# Brew vs Campaign Monitor

## The short version

Choose Brew if you want a fully agentic setup, where your AI agent drives lifecycle marketing to engage and retain customers. Brew designs every email from your brand and runs your automations agentically.

Choose Campaign Monitor if you want SMS, a website builder, translations and Instagram posts in the same account as your email, and have someone to review and send each campaign.

Canonical: https://brew.new/compare/brew-vs-campaign-monitor

## Why teams switch from Campaign Monitor to Brew

Brew is fully agentic: your agent designs on-brand emails, sends them and runs your automations. In Campaign Monitor, AI drafts each email in the app and your team sends it.

### Key differences

| Feature | Brew | Campaign Monitor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fully agentic | Yes: Your agent designs, sends and runs automations end to end | Partly: AI drafts emails; your team sends and builds journeys |
| Designs finished, on-brand emails | Yes: Layout, copy and images from your brand, ready to send | Partly: Drafts a branded email in the app; full access from Essentials |
| Your agent takes it live | Yes: Sends, schedules and runs automations; OAuth and org-scoped MCP require confirmation, brand API keys do not | No: No MCP server or AI connector listed |
| Remembers your brand for every email | Yes: Brand files your agent reads every time | Partly: View-only Brand Hub from your site, for AI drafts |
| Unlimited contacts | Yes: On every plan; you pay for sends | No: Priced by contact count |
| AI design on every plan | Yes: Every plan, the free trial included | Partly: Lite and the trial get limited Marketing Studio access |

### Creating emails

| Feature | Brew | Campaign Monitor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Visual editor | Yes: Infinite canvas, edit by hand or in chat | Yes: Drag-and-drop builder with 100+ templates |
| Bring the emails you already have | Yes: HTML, MJML, React Email, Figma or a forwarded email | Yes: Custom coded HTML, uploaded or imported from a URL |
| Previews across email clients | Yes: Paid rendering tests across email clients | Yes: Design and spam tests; inbox preview from Essentials |
| Translated versions of an email | No: Not built in | Yes: Translation in Marketing Studio |

### Automation and data

| Feature | Brew | Campaign Monitor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Event-triggered automations | Yes: Stripe, Shopify, Clerk, Supabase or your own events | Yes: Journeys start on list joins, dates and actions |
| Builds an automation from a description | Yes: Emails, waits and branches together | No: Built by hand or from prebuilt journeys |
| Best send time per contact | Yes: Intelligent Send | Yes: Send time optimization on Premier |
| A/B testing | No: Not built in | Yes: A/B tests from Lite |

### Channels

| Feature | Brew | Campaign Monitor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Email from your own domain | Yes: Marketing and transactional | Yes: Marketing, plus transactional from Lite |
| SMS | No: Email only | Yes: Contracted customers in the US, Canada, UK and Australia |
| Websites and Instagram posts | No: Email only | Yes: Website builder; campaigns turned into Instagram posts |

### Agents and developers

| Feature | Brew | Campaign Monitor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MCP server for AI agents | Yes: Every Brew tool, in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Grok | No: None listed |
| API | Yes: REST API, typed SDK and CLI | Yes: REST API |

### Pricing

| Feature | Brew | Campaign Monitor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Billed on | Emails sent and AI credits | Contacts; Lite also caps sends at 5x contacts |
| Getting started | Free trial with 500 AI credits and 1,000 sends | 30-day free trial: 500 contacts, 500 emails |
| First paid plan | Growth, $99/month: 10,000 AI credits and 50,000 sends | Lite, $13/month for 500 contacts and 2,500 sends |
| Next plan | Pro, $249/month: 25,000 AI credits and 200,000 sends | Essentials, $31/month for 500 contacts; unlimited sends |
| Top plan | Enterprise: custom volume and a dedicated account manager | Premier, $171/month for 500 contacts; Enterprise on request |

### Security and compliance

| Feature | Brew | Campaign Monitor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SOC 2 and ISO 27001 | No: Not yet; security review and DPA on request | Partly: SOC 2 Type 2 report; no ISO 27001 listed |

## Your agent runs your lifecycle email.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Grok over MCP and your agent gets every Brew tool. It designs emails from your brand, builds audiences, runs automations and schedules sends. OAuth and organization-scoped MCP connections ask you to confirm live sends and launches. Brand-scoped API keys can execute permitted calls without the MCP confirmation step.

## Every email designed from your brand.

Paste your website and Brew writes your brand into two files your agent reads for every email. Describe the email and it appears on the canvas, ready to edit by hand or in chat.

## Moving from Campaign Monitor

Keep Campaign Monitor sending until Brew passes your tests. We’ll do the move with you on a call if you like.

