Resend pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Resend (resend.com) is a email API. Monthly volume tiers plus per-1k overage. Free plan: 3,000 emails/mo (100/day).
What Resend costs
- 10k emails / month: $20/mo
- 50k emails / month: $20/mo
- 100k emails / month: $35/mo
- 500k emails / month: $350/mo
- 1M emails / month: $650/mo
Plan compared: Pro (Scale above 100k). Cheapest paid plan (plus overage when that's cheaper) covering the monthly volume, billed monthly. Contact-based pricing assumes 4 emails per contact.
Resend price hikes
No price hikes on record for Resend.
Cheaper alternatives to Resend
At 100k emails/mo, Resend costs $35/mo. 2 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 alternatives: 8 email APIs compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Oct 16, 2024 · Repriced: Scale plan launched and replaced the Pro tiers above 100k emails a month.
Sources
Pricing page: resend.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. 500k and 1M use Scale tiers, which beat Pro plus overage. Existing Pro users kept legacy plans when Scale launched.