Resend
Young (under 12 months)
$20 /mo
$0.05 more
Pro plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
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Emails a month
What you need:
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What do these mean?
- Sending API
- Send an email from your code with one web request.
- SMTP relay
- Send through the standard email protocol, so older software and plugins can use the service without custom code.
- Domain authentication (SPF, DKIM)
- Prove to mail providers that you allow this service to send from your domain, so your emails are not marked as spam.
- Event webhooks
- The service tells your app when an email was delivered, bounced, opened or reported as spam.
- Email templates
- Design and store emails with the service and fill in names and values from your code.
- Suppression list
- Automatically stops sending to addresses that bounced or complained, which protects your sender reputation.
- Dedicated IP address
- Send from an address used only by you, so other customers' behaviour cannot hurt your delivery. Usually matters above a few hundred thousand emails a month.
- Inbound email
- Receive emails sent to your domain and get them delivered to your app.
- Team access
- More than one person can sign in to the account, with their own roles.
- Single sign-on
- Your team signs in with your company login (Okta, Microsoft Entra and similar).
- Uptime guarantee (SLA)
- A written promise of availability, usually with credits if it is missed.
You pay now
$19.95 /mo
SendGrid Essentials, the cheapest plan with everything you need
3 of 5 alternatives cover what you need. None of them is cheaper at this size.
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Cover everything you need
$35 /mo
$15.05 more
Foundation plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
Also has: uptime guarantee (SLA).
$55 /mo
$35.05 more
Basic plan
Covers all 4 things you need.
Cheaper, but missing things you need
$5 /mo
saves $14.95 (75%)
Pay as you go plan
Covers 3 of 4 things you need.
Missing event webhooks (only partly).
$35 /mo
$15.05 more
Starter plan
Covers 3 of 4 things you need.
Missing domain authentication (SPF, DKIM) (not stated by the vendor).
Emails your app sends in a month, all of them transactional (sign-up, receipts, password resets). Monthly billing, list prices, the cheapest plan that covers the size and everything you need. Vendors that price by a sliding scale publish prices only at certain volumes; where a vendor shows no price at a size, the price is left blank rather than guessed. Dedicated IPs, extra domains and attachments are not included unless you tick them.
Compare in detail
SendGrid and the 4 cheapest alternatives. ✓ included +$ paid add-on ~ partly ? not stated – not offered
| Feature | SendGrid your tool | Resend | Mailgun | Postmark | Amazon SES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | |||||
| 1,000 emails a month | $19.95 | $0 | $0 | $15 | $0.10 |
| 10,000 emails a month | $19.95 | $20 | $15 | $15 | $1 |
| 50,000 emails a month | $19.95 | $20 | $35 | $55 | $5 |
| 100,000 emails a month | - | $35 | $90 | - | $10 |
| What you need | |||||
| Sending API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMTP relay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Domain authentication (SPF, DKIM) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Event webhooks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Also useful | |||||
| Email templates | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ? |
| Suppression list | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ? |
| Dedicated IP address | ✓ | +$30 | ~ | +$50 | +$24.95 |
| Inbound email | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team access | ✓ | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single sign-on | ✓ | +$150 | ✓ | ? | ? |
| Uptime guarantee (SLA) | ? | – | ✓ | ? | ? |
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