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  "feed_version": "1",
  "generated_at": "2026-05-01T02:58:26.524Z",
  "site": "https://tiergauge.com",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0 with attribution to TierGauge.",
  "category": {
    "slug": "deliverability",
    "display": "Deliverability",
    "description": "Inbox placement, warmup, DMARC monitoring."
  },
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      "slug": "mailgun",
      "name": "Mailgun",
      "vendor": "Sinch",
      "homepage_url": "https://www.mailgun.com",
      "pricing_url": "https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/",
      "tagline": "Developer-grade transactional email API and SMTP relay with deliverability tooling.",
      "description": "Mailgun is a transactional email API and SMTP service positioned for developers shipping receipts, password resets, notifications, and other system mail. Distinct from marketing ESPs in this spine, Mailgun ships an API-first product with volume-based overage pricing, dedicated IPs, log retention, inbound routing, and deliverability tools (warmup, monitoring, send-time optimization). Owned by Sinch since 2021. Five tiers ranging from a free hobby plan capped at 100 emails/day up to custom Enterprise contracting.",
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      "secondary_categories": [
        "deliverability"
      ],
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        {
          "name": "Free",
          "slug": "free",
          "tagline": "Hobby tier capped at 100 emails per day",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "free"
            }
          ],
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          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 3000,
              "unit": "emails (100/day cap, 30-day conversion)"
            },
            "api_calls_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 2,
              "unit": "API keys"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "100 emails per day hard cap",
            "1 custom domain",
            "1 day log retention",
            "2 API keys",
            "Ticket support"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "High-volume sends",
            "Email template builder",
            "Inbound routing",
            "SAML SSO",
            "Dedicated IP",
            "Phone and chat support"
          ],
          "is_free": true,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "Daily cap (100/day) converted to a monthly figure of 3,000 for cross-tool comparability. The actual limit is enforced per day, not per month."
        },
        {
          "name": "Basic",
          "slug": "basic",
          "tagline": "Entry paid tier with 10,000 emails/month included",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 1500,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Overage $1.80 per 1,000 emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 1500,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 10000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "10,000 emails/month included",
            "$1.80 per 1,000 overage",
            "1 custom domain",
            "5 inbound routes",
            "Email analytics and reporting",
            "Ticket support"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Email template builder",
            "1,000 custom domains",
            "Full inbound routing",
            "SAML SSO",
            "Dedicated IP",
            "Send-time optimization"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        },
        {
          "name": "Foundation",
          "slug": "foundation",
          "tagline": "50,000 emails/month with template builder and full inbound routing",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 3500,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "1-month free trial; overage $1.30 per 1,000 emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 3500,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 50000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1000
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "50,000 emails/month included",
            "$1.30 per 1,000 overage",
            "1,000 custom domains",
            "Email template builder",
            "5 days log retention",
            "Full inbound routing",
            "Email analytics and reporting"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "SAML SSO",
            "Dedicated IP included",
            "Live phone and chat support",
            "30 days log retention",
            "Send-time optimization"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": true,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "Includes a 1-month free trial."
        },
        {
          "name": "Scale",
          "slug": "scale",
          "tagline": "100,000 emails/month with SAML SSO, dedicated IP, and live support",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 9000,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "1-month free trial; overage $1.10 per 1,000 emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 9000,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 100000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1000
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "100,000 emails/month included",
            "$1.10 per 1,000 overage",
            "SAML SSO",
            "1 dedicated IP included",
            "Live phone and chat support",
            "30 days log retention",
            "Send-time optimization",
            "Email template builder",
            "Full inbound routing"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "High-volume Enterprise pricing",
            "Custom contracting and SLAs",
            "Multiple dedicated IPs at negotiated rates"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": true,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "Includes a 1-month free trial."
