Stripo vs Unlayer
Stripo and Unlayer both offer a drag-and-drop email editor with a free tier, but they sell to different buyers. Stripo is a browser editor for marketers, priced per plan from $20 to $125 a month with export caps, and it ships a large template library. Unlayer is a developer platform for embedding builders into a product, starting at $250 a month with a 14-day trial. Both run as cloud services, and neither page states an open-source licence.
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Choose Stripo ifyou are a marketer or small team that wants a ready template library, one-click export to many sending platforms and a first paid plan at $20 a month. You can accept a vendor whose registration country is hard to pin down.
Choose Unlayer ifyou build software and want to embed email, page or popup builders through React, Angular or Vue components. You can budget at least $250 a month for the first paid tier.
Stripo and Unlayer side by side
| Stripo | Unlayer | |
|---|---|---|
| Our email template builder rank | #1 of 14 | #8 of 14 |
| Established in | Not stated by the vendor | United States |
| List price, 8 November 2026 | Plans, not seats: Free, then Basic $20, Medium $45, Pro $125 a month ($200, $450, $1,250 a year); Prime quoted | From $250 a month on Launch after a 14-day trial, $750 Scale, $2,000 Optimize; free tier and Enterprise by quote |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Self-hostable | — | — |
| Built for | Marketers who want a big template library and one-click handover to many sending platforms | SaaS product teams adding an email editor inside their own application |
| Not for | Teams that need a stated registration country or a vendor-independent setup | Marketers who only want a standalone editor for their own newsletters |
Both are reviewed in full in our email template builder ranking: Stripo and Unlayer.
Where they differ
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Cost of the first paid tier
Stripo's Basic costs $20 per month or $200 per year, with 50 exports a month. Medium is $45 and Pro is $125 per month, and Prime has no published price. Unlayer's Launch costs $250 per month with 5,000 exports, then Scale at $750 and Optimize at $2,000, with Enterprise by quote. For a single marketer sending newsletters, Stripo's entry point is a small fraction of Unlayer's, and yearly billing at Stripo saves 20 percent.
Edge: Stripo
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Export caps on the free tier
Stripo's Free plan states 2 members, 4 exports a month, 5 test emails a day and 10 stored emails, with no credit card. Unlayer calls its free tier forever free at $0 with no credit card, but its limits are not listed in the text we captured. Stripo is the one that lets you see exactly what you get before signing up, even though the four exports a month are tight for any steady sender.
Edge: Stripo
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Editor for your own app
Unlayer's home page lists embeddable Email, Page, Document and Popup builders, an Image Editor, React, Angular and Vue components, an SDK, a REST API and a CLI. Stripo does offer a plugin to integrate its editor into a customer's own web application, but its main pitch is the standalone editor. If the editor must live inside your product, Unlayer's whole offer is built around it, so that is where it wins.
Edge: Unlayer
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Templates, testing and handover
Stripo lists 1,650-plus HTML templates, 300-plus reusable modules, an HTML and CSS code editor, tests across 98 email clients through Email on Acid, approval links and live co-editing. It exports to 90-plus ESPs in one click. Unlayer exports to HTML, PDF, image, plain text or ZIP and adds AI tools for sections and translation. For a marketer handing mail to a sender, Stripo covers more steps without extra code.
Edge: Stripo
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Seats, trials and credit add-ons
Stripo counts members per plan, 2 on Basic and 10 on Pro, and sells extra members at $10 per person per month, though its pricing FAQ and plan cards disagree on counts. Unlayer gives Launch, Scale and Optimize a 14-day trial, takes 10 percent off yearly billing and sells credit packs in $50 monthly steps. Stripo states no paid-plan trial length in the text we captured.
Edge: Unlayer
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Company, hosting and licence
Unlayer, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its office in San Francisco, says it is backed by Y Combinator, advertises a 99.9 percent uptime SLA and SOC 2 Type II. Stripo's terms name Stripo Inc. as a Delaware company while its footer says Made in Ukraine, so the pages do not agree on one country. Both are cloud services, and the pages show no self-hosting or open-source licence for either.
Depends on the buyer
When neither fits
If you want code you can host yourself or a build chain you control, neither fits. Maizzle and Topol.io are the two alternatives from our email template list to look at first.
Stripo or Unlayer: questions
3 answersIs Unlayer's free tier as clearly limited as Stripo's?
No. Stripo spells out 4 exports a month, 2 members and 10 stored emails. Unlayer lists a forever free tier at $0 with no credit card, and its limits are not listed in the text we captured.
Why do Stripo's seat numbers not add up?
The plan cards give 2 members on Basic and 10 on Pro, while the pricing FAQ sells extra members at $10 per person per month with caps that differ elsewhere on the page.
The page is inconsistent on this point. Confirm the figure with Stripo before you budget for a larger team.
Which of the two lets me try a paid plan first?
Unlayer gives each of Launch, Scale and Optimize a 14-day trial. Stripo offers a Try demo editor option and a free plan, but Stripo's page states no paid-plan trial length. Both bill monthly or yearly.
Sources
Checked 8 November 2026- Stripo pricing page: Free, Basic, Medium and Pro prices, export caps and the $10 extra member add-on.
- Stripo homepage: 1,650-plus templates, 98-client testing and export to 90-plus ESPs.
- Stripo terms of use: Stripo Inc. as a Delaware company and the plugin for embedding the editor.
- Unlayer pricing page: Launch, Scale and Optimize monthly prices, export counts, 14-day trial and $50 credit packs.
- Unlayer homepage: embeddable builders, React, Angular and Vue components, export formats and the 99.9 percent SLA.
- Unlayer terms: Unlayer legal entity, state of incorporation and office city.