# Elastic Email

> Low-cost email API and SMTP relay priced by monthly email volume

Elastic Email sends app and website email through an HTTP API or SMTP relay, with a template designer, suppression handling, address verification and inbound email processing. Its Email API plans are priced by emails a month, starting at 50,000, and it sells separate Email Marketing plans priced by contacts. A free plan sends 3,000 emails a month, up to 100 a day.

- **Category:** Email Sending Services
- **Made by:** Elastic Email Inc. (since 2010)
- **Website:** https://elasticemail.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Elastic Email has a free plan. Paid plans start at $19 per month for 50,000 emails.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Up to 3,000 emails a month, limited to 100 a day, with the API, SMTP relay, email designer and 3 days of email logs. No credit card needed.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |

Read from https://elasticemail.com/email-api-pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Elastic Email before buying.

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- Price-conscious senders of 50,000 emails a month or more
- Agencies reselling email under their own brand
- Developers who want a free tier for testing

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Elastic Email is one of the cheapest ways here to send 50,000 emails: $19 a month on Starter, with the API, SMTP relay, a template designer and address verification. The catch is what Starter leaves out: webhooks and inbound email need Pro at $49, and logs only last 3 days.

- **Value for money: B.** Graded on 50,000 emails a month: Starter is $19 for exactly that, in the cheaper quarter of this category at that volume. But webhooks, which tell your app about bounces and complaints, and inbound email need Pro at $49.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free for good, no card: 3,000 emails a month, capped at 100 a day, with the API, SMTP, designer and 3 days of logs. Fine for testing, but a busy day on a live app will hit the cap.
- **Features: B.** API and SMTP with libraries in seven languages, drag-and-drop and AI template design, suppressions, verification, inbound email, webhooks, private IPs and reseller tools. It covers the whole job across its plans, though the developer bits sit on Pro.
- **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer sends a first email: libraries for most languages and an SMTP relay, once your domain is verified. No rating on record. With 3 days of logs on Free and Starter, chasing a failed email has to be quick.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and SMTP, plus Zapier, WordPress, Cloudways, Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Replit. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Elastic Email's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among email sending services

- Elastic Email's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 6 of the 11 other email sending services we grade, and level with 4.
- It stands best on value for money (B, above 6 of 11) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 7 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-sending

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Elastic Email 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 $228 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: Checking that an address exists without writing to it.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Zapier, WordPress and Cloudways among them, and has an API.
- 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.

## Works with

Zapier, WordPress, Cloudways, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit

**Tags:** Transactional email, Public API, Email verification, Email campaigns

## Alternatives

- [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/elastic-email-vs-smtp2go)
- [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elastic-email-vs-mailgun)
- [Twilio SendGrid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendgrid): Twilio's email API and SMTP service, priced by monthly email volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elastic-email-vs-sendgrid)
- [Mailjet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailjet): Email API, SMTP relay and campaign editor on one plan priced by volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elastic-email-vs-mailjet)
- [Amazon SES](https://toolgpa.com/tools/amazon-ses): AWS email sending and receiving, paid per 1,000 emails. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/amazon-ses-vs-elastic-email)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://elasticemail.com/email-api-pricing
- https://elasticemail.com/email-marketing-pricing
- https://elasticemail.com/about
- https://elasticemail.com/integrations

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/elastic-email
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