Marketing automation
SEMAOS vs Sugar Market
TL;DR. SEMAOS bills by sends. Sugar Market bills by contacts. A 50,000-contact customer pays Sugar Market about $7,000/month[1]. On SEMAOS Team the same customer pays $199/month for 75,000 sends, with unlimited contacts, and only consumes the sends they actually fire. That is the entire comparison — the rest of this page is the supporting detail.
The numbers, side by side
| Feature | SEMAOS Team | Sugar Market |
|---|---|---|
| Metering model | Sends | Contacts |
| Base price | $199/mo | From $1,000/mo |
| Included at entry tier | 75,000 sends / unlimited contacts | 10,000 contacts |
| Seats | 8 ($19/seat extra) | Unlimited |
| Billing cycle | Monthly or annual | Annual only |
| 50k contact customer pays | $199/mo (sends-metered, not contact-metered) | ~$7,000/mo |
| What's in the box | Sequences sent from your own mailbox, list segmentation, A/B-tested broadcasts, engagement scoring, analytics | Marketing automation tightly integrated with Sugar Sell |
When is Sugar Market the better choice?
Sugar Market is the better choice for a large, mostly static database that already lives in Sugar Sell.
- You have a large, mostly-static contact database and very high send-per-contact engagement. Contact-metered pricing rewards that profile.
- Sugar Sell is already in production and you need the deepest first-party integration that vendor relationship can buy.
When is SEMAOS the better choice?
SEMAOS is the better choice for a small team that would rather pay for the email it sends than for the contacts it stores.
- Built for small teams. Self-serve sales engagement for teams of 1–50 — sign up, import contacts, run sequences, and send, without an enterprise contract.
- Send-metered pricing. You pay for sends you actually fire, not contacts you happen to store. Inactive contacts cost nothing, and every plan includes unlimited contacts.
- Send from your own mailbox. Connect Gmail or Outlook and your 1:1 sequence emails send from your real inbox — best deliverability for outreach that should read like a personal note. Broadcasts still go over our sending domain.
- 30-day trial, no sales call. Self-serve on every plan, card upfront ($0 charged).
What does SEMAOS cost as the database grows?
SEMAOS prices by plan and platform sends, never by contacts: $35 a month covers 7,500 sends on Solo, and $399 covers 200,000 on Business, whether you store 500 contacts or 50,000.
| Plan | Price / month | Platform sends / month | Each 1,000 past that | Seats included |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | None (mailbox only) | n/a | 1 |
| Solo | $35 | 7,500 | $0.90 | 1 |
| Starter | $79 | 25,000 | $0.75 | 3 |
| Team | $199 | 75,000 | $0.60 | 8 |
| Business | $399 | 200,000 | $0.40 | 20 |
Past the monthly pool, a paid plan can draw from an on-demand bank you top up in dollars, at the rate in the fourth column. Broadcasts always go over platform sending. One-to-one and sequence email sent through a connected Gmail or Outlook mailbox is never counted against the pool; SEMAOS caps it at 250 to 1,000 per mailbox per day instead, depending on the kind of account.