# SendPortal review (2026): is it any good? > Open-source, self-hosted email marketing built on Laravel Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. SendPortal is open-source email marketing software that you install on your own server. It manages subscribers, tags and segments, templates and campaigns, and tracks sends, opens, clicks, bounces and unsubscribes. It does not send mail itself: you connect an email service such as AWS SES, Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailjet, Postal or an SMTP server. It can run as a stand-alone application or as a package inside an existing Laravel app. - **Category:** Email Marketing & Newsletters - **Made by:** Mettle - **Website:** https://sendportal.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want automation or a drag-and-drop editor, which aren't listed. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, SendPortal is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** Free open-source software with unlimited users, subscribers, segments and messages; you pay only for your own server and sending service. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Self-hosted | $0 | Open-source software you host yourself, with unlimited users, subscribers, segments and messages. Sending costs are paid to your chosen email service. | Read from https://sendportal.io/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SendPortal before buying. ## Key features - **Subscribers and segments:** Import or update subscribers through the API or a CSV upload, and group them with tags and custom-defined segments. - **Campaigns and templates:** Send a campaign to every subscriber or to selected segments, using templates you build yourself. - **Message tracking:** Sends, opens, clicks, bounces and unsubscribes are tracked for each campaign. - **Workspaces:** Several workspaces or teams can be handled from a single interface. - **REST API:** API endpoints for templates, subscribers, tags and campaigns. - **Bring your own sender:** The documentation covers AWS SES, Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailjet, Postal and plain SMTP as email services. ## Good for - Laravel and PHP developers who want a newsletter tool they can host and modify - Teams that want to pay a sending provider by volume instead of a per-subscriber platform fee ## Worth knowing - You install and maintain it yourself; version 4 needs PHP 8.3 or newer, Composer, and MySQL 5.7+ or PostgreSQL 10+. - The pages describe campaigns, segments and tracking; they do not list automation workflows or drag-and-drop editing. - It has no sending infrastructure of its own, so deliverability depends on the email service you connect. - The vendor's pages name no paid support plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. SendPortal is free open-source email marketing software that manages subscribers, segments and campaigns and tracks opens and clicks. It sends nothing itself, it needs PHP 8.3 and a database, and the pages list no automation or drag-and-drop editor. - **Value for money: C.** Free with unlimited users, subscribers and messages, but self-hosted, so a C. You pay your own server and sending service. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free outright with no plan limits. You need a server and sender first, so a B. - **Features: C.** Subscribers, segments, templates, campaigns and tracking. The pages list no automation workflows or drag-and-drop editing. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. Version 4 needs PHP 8.3, Composer and MySQL or PostgreSQL, so a D. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with a REST API and AWS SES, Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailjet and Postal. No apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SendPortal'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 - SendPortal's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 42 of the 102 other email marketing and newsletter tools we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 83 of 102) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - SendPortal has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 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-marketing ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** SendPortal is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. - You could not: It plugs into other products, AWS SES, Postmark and SendGrid among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with AWS SES, Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailjet, Postal **Tags:** Email campaigns, Open source, Self-hostable, Public API, Templates ## Alternatives - [listmonk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/listmonk): Free self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/listmonk-vs-sendportal) - [Mailcoach](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailcoach): Email campaigns priced by emails sent, hosted or self-hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailcoach-vs-sendportal) - [Sendy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendy): Self-hosted newsletter app that sends through Amazon SES. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sendportal-vs-sendy) - [MailWizz](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailwizz): Self-hosted email marketing software sold as a license. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailwizz-vs-sendportal) - [Mautic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mautic): Open source marketing automation you can self-host. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mautic-vs-sendportal) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://sendportal.io/ - https://sendportal.io/docs/v4 - https://github.com/mettle/sendportal Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendportal Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).