useSend
Pay only for what you send, not for storing contacts·usesend.com
useSend is an open source email platform for sending product, transactional, and marketing emails. It uses Amazon SES under the hood and provides a dashboard with real-time analytics, a visual marketing email editor, contact and suppression list management, and an SMTP relay. It can be used as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted, and pricing is based on emails sent rather than contacts stored.
What it's for
Features 17
- Automatic contact updates from bounces and complaints
- Campaign performance tracking
- Contact management with lists and consent tracking
- Drop-in SMTP relay compatible with any app or framework
- Email personalization with variables
- Import/export of contacts
- Per-list subscription status
- Pricing calculator to estimate monthly cost
- Real-time email analytics (deliveries, opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes)
- Reusable templates and brand styles
- Searchable, filterable email log by domain, status, and API key
- Self-hosting option
- Simple developer API for sending emails programmatically
- Suppression list to prevent accidental sends
- Suppression list works for both transactional and marketing emails
- Typed SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Go, PHP)
- Visual, Notion-like WYSIWYG marketing email editor
At a glance
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Pricing
The Paid plan has a $10 minimum monthly usage charge which includes $10 of usage credits; usage beyond that is billed at $0.0004 per transactional email and $0.001 per marketing email. A pricing calculator on the site lets users estimate monthly cost based on volume.
Send up to 3000 emails per month, Send up to 100 emails per day, 1 contact book, 1 domain, 1 team member
Send up to 3000 emails per month, up to 100 emails per day, 1 contact book, 1 domain, 1 team member
Priced per email sent rather than a flat monthly fee; $10 is the stated minimum monthly usage charge.
$10 minimum usage per month; unlimited contact books, domains, and team members