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "slug": "enterprise",
          "tagline": "Custom contracting for high-volume senders",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "custom"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": null,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "custom"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "custom"
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "High-volume send capacity",
            "Custom contracting and SLAs",
            "Multiple dedicated IPs",
            "Priority support",
            "Custom log retention",
            "Account management"
          ],
          "features_missing": [],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": true,
          "source_url": "https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        }
      ],
      "free_plan_available": true,
      "free_trial_days": 30,
      "starting_price_usd_cents": 0,
      "has_custom_enterprise": true,
      "alternatives": [
        "mailerlite"
      ],
      "pros": [
        "Real transactional API; most competitors in this spine are marketing-first, not API-first",
        "Send-time optimization on Scale tier improves engagement without app-side logic",
        "Volume-based overage pricing is transparent and predictable ($1.80, $1.30, $1.10 per 1,000)",
        "Deliverability tooling is core to the product: IP warmup, dedicated IPs, monitoring",
        "SAML SSO available on the Scale plan without a custom Enterprise contract"
      ],
      "cons": [
        "Price ramps fast above 100,000/month; high-volume senders quickly land in custom Enterprise pricing",
        "UI feels dated relative to modern marketing ESPs",
        "No built-in template editor on the Basic tier; you ship raw HTML or upgrade",
        "Pure transactional positioning means little overlap with marketing campaign workflows"
      ],
      "best_for": [
        "Developers integrating receipts, notifications, and password-reset emails",
        "Teams already on a marketing ESP that need a separate transactional channel",
        "High-volume B2B applications with strict deliverability requirements"
      ],
      "not_for": [
        "Marketing teams seeking campaign tooling (use Mailchimp or Kit)",
        "Creators sending newsletters (use Kit or beehiiv)",
        "Free-tier hobbyists with low total volume but spiky daily-cap-bumping use cases"
      ],
      "last_verified": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
      "scraper_status": "manual-only",
      "match": "secondary"
    },
    {
      "slug": "mailtrap",
      "name": "Mailtrap",
      "vendor": "Mailtrap",
      "homepage_url": "https://mailtrap.io",
      "pricing_url": "https://mailtrap.io/pricing/",
      "tagline": "Email delivery platform combining a production Email API with an Email Sandbox for safe pre-launch testing.",
      "description": "Mailtrap is a dual product: a transactional Email API and SMTP relay for production sending, plus an Email Sandbox that captures test emails so dev teams can inspect HTML, headers, spam scoring, and blacklist checks before going live. The Email API tiers cover 4,000 to 2.5M+ emails per month with dedicated IP starting at the Business plan and 30-day log retention at Enterprise. The Email Sandbox is billed separately (Free 50 test emails, Basic $14/mo annual, Team $34/mo annual, Business $99/mo annual, Enterprise $399/mo annual) and is most useful for QA, staging environments, and CI pipelines that need to verify outbound mail without touching real inboxes.",
      "primary_category": "deliverability",
      "secondary_categories": [
        "transactional-email"
      ],
      "plans": [
        {
          "name": "Free",
          "slug": "free",
          "tagline": "4,000 emails per month for hobby projects and early validation",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "free"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 0,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 4000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "4,000 emails per month",
            "150 emails per day cap",
            "Email API and SMTP relay",
            "1 user",
            "1 sending domain",
            "3 days of email logs"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Multiple users",
            "Multiple sending domains",
            "Dedicated IP",
            "Extended log retention",
            "Priority support"
          ],
          "is_free": true,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://mailtrap.io/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "150 emails/day cap. Email API and SMTP relay. Email Sandbox free tier (50 test emails) is separate."
        },
        {
          "name": "Basic",
          "slug": "basic",
          "tagline": "Entry paid Email API tier scaling from 10k to 100k emails per month",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 1500,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Entry tier; up to $30/month at 100k emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 1500,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 100000,
              "unit": "emails (entry $15 covers 10k; scales to $30 at 100k)"
            },
            "seats": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 3
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 5
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "10,000 to 100,000 emails per month (volume tiered)",
            "3 users",
            "5 sending domains",
            "5 days of email logs",
            "Email API and SMTP relay"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Dedicated IP",
            "15 or 30 days of log retention",
            "Larger user and domain caps",
            "Priority support"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://mailtrap.io/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "No dedicated IP. 5-day log retention."
