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Listmonk

High-performance newsletter manager, one binary

verified 2026-07-02AGPL-3.0self-hostable
Arete score
5.0 / 5
Autonomy5
Return5
Efficiency5
Transparency5
ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →
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Plain outbound link — no affiliate parameters, no tracking redirects.

✓ Verified by a human against the public rubric on 2026-07-02 · see the evidence ↓

Why it's listed

Written by the ValueIndex editor, from the verification pass of 2026-07-02.

Listmonk sends newsletters to millions of subscribers from a single Go binary and a Postgres database on hardware that costs less per month than Mailchimp charges per thousand contacts. It's sponsored by Zerodha (India's largest stock broker), which funds development with no monetization pressure. We verified the sponsorship model and resource claims.

Facts

License
AGPL-3.0
Pricing
Free
Funding model
Zerodha-sponsored OSS
Self-hostable
Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces
Mailchimp
Verification
Verified against the rubric on 2026-07-02

Evidence notes

Go+Postgres; millions of subscribers on tiny hardware; corporate-sponsored, no monetization

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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