Scaleway Transactional Email vs Sweego (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Sweego grades higher than Scaleway Transactional Email: 2.8 against 1.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Sweego grades higher on value for money, the free plan, features and platforms. They get the same grade on ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Scaleway Transactional Email
Transactional email API and SMTP on Scaleway's European cloud
Sweego
French email and SMS sending API, with a free plan and EU data centers
Which one is for you
Pick Scaleway Transactional Email if
- Fits if you want email sent from a European cloud for GDPR reasons
- Works for apps with uneven volume that suit paying per 1,000 emails
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a free plan or trial, as there is neither
- Pricey if you need a dedicated IP or the SLA, since both sit on the €80 a month Scale plan
- Not for you if you send marketing email, as the page only describes transactional messages
- Watch out: prices are in euros and the page doesn't say whether VAT is added
Pick Sweego if
- Fits if you want your sending data kept in France or the EU
- Works for apps that send email and SMS from one API
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free, with 100 emails a day, 7 days of logs and no inbound routing
- Watch out: prices are in euros and shown excluding tax
- Watch out: SMS is prepaid credits valid for 12 months, about €0.04 each in France
- Pricey if you need a dedicated IP, which is optional on Startup and included only from Scaleup
How we grade them
| 1.6GPAScaleway Transactional EmailWeak | 2.8GPASweegoGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CScale is €80 a month for 100,000 emails. That's in the dearest tenth of the category, but Essential has no monthly fee and charges €0.25 per 1,000, which pulls it back to the ordinary range. | B€8 a month billed annually (€10 monthly) for up to 20,000 emails, inside the cheaper quarter, excluding tax. |
| Free plan and trial | FNo free plan or trial. Essential includes 300 emails before it charges, which is a sample, not a plan. | B100 emails a day by API and SMTP with unlimited domains, 5 templates, webhooks and 7 days of logs, which a small app can live on. |
| Features | CAPI and SMTP sending, reports and alerts, blocklist handling and webhooks. A managed dedicated IP and the 99.9% SLA need Scale, and it's transactional only. | BEmail and SMS from one API, sandbox testing, a template builder, delivery logs and inbound routing on paid plans. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You add domains and DNS records on a cloud console. | CNo store rating on record. You verify a sending domain with DNS records and wire up SMTP credentials or an API key before the first email goes out. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb console with an API and SMTP. No integrations list on its page. | BA web dashboard and an API; the listing names WordPress, Post SMTP, Symfony, Odoo, Payload CMS, Drupal, Terraform and Convex. |
| Best for | pay-as-you-go transactional email from a European cloud | French-hosted email and SMS from one API |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Scaleway Transactional Email and Sweego. How we grade
Price against what you get
Scaleway Transactional Email starts at about $89.38 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Sweego starts at about $8.94 a month and scores 2.7.
Sweego scores higher and starts $80.44 a month lower. Of the other email sending services on the chart, 29 score higher than Scaleway Transactional Email for less, and none scores higher than Sweego for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Scaleway Transactional Email also covers dMARC.
- Sweego also covers sMS marketing.
At a glance
| Scaleway Transactional Email | Sweego | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free plan |
| Starts at | €80 per month for 100,000 emails | €8 per month for up to 20,000 emails, billed annually (€10 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | 100 emails a day by API and SMTP, unlimited domains, 5 templates, webhooks, test mode and 7 days of log retention. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Scaleway | Sweego |
| Price read from | scaleway.com | sweego.io |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Scaleway Transactional Email
- The Essential plan is pay as you go with no monthly fee shown: 300 emails included, then €0.25 per 1,000 emails.
- A dedicated IP and the 99.9% SLA need the €80 a month Scale plan.
- Prices are in euros and the page does not say whether VAT is added.
- The service is for transactional messages; marketing email is not described on the page.
Sweego
- Prices are in euros and shown excluding tax.
- The free plan stops at 100 emails a day, with 7 days of log retention and no inbound routing.
- SMS is sold separately as prepaid credits valid for 12 months; the page shows about €0.04 per SMS in France.
- A dedicated IP is optional on Startup and included only from Scaleup.
Key features
Scaleway Transactional Email
- API and SMTP sending
- Emails can be sent through an API or over SMTP, which suits notification services, alerts and CMS or application integrations.
- Reports and alerts
- Both plans include reports and alerts for sent email.
- Blocklist handling
- Essential has an automatic blocklist mode; Scale adds a manual blocklist mode.
- Managed dedicated IP
- A managed dedicated IP address is part of the Scale plan.
- Domains and webhooks
- Essential allows 5 domains and 1 webhook per domain; Scale has unlimited of each.
Sweego
- Email and SMS in one API
- A single RESTful API sends transactional email and SMS, and an SMTP relay and unlimited API keys are available.
- Sandbox and dry-run testing
- Test mode simulates sending without delivering anything, which suits development environments.
- Template builder
- A drag-and-drop email builder supports variables, with 5 templates on Free and unlimited templates from the Startup plan.
- Delivery logs and tracking
- Opens, clicks and bounces are tracked in real time, with searchable delivery logs kept for 7 to 90 days by plan.
- Inbound email routing
- Incoming mail can be routed to an application. It is included from the Individual plan upward.
Plans
Scaleway Transactional Email
Scale€80
per month for 100,000 emails
Unlimited domains and webhooks, a managed dedicated IP and a 99.9% SLA. Emails beyond 100,000 cost €0.20 per 1,000.
Sweego
Free€0
100 emails a day by API and SMTP, unlimited domains, 5 templates and 7 days of logs.
Individual€8
per month for up to 20,000 emails, billed annually (€10 monthly)
Adds inbound email routing, 30 days of logs, chat and email support and unlimited API keys. A 50,000-email step is also shown.
Startup€63
per month for up to 100,000 emails, billed annually (€79 monthly)
Adds 60 days of logs, unlimited templates, multiple webhooks and an optional dedicated IP. Price rises with volume; a 200,000 step is also shown.
Scaleup€216
per month for up to 500,000 emails, billed annually (€270 monthly)
Adds 90 days of logs, a dedicated IP included and a dedicated IP pool option. A 1,000,000 step is also shown.
UnicornCustom
For more than one million emails a month, with custom volume and custom development. Contact sales.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Scaleway Transactional Email or Sweego?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Sweego is cheaper to start with: about $8.94 a month, against about $89.38 a month for Scaleway Transactional Email. Scaleway Transactional Email starts at €80 per month for 100,000 emails, and Sweego starts at €8 per month for up to 20,000 emails, billed annually (€10 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Scaleway Transactional Email or Sweego?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Sweego has a free plan. Scaleway Transactional Email does not.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.