Alternative to ActiveCampaign: Hyax
ActiveCampaign climbs with every contact, $119/mo at 15k, $559/mo at 100k. Hyax is $29/mo flat with email automations plus website, courses, community, and AI.
Pricing at a glance
ActiveCampaign Plus (representative) scales from about $49/mo at 5k contacts to ~$559/mo at 100k on monthly billing. Professional and Enterprise differ. Hyax stays $29/mo flat with full-stack creator features.
Hyax email cost (optional)
Assumes ~40,000 sends/mo (4 sends to your full list per month). Pick one, /pricing for Resend vs plan caps.
ActiveCampaign: Estimates for Plus plan, monthly billing, by contact count. Exact pricing varies by plan (Lite/Plus/Professional), annual discount, and add-ons (Conversations, SMS). Verify on activecampaign.com.
Hyax:Starter plan ($29/mo). Monthly billing, flat pricing, unlimited contacts, 0% platform fees. Does not include raw Resend charges when you use your own API key for unlimited sending. See pricing for email limits and plan caps.
Showing the Starter subscription only ($29/mo). About 40,000 sends/mo is above Starter's included platform sending, so this comparison does not include the email cost of that workload.
ActiveCampaign vs Hyax: Feature comparison
| Feature | Hyax | ActiveCampaign |
|---|---|---|
| Content & Publishing | ||
| Blog / Website | Included | Landing pages |
| AI Writing Assistant | Included | Partial |
| Brand-trained AI | Included | Not included |
| Custom Domain | Included | Included |
| SEO Optimization | Included | Partial |
| Lighthouse 85+ Score | Included | Not included |
| Email Marketing | ||
| Email Newsletters | Included | Included |
| Email Automations | Included | Included |
| Behavioral Segmentation | Included | Included |
| A/B Testing | Included | Included |
| Email Sequences | Included | Included |
| Unlimited Sends | Included | Plan limits |
| Monetization | ||
| Digital Products | Included | Integrations |
| Paid Subscriptions | Included | Partial |
| Courses | Included | Not included |
| 0% Platform Fees | Included | N/A |
| Community / Memberships | Included | Not included |
| Platform & Tools | ||
| Analytics Dashboard | Included | Email + CRM |
| API Access | Included | Included |
| Link in Bio | Included | Not included |
| Help Desk / Knowledge Base | Included | Conversations+ |
| Visual Workflow Builder | Included | Automations |
| Live Chat Widget | Included | Add-on |
| Pricing Model | ||
| Flat Pricing | Included | Per contact |
| Unlimited Subscribers | Included | Tiered by list size |
| No Transaction Fees | Included | N/A |
Why switch from ActiveCampaign to Hyax
Saved per month at 100k contacts
ActiveCampaign Plus-scale pricing is roughly $559/mo at 100,000 contacts. Hyax is $29/mo flat, over $6,300/year back in your pocket before add-ons.
Email plus what AC does not ship
ActiveCampaign is CRM and email first. Hyax adds a real website, courses, community, help desk, link-in-bio, and brand-trained AI in the same subscription.
Built for publishing businesses
AC optimizes sales pipelines. Hyax optimizes subscribers, content, and revenue, with native monetization and Stripe context ESPs treat as someone else\u2019s problem.
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