        },
        {
          "name": "Business",
          "slug": "business",
          "tagline": "Best value",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 8500,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Entry tier; up to $450/month at 750k emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 8500,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 750000,
              "unit": "emails (entry $85 covers 100k; scales to $450 at 750k)"
            },
            "seats": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 3000
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "100,000 to 750,000 emails per month (volume tiered)",
            "Dedicated IP included",
            "1,000 users",
            "3,000 sending domains",
            "15 days of email logs",
            "Email API and SMTP relay"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "30 days of log retention",
            "Custom volume contracting above 750k",
            "Priority support SLAs"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://mailtrap.io/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "Dedicated IP included. 15-day log retention."
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "slug": "enterprise",
          "tagline": "1.5M+ emails per month with priority support and custom contracting",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 75000,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Entry tier; up to $1,250/month or custom for >2.5M emails"
            },
            {
              "cycle": "custom"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 75000,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 2500000,
              "unit": "emails (entry covers 1.5M; custom above 2.5M)"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "custom"
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "1,500,000 to 2,500,000+ emails per month (volume tiered)",
            "Dedicated IP included",
            "30 days of email logs",
            "Priority support",
            "Custom contracting available above 2.5M emails"
          ],
          "features_missing": [],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": true,
          "source_url": "https://mailtrap.io/pricing/",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "30-day log retention. Priority support."
        }
      ],
      "free_plan_available": true,
      "free_trial_days": null,
      "starting_price_usd_cents": 0,
      "has_custom_enterprise": true,
      "alternatives": [
        "mailgun",
        "resend",
        "postmark"
      ],
      "pros": [
        "Unique combination of testing Sandbox and production Email API in one platform, removing the need for separate vendors for QA and live sending",
        "Generous Free tier covers 4,000 production emails per month plus 50 sandboxed test emails, more than Postmark's 100/month Free cap on the API side",
        "Volume tiering inside each plan ($15 to $30 on Basic, $85 to $450 on Business) is more granular than the flat single-volume tiers used by Mailgun, Postmark, and Resend",
        "Dedicated IP is included starting at the Business plan ($85/month), cheaper than SendGrid's Pro tier and most peers that gate dedicated IP behind add-on fees",
        "30-day log retention on Enterprise supports compliance and incident-investigation scenarios that 5 to 15 day windows on lower tiers cannot cover"
      ],
      "cons": [
        "Two-product billing structure (Email API and Email Sandbox priced separately) creates pricing-page confusion for buyers comparing total spend",
        "Tiered ranges within each plan ($15 to $30, $85 to $450) make total cost less predictable than flat per-tier pricing from Postmark or Resend",
        "Smaller brand recognition than SendGrid or Mailgun, which can matter for procurement teams that prefer category-leading vendors",
        "No public affiliate program known, so partners and content creators have no formal payout path"
      ],
      "best_for": [
        "Dev teams that want one vendor for both email testing and production sending",
        "SaaS startups under 100k/month Email API volume who can ride the Basic tier ramp",
        "Teams that need a dedicated IP without paying for SendGrid Pro or higher"
      ],
      "not_for": [
        "Marketing-only teams (use Mailchimp or Kit)",
        "Buyers who want flat predictable per-tier pricing (Postmark is more predictable)",
        "Enterprises needing voice or SMS in the same platform (use Twilio or SendGrid)"
      ],
      "last_verified": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
      "scraper_status": "manual-only",
      "match": "primary"
    },
    {
      "slug": "postmark",
      "name": "Postmark",
      "vendor": "ActiveCampaign",
      "homepage_url": "https://postmarkapp.com",
      "pricing_url": "https://postmarkapp.com/pricing",
      "tagline": "Transactional email API focused on inbox placement and detailed delivery analytics.",
      "description": "Postmark is a transactional email API built around fast, reliable delivery for receipts, password resets, and system notifications. It runs separate infrastructure for outbound and inbound mail, exposes detailed bounce and open analytics, and offers customizable retention up to 365 days for compliance use cases. All paid tiers start at the same 10,000 emails/month volume; differentiation is feature scope (custom domains, retention window, inbound) and per-1,000 overage rate. Owned by ActiveCampaign since 2022 but operated as a separate product.",
      "primary_category": "transactional-email",
      "secondary_categories": [
        "deliverability"
      ],
      "plans": [
        {
          "name": "Free",
          "slug": "free",
          "tagline": "100 emails per month, no credit card required",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "free"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 0,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 100
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "custom"
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "100 emails per month",
            "No credit card required",
            "Never expires",
            "Outbound and inbound APIs",
            "Basic delivery analytics"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Overage sends (account pauses at 100)",
            "Custom retention window",
            "Multiple custom domains",
            "Unlimited daily send caps",
            "Full analytics suite"
          ],
          "is_free": true,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://postmarkapp.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "No overages allowed; sending pauses if you hit the cap."
