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.

Growth work lives or dies on targeting and measurement. What matters is whether behavioral triggers can be built without engineering time, whether the event stream supports attribution past the open, and whether deliverability holds when broadcast volume shares a reputation with product email.

Against behavior-triggered journeys, broadcasts, and winback campaigns measured on revenue, SendPulse covers scheduling, event stream, and the suppressions API, and does not cover multi-tenant support. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

• Scheduling: Yes
• Event stream: Yes
• 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
• Suppressions API: Yes
• Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
• Multi-tenant: No
• Free tier: 12,000 transactional emails/mo on SMTP Basic, 50 messages/hour
• Starts at: $15 pay-as-you-go for 10,000 emails, or $74.85/mo monthly for Pro 100,000

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.