Klaviyo | 23.71/100 |
| 6 | HubSpot | 19/100 |
| 7 | Constant Contact | 11.29/100 |
| 8 | GetResponse | 10.58/100 |
| 9 | Omnisend | 9.38/100 |
| 10 | Substack | 8.17/100 |
| 11 | Salesforce Marketing Cloud | 5.67/100 |
| 12 | beehiiv | 5.42/100 |
| 13 | Customer.io | 5.08/100 |
| 14 | Ghost | 4.62/100 |
| 15 | Mautic | 4.5/100 |
| 16 | listmonk | 4.33/100 |
| 17 | Adobe Marketo Engage | 4.21/100 |
| 18 | Kit | 3.46/100 |
| 19 | Campaign Monitor | 3.17/100 |
| 20 | Drip | 3.04/100 |
| 21 | AWeber | 3/100 |
| 22 | Mailjet | 2.75/100 |
| 23 | Sender | 2.75/100 |
| 24 | Benchmark Email | 2.33/100 |
| 25 | SendGrid | 2.08/100 |
| 26 | phpList | 2.08/100 |
| 27 | Moosend | 2.04/100 |
| 28 | Zoho Campaigns | 1.75/100 |
| 29 | Encharge | 1.67/100 |
| 30 | Salesforce Account Engagement | 1.5/100 |
| 31 | Attentive | 1.46/100 |
| 32 | rapidmail | 1.38/100 |
| 33 | Braze | 1.25/100 |
| 34 | Shopify Messaging | 1.21/100 |
| 35 | Iterable | 0.96/100 |
| 36 | CleverReach | 0.92/100 |
| 37 | Oracle Eloqua | 0.88/100 |
| 38 | Sendy | 0.67/100 |
| 39 | Loops | 0.67/100 |
| 40 | EmailOctopus | 0.46/100 |
| 41 | Flodesk | 0.46/100 |
| 42 | GoHighLevel | 0.46/100 |
| 43 | Mailcoach | 0.46/100 |
| 44 | Listrak | 0.37/100 |
| 45 | SAP Emarsys | 0.37/100 |
| 46 | FluentCRM | 0.25/100 |
| 47 | Keap | 0.12/100 |
| 48 | Sarbacane | 0.12/100 |
The 20 questions
- What's the best email marketing platform for a small business?
- What's the best free email marketing tool for a small business?
- I run a small yoga studio and want to send a monthly newsletter and promote new workshops to about 800 members without spending much. Which email tool would you recommend?
- What's the easiest email marketing tool to use for a beginner?
- Which email marketing tool has the best automation workflows without being too complicated to set up?
- What's the best email marketing platform for an ecommerce store?
- I sell handmade jewelry online, about 300 orders a month, and I only send a newsletter when I remember to. Which email tool should I use to set up abandoned cart and welcome emails?
- Which platform can send both email and SMS marketing campaigns from one place?
- What's the best platform to start an email newsletter?
- I'm a writer with about 2,000 subscribers on a free newsletter and I want to start charging for some posts. Which platform should I move to?
- What's the best email marketing software for nonprofits?
- What's the best email marketing software for a B2B company?
- We're a 15-person software company and our trial users get no emails after they sign up. Which tool should we use to send onboarding emails based on what they do in the product?
- What's the best enterprise email marketing platform?
- Which email marketing platform has the best deliverability?
- Which email marketing platform is GDPR compliant and keeps our data hosted in the EU?
- What's the most affordable email marketing service for a list of 50,000 subscribers?
- I run a three-person agency and handle email campaigns for 12 small business clients. Which platform lets me manage all their accounts from one login?
- Which email marketing platform has the most useful AI features for writing and testing campaigns?
- Is there a good open source email marketing tool I can host myself?