Brevo pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Brevo (brevo.com) is a email API. Plans priced by monthly email credits. Free plan: 300 emails/day.
What Brevo costs
- 10k emails / month: $17/mo
- 50k emails / month: $56/mo
- 100k emails / month: $82/mo
- 500k emails / month: $429/mo
- 1M emails / month: $999/mo
Plan compared: Starter (Standard 500k, Professional 1M). Cheapest paid plan (plus overage when that's cheaper) covering the monthly volume, billed monthly. Contact-based pricing assumes 4 emails per contact.
Brevo price hikes
No price hikes on record for Brevo.
Cheaper alternatives to Brevo
At 100k emails/mo, Brevo costs $82/mo. 5 email APIs cost less:
- Amazon SES: $10/mo (À la carte, $0.10 per 1k (any account can switch to it))
- SendGrid: $34.95/mo (Essentials (Pro above 100k))
- Resend: $35/mo (Pro (Scale above 100k))
- MailerSend: $68/mo (Hobby + overage, then Starter)
- Mailgun: $75/mo (Basic, Foundation, then Scale)
Brevo alternatives: 5 cheaper email APIs compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Oct 1, 2025 · Repriced: Business renamed Standard and a high-volume Professional tier added (Brevo's pricing page showed Business on Sep 23, 2025 and Standard and Professional on Oct 8).
- May 2024 · Repriced: Paid plans re-based to a 5,000-email floor, lowering the entry price.
Sources
Pricing page: brevo.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Computed from Brevo's public pricing API (base fee plus email credits) and checked against the rendered pricing page with Monthly selected (it defaults to Yearly). Removing Brevo branding on Starter is a $12/mo add-on.