Ghost
98 · HealthyPublishing platform for blogs and newsletters, with paid memberships, subscriptions and email delivery built in.
Open source Email marketing
Mautic
87 · HealthyMarketing automation platform with campaigns, segments, landing pages and lead scoring.
listmonk
83 · HealthyHigh-performance newsletter and mailing-list manager shipped as a single binary.
useSend
74 · StableEmail sending service with an API, SMTP, domain management and campaigns, running on Amazon SES.
Posta
71 · StableEmail delivery service that lets your apps send through an HTTP API, with templates, delivery tracking and analytics.
Plunk
70 · StableEmail platform for SaaS products that combines transactional email, campaigns and automations on top of Amazon SES.
Postal
65 · StableMail delivery platform for sending transactional email from your own servers.
Keila
64 · StableNewsletter tool with a block editor, sign-up forms and campaign stats.
Dittofeed
61 · StableCustomer engagement platform for automated email, SMS and push journeys.
BillionMail
56 · CautionSelf-hosted mail server and newsletter platform for campaigns, templates and subscriber lists.
Mailtrain
15 · At riskSelf-hosted newsletter app built on Node.js.
Source-available and unverified licenses
The code for these is public, but the license is not an OSI open source license, or we have not verified it yet. Check the license notes on each project before relying on it.
Notifuse
68 · StableNewsletter, email marketing and transactional email platform with a visual MJML editor and several sending providers.
Mautic
Marketing automation platform with campaigns, segments, landing pages and lead scoring.
Will it still be around?
Healthy
Score 87/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free, share changes
GPL-3.0-or-later · open source (copyleft)
Features compared
has,doesn't7 features1 feature
6/13 HubSpot features free in Mautic
✕ doesn't have it · ◐ partly · $ higher plan or paid editionBoth have 5
Headline HubSpot features on the Sales Hub Professional plan, and whether Mautic has each in its free, self-hosted edition.
| Feature | HubSpotSales Hub Professional plan | Mautic6 of 13 free |
|---|---|---|
| HubSpot has, Mautic doesn't7 | ||
| Deal pipelines | IncludedMultiple pipelines | PartlyStages, not deal pipelines |
| Tasks and activity timeline | Included | No |
| Email sync and tracking | Included | PartlyTracks email opens and clicks |
| Meeting scheduling | Included | No |
| Sales forecasting | Included | No |
| Quotes | Included | No |
| Calling | Included | No |
| Mautic has, HubSpot doesn't1 | ||
| Marketing email campaigns | Higher planMarketing Hub | Yes |
| Both have5 | ||
| Contacts and companies | Included | Yes |
| Email sequences | Included | YesCampaign builder |
| Workflow automation | Included | YesCampaigns |
| Custom reports and dashboards | Included | Yes |
| API | Included | Yes |
Sources
- HubSpot, checked 2026-10-09: hubspot.com, hubspot.com
- Mautic, checked 2026-10-09: docs.mautic.org, github.com
Flat Rate Deploy
A 25-seat team on HubSpot Sales Hub Professional pays about $2,250 a month. Mautic on OpenTools costs $39 a month, setup included, so you save $2,211 a month, about $79,596 over three years.
Monthly cost
- Mautic on OpenTools
- $39
- HubSpot
$2,250
You save each month
$2,211/mo
98% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $79,596
- In year one
- $26,532
List price checked 7 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 87/100
Healthy · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit yesterday (100/100).
- 6148 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 20 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight82/100
- Top contributor wrote 38% of the last 78 commits (past 12 months).
- 9 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight70/100
- 99% of all issues are closed (68 open, 7701 closed) (100/100).
- 15 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (50/100).
License
Free, share changes
GPL-3.0-or-later · Open source (copyleft)
What you need to do
Free for any use, commercial included. Running it in your company, changed or not, asks nothing of you; only if you hand modified copies to others must you publish your changes under the same license.
For Mautic
Standard GPL: if you distribute modified versions, you must share the source under the GPL.
GPL-3.0-or-later · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
License text checked 2026-10-07 · Read it
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 11k
- Forks
- 3.5k
- Commits, 12 mo
- 6.1k
- last yesterday
- Releases, 12 mo
- 20
- last 16 days ago
- Contributors
- 286
- 9 in last 78 commits
- Open issues
- 68
- 7.7k closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-08 · Funding: github, open collective
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into Mautic and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more. 88 people have points on Mautic in all.
