How much does Brevo cost?

Brevo pricing is based on email volume sent rather than contact count. Paid plans start with the Starter tier at about $9 per month for 5,000 emails, then scale up with volume, with higher-tier prices varying somewhat depending on when and where you check. A Business tier and custom Enterprise plans with dedicated IPs and SLAs are also available.

Does MailerSend have a free tier?

Yes. The free plan includes 500 emails per month, 10 email verification credits, 1 sending domain, 1 template, and 1 user seat plus 1 accountant seat, with 100 daily API requests. It is aimed at small projects and testing rather than production volume.

Can I use Brevo and MailerSend together?

Yes. Many teams route different message types through different providers or fail over between them. Courier lets you send through both behind a single API and switch providers without changing your code.

Brevo vs MailerSend

Two transactional email providers, compared on price, features and ratings, so you can pick fast.

Brevo wins sending APIs and complianceMailerSend wins developer experience and cost at scale

Updated October 2026

At a glanceBrevoMailerSend

Entry priceFree$7

Cost per 1k @ 100k$0.69—

Free tier300/day500/mo

G2 rating4.54.1

THE VERDICT

Brevo wins on sending APIs and compliance. MailerSend wins on developer experience and cost at scale.

Brevo starts at Free versus MailerSend's $7. Brevo rates higher with developers (4.5 vs 4.1 on G2). Pick based on volume and team, and the scorecard below breaks down where each one leads.

Which should you choose?

Pick Brevo

✓You want one platform combining transactional email, marketing, SMS, and CRM

✓You're an EU-based or GDPR-sensitive business valuing EU residency and ISO 27001

✓You have large contact lists but moderate send volume

✓You want a low-cost or free entry point with a drag-and-drop editor

Pick MailerSend

✓Teams that need EU-hosted transactional email data by default for compliance or customer-trust reasons

✓Budget-conscious developers who want a real free tier plus a cheap ($7/mo) entry-level paid plan

✓Teams that want built-in email address verification without adding a separate vendor

✓Apps that need inbound email parsing (support tickets, reply-by-email flows) alongside outbound sending

Set up MailerSend with Courier →

Feature by feature

Winner cells are tinted, green where Brevo leads, violet where MailerSend does.

capability

Brevo

MailerSend

Pricing

Starting paid plan

$9/mo

$7/mo

Cost per 1k @ 100k

$0.69

—

Pricing model

Subscription

Hybrid

Overage

Email volume is bucketed by plan tier; exceeding the bucket requires moving up a tier rather than per-email overage. Transactional add-on credits ~$0.0014/email referenced by third parties.

$1.50 per 1,000 emails beyond the plan's included allowance

Deliverability

Dedicated IP

Add-on

Plan-gated

Deliverability tooling

Yes

Automated IP warmup

Yes

Suppression management

Yes

SPF / DKIM / DMARC

Yes

API & sending

Transactional API

Yes

Marketing campaigns

Yes

SMTP relay

Yes

Inbound routing

Yes

Dynamic templates

Yes

Batch send

Yes

Scheduled send

Yes

Developer experience

Official SDKs

PHP, Python, Node.js, Ruby, Go, Java, C#

PHP, Laravel, Node.js, Go, Python, Ruby, Java

Event webhooks

Yes

Drag-and-drop editor

Yes

Custom HTML editor

Yes

Email validation

Yes

Log retention

—

Plan-gated: 1 day (Free/Hobby), 7 days (Starter), 30 days (Professional)

Sandbox / test mode

—

Yes

Analytics

Open / click tracking

Yes

Analytics dashboard

Yes

A/B testing

Yes

Plan-gated

Compliance

EU data residency

Yes

SOC 2

—

HIPAA

GDPR

Yes

ISO 27001

Yes

—

Support

Support channels

Email/ticket support all plans; chat and phone on higher (Business/Enterprise) plans

Limited support on Free; 24/7 email support from Hobby; live chat plus priority support on Starter and Professional; dedicated account manager on Professional

24/7 support

—

Yes

Support SLA

Plan-gated

—

Migration assistance

—

Plan-gated

FAQ

Common questions

Brevo starts at Free versus MailerSend's $7. Because pricing models differ by tier, the cheaper option depends on your monthly volume, so compare the pricing rows in the scorecard above.

Keep comparing

Related comparisons

Brevo vs PostmarkEmail→Brevo vs MailgunEmail→Brevo vs SendGridEmail→AWS SES vs BrevoEmail→Brevo vs SparkPostEmail→Brevo vs OneSignal EmailEmail→

Why not both?

Use both behind one API.

Route Brevo, MailerSend, or both, and switch providers without changing your code. Courier sits in front of every channel.

Start building free Read the docs

Pricing, plans and feature availability as of October 2026 and may change. Ratings are aggregated from public review platforms.