How much does Resend cost?

Resend's paid Pro plan starts at 20 USD per month for 50,000 emails with no daily cap, with a 35 USD per month option for 100,000 emails. Higher-volume Scale plans range from 90 USD per month to 1,150 USD per month, and Enterprise pricing is custom. Marketing contacts are priced separately, starting at 40 USD per month for 5,000 contacts.

Does SparkPost have a free tier?

On current Bird pricing, signup provides a test API key for evaluation rather than an ongoing free production allowance. SparkPost historically offered a free monthly volume for some accounts, but the published Bird email plans now start with the paid Starter tier. Teams needing a permanent free sending quota should confirm current terms directly with Bird.

Can I use Resend and SparkPost 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.

Resend vs SparkPost

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

Resend wins deliverability and developer experienceSparkPost wins compliance and analytics

Updated September 2026

At a glanceResendSparkPost

Entry priceFree$20

Cost per 1k @ 100k$0.35$0.3

Free tier3,000/mo1,000/mo

G2 rating4.84.0

THE VERDICT

Resend wins on deliverability and developer experience. SparkPost wins on compliance and analytics.

Resend starts at Free versus SparkPost's $20. Resend rates higher with developers (4.8 vs 4.0 on G2). Pick based on volume and team, and the scorecard below breaks down where each one leads.

Which should you choose?

Pick Resend

✓You want a clean, modern API to add transactional email to an app quickly

✓You use React/Next.js and want React Email-based templating

✓You need transactional plus lightweight marketing email from one affordable platform

✓You want a generous free tier and predictable low-cost pricing

Set up Resend with Courier →

Pick SparkPost

✓You send enterprise-scale, high-volume email and need deep deliverability analytics

✓You want predictive deliverability and detailed engagement reporting

✓You are a SaaS, fintech, or martech company with strict deliverability needs

✓You need both transactional and multichannel sending at scale

Set up SparkPost with Courier →

Feature by feature

Winner cells are tinted, green where Resend leads, violet where SparkPost does.

capability

Resend

SparkPost

Pricing

Starting paid plan

$20/mo

$15/mo

Cost per 1k @ 100k

$0.35

$0.3

Pricing model

Hybrid

Overage

$0.90 per 1,000 emails beyond included volume (lower on higher Scale tiers, down to ~$0.46/1k)

~$1.00 per 1,000 (Starter)

Deliverability

Dedicated IP

Plan-gated

Deliverability tooling

Yes

Automated IP warmup

Yes

Suppression management

Yes

SPF / DKIM / DMARC

Yes

BIMI

Yes

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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

Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, Java, PHP, Rust, Elixir, .NET

Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, Go, Elixir

Event webhooks

Yes

Drag-and-drop editor

Yes

—

Custom HTML editor

Yes

Email validation

Add-on

Log retention

30 days

—

Sandbox / test mode

Yes

Analytics

Open / click tracking

Yes

Analytics dashboard

Yes

A/B testing

—

Yes

Compliance

EU data residency

Yes

SOC 2

Yes

HIPAA

—

GDPR

Yes

ISO 27001

—

Yes

Support

Support channels

Email/ticket support; dedicated Slack channel and direct engineer access on Enterprise

Online/Email support; TAM on Enterprise

Support SLA

Plan-gated

FAQ

Common questions

Resend starts at Free versus SparkPost's $20. Because pricing models differ by tier, the cheaper option depends on your monthly volume, so compare the pricing rows in the scorecard above.

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Why not both?

Use both behind one API.

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

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Pricing, plans and feature availability as of September 2026 and may change. Ratings are aggregated from public review platforms. SparkPost is a Bird (MessageBird) product.