Cost guide

How much does email marketing cost in 2026?

A lifecycle flows build runs $750–$5K as a fixed quote at the direct rate, priced by how many automated flows your list justifies and how far each one branches. The monthly programme that runs campaigns afterwards and single campaign emails by the send are priced on their own below, and every figure becomes a written proposal within 48 hours.

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The range

What it costs,
at the direct rate.

Flows are priced as a one-off build, campaigns and segmentation as an optional monthly programme afterwards, and single sends per email; the platform subscription is always billed by the platform.

ProjectLifecycle flows build$750–$5Kfixed quote, one-time
RetainerMonthly email programme$500–$3Kper month
Per unitCampaign email, per send$125–$400per email

Indicative: every figure is refined into an itemised proposal within 48 hours.INR figures shown excl. GST.

Every option includes a Prism workspace for requests, approvals, tasks and the weekly review.

What moves the price

Why the range
is a range.

How many flows, and how far they branch

A flow is an automated sequence triggered by behaviour: someone joins the list, leaves a checkout, browses and goes quiet, buys, or stops buying. Each flow is written, designed, built and tested. A single-path welcome series is one build. A win-back that branches by what the customer bought and how long they have been quiet is several builds under one name. The flow map prices each.

Biggest lever

Sends per month, and how many segments each is cut for

A segment is a group of subscribers who behave alike: new, repeat, at-risk, long-quiet. One campaign sent to the whole list is one build. The same campaign cut for several segments, each with its own offer and subject line, is several. The programme fee tracks the calendar's sends and cuts. A busy launch month and a quiet one sit at different points of the range.

Programme lever

Deliverability debt

Deliverability is whether your email reaches the inbox at all. Authentication records, the entries that prove a message really came from you, may be missing. The sending domain may never have been warmed. Dead addresses may be inflating your platform bill and dragging your sender reputation down. Cleaning that up comes before volume rises, and how much there is to clean sets the first weeks.

Hidden lever

Platform and integration

Klaviyo is where our deepest experience sits, and comparable platforms are fine where you already live. What moves the price is the state of the connection. A store or CRM that does not send the events flows trigger on needs integration fixes first. A migration from another platform is quoted on top of the build. The subscription itself is always billed by the platform.

Platform lever

Design load per email

A text-first editorial send is written, built and tested quickly. A catalogue-fed product grid with many blocks, a countdown and a mobile layout to check is a design job as well as a copy job. The proposal names the design standard per flow and per campaign. A brand that sells on words is not paying for grids it does not use.

Production lever

The options

Which option
fits your case.

Each option below is one way to buy Email and lifecycle marketing. Read what it is and who it fits, then request the one that matches your case; the proposal itemises it.

Project

Lifecycle flows build

$750–$5Kfixed quote, one-time

What it is

The always-on layer, built once. An account and list audit sets a revenue baseline, a flow map is sequenced by expected revenue, and the highest-value flows are written, designed, built and switched on. Segments are defined on behaviour, and authentication is verified and the domain warmed before volume rises.

Who it fits

Any business with a permissioned list and a platform, commerce brands most of all, and any account that is all campaigns and no automation. It does not fit a business with no list to speak of, where capture comes first, or a bought list, which we will not send to.

Included

Account and list audit with a revenue baseline
A prioritised flow map, sequenced by expected revenue contribution
Welcome, abandoned-checkout, browse, post-purchase and win-back flows, as the map justifies
Segments defined on behaviour: new, repeat, at-risk, long-quiet
Authentication verified, sending domain warmed, sunset policy applied before volume rises

Not included, quoted separately

Platform subscription, billed by Klaviyo or your platform
Platform migration
Store or CRM integration fixes

Turnaround: 4 to 8 weeks; first flow live inside 14 days
Moves the number: Flow count and branching: three single-path flows is the floor; eight flows with segment branches and a store integration is the ceiling.

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Retainer

Monthly email programme

$500–$3Kper month

What it is

The monthly layer on top of live flows. A campaign calendar is planned against segments, campaigns are written, designed, built and scheduled, and subject lines and send logic are tested with their readouts. Deliverability is checked monthly, and revenue is reported per flow and campaign.

Who it fits

Brands with flows running that have launches, offers and editorial to send every month. It does not fit an account with no flows yet, because campaigns on top of nothing are the whole channel. Nor does it fit a brand that sends rarely, where campaign emails by the send do more.

Included

A campaign calendar planned against segments, not the whole list
Campaigns written, designed, built and scheduled
Subject-line and send-logic tests with honest readouts
Monthly deliverability check: authentication, list cleaning, sunset policy
Monthly revenue report per flow and campaign

Not included, quoted separately

Platform subscription, billed by your platform
New flows beyond upkeep of the existing ones
Platform migration

Turnaround: Monthly, 3-month minimum
Moves the number: Sends per month and how many segments each is cut for: four campaigns to one list and twelve across six segments are different months.

