Elastic Email vs Inboxroad (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Elastic Email if

• Fits if you send about 50,000 emails a month and your app doesn't need webhooks
• Works for agencies reselling email under their own brand, which needs Pro at $49

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if your app needs bounce webhooks or inbound email on Starter, as both start with Pro at $49
• Tight if you need more than 3 days of logs, which is all Free and Starter keep
• Watch out: the free plan stops at 100 emails a day, even though it allows 3,000 a month
• Not for you if you want newsletters on the same account, as Email Marketing is separate and priced by contacts
• Pricey if you need a private IP, an add-on at $40 or $50 a month

Pick Inboxroad if

• Fits if you send 100,000 emails or more a month and want a dedicated IP
• Works for senders who need per-provider send-rate control on Email Pro

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you send under 100,000 emails a month, because SMTP is not sold below that
• Skip it if you want a small, cheap API, as the campaign plan starts at $68 for 10,000 emails
• Watch out: plan fees are charged monthly and usage over the limit is billed the month after
• Watch out: Email Pro is $384 a month at 100,000 emails
• Watch out: the page shows euros first; dollar prices sit behind a currency switch

Elastic Email

• The free plan is limited to 100 emails a day, and email logs are kept for 3 days on Free and Starter.
• Inbound email processing, webhooks and subaccounts need Pro, which costs $49 a month at 50,000 emails.
• Email Marketing is a separate product with its own account, priced by contacts: $29 a month for 2,500 on Starter, free up to 1,000.
• A private IP is an add-on at $40 or $50 a month, depending on the plan.

Inboxroad

• The SMTP and Email Pro plans are not offered below 100,000 emails a month, so small senders only see the campaign plan.
• The pricing page shows euros by default; dollar prices are behind its currency switch.
• Plan fees are charged monthly, and usage over the limit is billed the following month.
• The 100,000-email step of SMTP and Email includes 1 sending domain; Email Pro includes 2.

Elastic Email

HTTP API and SMTP relay

Send through a REST API with libraries for languages including Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby and Rust, or through SMTP, with attachments.

Email designer

Drag-and-drop templates with responsive layouts, a raw HTML editor and an AI template designer: 10 prompts a month on Free, 40 on Starter, 100 on Pro.

Suppressions and verification

Unsubscribe and bounce handling, suppressed-contact export, and single or bulk email address verification on paid plans.

Inbound email and webhooks

Pro processes incoming email and sends webhook notifications for deliveries, opens, clicks, bounces and complaints.

Reseller and white-label tools

Pro adds subaccounts, white-label SMTP and HTTP API, and the app on your own domain for agencies reselling email.

Private IPs

Dedicated IPs with warm-up and IP pools, at $40 a month on Starter or $50 a month on Pro.

Inboxroad

SMTP relay and email API

Send application mail through an SMTP relay or the API, with domain statistics and webhooks with multiple endpoints.

Dedicated IPs by tier

The plans shown at 100,000 emails a month include a dedicated IP, with custom warm-up; higher volumes add IPs and sending domains.

Campaign builder

A drag-and-drop builder and HTML editor, templates, lists, segmentation and unlimited contacts on the Email plan.

IP pools and send-rate control

Email Pro adds routing across IP pools by stream, brand or region, ISP-aware warm-up and per-provider rate limits for Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Multiple SMTP connections

The site lists switching between several SMTP providers as a feature.

Elastic Email

• Free$0

  3,000 emails a month and 100 a day, API and SMTP relay, Starter's basic features, 3 days of logs.

• Starter$19

  per month for 50,000 emails

  API and SMTP relay, email designer, suppressions, single and bulk verification, 3 days of logs. $29 a month at 100,000 emails.

• Pro$49

  per month for 50,000 emails

  Adds inbound email processing, webhooks, subaccounts, user management, reseller features and 7 days of logs. $59 a month at 100,000 emails.

Inboxroad

• Free$0

  1,000 emails a month to try the product.

• Email$68

  per month for 10,000 emails

  Campaign builder, templates, segmentation and unlimited contacts. $277 a month at 100,000 emails, which includes 1 dedicated IP.

• SMTP$84

  per month for 100,000 emails

  SMTP relay and APIs with a dedicated IP and one sending domain; not offered below 100,000 emails a month. $169 at the next step up.

• Email Pro$384

  per month for 100,000 emails

  Campaigns plus SMTP and APIs, 2 sending domains, multiple IP pools, per-provider send-rate control and feedback loops. Not offered below 100,000 emails.