MailerSend pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
MailerSend (mailersend.com) is a email API. Volume tiers plus per-1k overage. Free plan: 500 emails/mo.
What MailerSend costs
- 10k emails / month: $14.50/mo
- 50k emails / month: $35/mo
- 100k emails / month: $68/mo
- 500k emails / month: $325/mo
- 1M emails / month: $600/mo
Plan compared: Hobby + overage, then Starter. Cheapest paid plan (plus overage when that's cheaper) covering the monthly volume, billed monthly. Contact-based pricing assumes 4 emails per contact.
MailerSend price hikes
- MailerSend cut its free tier · Dec 2, 2025
Free plan cut to 500 emails a month; the 3,000-email Hobby tier now costs $7. - MailerSend raised prices 13% · Feb 2025
Premium split into Starter and Professional at a higher entry price (seen between June 2024 and February 2025 snapshots).
Cheaper alternatives to MailerSend
At 100k emails/mo, MailerSend costs $68/mo. 3 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 alternatives: 3 cheaper email APIs compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- May 2026 · Price increase: Overage went up on every plan (10k on Hobby went from $13.00 to $14.50 a month) and the yearly discount was cut from 20% to 10%. Seen between the Apr 14 and May 10, 2026 archived pricing pages.
- Dec 2, 2025 · Free tier cut: Free plan cut to 500 emails a month; the 3,000-email Hobby tier now costs $7.
- Feb 2025 · Price increase: Premium split into Starter and Professional at a higher entry price (seen between June 2024 and February 2025 snapshots).
Sources
Pricing page: mailersend.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. 10k uses Hobby $7 + 5k × $1.50 overage. The 100k price moved from $60 to $68 sometime between June 2024 and February 2025.