Emailit review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Email API, SMTP relay and campaigns, hosted in the EU
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Emailit report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for developers who want pay-as-you-go sending
Emailit is an email API and SMTP relay that sells credits instead of seats. Free gives 3,000 credits a month, but only 100 emails a day. Pro is $20 a month for 100,000 credits on yearly billing, or you can buy credits at $2 per 10,000 with no subscription.
Who Emailit is for
- Fits if you want to pay for what you send, with credits that never expire
- Works for developers who want a free plan with API and SMTP
Who Emailit is not for
- Tight if you stay free: 100 emails a day, 3 domains and 7-day logs until a first credit purchase
- Watch out: campaign emails cost 2 credits and verification 5, so mixed sending uses credits faster
- Pricey if you want a dedicated IP: it is $30 a month per IP, with a minimum of 1,000 emails a day
- Watch out: some listed features are marked Soon or Planned
- Skip it if you want phone or desktop apps, as it is web only
Why Emailit gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for money$20 a month on yearly billing ($25 monthly) for 100,000 credits is at the top of what email sending tools charge. Pay as you go is $2 per 10,000 credits, from a $20 top-up.
- BFree plan and trialA free plan with 3,000 credits a month, 100 emails a day and 3 domains, including API, SMTP, campaigns and automations. The first credit purchase lifts the daily cap to 5,000.
- CFeaturesEmail API and SMTP, logs, webhooks, campaigns, audiences and deliverability tools. The plan table marks some features as Soon or Planned, so they are not available yet.
- CEase of useA web dashboard, API and SMTP with no rating on record. You verify domains and connect your code.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with an API and listed Laravel, Node.js, PHP, Go, Python, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor connections.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Emailit's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Emailit'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 free plan and trial (B, above 22 of 26) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $20 a month, against a middle price of $13.73 for the category: 20 of the 25 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 27 email sending services we grade, cut by the letter each got. Emailit’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 3 of 26, level with 7
- BFree plan and trialAbove 22 of 26, level with 4
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 26, level with 9
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 26, level with 25
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 6 of 26, level with 19
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 26 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 Emailit, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Emailit 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 $240 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.
- Reading the reports inbox providers send about your domain.
- Checking that an address exists without writing to it.
- It plugs into other products, Laravel, Node.js and PHP among them, and has an API.
- Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
What this rests on. Emailit’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 Emailit?
Emailit sends transactional email through a REST API or SMTP relay and also covers inbound email, campaigns, audiences, automations and email verification on the same platform. Usage is counted in credits, with a free monthly pool, pay-as-you-go top-ups and two subscription plans. The pricing page lists EU hosting and says the company runs its own data center in Prague.
Worth knowing
- The free plan is limited to 100 emails a day, 3 sending domains and 7-day logs until a first credit purchase.
- Campaign emails cost 2 credits each and verification 5, so mixed sending uses the pool faster than the headline credit count suggests.
- A dedicated IP is an add-on at $30 a month per IP, with a minimum of 1,000 emails a day.
- Some features on the plan table are marked Soon or Planned and are not available yet.
Key features
- Email API and SMTP relay
- Send through a REST API with SDKs or a drop-in SMTP relay. Inbound email is received and passed on as JSON.
- Credit-based usage
- 1 credit covers an API or SMTP email or an inbound email, 2 a campaign email, 3 an automation run and 5 an email verification.
- Logs, webhooks and analytics
- Every message and delivery attempt is logged, webhooks are signed and retried, and Business adds queryable SQL analytics.
- Campaigns and audiences
- Newsletters, subscriber lists with hosted signup, forms and automations share the same credit pool as transactional sending.
- Deliverability tools
- SPF, DKIM and DMARC are enforced, bounces are classified and suppressions are automatic. Pro and Business add DMARC reports.
Emailit pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Emailit has a free plan, and paid plans start at $20 per month for 100,000 credits, billed annually ($25 billed monthly).
- Starts at
- $20 per month for 100,000 credits, billed annually ($25 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- Free: 3,000 credits a month, 100 emails a day, 3 sending domains. The first credit purchase raises the daily limit to 5,000 emails.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 3,000 credits a month, 100 emails a day and 3 sending domains, with API, SMTP, campaigns and automations. |
| Pay as you go | $20one-time top-up, used as you go | Credits are $2 per 10,000 and never expire; the smallest purchase listed is $20. No subscription. |
| Pro | $20per month for 100,000 credits, billed annually ($25 billed monthly) | 100,000 credits a month, extra credits at $1 per 10,000, bulk sending, 30-day logs and DMARC reports. |
| Business | $200per month for 2,500,000 credits, billed annually ($250 billed monthly) | 2,500,000 credits a month, 99.9% uptime SLA, support response under 4 hours and SQL analytics. |
| Contract | Custom | Sold through sales, with volume pricing, a 99.99% uptime SLA, dedicated IPs and security reviews. |
Read from emailit.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Emailit before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountSave 20% with yearly billing
The pricing page shows a Yearly option labeled Save 20%: Pro is $20 a month billed yearly against $25 billed monthly, and Business $200 against $250.
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Common questions
Does Emailit have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Emailit is listed for Web.
Does Emailit have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Emailit is listed for Web.
Is Emailit open source?
Emailit is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Emailit have an API?
Yes. Emailit 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 12, 2026.