The short answer
- Moving from Kit (ConvertKit) Creator to listmonk costs $992 more in the first year, after setup and upkeep time (Stackcut's model: modeled, not measured).
- listmonk's official migration guide moves 1 kind of data in full and 2 partly; 6 things stay behind. What moves
- 1 public account of making this switch: 1 evaluated. Read them
What Kit (ConvertKit) and listmonk cost
List prices from each vendor's pricing page, as stored in the Stackcut catalog. Each price links its source.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly (per month) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kit (ConvertKit) Creator | $39/mo | $32.50/mo | 1,000-subscriber tier ($390 billed yearly); unlimited visual automations and sequences; 2 users |
| Kit (ConvertKit) Pro | $79/mo | $65.83/mo | 1,000-subscriber tier ($790 billed yearly); unlimited users |
- Kit (ConvertKit) free plan: Newsletter (free): up to 10,000 subscribers, unlimited broadcasts, landing pages and forms, 1 user; no visual automations or automated sequences kit.com
- listmonk free plan: Free and open source listmonk.app
listmonk's plans aren't in the Stackcut catalog yet; check listmonk's own site.
Moving from Kit (ConvertKit) to listmonk
What listmonk's importer carries over, what it leaves behind, and any help it offers switchers.
To listmonk
Official guide listmonk.app · Tools: listmonk CSV/ZIP subscriber import, listmonk import API
Moves: Subscriber emails and names (full); Tags and custom fields (partial); Subscription status (partial). listmonk.app
Doesn't move: Automations, sequences and broadcasts; Paid subscriptions; Automations and visual sequences; Paid subscriptions and commerce (listmonk has no membership feature); Broadcast history (only subscriber-level activity going forward); Landing pages and forms (rebuild as listmonk embed forms). listmonk.app
Watch out for:
- CSV must use the email, name, attributes headers; ZIP archives are auto-extracted listmonk.app
- Kit tags must be flattened into listmonk's JSON attributes column manually listmonk.app
- Verify imported subscribers are confirmed before the first campaign - imports can arrive unconfirmed listmonk.app
From each destination's own migration docs and switching pages, plus community write-ups where no official guide exists, each checked against its page. Confirm terms on the linked page before you rely on an offer.
People who moved from Kit (ConvertKit) to listmonk
1 public accounts of leaving Kit (ConvertKit): 1 evaluated. Summaries are ours; each links the original, and each was checked against its page before it appeared here.
A technical creator switched his newsletter from Resend (not Kit) to self-hosted listmonk + AWS SES for $8/mo, after a year of quarterly price checks against Kit, beehiiv, MailerLite and others. Kit was explicitly evaluated and rejected on per-subscriber cost. Recorded as evaluated_only for this pair. Suganthan Mohanadasan
FAQ
Is listmonk cheaper than Kit (ConvertKit)?
Modeled, not measured: moving from Kit (ConvertKit) Creator to listmonk costs $992 more in the first year, after setup and upkeep time at $50/hour. It depends on your plan, seats and usage. the math
Can I move my Kit (ConvertKit) data to listmonk?
listmonk's official guide moves: Subscriber emails and names; Tags and custom fields; Subscription status. It doesn't move: Automations, sequences and broadcasts; Paid subscriptions; Automations and visual sequences; Paid subscriptions and commerce (listmonk has no membership feature). listmonk.app
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