# SendFox review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Email newsletters and list building for creators on a budget Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. SendFox is an email marketing tool aimed at creators and small newsletter publishers. It covers a drag-and-drop email editor, hosted signup pages and forms, automations and a list that can be sold as a paid newsletter through Stripe. Besides monthly Pro plans it sells a one-time Lifetime deal through AppSumo. - **Category:** Email Marketing & Newsletters - **Made by:** Sumo Group, Inc. - **Website:** https://sendfox.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 3,000 sends a month, 1 automation, 1 form and a SendFox badge. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, SendFox has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19 per month for up to 5,000 contacts, billed monthly. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1,000 contacts and 3,000 sends a month, with 1 smart page, 1 form and 1 automation. SendFox branding stays on emails. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1,000 contacts, 3,000 sends a month, 1 smart page, 1 form, 1 automation and 2 AI email drafts. SendFox branding on your emails. | | Pro | $19 per month for up to 5,000 contacts, billed monthly | 100,000 sends a month, white label, full HTML editor, AI writer, Stripe paid newsletters. $190 a year billed annually. $79 a month at 50,000 contacts. | | Lifetime | $29 one-time, for up to 5,000 contacts | A one-time purchase through AppSumo with 300,000 lifetime sends, unlimited automations, smart pages and forms. A small SendFox footer stays on emails. | Read from https://sendfox.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SendFox before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Annual billing** (Annual discount): Pro billed annually costs $190 a year at 5,000 contacts, which the page sets against $19 a month billed monthly. Source: https://sendfox.com/pricing - **Black Friday: 40% off the first year of Pro** (Other savings): Up to 40% off the first year of annual Pro, shown as $114 for year one and then $190 a year, through Dec 3. Source: https://sendfox.com/pricing ## Key features - **Drag-and-drop email editor:** Emails are built in a visual editor with merge tags and test sends, and Pro adds a full HTML editor. - **Smart pages and forms:** SendFox hosts landing pages and embeddable signup forms, so a list can be started without a separate website. - **Automations and smart campaigns:** Welcome sequences run when someone joins, and smart campaigns turn new posts from a connected blog feed into scheduled newsletters. - **Paid newsletters:** Pro can charge subscribers for a newsletter through Stripe. - **AI email writer and MCP access:** Pro and Lifetime include an AI email writer and MCP access. The Free plan gets 2 AI drafts and limited API and MCP access. - **Transactional email API:** An email API sends receipts, login codes and notifications on every plan, and those emails count toward the plan's monthly sends. ## Good for - Creators and newsletter writers starting a list on a small budget - People who prefer paying once for a capped number of sends - Small lists that fit inside the free plan's 1,000 contacts ## Worth knowing - SendFox branding appears on Free emails and a smaller footer stays on Lifetime; only Pro removes it. - Free allows 1 automation, 1 smart page and 1 form; unlimited automations need Lifetime or Pro. - Lifetime covers 5,000 contacts and 300,000 sends in total, and is bought through AppSumo. - Pro steps billed monthly: $39 at 15,000 contacts, $79 at 50,000, $149 at 100,000, $399 at 250,000; above that is sold through sales. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. SendFox is a simple email tool with a free plan for 1,000 contacts, a Pro plan at $19 a month and a one-time Lifetime deal at $29 through AppSumo. Free and Lifetime both keep SendFox branding on your emails. Pro is the only plan that removes it. - **Value for money: A.** The $29 one-time Lifetime deal for 5,000 contacts and 300,000 sends is under a year of this category's $15 middle price. Pro is $19 a month at 5,000 contacts, rising to $79 at 50,000. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan for 1,000 contacts and 3,000 sends a month, with 1 automation, 1 form and 1 smart page, no card needed. SendFox branding stays on emails. - **Features: B.** Drag-and-drop editor, smart pages and forms, automations, paid newsletters through Stripe, an AI writer and a transactional email API. The limits are on the free plan, not the core job. - **Ease of use: C.** A web app with no rating on record. You build lists, forms and automations yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Stripe and Resend, and an API with MCP access. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SendFox's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email marketing and newsletter tools - SendFox's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 55 of the 57 other email marketing and newsletter tools we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 54 of 57) and worst on ease of use (C, above 5). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 26 of the 47 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 SendFox 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 55 of the 57 other email marketing and newsletter tools we grade. It costs $228 a year. - You could make: Paid newsletters: an app builder makes this well. - 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: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers. - 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 Stripe, Resend **Tags:** Email campaigns, Paid newsletters, Marketing automation, Transactional email, AI features ## Alternatives - [MailerLite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailerlite): Email newsletters, automations, sites and paid subscriptions. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailerlite-vs-sendfox) - [Kit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kit): Email marketing and paid newsletters for creators. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kit-vs-sendfox) - [beehiiv](https://toolgpa.com/tools/beehiiv): Newsletter platform with paid subscriptions, ads, website and podcast. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beehiiv-vs-sendfox) - [EmailOctopus](https://toolgpa.com/tools/emailoctopus): Simple, low-cost email marketing with a free plan for 2,500. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/emailoctopus-vs-sendfox) - [Mailchimp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailchimp): Email and SMS marketing with automations, priced by contact count. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailchimp-vs-sendfox) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://sendfox.com/pricing - https://sendfox.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendfox Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).