Resend Pricing 2026: Free Tier, Pro $20 and Cost per 1,000

Resend's free tier sends 3,000 emails a month in 2026, capped at 100 a day, and the first paid plan, Pro, costs $20/mo for 50,000 emails. Scale is $90/mo for 100,000 emails with Slack support and a dedicated-IP option. Every self-serve plan is billed monthly only, and overage runs from under a dollar per extra 1,000 emails on Pro down to $0.46 per 1,000 on the largest Scale step.

Resend is an email API for developers: a REST endpoint and SMTP relay for the password resets, receipts and alerts an app sends, with React Email templates, inbound parsing and a separate marketing product for broadcasts. It bills by emails sent per month on a plan ladder, not by seats or contacts, so the only question for a transactional sender is which volume step the app lands on and what the overage costs when a month runs hot.

Every figure here was read on Resend's pricing page and its machine-readable pricing file on 26 October 2026. Whether the API earns a switch from SendGrid is the Resend review and the Resend vs SendGrid comparison; this page is the invoice.

Toolradar data: on Toolradar, the software directory we run, Resend's entry paid plan ranks #52 of 85 (joint) for price among the 180 email tools with a verified entry price and no stated unit, where the median is $15/mo, as of October 2026. In the narrower transactional email category, 12 of the 13 tools tracked as of 26 October 2026 offer a free tier. The record is Resend on Toolradar and the category figures are on the transactional email statistics page. Devshot data: this newsletter reaches 31,000+ developers as of November 8, 2026, with an open rate of 32%.

At a glance

The volume slider on the pricing page steps through these amounts; the last column divides each price by its included volume. Two things stand out. Pro at 100,000 emails costs less than half of Scale at the same volume, so the Scale premium of $55/mo buys features, not emails. And the overage rate at each step equals or beats the plan's own per-1,000 price, so going over is never a trap on Scale.

How does Resend pricing work?

The plan sets a monthly quota of transactional emails, meaning anything sent through the /emails API or SMTP, and every email received through inbound routing or an inbox counts against the same quota. Broadcasts sent through the marketing product do not count; they are priced by contacts on a separate ladder. Pay-as-you-go is a switch in team settings: with it on, a paid plan keeps sending past its quota and is charged in buckets of 1,000 at the plan's overage rate. With it off, Resend notifies you and offers an upgrade, which means a month-end spike can stall sends if nobody flipped the switch.

There is no annual plan and no annual discount on self-serve plans, which the FAQ states outright; annual commitments exist only on Enterprise. Registered nonprofits can apply for 50% off paid plans, a program that appeared in October 2026 (the pricing page still said all plans were priced the same for everyone on 1 October). There is no free trial because the free tier is permanent, and all major credit cards are accepted.

What does the free tier include and where does it stop?

Free covers 3,000 emails a month, 100 a day, from 3 custom domains, with 3 inboxes, 1 webhook endpoint, 10,000 automation runs, 30-day data retention and ticket support. The daily cap is the real limit: an app that sends 90 receipts on a normal day and 400 on a launch day loses the extra 300 that day, because Free has no overage. Free is sized for a side project or a staging environment, not for a product with real signup bursts; how it compares with other vendors' free allowances is in cloud free tiers compared.

What Free does not have is also a short list: no Single Sign-On, no Slack support, no dedicated IPs and only 5 AI credits a month. Open and click tracking, inbound email, scheduling, batch sending and the full API are on every plan including Free, so the upgrade to Pro is about volume and the daily cap, not about features a developer needs to ship.

What does Pro add?

Pro removes the daily limit, lifts the monthly quota to 50,000 emails (or 100,000 on its larger step), raises domains to 10 and webhook endpoints to 5, and adds 100 AI credits and deliverability recommendations. Overage is the same per-1,000 rate at both steps, and pay-as-you-go also unlocks extra inboxes at $1 each per month and automation runs beyond 10,000 at $0.0015 per run.

