
Listmonk
High-performance, self-hosted newsletter manager
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Linkwarden saves, organizes, and preserves web pages and bookmarks with automatic archiving so your links survive when pages go down. It's a single Go binary backed by Postgres that handles subscriber management, campaign creation, analytics, and sending, all through a clean web UI. Connect it to any SMTP service (Amazon SES, Postmark, your own server) and you're running your own Mailchimp for the cost of a VPS.
What makes Listmonk stand out: performance. It can handle hundreds of thousands of subscribers without breaking a sweat. The templating system is flexible, transactional emails work alongside campaigns, and the API is well-documented for programmatic access. Subscriber segmentation, A/B testing, bounce handling, it's all there.
Deployment is dead simple compared to alternatives. Docker Compose up, point it at a Postgres database, configure SMTP, done. The whole thing runs on a $10/mo VPS comfortably for 50K+ subscribers.
The catch: no drag-and-drop email builder. You write HTML templates or use the built-in markdown editor. If your marketing team expects a visual builder like Mailchimp's, they'll be disappointed. There's no built-in landing page builder or signup form designer either; you build those yourself or use the embed code. And the community, while growing, is smaller than commercial ESPs; you're on your own for advanced deliverability tuning.
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Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully free### Free
Fully open source under AGPL-3.0. Every feature is included. No paid tier, no hosted version from the maintainer.
### Real Costs
- **Server:** $5-10/mo VPS (512MB RAM is enough for small lists) - **Email sending via Amazon SES:** $0.10 per 1,000 emails. 50K emails/month = $5 - **Email sending via Postmark:** $1.25 per 1,000 emails for broadcast. More expensive but better deliverability reputation. - **Domain/DNS:** DKIM, SPF, DMARC records required for deliverability
### The Math
A 25K subscriber list sending weekly on SES: ~$15/mo total (VPS + SES). The same list on Mailchimp: $200+/mo. On ConvertKit: $166/mo. The savings scale dramatically: at 100K subscribers, you're saving $500+/mo. Setup time is 1-2 hours with Docker.
Free software. Budget $10-20/mo for infrastructure (VPS + email sending). Saves hundreds compared to managed ESPs at scale.
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