# Mailrelay review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Email marketing with a large free plan and SMS and WhatsApp add-ons Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Mailrelay is an email marketing service for newsletters, automations and landing pages, with its own sending servers. A free plan allows 80,000 emails a month to 20,000 contacts, and paid plans are sold in steps by monthly email volume. SMS, WhatsApp and transactional email are sold alongside. - **Category:** Email Marketing & Newsletters - **Made by:** Mailrelay - **Website:** https://mailrelay.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you grow, as Standard goes from €48 at 100,000 emails to €260 at 1,000,000. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Mailrelay has a free plan, and paid plans start at €48 per month for 100,000 emails, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free forever: 80,000 emails a month to up to 20,000 distinct recipients, with a Mailrelay logo in the footer of emails. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | €0 | 80,000 emails a month, up to 20,000 contacts, normal sending queue and ticket support. | | Standard | €48 per month for 100,000 emails, billed monthly | Priority queue, ticket and chat support, transactional email and WhatsApp included. Price rises with email volume: €132 a month at 500,000. | | Enterprise | €67 per month for 100,000 emails, billed monthly | Everything in Standard plus phone support at the highest priority. Price rises with volume: €185 a month at 500,000. | Read from https://mailrelay.com/en/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Mailrelay before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows an annual billing option that takes 10% off the monthly price on Standard and Enterprise. Source: https://mailrelay.com/en/pricing ## Key features - **Drag-and-drop editor with AI:** A drag-and-drop email editor that can draft a basic template with AI, with scheduled delivery, conditional content and A/B tests. - **Automations by email and SMS:** A visual editor for workflows such as welcome, birthday and abandoned-cart messages. Automations are available on the free account. - **Segmentation:** Groups, tags, segments, custom fields and contact scoring for sending different content to different people. - **Landing pages and forms:** Subscription forms and landing pages that feed the same contact lists. - **SMTP and API:** A REST API, webhooks and an SMTP server for transactional email; the vendor lists Make.com and WooCommerce as integrations. - **Statistics:** Reports on open rate, click rate, a click heatmap, bounces and inbox placement. ## Good for - Small senders who want a sizable free plan - Teams that also want SMS and WhatsApp from the same vendor - Spanish-speaking senders: support is offered in Spanish ## Worth knowing - Prices are in euros and rise with monthly email volume: €76 at 250,000 emails on Standard, €260 at 1,000,000. - Transactional email on the free account is a 30-day trial, then €14.95 a month; WhatsApp is a 10-day trial, then €9.95 a month. - Free accounts carry a Mailrelay logo in emails; removing it is a €4.95 a month add-on. - A prepaid option sells email credits instead of a subscription; annual billing takes 10% off. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Mailrelay sends 80,000 emails a month to up to 20,000 people on a free plan, with an editor, automations and SMTP. Paid plans start at €48 for 100,000 emails and rise with volume, and transactional email and WhatsApp are paid trials. Free emails carry a Mailrelay logo. - **Value for money: B.** The free plan is large, but paid starts at €48 a month for 100,000 emails and climbs to €132 at 500,000, which is above the $20 category middle. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free forever: 80,000 emails a month to up to 20,000 recipients. The cost is a Mailrelay logo in the footer of every email. - **Features: B.** Editor with AI, email and SMS automations, segments, landing pages, forms, SMTP and API, and statistics. The listed extras are paid on top. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It is a web app where you build the lists, templates and automations yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web app with an SMTP relay and API, plus Make.com and WooCommerce. No phone or desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Mailrelay's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email marketing and newsletter tools - Mailrelay's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 99 of the 102 other email marketing and newsletter tools we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 100 of 102) and worst on ease of use (C, above 11). - Its paid plans start at about $53.63 a month, against a middle price of $19 for the category: 59 of the 78 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email-marketing ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Mailrelay you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. 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 3.0 is higher than 99 of the 102 other email marketing and newsletter tools we grade. It costs $643.51 a year. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: Email sent in volume that still reaches the inbox. - You could not: Texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. - You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. - You could not: Splitting visitors between versions and telling you which won. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Make.com and WooCommerce 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 Make.com, WooCommerce **Tags:** Email campaigns, Marketing automation, SMS marketing, Transactional email, A/B testing, Public API ## Alternatives - [MailerLite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailerlite): Email newsletters, automations, sites and paid subscriptions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailerlite-vs-mailrelay) - [Brevo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brevo): Email, SMS and WhatsApp marketing priced by emails sent, with a CRM. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brevo-vs-mailrelay) - [Sender](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sender): Email and SMS marketing with a free plan for 2,500 subscribers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailrelay-vs-sender) - [Acumbamail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/acumbamail): Email, SMS and landing page marketing platform based in Spain. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/acumbamail-vs-mailrelay) - [SendPulse](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendpulse): Email campaigns and automation in a wider multichannel suite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailrelay-vs-sendpulse) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://mailrelay.com/en/pricing - https://mailrelay.com/en/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailrelay Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).