Resend
by Resend Inc.
Developer-first transactional email API with React-based templates and audience management. Resend is a developer-first transactional email API from Resend Inc., a Y Combinator-backed San Francisco company founded in 2023.
Key Facts
pricing
| Attribute | Value | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resend pricing (July 2026) | Resend pricing re-verified July 2026: Free (3,000 emails/mo, 100/day), Pro from $20/mo (50,000 emails, multiple domains, 7-day retention, audiences), Scale from $90/mo (100,000 emails, 30-day retention, dedicated IP available), Enterprise custom. Overage runs about $0.0008/email on Pro; annual billing saves ~20%. | Jul 2026 | Resend pricing |
| Starter pricing | $20/month Pro (50,000 emails/month) | Jul 2026 | Resend pricing page |
| Free tier | 3,000 emails/month, 100/day, single domain | Jul 2026 | Resend pricing page |
company
| Attribute | Value | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 | May 2026 | Resend About page |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | Jul 2026 | Resend about page |
| Employees | 11-50 | May 2026 | Resend LinkedIn |
features
| Attribute | Value | As of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDKs | Node.js, PHP, Laravel, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, Rust, .NET (official); Elixir, NestJS, Dart (community) | Jul 2026 | Resend SDKs docs |
| Templates | React Email components rendered server-side | Jul 2026 | Resend docs (send-with-nextjs) |
| Integrations | 50+ framework and SMTP integration guides plus 10 official SDKs | Jul 2026 | Resend docs |
Pricing Plans
Pro
From $20/mo (~20% off annual); overage ~$0.0008/email
- ✓Multiple domains, 7-day retention, audiences
- !50,000 emails/mo
Scale
From $90/mo; 30-day retention, dedicated IP available
- ✓Higher volume, dedicated IP
- !100,000 emails/mo
Enterprise
Quote-based; SOC 2, dedicated IPs, SLAs
- ✓Custom SLAs, premium support
About Resend
Resend is a developer-first transactional email API from Resend Inc., a Y Combinator-backed San Francisco company founded in 2023. The team also maintains React Email. SDKs for Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go. Free tier 3,000 emails/month, paid from $20/month.
Resend is a developer-first transactional email API built by Resend Inc., a San Francisco company founded in 2023 by Zeno Rocha and Bu Kinoshita, the team behind the open-source React Email project. Resend is positioned as a modern alternative to SendGrid, Mailgun, and Postmark, with first-class React Email template support, audience and broadcast features, and SDKs for Node.js, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Go.
Templates are written as React components using the React Email library, allowing developers to compose email layouts with the same component model used in their web applications. Resend renders the React tree to HTML and plain text on the server before delivery. The platform also provides webhook event streams for delivery, open, click, bounce, and complaint events, plus an audience and broadcast feature for marketing-style sends without requiring a separate marketing tool.
Resend pricing as of May 2026 starts with a free tier (3,000 emails/month, 100/day, single domain). Paid plans are Pro at $20/month (50,000 emails/month, multiple domains, 7-day retention), Pro 100k at $90/month (100,000 emails/month, 30-day retention), and Enterprise at quote-based pricing. Volume above included tiers is billed per email overage.
The product integrates natively with Next.js, Vercel, Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda, Stripe, and most JavaScript and Python web frameworks. It is positioned for product engineering teams that want a transactional email API without the legacy weight of older providers.
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Questions About Resend
What does the Resend free tier include in 2026?
As of July 2026, the Resend free tier includes 3,000 emails/month, 100 emails/day, one verified domain, 30-day email log retention, and basic webhooks. It is intended for development, testing, and very small production sends; teams typically upgrade to the $20/month Pro plan (50,000 emails/month, multiple domains, audiences) once they exceed the 100-emails/day cap. The next step up is Scale at $90/month (100,000 emails, dedicated IP available). Resend's appeal is developer experience — React email templates and modern SDKs — rather than the free tier being the largest in the category.
How do you migrate from SendGrid to Resend in 2026?
A SendGrid-to-Resend migration in 2026 follows five steps: verify domains in Resend, port templates (Resend recommends React Email), swap the API client in code, run dual-send for a verification window, and update DNS to point all sending traffic to Resend. Most production migrations take 1-2 weeks end to end.
What's the difference between Resend, SendGrid, and Postmark?
Resend is a React-template developer-first email API from 2023 with 3,000 free emails/month and $20/month for 50K. SendGrid is the high-scale market leader from 2009 (Twilio) with marketing plus transactional from $19.95/month. Postmark is the deliverability specialist from 2010 (ActiveCampaign) for transactional-only at $15/month for 10K.
How much does Resend cost in 2026?
Resend uses simple volume-based pricing. As of July 2026: Free (3,000 emails/month, 100/day), Pro $20/month (50,000 emails, multiple domains, 7-day retention, audiences), Scale $90/month (100,000 emails, 30-day retention, dedicated IP available), and quote-based Enterprise (SOC 2, dedicated IPs, SLAs). Overage is about $0.0008 per email on Pro, and annual billing saves roughly 20%. Resend's differentiator is React-based email templates and modern SDKs rather than absolute cost, which is in line with Postmark, SendGrid, and Mailgun.