Encharge vs Ortto: a published price list against a quote-only customer data platform
Encharge prints its prices: Growth is $99 a month for 2,000 subscribers and $249 for 10,000, Premium $159 and $399. Ortto prints none; its pricing is on request (quote-based), and the pricing URL its own navigation links to returned a 404 page on 7 October 2026. So the comparison here is lopsided by design: one side can be budgeted today, the other needs a brief and a quote. What Ortto does publish is a detailed Stripe data model with MRR and ARR, which is worth weighing against Encharge's twelve Stripe triggers.
By Julian Pryor · Updated 7 Oct 2026
Short answer
Choose Encharge when you want a known monthly cost and flows driven by Stripe, Chargebee or Paddle triggers. Ask Ortto for a quote when you want one platform for customer data, journeys, SMS, push, in-app messages and live chat, and have budget for a sales process. Ortto's banner says it is joining Canva, so ask about contract and roadmap terms too.
What can be priced today
Encharge's rows are monthly-billed slider readouts read on 7 Oct 2026. Ortto's cells say what its site does and does not publish.
| Subscribers or contacts | Encharge Growth | Encharge Premium | Ortto |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,000 | $99 ($79 billed yearly) | $159 ($129 billed yearly) | Pricing on request (quote-based) |
| 5,000 | $179 | $269 | Pricing on request (quote-based) |
| 10,000 | $249 | $399 | Pricing on request (quote-based) |
| 25,000 | $389 | $649 | Pricing on request (quote-based) |
| Over 50,000 | Enterprise, custom pricing | Pricing on request (quote-based) | |
Encharge adds an overage of $100 for every 100,000 emails sent above the monthly ceiling, which is 10 times the subscriber limit on Growth and 12 times on Premium. Neither vendor lists a free plan; Encharge advertises a 14-day free trial, and Ortto's navigation carries a "Sign up for a free trial" link without stating a length.
Questions that make an Ortto quote comparable
- Unit and tiers. Ask whether the price follows contacts, active people, messages or channels, and what the next tier up costs.
- Channels. Ortto's site lists email, SMS, push notifications, in-app messages, forms and surveys, live chat, an inbox and a knowledge base. Ask which are in the base price and which are add-ons.
- Transactional email. Its footer links a transactional email page, so ask whether it is priced on its own.
- The Canva change. Its banner reads "Ortto is joining Canva!" Ask what happens to renewal pricing, data processing terms and the product roadmap.
Send both vendors the same brief: 10,000 contacts, a trial onboarding journey, a trial-expired journey and a failed-payment journey connected to Stripe, so the Ortto number can sit beside Encharge's $249 or $399.
Stripe data, field by field
Ortto's Stripe integration page says it will "unlock your customer, trial, subscription, charge and invoice data" and send personalized messages using it. It lists invoice created, invoice total, invoice amount paid, amount refunded and currency as activities, current term start, current term end, activated at, expires at, cancelled at and product names as objects, and trial created, trial value, trial updated, subscription created, subscription updated, MRR and ARR as actions. It also names a Stripe SaaS metrics dashboard and a new Stripe trials view (Ortto for Stripe). The page does not label these as triggers, so ask how a "subscription cancelled" or "trial expiring" journey starts.
Encharge's Stripe page labels twelve triggers directly: trial started, trial ends, trial converted, trial expired, subscription activated, past due, reactivated, scheduled cancellation, cancelled, expanded, contracted and new Stripe payment. It imports historical billing data on connect, and its integration list adds Chargebee, Chargify, Recurly and Paddle (Encharge for Stripe). Ortto's SaaS page also names Recurly, Stripe, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Segment as integrations.
Focused flows against a data layer
Encharge describes itself as a marketing automation platform built for B2B SaaS: a visual flow builder, behavior emails, segmentation on events, webhooks, unlimited flows and team members, transactional email and API events on Premium, with Twilio SMS among its integrations. Ortto presents a customer data platform first, with analytics, lead scoring, journeys, in-app messages and chat on top, and an Ortto template called "14 day SaaS Trial" aimed at converting trial users. If your problem is trial conversion by email, Encharge is the narrower tool. If your problem is that customer data sits in five places and every team wants its own channel, Ortto is trying to be the layer underneath.
Moving between them
- Export people with attributes and the event history your segments rely on. A CDP such as Ortto holds more history than an email flow tool, so decide what is worth carrying.
- Import unsubscribed people as unsubscribed before any send.
- Reconnect the billing provider and compare entry conditions for the trial-expired and past-due journeys.
- Move the sending domain's authentication records last, and run old and new journeys in parallel for one trial length.
The decision
- Encharge Growth or Premium if you need to publish a budget this week and your billing system is Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly or Paddle.
- Ortto if a quote is acceptable and you want SMS, push, in-app and chat on the same data.
- Wait on Ortto if procurement cannot proceed without clarity on the Canva change.
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Encharge vs Ortto: common questions
How much does Ortto cost compared with Encharge?
Ortto pricing is on request (quote-based): its pricing URL returned a 404 page when fetched on 7 October 2026, and its site offers a free-trial sign-up and a demo booking instead of a price list. Encharge lists Growth at $99 a month and Premium at $159 for up to 2,000 subscribers, with $249 and $399 at 10,000.
What Stripe data does Ortto bring in?
Ortto's Stripe page lists invoice activities (created, total, amount paid, amount refunded, currency), objects such as current term start and end, activated at, expires at and cancelled at, and actions such as trial created, trial updated, subscription created, subscription updated, MRR and ARR. It also names a "Stripe SaaS metrics" dashboard and a "New Stripe trials" view. Encharge's page lists twelve triggers, including trial ends, past due and cancelled.
What does the Canva banner on Ortto's site mean for buyers?
The banner "Ortto is joining Canva!" appeared on the Ortto pages fetched on 7 October 2026, and the announcement link it carries returned a 404 page when fetched. I cannot say how that will change pricing or the product. It is a reason to ask about contract terms, roadmap commitments and renewal pricing in writing before signing.
Which is better for a seed-stage SaaS?
Encharge, in most cases, because you can read the price (Growth at $99 a month for up to 2,000 subscribers, or $79 billed yearly), start a 14-day trial, and choose among its Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly and Paddle connections. Ortto becomes interesting when you want customer data, SMS, push and in-app messages in one platform and are ready to take a quote.