MailerSend

MailerSend was built by the same team behind MailerLite, focused on transactional. Drag-and-drop templates plus a code-first API cover both designer and engineer flows. Pricing is competitive at small to mid volume.

At an early stage the deciding factors are what the free tier actually covers, what the first paid invoice looks like, and how much of a founding engineer's week the setup costs. Feature depth that only matters at a million sends a month is noise until it is not.

Against a waitlist, a launch announcement, onboarding email, and the first transactional sends, MailerSend covers developer experience, scheduling, SDK breadth, and webhook coverage, and does not cover operating track record. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

• Free tier: 500/mo permanent
• Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
• Starts at: $7/mo for 5,000 emails
• DX score: 8/10
• Deliverability: Good and steadily improving; reputation managed via dedicated IP options on paid plans.
• Operating since: 2020
• Scheduling: Yes
• SDKs: node, python, go, ruby, php
• Webhooks: Yes

Good and steadily improving; reputation managed via dedicated IP options on paid plans.

Teams that want both API and visual template editing.