Choose the workflow,
not the feature count.
Card is a free, open-source email editor with no export limits, no account and no cloud behind it. Here is how it honestly stacks up against the paid builders — with their real prices, free-plan caps and licence terms, sourced from their own pages.
All comparisons
Beefree
Card is a free, open-source, self-hosted email editor with unlimited exports and no account. The product formerly called Beefree is now RGE Studio, a hosted workspace from $30/mo; Beefree SDK is the embeddable product from $400/mo.
Read comparison Open-source alternative toMJML
MJML is an excellent MIT-licensed markup language for developers — but it has no maintained official visual editor. Card is a free, open-source drag-and-drop builder that gives non-developers the canvas MJML never shipped.
Read comparison Open-source alternative toPostcards
Card is a free, open-source email builder: unlimited exports, no account, no branding on your emails, and it runs on your own infrastructure. Postcards is a polished hosted tool whose free plan caps exports at 5 per month and restricts templates to non-commercial use.
Read comparison Open-source alternative toStripo
Card is a free, open-source email editor: no account, no export limits, and templates never leave your browser unless you export them. Stripo is a paid cloud platform whose strength is team workflow and one-click handoff to 90+ sending platforms.
Read comparison Open-source alternative toUnlayer
Card is a free, open-source email editor you can embed and self-host by default — no $250/mo entry price, no enterprise contract for on-premises. Unlayer is a commercial embedded SDK whose managed cloud services start at $250/mo.
Read comparisonMake the comparison concrete
Build an email in Card — free, no signup.
The editor runs in the browser with no account and no export limits. Assemble a real campaign, inspect the HTML and editable JSON, then decide if a subscription still makes sense.