# Scaleway Transactional Email review (2026): is it worth €80 a month? > Transactional email API and SMTP on Scaleway's European cloud Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Scaleway Transactional Email (TEM) sends transactional messages such as account creation, password changes and order notices over an API or SMTP. It runs on Scaleway's European cloud, which the vendor says supports GDPR compliance. It has two plans: a pay-as-you-go Essential plan and a monthly Scale plan. - **Category:** Email Sending Services - **Made by:** Scaleway - **Website:** https://www.scaleway.com/en/transactional-email-tem/ - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan or trial, as there is neither. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Scaleway Transactional Email is a paid product, starting at €80 per month for 100,000 emails. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Scale | €80 per month for 100,000 emails | Unlimited domains and webhooks, a managed dedicated IP and a 99.9% SLA. Emails beyond 100,000 cost €0.20 per 1,000. | Read from https://www.scaleway.com/en/transactional-email-tem/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scaleway Transactional Email before buying. ## Key features - **API and SMTP sending:** Emails can be sent through an API or over SMTP, which suits notification services, alerts and CMS or application integrations. - **Reports and alerts:** Both plans include reports and alerts for sent email. - **Blocklist handling:** Essential has an automatic blocklist mode; Scale adds a manual blocklist mode. - **Managed dedicated IP:** A managed dedicated IP address is part of the Scale plan. - **Domains and webhooks:** Essential allows 5 domains and 1 webhook per domain; Scale has unlimited of each. ## Good for - Teams already on Scaleway's cloud - Organizations that want transactional email hosted in Europe - Small senders who prefer pay-as-you-go over a monthly commitment ## Worth knowing - The Essential plan is pay as you go with no monthly fee shown: 300 emails included, then €0.25 per 1,000 emails. - A dedicated IP and the 99.9% SLA need the €80 a month Scale plan. - Prices are in euros and the page does not say whether VAT is added. - The service is for transactional messages; marketing email is not described on the page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Scaleway Transactional Email sends over an API or SMTP from its European cloud, with a pay-as-you-go Essential plan and a Scale plan at €80 a month. A dedicated IP and the SLA need Scale, and nothing on the page covers marketing email. - **Value for money: C.** Scale is €80 a month for 100,000 emails. That's in the dearest tenth of the category, but Essential has no monthly fee and charges €0.25 per 1,000, which pulls it back to the ordinary range. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial. Essential includes 300 emails before it charges, which is a sample, not a plan. - **Features: C.** API and SMTP sending, reports and alerts, blocklist handling and webhooks. A managed dedicated IP and the 99.9% SLA need Scale, and it's transactional only. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You add domains and DNS records on a cloud console. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web console with an API and SMTP. No integrations list on its page. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Scaleway'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 - Scaleway Transactional Email's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 50 other email sending services we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (C, above 8 of 50) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $89.38 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 37 of the 41 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 29 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 Scaleway Transactional Email 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: 47 of the 50 other email sending services grade higher. It costs $1,072.51 a year. - You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. - You could not: Reading the reports inbox providers send about your domain. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. 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, Public API, DMARC ## Alternatives - [Mailjet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailjet): Email API, SMTP relay and campaign editor on one plan priced by volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailjet-vs-scaleway-transactional-email) - [Sweego](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sweego): French email and SMS sending API, with a free plan and EU data centers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scaleway-transactional-email-vs-sweego) - [Postmark](https://toolgpa.com/tools/postmark): Transactional email API and SMTP, with broadcasts on a separate stream. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/postmark-vs-scaleway-transactional-email) - [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailgun-vs-scaleway-transactional-email) - [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-scaleway-transactional-email) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.scaleway.com/en/transactional-email-tem/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/scaleway-transactional-email Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).