Email marketing · replacement recipe

Simple newsletter management

3 ways out.

Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

What you use

  • Lists
  • Templates
  • Campaign send
  • Unsubscribe

Not covered

  • Full lifecycle marketing suite
  • CRM intelligence
  • Deliverability team
  • Advanced customer journeys

Check before switching

  • Licensed recipient lists
  • Consent and unsubscribe preserved
  • Provider volume cost included
  • No required automation lost

Agents: get_recipe("newsletter-control") on the Stackcut MCP server.

3 ways out, best first

Open sourcelistmonkSavings not modeled yet
Covers 100% of the core features
License: AGPL project; mail delivery service and operational ownership remain separate.
Sources: listmonk.app
Agent skillResend skills (incl. agent-email-inbox)Priced by usage
Free to install; needs Resend (Pro: 50,000 emails/mo, no daily limit, 10 domains, 5 webhook endpoints; overage $0.90 per 1,000; Scale: 100,000 emails/mo, 1,000 domains, 10 webhook endpoints; overage $0.90 per 1,000; SSO and dedicated IP add-ons)
Agent inboxes and email-triggered workflows on Resend inbound email, instead of a separate agent-inbox service; broadcasts for small lists.
Covers 100% of the core features
Assumes you already pay for an agent that runs skills (an agent that supports Agent Skills (e.g. Claude Code/Cowork, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI); the agent's own subscription is not counted); that agent's cost isn't counted. Needs Resend: priced by usage, so this way isn't priced here. Setup (2 h) and upkeep (0.5 h a month) are Stackcut's estimates; not tested by Stackcut.
License: MIT
Install: npx skills add resend/resend-skills
Sources: github.comraw.githubusercontent.com
Replace with AIReplace with AI: simple newsletter managementSavings not modeled yet
Deploy maintained newsletter tooling on managed delivery infrastructure; retain suppression and consent state.
Covers 100% of the core features
Sources: github.com

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