# Unlayer vs Stripo Plugin: flat platform pricing against per-template metering

*Source: https://www.editorstack.cc/compare/unlayer-vs-stripo — last updated 2026-08-19. Licensed CC BY 4.0 with attribution to EditorStack.*

## Summary

- Unlayer prices by platform tier and Stripo prices by unique emails created, which means the same product usage can produce very different bills.
- Vendor-published entry points: Unlayer Launch at $250 per month, Stripo Startup at $100 per month for 400 unique emails and Business at $550 for 15,000.
- Stripo is cheaper for platforms whose customers maintain a small set of templates; Unlayer is cheaper and more predictable once template creation scales.

## At a glance

| Product | Type | Licence | Frameworks | Bundle (min+gzip) | Price from | Self-hosted | White label | Score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Unlayer](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/unlayer) | sdk | Proprietary | Any (framework-agnostic) | Not measurable | from $250/mo | Partial | Yes | not scored |
| [Stripo Plugin](https://www.editorstack.cc/libraries/stripo) | sdk | Proprietary | Any (framework-agnostic) | Not measurable | from $100/mo | No | Yes | not scored |

## The comparison is an arithmetic problem

Both products embed a white-label drag-and-drop email builder in your application. Both maintain
mail-client compatibility. Both support merge tags and AI assistance. The editors are comparable
enough that a feature-by-feature reading will not separate them.

What separates them is what you are charged for.

## Model your own numbers first

**Stripo** charges by unique emails created per month: $100 for 400, $550 for 15,000. If your product
has 200 customers who each maintain two templates and edit them occasionally, you are at the bottom
of that curve and paying very little.

**Unlayer** charges a platform fee: $250 per month at Launch, $750 at Scale. Template volume does not
change it. If your customers create templates constantly — an agency platform, a high-churn
newsletter tool — that predictability is worth the higher entry.

The crossover is somewhere between those two shapes, and only your own numbers locate it. Build the
spreadsheet before reading either vendor's comparison page, including this one.

## Where Unlayer wins beyond price

- **Landing pages as well as email**, from one integration.
- **On-premise deployment** under enterprise terms, where Stripo is hosted only.
- **A widely used React wrapper**, published since 2017, with a large body of public integration
  experience.
- **Predictable billing**, which finance teams weigh more heavily than engineers expect.

## Where Stripo wins beyond price

- **AMP and interactive email modules**, which fewer competitors support properly.
- **A lower floor**: $100 per month is reachable for a product still finding its market.
- **A large template catalogue** included.
- **Metering that rewards controlled usage**, which suits vertical SaaS with a stable customer base.

## The verification difference

One structural note that belongs in an evaluation: Unlayer publishes an npm package we could verify
against the registry, with a licence, publication history and current version. Stripo Plugin has no
public package or repository we could check, so several fields in our dataset stay null for it.

That is not a product judgement. It does mean that if machine-verifiable vendor information matters to
your procurement, one of these two gives you more of it.

## Migration

Exported HTML is portable from both. Editable templates are not: each vendor's design format is its
own, and moving means re-creating templates.

For platforms with customer-created templates at scale, negotiate an export path before signing.
Neither vendor's standard terms solve this for you.

## Verdict

Low, stable template volume: Stripo, and confirm the "unique email" definition in writing. High or
unpredictable volume, or a need for landing pages and a self-hosting story: Unlayer.

If both entry prices are too high, [Topol](/compare/stripo-vs-topol-io) meters per customer account
from around $60 per month — a third model that fits B2B platforms particularly well.

## Decision checklist

1. **How many distinct templates will our customers create per month, in total?** This single number
   decides the comparison.
2. **What counts as a unique email in Stripo's contract?** Get the definition in writing before
   comparing prices.
3. **Do we need landing pages too?** Only Unlayer covers them.
4. **Is AMP or interactive email in scope?** That points to Stripo.
5. **Does our finance team prefer predictability to a lower floor?** Flat tiers usually win that
   argument even at a higher number.

## The number that matters

400 unique emails per month at Stripo's $100 tier. Below that, Stripo is dramatically cheaper than
anything else in this category. Above it, the curve steepens toward $550 for 15,000 and the comparison
with Unlayer's flat $250 platform tier becomes a real calculation rather than an obvious answer.


## Frequently asked questions

### Which is cheaper, Unlayer or Stripo?

It depends on template volume. Stripo's $100 Startup tier covers 400 unique emails per month; beyond roughly that, Unlayer's flat $250 platform tier stops being the more expensive option.

### What counts as a unique email in Stripo's model?

A distinct template created during the billing period. Get the exact definition in the contract — whether revisions, duplicates and per-customer copies count is the difference between a cheap plan and an expensive one.

### Does either do landing pages?

Unlayer does; Stripo Plugin is email-focused. If you need both from one vendor, that narrows it to Unlayer or Beefree SDK.