European alternatives to Mailchimp

The email-marketing platform known for its friendly branding, now owned by Intuit. A US company on AWS, holding your subscriber lists under US jurisdiction.

Company information about Mailchimp
Company
The Rocket Science Group LLC
Parent company
Intuit Inc.
Headquarters
Atlanta, United States
Founded
2001
Data jurisdiction
United States
Ownership
Publicly traded
GDPR
No
Open source
No
Infrastructure
Amazon AWS

Why people switch away from Mailchimp

Subject to US CLOUD ActProfit-driven (public markets)Proprietary softwareRuns on Big Tech infrastructureNot covered by GDPR

European alternatives to Mailchimp

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Top Pick

Poland 89 · Strongly European

Email marketing, automation, landing pages, and webinars from Poland. Independent and founder-owned, running its own European infrastructure.

Freemium · from Free Free tier Bootstrapped Mixed infrastructure EU
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Belgium 88 · Strongly European

Mailcoach is email marketing software from Spatie, a Belgian software company in Antwerp. It runs self-hosted as a Laravel package, or as a pay-as-you-go hosted plan, positioned as an EU alternative to Mailchimp.

Open-core · from €249/yr (self-hosted) Partly open source Bootstrapped Mixed infrastructure EU
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France 61 · Mostly European

French email platform for newsletters and transactional email, founded in 2010 and still run from Paris. Data stays in EU data centres, though the company now belongs to Swedish group Sinch and runs on Google Cloud.

Freemium · from Free Free tier Google Cloud Part of Sinch AB EU

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Start somewhere.

Switching everything overnight is not realistic. Start where it matters most: your email, your cloud storage, your business tools. Replace one thing at a time.

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Why avoid United States-owned services?

CLOUD Act

Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.

FISA Section 702

Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.

GDPR vs US law conflict

EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.

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