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MailUp at a glance

Vendor
MailUp S.p.A.
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates MailUp 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. MailUp is an email and SMS marketing platform contracted through TeamSystem S.p.A. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources

MailUp alternatives, European ones first →

Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Has seen every vendor claim 99% deliverability and GDPR compliance on the same page. Reads for the contact-tier staircase, the overage rate, the feature that begins two tiers up, and whether "EU hosting" covers the sending infrastructure or only the database.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Skeptic

Panel median The Skeptic This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Skeptic
Campaigns & automation 3 of 5 2.5 of 5
Deliverability infrastructure 3 of 5 2 of 5
Consent, proof & tracking limits 3 of 5 3 of 5
List ownership, import & exit 3 of 5 3 of 5
Integrations & API 2 of 5 2 of 5
European sovereignty 3 of 5 2 of 5

Campaigns & automation

How this is scored

Building the mail and the journey around it: editor, templates, segmentation, triggered sequences, A/B testing.

0 — One-off broadcasts from a fixed template; no segmentation and no automation of any kind.

3 — A drag-and-drop editor and simple list segmentation, but automation is a single welcome mail and there is no testing.

5 — Reusable templates, attribute and behaviour segmentation, multi-step automations on common triggers, and subject-line A/B testing.

8 — A visual journey builder with branching on behaviour and data, dynamic content per segment, send-time optimisation, and testing that reports significance rather than raw counts.

10 — Journeys treat the whole lifecycle: event-driven entry from other systems, branching on any attribute or event, holdout groups for measurement, and automations a marketer can read months later without a diagram.

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The Skeptic

A drag-and-drop editor with an AI assistant, advanced segmentation filters, scheduled cross-channel workflows and a properly parameterised A/B test (5–30% samples, open or click success criteria, timed winner send) sit squarely at the middle of this scale. I found no public information on journeys branching on behaviour or data, dynamic content per segment, or send-time optimisation, and the A/B reporting shows per-variant counts rather than significance. 1 4

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Deliverability infrastructure

How this is scored

Whether the mail arrives — authentication, sending reputation, bounce and complaint handling — judged on what the vendor documents rather than the inbox rate it advertises.

0 — No documentation of authentication or bounce handling; deliverability appears only as a marketing number.

3 — SPF and DKIM setup documented, but no DMARC guidance, no stated bounce policy and shared sending only.

5 — SPF, DKIM and DMARC documented with a custom sending domain, automatic hard-bounce suppression, and complaint-loop handling stated.

8 — The above plus dedicated-IP options with a documented warm-up, seed or inbox-placement testing, engagement-based sunsetting, and published guidance on list hygiene.

10 — Deliverability is operated as a service: reputation monitoring surfaced to the customer, per-domain and per-ISP diagnostics, enforced authentication before first send, and postmaster or blocklist handling the vendor documents doing on the customer's behalf.

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The Skeptic

Bounce and complaint handling are documented properly: automatic hard-bounce suppression, feedback-loop agreements that auto-unsubscribe complainers at Yahoo!, AOL and Hotmail, and shared plus dedicated whitelisted IPs monitored by a named deliverability team. But the only authentication statement is that you can customise email authentication with your own domain — I found no public information naming SPF, DKIM or DMARC setup, and nothing on warm-up, seed testing or list hygiene. The homepage's 'delivery rates that are among the best on the market' is exactly the marketing number I refuse to score. 1 5 6

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List ownership, import & exit

How this is scored

Whether the list and its history remain the sender's: import with attributes intact, full export including engagement history, deletion that executes, and no metering that prices leaving out of reach.

0 — Export is addresses only; engagement history, segments and automations cannot leave.

3 — CSV import and export of subscriber fields, but engagement history and unsubscribe state are not exportable.

5 — Full subscriber export including custom attributes, subscription status and unsubscribe state, plus API access sufficient to sync elsewhere.

8 — Everything exportable in open formats — subscribers, engagement history, campaigns and templates — with documented deletion of a subscriber across all records, and no export throttling.

