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Which email marketing software do AI tools recommend for a small business?
We asked four AI tools five questions a buyer might ask about email marketing software for a small business, each one twice. Here are the products their answers named, and how many answers named each one.
Products the answers named
15 products were named in 2 or more answers. 6 of them were named by all four AI tools. 4 more were named in just one answer each.
Products named in 2 or more of the 40 answers, most named first; ties in A to Z order. Under each AI tool, the count is out of the answers we counted from that tool.
| Product | Answers naming it | ChatGPT | Claude | Perplexity | Gemini |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MailerLite mailerlite.com | 39 of 40 | 10 of 10 | 10 of 10 | 9 of 10 | 10 of 10 |
| Brevo brevo.com | 28 of 40 | 6 of 10 | 10 of 10 | 4 of 10 | 8 of 10 |
| Mailchimp mailchimp.com | 24 of 40 | 5 of 10 | 3 of 10 | 10 of 10 | 6 of 10 |
| Klaviyo klaviyo.com | 17 of 40 | 4 of 10 | 5 of 10 | 2 of 10 | 6 of 10 |
| Omnisend omnisend.com | 16 of 40 | 2 of 10 | 8 of 10 | 2 of 10 | 4 of 10 |
| Kit kit.com | 11 of 40 | 1 of 10 | 4 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 6 of 10 |
| Sender sender.net | 8 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 6 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 2 of 10 |
| Constant Contact constantcontact.com | 7 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 3 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 4 of 10 |
| Shopify Messaging shopify.com | 7 of 40 | 2 of 10 | 2 of 10 | 1 of 10 | 2 of 10 |
| Beehiiv | 5 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 2 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 3 of 10 |
| ActiveCampaign | 3 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 2 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 1 of 10 |
| Benchmark Email benchmarkemail.com | 2 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 2 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 10 |
| Moosend | 2 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 2 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 10 |
| Systeme.io | 2 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 2 of 10 |
| Zoho Campaigns | 2 of 40 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 10 | 1 of 10 | 1 of 10 |
A name here means only that AI tools named it. We have not checked these products, and we do not recommend any of them. We show names and counts only. We never repeat what the AI tools said about a product, because AI answers can be wrong.
4 more products were named in just one answer each. We do not list them: one answer is too little to go on.
Looking for your own product? The free check at the end of this page shows whether AI tools name you when buyers ask.
The questions, word for word
We wrote these five questions in a buyer's words, and none of them names a product. We asked them in English, exactly as written here.
- Which email marketing software would you recommend for a small business?
- I want to start sending a newsletter to my customers. What email marketing tool should I use?
- Is there email marketing software with a good free plan for a small list?
- Which email marketing tool is easiest to use for a complete beginner?
- What email marketing software works well for a small online shop?
Directories, platforms and publications
The answers also named these. We do not count them as products.
- Substack: 3 answers
Sites the answers linked to
The websites the answers linked to most, with the number of answers that linked to each.
- brevo.com: 16 answers
- mailchimp.com: 11 answers
- mailerlite.com: 11 answers
- emailvendorselection.com: 8 answers
- ventureharbour.com: 7 answers
- hostinger.com: 6 answers
- business.com: 5 answers
- shopify.com: 5 answers
- capterra.com: 4 answers
- constantcontact.com: 4 answers
How we asked
We asked OpenAI (gpt-6-luna), Anthropic (claude-haiku-5-5), Perplexity (perplexity/sonar) and Google Gemini (google/gemini-3.8-flash) through their official APIs, with web search on, as our paid audit does.
We reached Google Gemini through Perplexity's API, so it searched the web with Perplexity's search.
We asked each question twice on each AI tool on 31 October 2026, with the search location set to the United States: 40 answers in all.
To find the names, a separate AI model (Anthropic's claude-haiku-5-5) listed the products each answer named. Our code then counted them.
A product counts once per answer. Spellings of one name count as one (for example with and without "Inc"). Directories, platforms and the AI tools themselves are not counted as products, and neither is a product named only to warn against it.
An editor merged names that are the same product and moved a name that is another kind of product to the list above.
AI answers change from day to day and from one ask to the next. This is one snapshot of 40 answers, not a ranking and not a review.
With this few answers, small gaps mean little: a product named in 4 answers and one named in 3 could swap places next time.
Research method version 1.0, built on our audit methodology version 1.8.
Corrections and removals
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