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Per unit

Campaign email, per send

$125–$400per email

One unit: one campaign email: written, designed, built in your platform, test-sent and scheduled to a chosen segment

What it is

One campaign email: written with subject line and preview text, designed and built in your platform, mobile-checked, test-sent and scheduled to the segment you name.

Who it fits

Teams with flows live and an occasional launch or offer to produce properly without a retainer. It does not fit a team that needs a new segment built or test variants on every send, which is the programme's job.

Included

Copy with subject line and preview text
Designed and built in your platform, mobile-checked
Test send and link check
Scheduled to the segment you name

Not included, quoted separately

Platform subscription
Segment build
A/B variants

Turnaround: 3 to 5 working days; batches of 4 or more scheduled weekly
Moves the number: Design load: a text-first editorial send is the floor; a catalogue-fed product grid with six blocks and a countdown is the ceiling.

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Cheaper or dearer

What moves a quote
down, or up.

The flow map and the campaign calendar are both itemised in the proposal, so each item below is a line you can see before anything is built.

Brings the quote down

A clean, permissioned list on a platform we already know
Authentication records in place and a sending domain already warm
A voice guide and a written offer, so copy is edited rather than invented
Text-first campaigns and single-path flows
A store or CRM that already sends the events flows trigger on

Pushes the quote up

Many flows branching by segment, purchase history and time quiet
A platform migration on the way in, with history and standing to preserve
A list that needs a sunset policy and cleaning before volume can rise
Catalogue-fed designs with many blocks, checked on every mobile client
Integration fixes before a single flow can fire

What you get

What the fee
actually buys.

The fee buys flows switched on, campaigns shipped and a revenue report you can check in your own platform. No open rate or revenue figure is promised. Opens stopped being reliable when mail clients began pre-fetching messages, and revenue depends on your list and your offer as much as on the work.

Flows live, not documented

The sequences the map justifies, built in your platform and switched on, each earning from the people most likely to buy while nobody presses send.

Segments built on behaviour

New, repeat, at-risk and long-quiet subscribers defined and maintained, so nobody receives everything and unsubscribes stay low.

Deliverability checked before volume rises

Authentication verified, the domain warmed, dead addresses retired, and the check repeated every month on the programme.

Tests with a readout

Subject lines and send logic tested where the list supports a verdict, reported win, lose or inconclusive rather than always a win.

Revenue per flow and per campaign

Every send attributed against orders and revenue in your own dashboards, so nothing you are shown rests on our slides.

Your account, your list

The platform account, the flows, the segments and the templates sit in your name from the first week. Leaving takes an email.

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Questions

Frequently
asked.

Because they are different work on different clocks. A flow is built once and then runs every hour of every day, so it is priced as a fixed build with an end date. Campaigns are a calendar: launches, offers and editorial produced every month against segments, with tests and a deliverability check alongside. Paying monthly for a build would misprice it. So would paying a project fee for a calendar.

No. Klaviyo, or whichever platform you use, bills its subscription to you directly, and it is never inside the fee. On platforms priced per profile, the list cleaning in the build and the programme matters twice. It protects deliverability, and it stops you paying the platform for dead addresses. The proposal notes the platform's cost beside our fee, so both are visible.

A line of its own on top of the flows build, quoted to scope. Moving from Mailchimp, Omnisend, HubSpot or a comparable platform means carrying over flow logic, history, segments and deliverability standing rather than starting from zero. The effort depends on how much of each you have. The audit tells you whether the platform is the constraint at all; often the flows and segments matter more than the login screen.

Only if you have campaigns to send. Flows keep earning without a retainer, and a brand with nothing to announce can stop at the build. The programme exists for brands with a real calendar: launches, offers and editorial cut per segment, tested, and checked monthly for deliverability drift. If you send occasionally, campaign emails by the send are the better shape. The proposal will say which you are.

Not our fee. The build is priced by flows and branches, the programme by sends and segments, and neither rises because the list grew. What list size does change is the platform's bill, which on per-profile pricing tracks every address you hold. Keeping dead addresses off the list is part of the deliverability work, and it is also the cheapest way to cut the platform's invoice.

Growing it is priced under conversion optimisation: sign-up incentives, on-site capture and preference centres are page work, quoted there. Getting you one is not something we sell. Bought or rented addresses wreck deliverability for everything else you send. They also sit on the wrong side of privacy law in most markets we serve, so we will not build flows on them.

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Last updated 29 September 2026

What it costs,at the direct rate.

Why the rangeis a range.

How many flows, and how far they branch

Sends per month, and how many segments each is cut for

Deliverability debt

Platform and integration

Design load per email

Which optionfits your case.

Lifecycle flows build

Monthly email programme

Campaign email, per send

What moves a quotedown, or up.

What the feeactually buys.

Flows live, not documented

Segments built on behaviour

Deliverability checked before volume rises

Tests with a readout

Revenue per flow and per campaign

Your account, your list

Frequentlyasked.

Other cost guidesand the service itself.

What it costs,
at the direct rate.

Why the range
is a range.

Which option
fits your case.

What moves a quote
down, or up.

What the fee
actually buys.

Frequently
asked.

Other cost guides
and the service itself.