        },
        {
          "name": "Basic",
          "slug": "basic",
          "tagline": "Entry paid tier with 10,000 emails/month and 5 custom domains",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 1500,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Overage $1.80 per 1,000 emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 1500,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 10000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 5
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "10,000 emails/month included",
            "$1.80 per 1,000 overage",
            "5 custom domains",
            "45-day data retention",
            "Unlimited daily sends",
            "Delivery analytics"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Customizable retention up to 365 days",
            "Inbound email processing",
            "10 custom domains",
            "Unlimited custom domains",
            "Unlimited users",
            "Full analytics suite"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://postmarkapp.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pro",
          "slug": "pro",
          "tagline": "10,000 emails/month with inbound processing and customizable retention",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 1650,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Overage $1.30 per 1,000 emails. Customizable retention up to 365 days."
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 1650,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 10000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 10
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "10,000 emails/month included",
            "$1.30 per 1,000 overage",
            "10 custom domains",
            "Customizable retention up to 365 days",
            "Inbound email processing",
            "Unlimited daily sends",
            "Delivery analytics"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Unlimited custom domains",
            "Unlimited users",
            "Full analytics suite",
            "$1.20 per 1,000 overage rate"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://postmarkapp.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        },
        {
          "name": "Platform",
          "slug": "platform",
          "tagline": "Unlimited domains and users with the lowest overage rate",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 1800,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Overage $1.20 per 1,000 emails. Unlimited custom domains and users."
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 1800,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 10000
            },
            "seats": {
              "kind": "unlimited"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "unlimited"
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "10,000 emails/month included",
            "$1.20 per 1,000 overage",
            "Unlimited custom domains",
            "Unlimited users",
            "Customizable retention up to 365 days",
            "Inbound email processing",
            "Unlimited daily sends",
            "Full analytics suite"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Custom contracting for high-volume senders",
            "Negotiated rates above standard tiers"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://postmarkapp.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        },
        {
          "name": "High-Volume",
          "slug": "high-volume",
          "tagline": "Custom pricing for volumes above standard tiers",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "custom"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": null,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "custom"
            },
            "seats": {
              "kind": "unlimited"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "unlimited"
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "High-volume send capacity",
            "Custom contracting and negotiated rates",
            "Unlimited custom domains",
            "Unlimited users",
            "Full analytics suite",
            "Inbound email processing",
            "Customizable retention"
          ],
          "features_missing": [],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": true,
          "source_url": "https://postmarkapp.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        }
      ],
      "free_plan_available": true,
      "free_trial_days": null,
      "starting_price_usd_cents": 0,
      "has_custom_enterprise": true,
      "alternatives": [
        "mailgun",
        "resend"
      ],
      "pros": [
        "Industry-leading deliverability reputation, the core of Postmark's pitch and verified by independent inbox-placement tests",
        "Separate inbound and outbound infrastructure means receiving mail never competes with sending throughput",
        "Customizable retention up to 365 days on Pro and Platform tiers supports compliance and audit use cases",
        "Transparent overage pricing at $1.80, $1.30, and $1.20 per 1,000 emails across paid tiers",
        "Unlimited daily send caps starting at $15/month; Mailgun's similar entry tier enforces a daily cap"
      ],
      "cons": [
        "Free tier is only 100 emails/month total, much smaller than Mailgun's 100/day or Resend's 3,000/month",
        "Paid plans all start at the same 10,000-email threshold, so differentiation is feature-only at small volumes",
        "Pricing scales for high-volume senders only via the custom High-Volume tier rather than published rates",
        "Ownership by ActiveCampaign creates roadmap uncertainty for some buyers"
      ],
