Mailchimp

Mailchimp's Free plan costs $0 for up to 250 contacts. Paid plans start at $13 a month for Essentials and $20 a month for Standard, and prices rise with the number of contacts. Premium is shown at $350 a month for the first 12 months at 10,000 contacts with a 15% discount. Prices shown are in USD and billed monthly.

The Free plan includes up to 250 contacts and 500 email sends per month, with a daily limit of 250 sends. It includes a limited selection of email templates and lets you try landing pages and forms. If you go over 250 contacts, Mailchimp holds live and test sends until you upgrade or reduce contacts, though you can still edit emails and import contacts.

Yes. Mailchimp offers a 14-day free trial of its Standard plan, and after the trial you can cancel or downgrade to a lower plan, including the basic Free plan. The pricing page also mentions a one-month free trial of Premium, arranged through the sales team for larger contact lists. Trial terms are linked from the pricing page.

You can pause or delete. Pausing a Marketing plan stops monthly billing and keeps your data, with a limit of 2 pauses every 12 months. Deleting the account is permanent: Mailchimp removes audiences, campaign archives and reports, and the account cannot be restored. You must pay any outstanding balance first, then confirm your password and type DELETE to finish.

Yes, but you can move from a paid plan to the Free plan only once over the life of your account. If you downgrade mid-cycle, you keep your current plan until the billing cycle ends. If you go from Pay As You Go to Free, remaining credits are lost, and you may need to delete contacts, seats or audiences before the downgrade.