The two Pro steps create a break-even worth knowing. On the 50,000 step with overage, a month of 80,000 emails costs the plan price plus 30 overage buckets, or $47, our arithmetic, which is $12 more than the 100,000 step. The crossover is 66,667 emails: below that, pay overage on the smaller step; above it, move up. An app that lands between 50,000 and 100,000 most months should sit on the larger step and treat the smaller one as a quiet-month option.

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What does Scale add?

Scale is the operations tier. At the same 100,000 emails as the top Pro step it costs $55/mo more. The difference is 1,000 custom domains, 10 webhook endpoints, a dedicated Slack channel with Resend's engineers, an urgent-response SLA and 500 AI credits. Scale also unlocks two add-ons: dedicated IPs at $30/mo for senders above 3,000 emails a day, and Single Sign-On at $150/mo. A team sending receipts for many customer brands from separate domains, or one that needs a named channel when deliverability breaks, is the Scale buyer; a solo app sending 100,000 emails is not.

Above 100,000 emails, Scale is the only self-serve path, and its steps get cheaper per 1,000 as volume rises: $0.80 at 200,000, $0.70 at 500,000, $0.65 at 1 million and $0.46 at 2.5 million, with the overage rate at each step matching that price. The 1.5 million step is the one exception, where overage ($0.52) is cheaper than the plan's own per-1,000 price ($0.55), so a sender at 1.4 million emails is better off on the 1 million step paying overage. Past 2.5 million the page says to contact sales, and the pricing file describes Enterprise customers as sending 1 million to 500 million emails a month.

How much does Resend cost per 1,000 emails at 10K, 100K and 1M?

Three apps, one question, our arithmetic on the ladder above and on each rival's published monthly price. SendGrid prints no price we could read on its own pages today, so check the current price on SendGrid's site and see the SendGrid pricing breakdown for how its tiers work.

Resend is the expensive option at 10,000 emails, because its smallest paid step is sized for 50,000 and a small app pays for headroom it does not use; Mailgun and Postmark both sell a 10,000-email plan for $15. At 100,000 the picture flips: Resend's larger Pro step is less than half of Mailgun's Foundation at that volume, and at 1 million Resend's Scale step is $50/mo under Mailgun's. Amazon SES is cheaper than all of them at every volume at $0.10 per 1,000 à la carte, with the trade-off that deliverability tooling, templates and support are add-ons or your own work.

Mailgun's and Postmark's figures were read on Mailgun's pricing page and Postmark's pricing page on 26 October 2026. Mailgun's Foundation and Scale plans show the first month free as a trial, and its overage runs from $1.80 per 1,000 on Basic down to $0.40 on the 2.5 million Scale step. Amazon SES's $0.10 per 1,000 outbound rate is on its pricing page the same day, alongside newer Essentials and Pro plans at $0.16 and $0.22 per 1,000 that bundle deliverability tooling. The Mailgun pricing page walks that ladder, and the best transactional email APIs ranking covers the wider field.

What does the marketing product cost?

Resend's marketing plans are priced by contacts, not sends: Free covers 1,000 contacts, and Pro marketing runs from $40/mo for 5,000 contacts through $80 for 10,000, $120 for 15,000, $180 for 25,000, $250 for 50,000, $450 for 100,000 and $650 for 150,000, with unlimited broadcast sending at each step. Broadcasts do not touch the transactional quota, so an app can run a 50,000-email Pro transactional plan and a 5,000-contact marketing plan as two separate lines. A newsletter can also be sent through the /emails API instead, where it counts against the transactional quota, which is the cheaper route for a small list that mails rarely.

Has Resend's price changed?

The Pro price has not moved since the page's early days. An archived copy from 7 February 2024 already shows Pro at today's price for 50,000 emails and Free at 3,000 emails a month with a 100-a-day cap, the same figures the live page prints. What changed is everything around the price, mostly in Free's favor.

