# AutoSend review (2026): is it worth $1 a month? > Transactional and marketing email API with volume-based plans Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Email Sending Services - **Made by:** Peerlist Inc. - **Website:** https://autosend.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan or a trial, as the entry price is $1 a month. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, AutoSend is a paid product, starting at $1 per month for up to 3,000 emails, transactional only. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Hobby | $1 per 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 | $10 per 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 | $30 per 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 | $150 per 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 https://autosend.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with AutoSend before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Developers who want a low-cost sending API with a small entry price - Startups sending a few thousand to a few hundred thousand emails a month - Teams that want transactional and marketing mail from one account ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: A.** $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. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial. The vendor says the $1 price is there to keep abuse off shared IPs, and Hobby isn't refundable. - **Features: C.** Email API, SMTP, domain warm-up and validation, and a marketing tier with campaigns. Hobby has no webhooks and only 7 days of data kept. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You add sending domains and set up DNS before anything goes out. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web dashboard with a REST API and SMTP. No integrations list on its pages. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among email sending services - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-sending ## Keep it, 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. - 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: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. 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, Email campaigns, Marketing automation, Public API ## Alternatives - [Resend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/resend): Developer email API with React Email templates and a free tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autosend-vs-resend) - [Twilio SendGrid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendgrid): Twilio's email API and SMTP service, priced by monthly email volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autosend-vs-sendgrid) - [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autosend-vs-mailgun) - [Postmark](https://toolgpa.com/tools/postmark): Transactional email API and SMTP, with broadcasts on a separate stream. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autosend-vs-postmark) - [MailerSend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailersend): Transactional email and SMS API from the team behind MailerLite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/autosend-vs-mailersend) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://autosend.com/pricing - https://autosend.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/autosend Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).