Mautic vs Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Mautic hardens security across three branches and lines up a feature-heavy 7.2.
Mautic is in a maintenance-and-hardening phase. The standout is a coordinated security release across three supported branches (7.1.2, 6.0.9, 5.2.11) fixing seven CVEs, including SQL injection in API contact filtering and an API v2 authorization bypass. In parallel, 7.1.3 cleans up campaign and email reliability bugs, and a 7.2.0 release candidate stages the next feature line.
The project is balancing three commitments: keeping older branches (5.2, 6.0, 7.0/7.1) patched for security, steadily fixing campaign and GrapesJS-builder reliability, and building 7.2 around transactional email, better bot detection, and PHP 8.5 support. It reads as the cadence of a mature open-source platform serving a broad installed base, not one chasing new categories.
The 7.2.0 RC points to a stable 7.2 GA next, carrying truly transactional emails, Matomo-based bot detection, and the GrapesJS builder improvements out of pre-release.
Kit pushes past email tooling toward audience intelligence and AI-tool access.
Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is layering two new capabilities on top of its email and automation core: subscriber intelligence and AI-tool integration. Alongside those, it shipped a navigation redesign, a rebuilt landing page editor, and a rename of Creator profile to Newsletter site. The base product keeps getting incremental search and editor polish while the headline bets are data and AI.
The direction is from send-and-automate toward understand-your-audience and operate-Kit-from-anywhere. Subscriber Signals adds an audience data layer that competes with standalone enrichment tools, while the Kit MCP exposes the platform to external AI assistants. Together they reposition Kit as creator infrastructure rather than just an email sender.
Expect Subscriber Signals to move from early access toward general availability and the MCP to graduate from beta with broader write actions across lists, sequences, and broadcasts.
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