ActiveCampaign
Go beyond marketing automation with ActiveCampaign's autonomous marketing platform. Your team of AI agents handles email, SMS, WhatsApp and more for you, backed by billions of data points.
ActiveCampaign is commercial marketing automation software made by ActiveCampaign. ActiveCampaign was founded in 2003. Its English Wikipedia article has about 68 readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- ActiveCampaign
- Since
- 2003
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 68 a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Email marketing and marketing automation with visual automation builder, CRM, SMS, WhatsApp and AI agents.
- Adopt it when
- A small or midsize business wants sophisticated email automation at a price below HubSpot.
- Watch out
- Pricing climbs with contact count, and the built-in CRM is basic.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service and mobile app
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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Under it
Every program, ActiveCampaign included, runs on a microchip.
The description is the maker's own, quoted as written. Facts come from Wikipedia and refresh weekly. Readers are counted on Wikipedia's mobile site only, because automated traffic that Wikimedia does not flag inflates desktop counts.