AutoSend review (2026): is it worth $1 a month?
Transactional and marketing email API with volume-based plans
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AutoSend report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for cheap transactional email with an API
AutoSend sends transactional email over an API or SMTP, and the cheapest plan is $1 a month for 3,000 emails. There's no free plan, and the Hobby plan has no webhooks.
Who AutoSend is for
- Fits if you send a few thousand app emails a month and want the lowest bill
- Works for small projects that only need transactional mail, not campaigns
Who AutoSend is not for
- Skip it if you want a free plan or a trial, as the entry price is $1 a month
- Too light for webhooks on Hobby: they start on the $10 Starter plan
- Pricey if you go past your quota, with extra emails at $0.0020 each on the lower tiers
- Watch out: marketing is a paid add-on at every size, for example $5 instead of $1 on Hobby
- Watch out: refunds only cover paid plans with no usage, within 7 days, and Hobby isn't eligible
Why AutoSend gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- AValue for money$1 a month for 3,000 transactional emails. Email sending tools start at $9 for the cheaper quarter, so this is well under 60% of that.
- FFree plan and trialNo free plan and no trial. The vendor says the $1 price is there to keep abuse off shared IPs, and Hobby isn't refundable.
- CFeaturesEmail API, SMTP, domain warm-up and validation, and a marketing tier with campaigns. Hobby has no webhooks and only 7 days of data kept.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. You add sending domains and set up DNS before anything goes out.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb dashboard with a REST API and SMTP. No integrations list on its pages.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from AutoSend's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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AutoSend's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 9 of the 50 other email sending services we grade, and level with 4.
It stands best on value for money (A, above 44 of 50) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $1 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 0 of the 41 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 51 email sending services we grade, cut by the letter each got. AutoSend’s own letter is outlined.
- AValue for moneyAbove 44 of 50, level with 6
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 50, level with 7
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 50, level with 29
- CEase of useAbove 7 of 50, level with 43
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 50, level with 16
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 44 email sending services. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep AutoSend, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace AutoSend 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.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 37 of the 50 other email sending services grade higher. It costs $12 a year.
What you could not
- Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers.
- Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox.
- An API that other software can build on.
What this rests on. AutoSend’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is AutoSend?
AutoSend is an email service with a REST API and SMTP for transactional mail, plus campaign, automation and contact tools on its marketing tier. Plans are priced by monthly email volume rather than contact count, and there is no free plan; the entry plan costs $1 a month.
Worth knowing
- There is no free plan; the vendor says the $1 Hobby price is meant to deter abuse on shared IPs.
- Emails beyond the monthly quota are billed at $0.0020 each on the lower tiers, or packs of 1,000 can be bought.
- Refunds are available only on paid plans with no usage, requested within 7 days; Hobby is not eligible.
- Webhooks are not included on the Hobby plan.
Key features
- Email API and SMTP
- A RESTful email API is included on every tier, with inbound email parsing and webhooks on plans above Hobby.
- Marketing campaigns
- The marketing-plus-transactional tier adds campaigns, lists and segments, automation and campaign analytics.
- Domain warmup and validation
- Domain warmup, email validation and suppression handling are listed with the plan features.
- Volume-based pricing
- Plans step up by monthly emails, from 3,000 to 1.5 million, and the marketing tier lists contact limits that rise with the step.
- Dedicated IPs
- Dedicated IPs are an add-on, offered to senders above 200,000 emails a month.
AutoSend pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, AutoSend is a paid product, starting at $1 per month for up to 3,000 emails, transactional only.
- Starts at
- $1 per month for up to 3,000 emails, transactional only
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $1per month for up to 3,000 emails, transactional only | 1 project, 3 sending domains, 50 templates, 7-day data retention and no webhooks. $5 a month adds marketing with 1,000 contacts. |
| Starter | $10per month for up to 10,000 emails, transactional only | 5 projects, 10 domains, unlimited templates, webhooks and 30-day retention. $12 a month adds marketing; $22 covers 25,000 emails. |
| Growth | $30per month for up to 50,000 emails, transactional only | 30 projects and domains, 60-day retention. $50 a month adds marketing; $80 covers 100,000 emails transactional only. Dedicated Slack support. |
| Scale | $150per month for up to 200,000 emails, transactional only | 50 projects, 500 domains and Dedicated IP availability. $190 adds marketing; steps run up to $1,290 for 1.5 million emails with marketing. |
| Enterprise | Custom | For more than 1.5 million emails a month: custom pricing, a dedicated account manager and priority support. |
Read from autosend.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with AutoSend before you buy.
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Common questions
Does AutoSend have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. AutoSend is listed for Web.
Does AutoSend have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. AutoSend is listed for Web.
Is AutoSend open source?
AutoSend is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does AutoSend have an API?
Yes. AutoSend offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.