ConvertKit vs GetResponse: a creator-first tool against a funnel-and-webinar suite

Plans at 1,000 contacts, side by side

Prices were read from both pricing pages on 7 October 2026 in US dollars. Kit's are the monthly rates under its yearly toggle. GetResponse shows monthly and yearly (18% off) side by side.

Reading the automation limits

The headline difference is where unlimited automation begins. Kit puts it on its first paid plan, so a 1,000-subscriber creator gets sequences and Visual Automations for $33. GetResponse's Starter allows a welcome series plus one custom workflow for $15.58 a month on yearly billing, which suits a single onboarding path. A SaaS trial funnel usually needs several: onboarding, trial ending, failed payment, win-back. That puts the realistic GetResponse comparison at Marketer: $48.38 against $33 on yearly billing, a gap of $15.38, or $184.56 over twelve months (15.38 times 12).

GetResponse's Creator plan, at $56.58 yearly, is where webinars, the website builder and the course creator sit. If webinars are your demo or onboarding channel, that is a plan Kit has no direct answer to. Kit's counterpoint is its free tier: up to 10,000 subscribers for broadcasts at no cost, which GetResponse has no equivalent to beyond its 14-day trial.

Price growth is the part I cannot show on one scale. Kit's Creator readouts are $33 at 1,000, $75 at 5,000, $116 at 10,000 and $166 at 25,000. GetResponse's page says every plan comes in list sizes of 1,000, 2,500, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, 50,000 and 100,000, but the page I could read in dollars exposes only the 1,000 band, and the live capture shows euros. Move its slider to your list size before deciding.

Closest plan pairs

• Automation parity: Kit Creator ($33 yearly) against GetResponse Marketer ($48.38 yearly), the first plan on each side where workflows are unlimited.
• Premium tier: Kit Pro ($66 yearly, or $50 in its first year) against GetResponse Creator ($56.58 yearly). Here GetResponse is $9.42 lower on yearly billing (66 minus 56.58) and adds webinars and course tools, while Kit Pro adds unlimited users, subscriber signals and a referral system.
• Entry tier: Kit Free against GetResponse Starter. Kit Free holds 10,000 subscribers for broadcasts, and GetResponse Starter costs $15.58 on yearly billing but includes the welcome series and one workflow and no more.

Both vendors discount yearly payment: Kit says 17%, GetResponse shows 18% off, which is how Starter drops from $19 to $15.58. Kit lists 24/7 email and chat support on Creator, and GetResponse reserves priority support, a dedicated IP address and a dedicated sending domain for Enterprise.

Billing events in each tool

Neither product has a trial-ended or payment-failed trigger of its own, so the question is how cheaply you can write one. GetResponse's workflows start from conditions such as Tag assigned, usable as the first element, and Custom field changed. Two details in its help pages catch SaaS builds. The custom-field condition does not fire when a contact joins your list with the field already set, and its webhook event for custom-field changes does not fire for changes made by automation or by imports. So write the billing field after the contact exists, and do not chain webhook logic off workflow edits.

Kit's Stripe app creates subscribers from Stripe buyers, logs payments in a Purchases tab and handles subscriptions, with no refund support. Kit's troubleshooting article says it reads charge succeeded and subscription updated, so a failed renewal needs your server to tag the subscriber through Kit's API. The GetResponse documentation I read describes tags, custom fields and webhooks, and no Stripe connector, so the same server-side route applies there.

If you are moving

1. Export contacts with tags and custom fields. Import unsubscribed addresses as unsubscribed so nobody who opted out is mailed again.
2. Kit's pricing page lists free migrations into Kit; ask for it if you are the one moving in.
3. Rebuild GetResponse workflows as Kit Visual Automations one by one, starting with the welcome series, and keep the old ones live until a full cycle of new signups has passed through the new ones.
4. Move webinars out first if you use them. Kit's pricing page lists no webinar tool, so pick a separate one before you cancel GetResponse Creator.

Which to choose

• Kit fits an individual publisher, course author or small SaaS founder who wants automations on the first paid plan and a free broadcast tier under 10,000.
• GetResponse fits a team that runs webinars or sales funnels and wants those plus email under one bill, accepting Marketer's higher price for unlimited workflows.
• Check list size first with GetResponse's slider, since only the 1,000 band is quoted here.

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