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Number of Contacts vs. Number of Emails

The vendors in our survey do not sell email lists. You must provide your own list of contacts or email addresses. The distinction between email and contact based pricing will be most important for users who plan to send emails to the same list of contacts more than once a month. If you sign up for a plan that bases pricing on the total number of emails sent per month, you will be charged twice for sending two emails to the same contact. Services that base their pricing on Contacts will allow you to send multiple emails per month to the contacts you upload. Generally, most providers have a similarly priced minimum plan, whether those plans are based on contacts or emails. (Ex: Both iContact and Benchmark start at $9.95, though iContact bills per contact and Benchmark bills per email.)