SendPulse

SendPulse spans marketing email, automation, chatbots, CRM, websites, and transactional SMTP. The transactional pricing is unusually generous for free SMTP volume, while paid plans add higher hourly throughput and dedicated IPs.

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, SendPulse covers developer experience, scheduling, and webhook coverage, and does not cover SDK breadth. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

• Free tier: 12,000 transactional emails/mo on SMTP Basic, 50 messages/hour
• Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
• Starts at: $15 pay-as-you-go for 10,000 emails, or $74.85/mo monthly for Pro 100,000
• DX score: 6/10
• Deliverability: Broad platform with SPF, DKIM, DMARC setup, SMTP relay, API sending, and paid dedicated IPs. Free transactional throughput is capped at 50 messages per hour.
• Operating since: Not published
• Scheduling: Yes
• SDKs: None
• Webhooks: Yes

Broad platform with SPF, DKIM, DMARC setup, SMTP relay, API sending, and paid dedicated IPs. Free transactional throughput is capped at 50 messages per hour.

Small teams that want free transactional SMTP volume plus optional marketing automation.

API-first teams that want the cleanest developer experience.