# AhaSend review (2026): is the free plan enough? > EU-hosted transactional email API and SMTP relay with a free tier Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. AhaSend is a Dutch-incorporated email service that sends transactional email through a REST API or SMTP relay and also offers a campaign builder. It says its infrastructure is multi-region in the EU and that it is ISO 27001 certified. A free plan covers 1,000 emails a month, and paid plans are flat monthly prices that include a set volume. - **Category:** Email Sending Services - **Made by:** AhaSend - **Website:** https://ahasend.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 1,000 emails a month and 1 to 7 days of logs. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, AhaSend has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month for 25,000 emails, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1,000 emails a month, 3 domains, campaign builder, full Management API, 1 to 7 days of log retention and community support. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1,000 emails a month, 3 domains, campaign builder, community and best-effort support. No card needed. | | Pro | $10 per month for 25,000 emails, billed monthly | Flat rate with unlimited domains, dedicated IPs, 0 to 14 days of retention and email support seven days a week. | | Max | $80 per month for 100,000 emails, billed monthly | Adds OIDC single sign-on, dedicated IP pools, archiving to your own object storage and phone support. Extra emails $0.50 per 1,000. | Read from https://ahasend.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with AhaSend before buying. ## Key features - **REST API and SMTP relay:** Mail goes out through a RESTful API or an SMTP relay, with official SDKs, a command-line tool and scheduled sending. - **Sandbox mode and local webhooks:** An integration can be built without sending real email, and webhooks and inbound routes can be tested on localhost. - **Inbound email routing:** Incoming mail can be routed to an application, with signed endpoints for webhooks and inbound routes. - **Campaign builder:** A simple and a full editor, contact lists with custom fields, reusable templates, scheduling and test sends are listed, on every plan. - **Platform partner features:** Sub accounts, DNS whitelabeling, per-domain DKIM selectors and bring-your-own DKIM keys are listed for platforms that send for their customers. ## Good for - Developers who want a free tier and EU-hosted sending - Small apps that fit within 25,000 emails a month at $10 - Platforms that send on behalf of many customers ## Worth knowing - The free plan stops at 1,000 emails a month and 1 to 7 days of log retention. - Dedicated IPs appear from Pro, but the feature table says IP access is at 100,000 emails a month. - Single sign-on, dedicated IP pools and phone support are limited to the Max plan. - The page shows prices in USD or EUR; the figures here are the USD ones. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. AhaSend is a transactional email service with a REST API and SMTP relay, sandbox mode, inbound routing and a campaign builder. The free plan covers 1,000 emails a month. Pro is $10 a month for 25,000 emails, and single sign-on and phone support are Max only. - **Value for money: B.** $10 a month for 25,000 emails is inside the cheapest quarter of email sending tools, which starts at $10. Max is $80 for 100,000 emails, and extras are $0.50 per 1,000. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 1,000 emails a month, 3 domains and 1 to 7 days of log retention, no card needed. It is a cap you will hit. - **Features: B.** REST API and SMTP relay, sandbox mode, local webhooks, inbound routing, a campaign builder and a management API. The listing shows no gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: C.** A web dashboard and API with no rating on record. You verify domains and wire it into your code. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with an API and no integration list on the pages read. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from AhaSend's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email sending services - AhaSend's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 10 of the 26 other email sending services we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 11 of 26) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $13.73 for the category: 6 of the 25 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 4 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-sending ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace AhaSend you would be making mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $120 a year. - You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Transactional email, Public API, Email campaigns ## Alternatives - [Resend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/resend): Developer email API with React Email templates and a free tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahasend-vs-resend) - [MailerSend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailersend): Transactional email and SMS API from the team behind MailerLite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahasend-vs-mailersend) - [Postmark](https://toolgpa.com/tools/postmark): Transactional email API and SMTP, with broadcasts on a separate stream. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahasend-vs-postmark) - [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahasend-vs-mailgun) - [SMTP2GO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smtp2go): SMTP relay and email API priced by emails a month, with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahasend-vs-smtp2go) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://ahasend.com/pricing - https://ahasend.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahasend Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).