# SMTP2GO

> SMTP relay and email API priced by emails a month, with a free plan

SMTP2GO is an outgoing email service that sends email from apps, websites, email clients and devices such as printers through its SMTP relay or HTTP API. It sets up SPF and DKIM for your domains, tracks every message through to bounce, spam complaint or unsubscribe, and runs data centers in the US, Europe and Australia. Plans are priced by emails a month, with 1,000 a month free.

- **Category:** Email Sending Services
- **Made by:** SMTP2GO (since 2006)
- **Website:** https://www.smtp2go.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

SMTP2GO has a free plan. Paid plans start at $15 per month for 10,000 emails, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 1,000 emails a month, limited to 200 a day, with 5 days of email reporting and ticket support. Extra emails are not allowed. No credit card needed.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free Plan | $0 | 1,000 emails a month and 200 a day, 5 days of reports, ticket support; chat and phone support for the first 14 days only. |
| Starter | $15 per month for 10,000 emails, billed monthly | 30 days of reports, ticket, chat and phone support, subaccounts and SMS. Extra emails $1.20 per 1,000. Price rises with volume: $30 a month at 50,000 emails. |
| Professional | $75 per month for 100,000 emails, billed monthly | Adds a dedicated IP address and email testing tools. Extra emails cost $0.85 per 1,000, and the price rises with volume. |
| Premier | Custom | Over 3 million emails a month, with personalized setup and support. |

Read from https://www.smtp2go.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SMTP2GO before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Paying yearly gives two months free: Starter at 10,000 emails is $150 a year instead of $180, and Professional at 100,000 is $750 instead of $900. Source: https://www.smtp2go.com/pricing/
- **30% education discount** (Education): SMTP2GO's education page offers schools a 30% discount, with unlimited users and systems on one account. Source: https://www.smtp2go.com/education/

## Key features

- **SMTP relay and HTTP API:** Send through SMTP from an app, a mail client, a server or a device, or through a REST API with code examples in JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, Ruby and Python.
- **Delivery tracking and reports:** Real-time reports follow each email to delivery and show bounces, spam complaints and unsubscribes, with weekly summaries and alerts on sudden bounce rises.
- **Automatic SPF and DKIM:** Domain authentication is handled for you, along with feedback loops, blacklist monitoring and spam trap detection on every plan.
- **Data centers in three regions:** Choose to send from and store data in the US, Europe or Australia, with best-path routing to the nearest location.
- **Email testing:** Professional adds previews in more than 40 email clients and checks against major spam filters before you send.
- **Subaccounts:** Paid plans can split sending into subaccounts, which suits agencies and managed service providers looking after several clients.

## Good for

- Small businesses sending app or website email at low volume
- Schools and offices relaying mail from systems, printers and scanners
- IT providers managing sending for several clients

## Worth knowing

- The free plan stops at 1,000 emails a month and 200 a day, and extra emails cannot be bought on it.
- A dedicated IP address and email testing tools start with Professional at $75 a month.
- Email reports are kept for 30 days on paid plans and 5 days on the free plan.
- Sign-up asks for an email address at a private domain; Gmail and Yahoo addresses are refused.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. SMTP2GO is a straightforward relay: point your app, website or even the office printer at it and it sends, with SPF and DKIM set up for you and data centers in the US, Europe and Australia. 50,000 emails is $30 a month, with two months free if you pay yearly. There's nothing on record for receiving email, though, and the free plan stops at 1,000 a month.

- **Value for money: C.** Graded on 50,000 emails a month: Starter is $30 a month at that volume, with two months free if you pay yearly. That sits in the middle of what this category charges for that much sending. A dedicated IP and email testing need Professional at $75.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free for good with no card: 1,000 emails a month, but only 200 a day, with 5 days of reports, and extra emails can't be bought. Chat and phone help last 14 days. Fine for a test, tight for a live app.
- **Features: C.** API and SMTP sending, automatic SPF and DKIM, delivery reports with bounce alerts, blacklist monitoring, three data regions and subaccounts. It does the sending job fully, but that's a smaller job: nothing on record covers receiving email or templates.
- **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer sends a first email: copy the SMTP details or use the API, with code examples in five languages, once your domain is added. No rating on record. Sign-up refuses Gmail and Yahoo addresses, so you need a work domain.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an SMTP relay and REST API that work from apps, servers and devices, plus WordPress, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, WHMCS, Laravel and Django. 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 SMTP2GO'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

- SMTP2GO's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 1 of the 11 other email sending services we grade, and level with 1.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 0 of 11) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $15 a month, against a middle price of $15 for the category: 2 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 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 SMTP2GO 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: 9 of the 11 other email sending services grade higher. It costs $180 a year.

- You could not: Mail servers with a good name among inbox providers.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Google Workspace and Salesforce 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

WordPress, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, WHMCS, Laravel, Django

**Tags:** Transactional email, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Twilio SendGrid](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sendgrid): Twilio's email API and SMTP service, priced by monthly email volume. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sendgrid-vs-smtp2go)
- [Mailgun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailgun): Email API and SMTP relay for developers, with list validation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailgun-vs-smtp2go)
- [Postmark](https://toolgpa.com/tools/postmark): Transactional email API and SMTP, with broadcasts on a separate stream. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/postmark-vs-smtp2go)
- [SMTP.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/smtp-com): SMTP relay and email API sold in monthly volume plans from 50,000. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/smtp-com-vs-smtp2go)
- [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-smtp2go)

## Sources

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

- https://www.smtp2go.com/pricing/
- https://www.smtp2go.com/
- https://www.smtp2go.com/features/
- https://www.smtp2go.com/about/
- https://www.smtp2go.com/education/
- https://www.smtp2go.com/setup/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/smtp2go
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