      "best_for": [
        "SaaS apps prioritizing receipt and notification deliverability",
        "Teams that need detailed inbound email parsing alongside outbound sends",
        "Companies that need 365-day data retention for compliance"
      ],
      "not_for": [
        "Hobby projects with bursty traffic (Mailgun's 100/day or Resend's 3,000/month are friendlier than the 100/month Free cap)",
        "Marketing teams (use Mailchimp or Kit)",
        "Buyers who want a single vendor for marketing and transactional email"
      ],
      "last_verified": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
      "scraper_status": "manual-only",
      "match": "secondary"
    },
    {
      "slug": "resend",
      "name": "Resend",
      "vendor": "Resend",
      "homepage_url": "https://resend.com",
      "pricing_url": "https://resend.com/pricing",
      "tagline": "Modern transactional email API with React Email integration and transparent volume pricing.",
      "description": "Resend is a developer-focused transactional email API competing with Mailgun, Postmark, and SendGrid. The product centers on a clean REST API, official SDKs across major languages, SMTP relay, batch sending, inbound routing, and first-class React Email template integration. Pricing is volume-based and self-serve up to roughly 2.5M emails per month before Enterprise contracting kicks in. Resend also runs a separate Marketing Email track (broadcasts, audiences) priced from $40 to $650 per month for 5k to 150k contacts; this entry focuses only on the Transactional product.",
      "primary_category": "transactional-email",
      "secondary_categories": [
        "deliverability"
      ],
      "plans": [
        {
          "name": "Free",
          "slug": "free",
          "tagline": "Hobby tier with 3,000 emails per month and a 100/day cap",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "free"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 0,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 3000,
              "unit": "emails (100/day cap)"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "3,000 emails per month",
            "100 emails per day hard cap",
            "1 verified domain",
            "30-day data retention",
            "RESTful API and SMTP relay",
            "Official SDKs and React Email integration",
            "Inbound emails and batch sending",
            "5 AI credits per month"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "High-volume sends",
            "Multiple verified domains",
            "Ticket and Slack support",
            "Dedicated IP add-on",
            "Longer data retention"
          ],
          "is_free": true,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://resend.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "Daily 100-email cap can block bursty workloads even when monthly volume is well under 3,000."
        },
        {
          "name": "Pro 50k",
          "slug": "pro-50k",
          "tagline": "Entry paid Pro tier with 50,000 emails per month included",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 2000,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Overage $0.90 per 1,000 emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 2000,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 50000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 10
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "50,000 emails per month included",
            "$0.90 per 1,000 emails overage",
            "Up to 10 verified domains",
            "No daily send limits",
            "Ticket support",
            "RESTful API, SMTP relay, batch sending, inbound emails",
            "Official SDKs and React Email integration",
            "100 AI credits per month"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Slack support",
            "Dedicated IP add-on",
            "1,000 verified domains",
            "Volume discounts at higher tiers"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://resend.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        },
        {
          "name": "Pro 100k",
          "slug": "pro-100k",
          "tagline": "Pro tier with 100,000 emails per month included",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 3500,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Overage $0.90 per 1,000 emails"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 3500,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 100000
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 10
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "100,000 emails per month included",
            "$0.90 per 1,000 emails overage",
            "Up to 10 verified domains",
            "No daily send limits",
            "Ticket support",
            "RESTful API, SMTP relay, batch sending, inbound emails",
            "Official SDKs and React Email integration",
            "100 AI credits per month"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Slack support",
            "Dedicated IP add-on",
            "1,000 verified domains",
            "Volume discounts beyond 100k"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://resend.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        },
        {
          "name": "Scale",
          "slug": "scale",
          "tagline": "Volume tier with Slack support, 1,000 domains, and dedicated IP add-on",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "monthly",
              "price": {
                "amount_cents": 9000,
                "currency": "USD"
              },
              "notes": "Lowest Scale tier; goes up to $1,150/mo for 2.5M emails. Overage $0.90 to $0.46 per 1,000 depending on tier."
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": 9000,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 100000,
              "unit": "emails (Scale entry; tier scales to 2.5M)"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "number",
              "value": 1000
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "100,000 emails per month included at entry; up to 2.5M at top sub-tier",
            "Overage $0.90 to $0.46 per 1,000 depending on sub-tier",
            "Up to 1,000 verified domains",
            "Slack and ticket support",
            "Dedicated IP add-on available",
            "RESTful API, SMTP relay, batch sending, inbound emails",
            "Official SDKs and React Email integration",
            "500 AI credits per month"
          ],
          "features_missing": [
            "Custom contracting and SLAs",
            "Priority support tier",
            "Flexible data retention",
            "Negotiated dedicated IP bundles"
          ],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": false,
          "source_url": "https://resend.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual",
          "notes": "Scale has 6 sub-tiers ranging $90 to $1,150 per month for 100k to 2.5M emails. Overage rate decreases as the included volume grows."
        },
        {
          "name": "Enterprise",
          "slug": "enterprise",
          "tagline": "Custom contracting for high-volume senders with SLA guarantees",
          "prices": [
            {
              "cycle": "custom"
            }
          ],
          "anchor_monthly_usd_cents": null,
          "limits": {
            "emails_per_month": {
              "kind": "custom"
            },
            "domains": {
              "kind": "custom"
            }
          },
          "features_included": [
            "Typical 3M+ emails per month",
            "Dedicated IPs",
            "Priority support",
            "SLA guarantees",
            "Flexible data retention",
            "Flexible AI credit allocation",
            "Custom contracting"
          ],
          "features_missing": [],
          "is_free": false,
          "has_free_trial": false,
          "contact_sales": true,
          "source_url": "https://resend.com/pricing",
          "captured_at": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
          "capture_method": "manual"
        }
      ],
      "free_plan_available": true,
      "free_trial_days": null,
      "starting_price_usd_cents": 0,
      "has_custom_enterprise": true,
      "alternatives": [
        "mailgun",
        "postmark"
      ],
      "pros": [
        "Modern developer experience with React Email and official SDKs across many languages",
        "Transparent volume-based pricing without sales calls until Enterprise",
        "Generous free tier (3,000 emails per month) suits hobby projects and small apps",
        "Ships fast with frequent feature releases and active product iteration",
        "Integrated with the broader Resend ecosystem including broadcasts and audiences"
      ],
      "cons": [
        "Smaller than Mailgun and SendGrid, so fewer third-party integration plugins exist",
        "Marketing track is newer and less proven than the transactional core",
        "Free tier daily cap of 100 emails per day blocks bursty workloads",
        "Scale plan's 6 sub-tier structure can be hard to compare against simpler competitors"
      ],
      "best_for": [
        "Developers shipping a transactional flow such as signup confirmations, password resets, and receipts",
        "Teams using React for email templates",
        "Startups wanting a clean modern API without legacy ESP weight"
      ],
      "not_for": [
        "Marketing teams running newsletters (use Kit or beehiiv)",
        "Enterprises with strict legacy integration requirements",
        "Teams that need deep dedicated-IP warmup tooling (Mailgun and SendGrid are more mature here)"
      ],
      "last_verified": "2026-04-30T21:00:00.000Z",
      "scraper_status": "manual-only",
      "match": "secondary"
    }
  ]
}