# Emailit review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Email API, SMTP relay and campaigns, hosted in the EU

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** Email Sending Services
- **Made by:** FunFirst, Inc.
- **Website:** https://emailit.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 100 emails a day, 3 domains and 7-day logs until a first credit purchase.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## 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).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **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 | $20 one-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 | $20 per 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 | $200 per 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 https://emailit.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Emailit before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 20% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://emailit.com/pricing

## 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.

## Good for

- Developers who want one bill for transactional and marketing email
- Teams that need EU-hosted sending
- Low-volume senders who prefer prepaid credits that do not expire

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: C.** $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.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** A 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.
- **Features: C.** Email 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.
- **Ease of use: C.** A web dashboard, API and SMTP with no rating on record. You verify domains and connect your code.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with an API and listed Laravel, Node.js, PHP, Go, Python, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor connections.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among email sending services

- 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.

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

## Keep it, 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.

- 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: Reading the reports inbox providers send about your domain.
- You could not: Checking that an address exists without writing to it.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Laravel, Node.js and PHP among them, and has an API.
- You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Laravel, Node.js, PHP, Go, Python, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor

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

## Alternatives

- [Resend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/resend): Developer email API with React Email templates and a free tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailit-vs-resend)
- [MailerSend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailersend): Transactional email and SMS API from the team behind MailerLite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailit-vs-mailersend)
- [Twilio SendGrid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendgrid): Twilio's email API and SMTP service, priced by monthly email volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailit-vs-sendgrid)
- [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailit-vs-mailgun)
- [Elastic Email](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elastic-email): Low-cost email API and SMTP relay priced by monthly email volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elastic-email-vs-emailit)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://emailit.com/pricing

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/emailit
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