Mailjet features: what you get on each plan
Mailjet covers 26 of the 28 features we test, and the gating is unusually top-heavy. The free plan gives away the editor, the API, the SMTP relay, webhooks and the form builder. Everything a marketing team eventually wants (automation, A/B testing, landing pages, extra seats) waits until Premium at $27 a month.
Two products share one account here. The developer half is complete from the free plan: transactional API, SMTP relay, the Event API with six webhook types, and a templating language with conditions, loops and formatting functions. The marketing half is staged, and the staging is lopsided: Starter and Essential buy reach, not campaign tooling.
The free plan is capped at 200 emails per day against a 6,000 monthly allowance, so it is a test bench rather than a small production sender.
Feature matrix
| Feature | Included | From plan | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drag-and-drop email editor | Yes | Free | Same editor on every plan |
| Template gallery | Yes | Free | Prebuilt templates from free |
| Mailjet Templating Language | Yes | Free | Conditions, loops and functions |
| Template for-loops | Partial | Free | Transactional templates only |
| Transactional email API | Yes | Free | No tier gate on the API |
| SMTP relay | Yes | Free | Available from the free plan |
| Event API webhooks | Yes | Free | Six event types plus typofix |
| Webhook retries | Yes | Free | Every 30s, stops at 24h |
| Parse API for inbound | Yes | Not stated | Editor names no plan for it |
| Form builder | Yes | Free | Included on every plan |
| Preference centre | Yes | Not stated | Editor names no plan for it |
| Role-based access control | Yes | Not stated | Editor names no plan for it |
| Contact storage | Partial | Free | 1,000 free, 2,000 on Starter |
| Unlimited contacts | Yes | Essential | The contact cap lifts here |
| Segmentation | Yes | Essential | Nested AND/OR, dynamic at send |
| Marketing automation | Yes | Premium | Visual builder, four trigger types |
| Automation condition block | Yes | Premium | Up to 20 conditions each |
| A/B testing | Yes | Premium | Up to 10 versions at once |
| A/B winner selection | Yes | Premium | Automatic, or manual within 7 days |
| A/B minimum run time | Yes | Premium | One hour before any winner |
| Landing pages | Yes | Premium | Premium and above only |
| Multi-user access | Yes | Premium | Extra seats begin at Premium |
| Sub-accounts | Partial | Starter | One, then 20 at Premium |
| Dedicated IP | Yes | Premium | One IP, on request above 100k |
| Advanced statistics | Yes | Premium | Basic statistics below Premium |
| Email validation credits | Yes | Essential | 500, then 2,000 at Premium |
| CRM | No | None | Not in the product catalogue |
| Website builder | No | None | Not in the product catalogue |
Where the gate falls
Three of the four rows marked Premium are the features a team migrating from a cheaper tool goes looking for first. Automation needs the 15k Premium plan or higher, A/B testing is Premium-only in the editor’s own wording, and landing pages never appear below it. Essential buys reach (unlimited contacts and segmentation), but nothing to act on that reach with.
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