# Maileroo review (2026): is the free plan enough? > SMTP relay and email API that also receives and tests mail Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Maileroo is an email delivery service that sends through an SMTP relay or a REST API, receives inbound mail and routes it to webhooks, and includes a sandbox for testing messages before they ship. Plans are priced by outbound volume, from a free tier of 3,000 emails a month up to 1 million, and every plan includes the same sending, receiving and testing features. Its pages say its servers sit in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and France. - **Category:** Email Sending Services - **Made by:** Maileroo Group Pty Ltd - **Website:** https://maileroo.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need a dedicated IP below $72 a month, as lower plans use shared IPs. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Maileroo has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month for 25,000 outbound emails. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 3,000 outbound and 1,000 inbound emails a month, 2 sending domains and 100 test emails a month. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 3,000 outbound and 1,000 inbound emails a month, 2 sending domains, 100 test emails and 5 test inboxes. | | Basic | $10 per month for 25,000 outbound emails | 25,000 inbound emails, unlimited sending domains, 1,000 test emails and Trigger Actions. | | Starter | $15 per month for 50,000 outbound emails | 50,000 inbound emails, unlimited sending domains and 5,000 test emails. | | Premium | $30 per month for 100,000 outbound emails | 100,000 inbound emails, unlimited sending domains and 10,000 test emails. | | Pro | $72 per month for 250,000 outbound emails | Adds one dedicated IP. 250,000 inbound emails and 25,000 test emails. An Ultimate step at $140 a month covers 500,000 outbound emails. | | Enterprise | $250 per month for 1,000,000 outbound emails | One dedicated IP, 1,000,000 inbound emails and 125,000 test emails. Higher volumes are handled through the Contact Us link. | Read from https://maileroo.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Maileroo before buying. ## Key features - **SMTP relay and REST API:** Send through SMTP credentials or the REST API, with official SDKs, dynamic templates and streams. Both are available on every plan. - **Inbound routing:** Receive mail with expression rules, catch-all and regex matching, forwarders and parsed JSON webhooks. Inbound volume is capped by plan. - **Email testing:** Test emails go to SMTP sinks and inboxes, with client previews in light and dark, spam scoring and authentication checks. The monthly test allowance grows with the plan. - **Delivery handling:** Automatic IP warmup, bounce and complaint classification, suppression lists, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC enforcement come with every plan. - **Event tracking:** Track delivery, opens, clicks and bounces, with an event timeline per message that can be filtered by domain, tag or recipient. ## Good for - Developers who want SMTP and an API from one provider at a low monthly price - Teams that also need inbound email parsing and a place to test messages - Senders who prefer infrastructure hosted in Europe ## Worth knowing - A dedicated IP starts at the Pro plan ($72 a month); lower plans send from shared IPs. - Prices on the page are monthly; no yearly billing option is shown. - The free plan caps inbound email at 1,000 a month and test emails at 100. - Maileroo Verify, a separate one-time-code service, costs $0.03 per successful verification plus the channel fee, billed from a prepaid balance. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Maileroo is an SMTP relay and email API that also handles inbound mail and test inboxes, from $10 a month for 25,000 emails. The free plan has 3,000 outbound emails, but a dedicated IP starts at $72 a month and the price climbs fast after that. - **Value for money: B.** $10 a month for 25,000 outbound emails, inside the category's cheaper quarter. - **Free plan and trial: B.** 3,000 outbound and 1,000 inbound emails a month, 2 sending domains and 100 test emails with no card; one person can live on that. - **Features: B.** SMTP relay, a REST API, inbound routing, email testing, bounce and complaint handling and event tracking. 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; WordPress is the one named integration. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Maileroo'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 - Maileroo's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 34 of the 50 other email sending services we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 35 of 50) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 12 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 5 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 Maileroo 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 is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 34 of the 50 other email sending services we grade. It costs $120 a year. - You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress 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 WordPress **Tags:** Transactional email, Public API ## Alternatives - [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maileroo-vs-mailgun) - [Postmark](https://toolgpa.com/tools/postmark): Transactional email API and SMTP, with broadcasts on a separate stream. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maileroo-vs-postmark) - [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/maileroo-vs-smtp2go) - [MailPace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailpace): EU-hosted transactional email API and SMTP, without open tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maileroo-vs-mailpace) - [Resend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/resend): Developer email API with React Email templates and a free tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maileroo-vs-resend) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://maileroo.com/pricing - https://maileroo.com - https://maileroo.com/about-us Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/maileroo Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).