# Resend

> Developer email API with React Email templates and a free tier

Resend is an email platform for developers that sends transactional email through a REST API, SMTP or SDKs in more than ten languages, with email templates written in React through its open-source React Email library. It also receives email, offers inboxes that AI agents can use, and sells broadcast and automation plans for marketing email. A free plan sends 3,000 emails a month.

- **Category:** Email Sending Services
- **Made by:** Resend (since 2023)
- **Website:** https://resend.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Resend has a free plan. Paid plans start at $20 per month for 50,000 emails, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 3,000 transactional emails a month, limited to 100 a day, 3 domains, 3 inboxes, 1 webhook endpoint and 30 days of logs. Marketing email free up to 1,000 contacts.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 3,000 emails a month and 100 a day, 3 domains, 1 webhook endpoint, ticket support. |
| Pro | $20 per month for 50,000 emails, billed monthly | No daily limit, 10 domains, 5 webhook endpoints, 100 AI credits. $35 a month at 100,000 emails; overage $0.90 per 1,000. |
| Scale | $90 per month for 100,000 emails, billed monthly | 1,000 domains, Slack support, urgent response SLA; dedicated IP and SSO as add-ons. $160 a month at 200,000 emails. Overage $0.90 per 1,000, less at higher tiers. |
| Enterprise | Custom | For 1 million or more emails a month: volume pricing, dedicated IPs, SSO, 99.99% uptime SLA and a dedicated success manager. |

Read from https://resend.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Resend before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **50% off for nonprofits** (Nonprofit): Registered nonprofits can apply for 50% off paid plans. Resend says it does not offer education pricing. Source: https://resend.com/pricing

## Key features

- **API, SMTP and SDKs:** Send through a REST API or SMTP relay, with official SDKs for Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Rust, Java, Elixir and .NET, plus batch sending and scheduling.
- **React Email templates:** Build email templates as React components with TypeScript and Tailwind through the open-source React Email library, instead of hand-written HTML tables.
- **Inbound email and inboxes:** Receive email through webhooks, parse content and attachments, and give your team or AI agents inboxes reachable by API and MCP; 3 are included.
- **Webhooks and test mode:** Signed webhooks report deliveries, opens, clicks, bounces and complaints, and a test mode simulates events without emailing real people.
- **Broadcasts and automations:** A visual editor, contact lists, segments and broadcast analytics for marketing email, sold as separate plans priced by contacts.
- **Deliverability tools:** DKIM, SPF and DMARC setup, automatic suppression lists, bounce details, region choice and managed dedicated IPs on Scale.

## Good for

- Developers building with Node.js, Next.js or React
- Startups that want a free tier of 3,000 emails a month
- Teams sending both app email and newsletters from one account

## Worth knowing

- Billing is monthly only; there are no annual plans or yearly discounts.
- There is no plan between Free and the $20 Pro plan, and the free plan caps sending at 100 emails a day.
- Dedicated IPs cost $30 a month and need the Scale plan and more than 3,000 emails a day; SSO is a $150 a month add-on on Scale.
- Marketing email is priced separately by contacts, from $40 a month for 5,000; broadcasts do not use the transactional quota.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Resend is made for developers building web apps: an API and SMTP with official SDKs from Node.js to Rust, templates you write as React components, and a free plan of 3,000 emails a month. 50,000 emails is $20 a month on Pro, among the cheapest at that volume. It's monthly only, though, and a dedicated IP needs the $90 Scale plan plus a $30 add-on.

- **Value for money: B.** Graded on 50,000 emails a month: Pro is $20 for exactly that, in the cheaper quarter of this category at that volume, with 10 domains and no daily limit. There's no yearly discount, and extra emails are $0.90 per 1,000.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free for good: 3,000 emails a month, but only 100 a day, with 3 domains, 1 webhook and 30 days of logs. Marketing email is free up to 1,000 contacts too. A busy launch day will hit that daily cap.
- **Features: B.** API, SMTP, SDKs, React Email templates, inbound email and inboxes for AI agents, signed webhooks, a test mode and broadcasts. It covers the whole job. No address validation is on record, and dedicated IPs need Scale.
- **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer sends a first email: SDKs for most languages and React templates make it quick for web developers, and test mode fakes events safely. You still verify a domain first. No rating on record.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API, SMTP, SDKs and MCP, and it slots into Next.js, Remix, Nuxt, Express, Hono and Astro. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Resend's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among email sending services

- Resend's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 6 of the 11 other email sending services we grade, and level with 4.
- It stands best on value for money (B, above 6 of 11) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $20 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 9 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

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

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Resend 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: It plugs into other products, Next.js, Remix and Nuxt among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- 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

Next.js, Remix, Nuxt, Express, Hono, Astro

**Tags:** Transactional email, Public API, Email campaigns, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Postmark](https://toolgpa.com/tools/postmark): Transactional email API and SMTP, with broadcasts on a separate stream. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/postmark-vs-resend)
- [Twilio SendGrid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendgrid): Twilio's email API and SMTP service, priced by monthly email volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/resend-vs-sendgrid)
- [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailgun-vs-resend)
- [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-resend)
- [MailerSend](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailersend): Transactional email and SMS API from the team behind MailerLite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailersend-vs-resend)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://resend.com/pricing
- https://resend.com/pricing.md
- https://resend.com/
- https://resend.com/about

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