1. **Export your contacts**: In Campaign Monitor, open Lists & subscribers, select a list, open the menu at the top right and choose Export list; each list downloads as its own CSV. Then open Suppressions and choose Export list there too, so your unsubscribes, spam complaints and bounces come with you. Before importing, prepare a Subscribed column: true for opted-in contacts, false for unsubscribed, cleaned or suppressed contacts. Invert any Unsubscribed true/false flag first. Map the column to Subscribed and review the opt-out preview; new contacts default to subscribed if this value is missing.
2. **Bring or redesign your emails**: Most teams have Brew redesign their emails from their brand, which is faster and looks better. You can also paste the HTML of a custom coded Campaign Monitor template or forward a sent email to hello@email.brew.new; imports are free.
3. **Rebuild your flows**: Connect Stripe, Shopify, Clerk or Supabase, or send your own events over the API, then describe each journey. Brew builds the emails, waits and branches, usually simpler than the original.
4. **Connect your sending domain**: Connect and verify your sending domain, then review its health and inbox placement. For a new domain, select Gradual send to ramp the campaign in configurable batches before a large send. Gradual send is off by default; connecting a domain does not automatically warm it up.

## Questions

### Is Brew a good Campaign Monitor alternative?

Yes, if you want an agent to run your email. Brew designs finished, on-brand emails from your brand, sends them and runs your automations from your AI agent, with unlimited contacts on every plan. Brew is email only, so SMS, a website and Instagram posts stay in another tool.

### Can I use Brew alongside Campaign Monitor?

Yes. You can design in Brew and keep Campaign Monitor for SMS or your website. Export the finished email as HTML and import it into Campaign Monitor as a custom coded template, uploaded from your computer or imported from a URL. Brew does not export to Campaign Monitor directly.

### How is Brew’s agent different from Campaign Monitor’s AI?

In Brew, your agent designs the finished email from brand files it reads every time, builds audiences, runs automations and sends. Campaign Monitor’s Marketing Studio drafts a branded email from your website and a goal you pick, AI Writer drafts copy and Segment Mapper turns a description into a segment, all inside the app. Your team edits and sends each campaign and builds journeys by hand or from prebuilt ones. Campaign Monitor lists no MCP server or AI connector, so Claude or ChatGPT cannot run it for you.
OAuth and organization-scoped MCP connections ask you to confirm live sends and launches. Brand-scoped API keys can execute permitted calls without the MCP confirmation step.

### Do Campaign Monitor’s AI emails come out on-brand?

Partly. Marketing Studio pulls your logo, colors, imagery and tone of voice from your website into a view-only Brand Hub and drafts an email from it; Lite and trial accounts get limited access, and you edit each draft in the email builder before you send it. Teams that move to Brew tell us these drafts rarely look like their brand, so someone still redesigns them. Brew designs the whole email, layout, copy and images, from brand files your agent reads every time, so it goes out on-brand.

### Will Brew cost more or less than Campaign Monitor?

It depends on your list and how much you send. Campaign Monitor bills on contacts: Lite caps sends at five times your contacts each month, and Essentials and Premier send without a cap. Brew bills on sends and AI credits with unlimited contacts. Teams with a large list they email in part usually pay less on Brew. Start with the free trial and compare at your own numbers.

### Does Brew do SMS or websites?

No. Brew is email only: marketing and transactional email from your own domain. Teams that need SMS, a website or Instagram posts keep a separate tool for those, or keep Campaign Monitor for them and design their emails in Brew.

### Is Brew SOC 2 certified?

Not yet. We complete security reviews and sign a DPA on request, and our privacy policy, DPA, GDPR page and subprocessor list are public at docs.brew.new/legal.

### How long does it take to move from Campaign Monitor?

Your first on-brand email is ready the day you start the trial. The rest depends on how many journeys you run: contacts import from Campaign Monitor’s list export and opt-outs from its suppression list export, most teams have Brew redesign their emails rather than import them, and each journey is rebuilt by describing it. Keep Campaign Monitor sending until Brew passes your tests.
Before importing, prepare a Subscribed column: true for opted-in contacts, false for unsubscribed, cleaned or suppressed contacts. Invert any Unsubscribed true/false flag first. Map the column to Subscribed and review the opt-out preview; new contacts default to subscribed if this value is missing.

### Do you help with the move?

Yes. We get on a call to import your contacts and unsubscribe list, bring over or redesign your emails, rebuild your flows and connect your sending domain.

## Sources and review

Brew publishes this comparison. Brew Team reviewed the linked first-party documentation. This is a documentation review, not a claim of hands-on testing of every product. Pricing and plan limits can change.

Work at Campaign Monitor? If anything on this page is wrong or out of date, email support@brew.new and we will correct it. We want to compete on the product, not on a mistaken comparison.

Updated October 2026

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