Resend

Freemium

The best way to reach humans instead of spam folders. Deliver transactional and marketing…

Generous Free Tierfrom $20/mo

Free plan checked against Resend's pricing page on 2 September 2026. Re-checked monthly.

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About Resend

Resend is an email API built for developers, with SDKs, React Email templates and a clean dashboard for both transactional and marketing sends. Startups and indie SaaS products use it for signup confirmations, receipts and newsletters. The Free plan sends 3,000 emails a month, capped at 100 a day, with no card required.

What the free plan gives you

3,000 emails a month
100 emails a day
3 verified sending domains
30 days of email log retention
10,000 automation runs a month
5 AI credits a month for the template tools
Ticket support
On the marketing side, 1,000 contacts for broadcasts

Deliverability tooling, webhooks and the API are the same as on paid plans, so you can build the full integration before paying anything.

Where the free plan stops

100 emails a day. A launch spike or a password-reset storm hits it, and mail simply queues until tomorrow.
3 domains, which is tight if you run a few products.
30-day retention and a single webhook endpoint make debugging older sends hard.

The Pro plan is $20 a month for 50,000 emails, or $35 a month for 100,000. It removes the daily cap, raises you to 10 domains, adds 5 webhook endpoints and 100 AI credits a month. Marketing Pro starts at $40 a month based on contact count, and Scale begins at $90 a month for higher volume.

Who it suits

Free is enough for an app in development, a side project or a low-volume product sending a few dozen transactional emails a day. Once you have real users, the 100-a-day cap is the thing that forces the move, and $20 a month is a low bar for 50,000 sends.

Key Features

Integrate this afternoon

First-class developer experience

Test mode

Modular webhooks

Go beyond editing

Contact management

Broadcast analytics

Develop emails using React

Pros & Cons

Unusually generous free allowance

Free plan limits are published clearly

Covers integrate this afternoon on the free plan

Free plan verified against the vendor's pricing page

Hosted only — no self-hosting escape hatch

The free plan in practice

What you can actually do on Resend's free plan (Free plan with 3,000 emails/month, 100/day), where it stops, and when it's worth paying.

What you can do free

3,000 emails a month
100 emails a day
3 sending domains
30-day log retention
10,000 automation runs a month
1,000 marketing contacts

Where it stops

Hard cap of 100 emails a day
Only 3 domains
30-day retention

When to upgrade to a paid plan

Stay on the free plan while you're comfortably under the free plan's limit (Free plan with 3,000 emails/month, 100/day). It's worth moving to a paid plan once you consistently bump into that ceiling, need to remove branding, or want features the free tier holds back. Paid plans start at $20/mo.