useSend
Pay only for what you send, not for storing contacts·usesend.com
From $10/mo · Free plan · Open source See pricing ↓
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
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