Resend
$35 for a hundred thousand emails, a month of logs, and the api the rest of the category is being measured against.
less than half what mailgun and sendgrid charge at volume, with thirty days of history and a genuinely good api — the gaps are in what it hasn't documented, not what it does.
at 100,000 emails a month resend costs $35 against roughly $90 at both mailgun and sendgrid. that is the single most surprising number in this ranking, because resend is the newcomer and is usually assumed to be the premium option. thirty days of log retention on standard plans puts it ahead of everything except postmark and smtp2go too.
the developer experience is the reason it exists — react email for jsx-authored templates, idempotency keys, clean errors — and it is why the incumbents suddenly look dated. the free tier of 3,000 a month is real, though capped at 100 a day, so it's for development rather than a small production load.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- transactional email providers
- pricing
- $20/mo
- website
- resend.com
less than half what mailgun and sendgrid charge at volume, with thirty days of history and a genuinely good api — the gaps are in what it hasn't documented, not what it does.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.