Mailchimp subscription tracking.
Mailchimp bills on contact volume — the price tier jumps with the number of contacts in your audience, not seats. The leak is almost always uncleaned audiences: unsubscribed users still count toward the tier, soft-bounced addresses linger, and historical-import contacts from a project five years ago still drive the bill today. Cleaning the audience before renewal can drop a tier.
What you actually pay.
Free
$0 (500 contacts, basic features)
Essentials
Starts $13/mo, scales with contacts (500 → 50k+)
Standard
Starts $20/mo, scales with contacts
Adds automations, send-time optimization.
Premium
Starts $350/mo, scales with contacts
Phone support, advanced segmentation, unlimited seats.
Pricing verified against Mailchimp’s public pricing page on 2026-05-20. Check the vendor site for the current canonical version.
Hidden renewal patterns for Mailchimp.
- Pattern
Audience-tier creep from uncleaned lists
Mailchimp counts unsubscribed and bounced contacts toward your audience tier (unless you archive them). Audiences accumulate from form submissions, imports, and historical campaigns. Archiving inactive contacts before renewal can drop you a tier and shave 20–40% off the bill.
- Pattern
Multiple audiences double-counting contacts
Workspaces with multiple audiences (e.g., 'Newsletter', 'Customers', 'Beta') count overlapping subscribers in each audience, inflating the tier. Consolidating to one audience with tags is the canonical fix.
- Pattern
Pay-as-you-go credits left dormant
Mailchimp's pay-as-you-go credits don't expire but also don't refund. Workspaces that switched from monthly plans to pay-as-you-go years ago may have a credit balance worth more than the current month's spend.
How to find your hidden Mailchimp renewal date.
Account → Billing → Subscription. Monthly plans renew on the same day of each month; annual plans (introduced more recently) show the contract end date. The renewal email comes from billing@mailchimp.com.
What Mailchimp looks like on a bank statement.
Spendrein matches the following descriptors and routes them to the Mailchimp vendor record:
- MAILCHIMP
- MAILCHIMP.COM
- ROCKET SCIENCE GROUP
- INTUIT MAILCHIMP
Mailchimp subscription questions, plainly.
How do I lower my Mailchimp bill without losing functionality?
Archive non-engaged contacts before the next billing cycle. Mailchimp's audience tier is based on total contact count including unsubscribed and bounced — archiving (not deleting) preserves the history but removes them from the billable count. Consolidating multiple audiences into one with tags also removes double-counting.
Why is Mailchimp on my statement as 'INTUIT MAILCHIMP' or 'ROCKET SCIENCE GROUP'?
Mailchimp was originally operated by The Rocket Science Group (its legal name) and was acquired by Intuit in 2021. Bank-statement descriptors persist across both naming conventions; some workspaces still see ROCKET SCIENCE GROUP, others see INTUIT MAILCHIMP. Both are the same vendor.
How do I find my Mailchimp renewal date?
Account → Billing → Subscription. Monthly plans renew the same date each month. The renewal-reminder email arrives from billing@mailchimp.com a few days before the charge.
Does Spendrein detect Mailchimp on a statement?
Yes — MAILCHIMP, MAILCHIMP.COM, ROCKET SCIENCE GROUP, and INTUIT MAILCHIMP all match. The audit treats them as the same vendor and groups them onto one row so you don't see Mailchimp double-counted from the rename.
Tired of manually managing Mailchimp?
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