# FluentSMTP review (2026): is it any good? > Free WordPress plugin for sending site email through your provider Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. FluentSMTP is a free WordPress plugin that sends the site's email through a provider you connect, such as Amazon SES, Gmail, Mailgun, SendGrid or Postmark, using the provider's API where one exists. It logs emails, reports on delivery, supports a fallback connection and sends failure alerts. - **Category:** Email Sending Services - **Made by:** WPManageNinja - **Website:** https://fluentsmtp.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you don't run WordPress, as it only works inside it. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, FluentSMTP is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** The whole plugin is free, with no Pro version or paid tier, per its WordPress.org page. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | All features and integrations, with no paid edition. The vendor says it is free and open source, and pledges that it stays free. | Read from https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluent-smtp/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with FluentSMTP before buying. ## Key features - **Provider connections:** Connects to Amazon SES, Gmail and Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Brevo, SparkPost, SMTP2GO, Elastic Email and any SMTP server. - **Multiple connections and routing:** Several providers can be connected at once, and each email is routed to one based on its From address. - **Fallback connection:** A secondary connection takes over when the primary one fails. - **Email log and resend:** Logs sent emails with headers, body and the server's response, and lets you resend a logged email. - **Failure alerts:** Notifies you by email, Telegram, Slack, Discord or Pushover when delivery fails, according to the plugin listing and the vendor site. - **Migration from other plugins:** Imports settings from WP Mail SMTP or Easy WP SMTP, and works with WP-CLI. ## Good for - WordPress site owners who want email logging without paying for a plugin - Agencies connecting many client sites to their own sending provider - Sites that want a fallback sending connection ## Worth knowing - Runs only inside WordPress; it needs an account with a separate email provider, which has its own pricing. - It is a connector, not a sending service, so deliverability depends on the provider you choose. - Zoho Mail is connected through SMTP rather than an API, according to the plugin listing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. FluentSMTP is a free WordPress plugin that sends your site's email through a provider you connect, with a log, a fallback connection and failure alerts. It has no paid version, and you still need an account with a mail provider. - **Value for money: A.** The whole plugin is free, with no Pro edition or paid tier, according to its WordPress.org page. You still pay whatever your mail provider charges. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free outright with no cap: all features and integrations, no paid edition, and the vendor says it will stay that way. - **Features: B.** Connections to SES, Gmail, Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark and others, routing, a fallback, an email log with resend, failure alerts and migration from other plugins. Nothing in the listing is held back for a paid tier. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You install it in WordPress and connect a provider account. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Runs inside WordPress and connects to Amazon SES, Gmail, Microsoft 365, Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark and Brevo. No standalone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from FluentSMTP'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 - FluentSMTP's GPA of 3.2 is higher than 50 of the 50 other email sending services we grade. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 49 of 50) and worst on ease of use (C, above 7). - FluentSMTP has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-sending ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** FluentSMTP is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.2 is higher than 50 of the 50 other email sending services we grade. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Amazon SES, Gmail and Google Workspace among them. - 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 Amazon SES, Gmail, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Mailgun, SendGrid, Postmark, Brevo **Tags:** Transactional email, Open source, Reports ## Alternatives - [WP Mail SMTP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wp-mail-smtp): WordPress plugin that routes site email through an SMTP provider. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fluentsmtp-vs-wp-mail-smtp) - [Post SMTP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/post-smtp): WordPress SMTP plugin with email logs, alerts and backup mailers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fluentsmtp-vs-post-smtp) - [SendLayer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendlayer): Transactional email over SMTP or API, aimed at WordPress sites. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fluentsmtp-vs-sendlayer) - [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-fluentsmtp) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://fluentsmtp.com/ - https://wordpress.org/plugins/fluent-smtp/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/fluentsmtp Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).