10 — Exit is a documented feature: full-fidelity export of the whole account, contractual data return, deletion that is evidenced rather than asserted, and migration tooling in both directions.

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The Skeptic

Exit tooling exists: automated CSV-over-SFTP export services for subscribed and unsubscribed contacts with incremental or full modes, an in-platform export function, and documented complete deletion of a recipient as a right-to-be-forgotten option. I found no public information on exporting engagement history, campaigns or templates, or on export throttling, so what leaves the platform is contacts and unsubscribe state, not the account's working history. 2 7 9 10

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

The connection surface a newsletter lives on: shop and CRM systems, events in and out, webhooks, and an API somebody can build against without a partner agreement.

0 — No API and no named integrations; the list is maintained by CSV upload.

3 — A handful of native integrations and a read-mostly API, with no webhooks and no documented rate limits.

5 — Named integrations for common shop and CRM systems, a documented REST API with keys, and webhooks for the core subscriber events.

8 — Maintained bidirectional integrations with named systems including at least one major shop platform, event webhooks with retries, documented rate limits, and a sandbox.

10 — The tool is a component rather than a destination: transactional and marketing sending on one API, events flowing both directions, versioned API with a deprecation policy, and integrations the vendor maintains rather than lists.

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The Skeptic

The REST and SOAP APIs handle subscriptions, updates and campaign creation — real writes, not a read-only surface — alongside named shop connectors (Magento 2, Drupal Commerce, 4-Tell), a WordPress plugin, and a marketplace where developers publish or sell integrations. But CRM, CMS, ERP and BI integrations are named only generically, and I found no public information on webhooks, documented rate limits or a sandbox, which holds this below the middle of the scale. 1 11

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where subscriber data and behavioural tracking live, who the contracting entity is, and which subprocessors touch the send. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — US vendor and contracting entity, US hosting, subprocessors unnamed; subscriber behaviour leaves the EU with no stated basis.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option or for storage only, while sending, tracking or support access remains non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — sending infrastructure, analytics, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting, sending and every subprocessor in the EU, certification published, and no transfer that needs a Schrems II argument to survive.

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The Skeptic

The captured pages name an Italian contracting entity, TeamSystem S.p.A. of Pesaro, and place the platform on Azure and AWS 'localizzate nell'Unione Europea', with an art. 28 DPA, an appointed DPO and SCC or adequacy safeguards. But both cloud parents are US companies, the location of the sending infrastructure is never addressed separately from the platform, I found no published subprocessor list, and the independently sourced sovereignty attributes — jurisdiction, ownership, residency, subprocessor exposure — are all listed as unknown. For a buyer who weighs this heavily, that is not enough to go past the middle of the scale. 2 3 7 8

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a sender can compute the real invoice for their list size and send volume — including overage, extra domains and automation limits — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A headline price per contact tier exists, but send limits, overage rates or the tier where automation begins are not stated.

5 — Contact-tier prices public with the billing period stated and send limits given, but at least one commonly needed capability sits in an unpriced tier or add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with contact and volume limits, overage rates, feature boundaries and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom volume lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given list size and send frequency, including overage, additional domains and dedicated IPs.

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The Skeptic

The model is documented — an annual fee varying with edition and send speed, unlimited recipients at no additional cost, no limit on the number of emails sent, and SMS at pay-per-message — but I found no public price figures at all: no edition prices, no speed-tier ladder, no per-message SMS rate, and custom developments quoted case by case. A buyer can describe the shape of the invoice but cannot compute a single number on it. 3

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about MailUp

Is MailUp European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where MailUp is based.

Where does MailUp store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

Does MailUp have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to MailUp?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates Brevo (3/5), CleverReach (3/5) and Mailchimp (3/5) highest among the other 27 Email Marketing & Newsletter products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Brevo (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: MailUp alternatives.

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Sources (11)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.mailup.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage mailup.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations & API — found from sitemap mailup.it Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →