Email APIs compared: prices and price hikes
Transactional and product email for SaaS: sign-in links, receipts, onboarding. Priced by how many emails you send a month.
Prices at 100k emails/mo
- Amazon SES: $10/mo · last hike Jul 2026
- SendGrid: $34.95/mo · last hike May 2025
- Resend: $35/mo
- MailerSend: $68/mo · last hike Dec 2025
- Mailgun: $75/mo · last hike Dec 2025
- Brevo: $82/mo
- Plunk: $100/mo
- Postmark: $115/mo · last hike Jan 2023
- Loops: $199/mo
Cheapest paid plan (plus overage when that's cheaper) covering the monthly volume, billed monthly. Contact-based pricing assumes 4 emails per contact.