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11 Best Email Tools With Permanent Free Tiers (2026), Tested

Limited to providers with a permanent free tier as of the last check. Trials excluded.

criteria

  1. 01

    Sender

    Marketing

    2,500 subscribers and 15,000 emails/mo on a permanent free plan. Strongest free marketing tier in this set.

  2. 02

    SendPulse

    Transactional Marketing

    12,000 transactional SMTP emails/mo is unusually generous, though the free plan is hourly capped.

  3. 03

    Mailjet

    Transactional Marketing

    6,000/mo capped at 200/day. Permanent and useful for steady low-volume sends.

  4. 04

    Loops

    Marketing Transactional

    Unlimited emails on the Free plan within a 1,000-contact ceiling. Different model: optimal when your contact list grows slowly but your volume is high.

  5. 05

    Brevo

    Transactional Marketing

    300/day permanent. Best for low daily volumes that do not spike on launch day.

  6. 06

    Mailtrap

    Transactional Testing

    4,000/mo permanent on the sending side, plus a free testing tier.

  7. 07

    Resend

    Transactional

    3,000/mo permanent on a single domain.

  8. 08

    MailerSend

    Transactional

    3,000/mo permanent.

  9. 09

    Plunk

    Self-hosted Marketing

    3,000/mo on hosted free plan, or self-host for unlimited.

  10. 10

    Amazon SES

    Transactional

    New accounts get up to $200 in AWS credits for six months. The old 62,000/mo-from-EC2 allowance is gone.

  11. 11

    SMTP2GO

    Transactional

    1,000/mo permanent, no daily cap.

All 11 compared

Every provider in this ranking against the priorities growth and lifecycle teams weigh. Free tier and entry price sit with each pick above.

ProviderSchedulingEvent streamOperating sinceSuppressions APIBest published rate per 1,000Multi-tenant
SenderYesYes2012YesTiers not published in comparable formNo
SendPulseYesYesNot publishedYesTiers not published in comparable formNo
MailjetYesYesNot publishedYesTiers not published in comparable formYes
LoopsYesYes2022YesTiers not published in comparable formNo
BrevoYesYes2012YesTiers not published in comparable formNo
MailtrapNoYes2014YesTiers not published in comparable formYes
ResendYesYes2023Yes$0.35No
MailerSendYesYes2020YesTiers not published in comparable formYes
PlunkYesYesNot publishedYesTiers not published in comparable formNo
Amazon SESNoYes2011Yes$0.10No
SMTP2GONoYes2006YesTiers not published in comparable formYes

If you are growth and lifecycle teams

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.

The order above is the general editorial ranking. Re-sorted against scheduling, event stream, and operating track record, the shortlist for behavior-triggered journeys, broadcasts, and winback campaigns measured on revenue becomes Mailjet, MailerSend, and Sender. That differs from the headline order, which weighs all audiences together.

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