# Inboxroad review (2026): is the free plan enough? > SMTP relay and campaign email with dedicated IPs included Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Inboxroad sells email delivery in three product lines: an SMTP relay with an email API, an email campaign builder, and an Email Pro tier for senders that need IP pools and per-provider send-rate control. Prices follow monthly volume on a slider, and the plans shown at the 100,000-email step each include a dedicated IP. The company says it began in 2012 as an email marketing business. - **Category:** Email Sending Services - **Made by:** Inboxroad (since 2012) - **Website:** https://www.inboxroad.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you send under 100,000 emails a month, because SMTP is not sold below that. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Inboxroad has a free plan, and paid plans start at $68 per month for 10,000 emails; SMTP from $84 for 100,000. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1,000 emails free every month, per the pricing page FAQ. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1,000 emails a month to try the product. | | Email | $68 per month for 10,000 emails | Campaign builder, templates, segmentation and unlimited contacts. $277 a month at 100,000 emails, which includes 1 dedicated IP. | | SMTP | $84 per month for 100,000 emails | SMTP relay and APIs with a dedicated IP and one sending domain; not offered below 100,000 emails a month. $169 at the next step up. | | Email Pro | $384 per month for 100,000 emails | Campaigns plus SMTP and APIs, 2 sending domains, multiple IP pools, per-provider send-rate control and feedback loops. Not offered below 100,000 emails. | Read from https://www.inboxroad.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Inboxroad before buying. ## Key features - **SMTP relay and email API:** Send application mail through an SMTP relay or the API, with domain statistics and webhooks with multiple endpoints. - **Dedicated IPs by tier:** The plans shown at 100,000 emails a month include a dedicated IP, with custom warm-up; higher volumes add IPs and sending domains. - **Campaign builder:** A drag-and-drop builder and HTML editor, templates, lists, segmentation and unlimited contacts on the Email plan. - **IP pools and send-rate control:** Email Pro adds routing across IP pools by stream, brand or region, ISP-aware warm-up and per-provider rate limits for Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft. - **Multiple SMTP connections:** The site lists switching between several SMTP providers as a feature. ## Good for - Senders that want a dedicated IP included instead of paying for one as an add-on - Mid-volume senders mixing campaigns and application mail - Teams that want control over how mail is paced to each mailbox provider ## Worth knowing - The SMTP and Email Pro plans are not offered below 100,000 emails a month, so small senders only see the campaign plan. - The pricing page shows euros by default; dollar prices are behind its currency switch. - Plan fees are charged monthly, and usage over the limit is billed the following month. - The 100,000-email step of SMTP and Email includes 1 sending domain; Email Pro includes 2. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Inboxroad sells an SMTP relay with an API, a campaign builder and an Email Pro tier with IP pools, plus 1,000 free emails a month. The prices start high: the campaign plan is $68 a month for 10,000 emails, and the SMTP plan is not sold below 100,000 emails. - **Value for money: D.** $68 a month for 10,000 emails on the campaign plan and $84 for 100,000 on SMTP, against a category whose dearest tenth starts at $25. The SMTP price does include a dedicated IP. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 1,000 emails a month free, a cap a small app will pass quickly, and no free tier beyond that. - **Features: B.** SMTP relay, an email API, a campaign builder, IP pools, per-provider send-rate control and feedback loops. Nothing in the listing is missing from the job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You verify a sending domain with DNS records and wire up SMTP credentials or an API key before the first email goes out. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web dashboard and an API with webhooks; the listing names no integrations and no apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Inboxroad'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 - Inboxroad's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 2 of the 26 other email sending services we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on features (B, above 10 of 26) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $68 a month, against a middle price of $13.73 for the category: 25 of the 25 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 14 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 Inboxroad 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: 23 of the 26 other email sending services grade higher. It costs $816 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: An API that other software can build on. - 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. **Tags:** Transactional email, Email campaigns, Public API ## Alternatives - [Twilio SendGrid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendgrid): Twilio's email API and SMTP service, priced by monthly email volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inboxroad-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/inboxroad-vs-mailjet) - [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-inboxroad) - [SocketLabs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/socketlabs): Email delivery over SMTP or API, with built-in analytics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inboxroad-vs-socketlabs) - [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/inboxroad-vs-mailgun) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.inboxroad.com/pricing/ - https://www.inboxroad.com/about-us/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/inboxroad Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).