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CHECKED 2026-09-17 (daily refresh): NO MOVEMENT on monthly prices. First substantive note on this record. Essentials $13/mo at 500 contacts, Standard $20/mo, Premium $350/mo (at 10K contacts), Free at 250 contacts / 500 sends per month with a 250/day cap — all re-confirmed (emailtooltester, emailvendorselection, marketerschoice, tinycommand, retainful, groupmail, usecarly, mailchimp.com/pricing/marketing). *** ANNUAL COLUMN IS IN QUESTION — FLAGGED, NOT CHANGED. NEEDS MANUAL CHECK. *** We store Entry Price Annual $10 and Annual Discount 23%, but today's evidence says an annual discount is NOT AVAILABLE AT THE ENTRY TIER AT ALL. Sources state Mailchimp's annual discount is 15% (not 23%), requires an annual commitment, and only becomes available starting at the 5,001-10,000 contact band — with the further catch that for 10,000+ contact accounts the 15% applies only to the first 12 months, after which the full monthly rate resumes. Our stored entry tier is Essentials at 500 contacts, which sits well below that 5,001-contact threshold. If the sources are right, our $10 annual entry price is a figure with no vendor basis, and the 23% discount was probably derived arithmetically rather than observed. Corroborating internal evidence: our own Pricing Tiers field leaves the annual column BLANK for all four tiers — so the record already implicitly says 'no annual pricing here', and the Entry Price Annual field contradicts its own tier table. NOT CHANGED, deliberately. Setting Entry Price Annual to $13 (annual = monthly, no discount at this tier) would be the evidence-supported fix, but it would raise a displayed price and could read as an increase on the frontend for what is a data correction, and the 'starting at 5,001 contacts' detail rests on one source cluster (emailtooltester, which is a strong specialist source for email tools but still one cluster). Never guess a price; when in doubt, flag. NEEDS MANUAL CHECK of mailchimp.com/pricing/marketing with the billing toggle at the 500-contact setting, to establish whether an annual option is offered at the entry tier at all. IF CONFIRMED that none exists, fix as a DATA CORRECTION with no Up/Down snapshot — same class as the Bonsai and Remote annual-column repairs. CONTACT-BASED BILLING NOTE for the tool page: Mailchimp bills on LIST SIZE, not sends, and since April 2024 unsubscribed and non-subscribed contacts still count toward the limit and the price until manually archived or deleted. The $13 headline is therefore the floor for a tiny list — at 5,000 contacts Essentials is ~$75/mo and Standard ~$100/mo. Status stays Auto-Verified on the monthly figures, which are solid.

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