Free then allowed 1 domain and kept data for 1 day; the 8 February 2026 copy still shows that, and the 1 October 2026 copy shows the current 3 domains and 30-day retention. Pro went the other way on domains, from unlimited in 2024 to 10 today with a paid add-on for 100 more, and Slack support moved from Pro to Scale. The dedicated-IP add-on's threshold rose from 500 emails a day in the February 2025 copy to 3,000 a day now, and the nonprofit discount is the newest change of all.

Who should pay for Resend?

An app sending 20,000 to 100,000 emails a month is Resend's sweet spot. The Pro steps are the cheapest published price per 1,000 among the API vendors compared here at that volume. The overage never costs more than the plan's own rate, and the React Email tooling is included from Free.

An app under 10,000 emails a month that has outgrown the daily cap should price Mailgun or Postmark first, because both sell a $15 plan sized for that volume while Resend's smallest paid step charges for 50,000. A sender above 2.5 million emails has no published price, and a team that wants an annual contract or SSO without a $150/mo add-on is looking at Enterprise.

Methodology and sources

Plan prices, quotas, overage rates, add-ons and the daily cap were read on Resend's pricing page and confirmed against the volume ladder in Resend's own pricing file on 26 October 2026, which also states the monthly-only billing and the Enterprise volume range. The nonprofit discount is on Resend's nonprofits page the same day. Price-per-1,000 figures, the 66,667-email crossover and the scenario table are our arithmetic on those printed prices and on the monthly list prices of Mailgun, Postmark and Amazon SES, each read on the vendor's pricing page on 26 October 2026. Past prices come from the dated web.archive.org copies linked in the history section and are used only for the "before" comparison. The Toolradar figures are from its email and transactional email data as of October 2026.

Louis Corneloup, founder of Toolradar and Dupple, wrote this page. We run no test lab and give no rating. The method is on how we rate, corrections on the editorial policy and the author note on about. Check the pricing page once more before you turn pay-as-you-go on.

FAQ

How much does Resend cost per month in 2026?

Free is $0 for 3,000 emails a month, Pro is $20/mo for 50,000 emails or $35/mo for 100,000, and Scale runs from $90/mo for 100,000 emails to $1,150/mo for 2.5 million. Overage on paid plans starts under a dollar per 1,000 extra emails and falls to $0.46 on the largest step. Enterprise is a custom quote for senders above 2.5 million emails a month.

Is Resend free?

Yes, permanently, for 3,000 emails a month with a hard cap of 100 a day, 3 domains, 3 inboxes and one webhook endpoint. Free has no overage, so sending stops at the cap, and it excludes Slack support, dedicated IPs and SSO. There is no separate trial because the free tier does not expire.

What happens if I go over my Resend quota?

With pay-as-you-go enabled in team settings, a paid plan keeps sending and is billed in buckets of 1,000 emails at the plan's overage rate, $0.90 on Pro. With it disabled, Resend notifies you and offers an upgrade rather than sending beyond the quota. Free has no overage option at all.

Does Resend offer annual billing?

No. Self-serve plans are monthly only, with no discount for paying a year up front. An annual commitment is available only through an Enterprise contract, which is also where volume pricing above 2.5 million emails lives.

Is Resend cheaper than Mailgun?

At 10,000 emails a month, no: Mailgun Basic is $15 against Resend's smallest paid step, which is sized for 50,000 emails. At 100,000 emails, Resend's $35 Pro step costs less than half of Mailgun's $75 Foundation step, and at 1 million emails Resend's Scale step is $50/mo under Mailgun's. Both bill monthly with per-1,000 overage, and Mailgun's overage starts higher at $1.80 per 1,000 on Basic.

Do inbound and inbox emails count toward the quota?

Yes. Each email received through inbound routing counts as one transactional email, and every email sent or received through an inbox uses the same quota, since inboxes carry no allowance of their own. Broadcasts sent through the marketing product are the only emails billed separately.

Cite this: Devshot, "Resend Pricing 2026: Free Tier, Pro $20 and Cost per 1,000", October 2026.

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