Sendy + SES pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Sendy + SES (sendy.co) is a newsletter platform. One-time $69 license; you pay Amazon SES per email. No free plan.
What Sendy + SES costs
- 1k subscribers: $0.43/mo
- 5k subscribers: $2.15/mo
- 10k subscribers: $4.30/mo
- 25k subscribers: $10.75/mo
- 50k subscribers: $21.50/mo
- 100k subscribers: $43/mo
Plan compared: Self-hosted, SES à la carte at $0.10 per 1k. Cheapest paid plan that can send a weekly newsletter to the whole list, billed monthly. Plans priced by emails sent assume one issue a week, about 4.3 emails per subscriber a month.
Sendy + SES price hikes
No price hikes on record for Sendy + SES.
Alternatives to Sendy + SES
Sendy + SES is the cheapest newsletter platform we track at 10k subs. The others:
- Substack: free
- MailCheap: $39/mo
- Flodesk: $72/mo
- Buttondown: $79/mo
- Bento: $79/mo
- MailerLite: $89/mo
- Ghost(Pro): $105/mo
- Mailchimp: $110/mo
- beehiiv: $139/mo
- Kit: $139/mo
Sendy + SES alternatives: 10 newsletter platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jul 21, 2026 · Repriced: Amazon SES now starts new accounts on its $0.16 per 1,000 Essentials plan; switching the account to à la carte keeps sending at $0.10.
Sources
Pricing page: sendy.co. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Excludes the server and the one-time license. Uses SES à la carte at $0.10 per 1k, which any SES account can switch to; a new account left on its default Essentials plan pays $0.16 (about $6.90 a month at 10k subscribers).