How much does Resend cost in 2026?

What Resend actually costs in 2026

The transactional price list, read from resend.com in August 2026. Each plan covers a volume band and stops; the gaps below are ceilings, not missing data.

Pro tops out at 100,000 emails a month. Below that it has two steps, $20 for 50,000 and $35 for 100,000. Scale starts at 100,000 and runs to 2.5 million. Everything is billed monthly; no annual rate appears on the pricing page.

Resend is two products with two separate price lists

The pricing page has two tabs, Transactional emails and Marketing emails, and they are not two views of the same thing. They bill on different units.

This matters because almost every comparison of Resend quotes the transactional numbers and then discusses it as though it were a newsletter tool, or vice versa. If you are sending password resets and receipts, you want the first list. If you are sending a newsletter to a list, you want the second, and the two are priced on units that cannot be converted into each other.

At 100,000 emails, Pro costs $35 and Scale costs $90

Both plans cover 100,000 emails a month. One costs 157% more than the other. Understanding what that buys is the single most useful thing on this page.

So at the same volume, the extra $55 a month buys three things: a hundredfold jump in sending domains, Slack support with an SLA, and permission to buy a dedicated IP. Retention, automation runs and webhooks are the same on both.

The three reasons to actually be on Scale

• You exceed 100,000 emails a month. Pro cannot go further; this is the only forced upgrade.
• You need more than 10 sending domains and the $20/month domains add-on (100 more) does not stretch far enough. Note the add-on works on Pro too, so 110 domains on Pro costs $55 against Scale’s $90 for a thousand.
• You want a dedicated IP. It is $30/month and Resend restricts it to Scale customers exceeding 3,000 emails per day-roughly 90,000 a month. You cannot buy one on Pro at any volume.

Overage is priced at your own unit rate, which almost nobody does

Most providers treat going over your plan as a penalty. Resend treats it as arithmetic.

Pro’s overage is $0.90 per 1,000 emails. Scale’s overage at the 2.5 million tier is $0.46 per 1,000, which is exactly that tier’s own unit rate. The overage price tracks the plan you are on rather than punishing you for exceeding it.

Compare the practical effect. Sending 60,000 emails on Resend Pro (50,000 included) costs $20 plus 10 × $0.90 = $29, against the $35 Pro tier that covers 100,000, so overage stays rational right up to the point where upgrading is obviously better. On Mailgun the equivalent overspill is punitive enough that we had to publish crossover thresholds to warn people off it.

The free tier’s daily cap makes its monthly figure unreachable

Resend’s free plan allows 3,000 emails a month and 100 emails a day. Multiply the second number by 30.

100 a day across 30 days is exactly 3,000 a month. The monthly allowance is the daily cap laid end to end, not a budget you can spend as you like. You reach 3,000 only by sending precisely 100 every single day.

This is the same construction Mailjet uses (200/day, 6,000/month) and Mailgun uses (100/day). It is worth naming because the monthly figure is what gets quoted in comparisons and the daily figure is what actually constrains you: an application that sends 20 password resets on a quiet day and needs 300 on a launch day fails on the launch day while sitting far under its monthly total.

The marketing price list, in full

Billed on contacts stored, with unlimited broadcast sending at every tier.

The free marketing tier gives 1,000 contacts, 3 segments and 3 domains with unlimited sending. Pro marketing at $40 adds unlimited segments, unlimited domains, Slack support and 100 AI credits.

Add-ons, and the one that is gated

The dedicated IP gate is the right call technically, an IP below roughly 100,000 emails a month has no reputation to speak of and usually hurts placement, but it does mean Resend cannot sell you one until you are genuinely at scale, where Mailgun sells them at $59 from 50,000 volume and Amazon SES sells standard dedicated IPs at $24.95 to anyone.

Against Mailgun, Mailjet and Amazon SES

Resend competes directly with the transactional providers we have already priced, so here they are side by side at matched volumes.

Resend undercuts both Sinch products at every volume, by 43% against Mailgun at 50,000 and 53% at 100,000. Against Mailjet the gap is wider still, though Mailjet includes a campaign builder Resend’s transactional product does not.

Amazon SES remains three to seven times cheaper than all of them, and that has not changed. What SES does not give you is a console anyone enjoys using, React-based email templating, 30-day searchable logs on a free tier, or support you can reach on Slack. Resend’s entire proposition is that developer experience is worth a multiple of the raw sending cost. At $35 for 100,000 emails against SES’s $10, the premium is $25 a month, which is a straightforward buy for most teams and an obvious no for anyone already deep in AWS.

What real accounts pay

Who should pay for what

What Resend does not publish

• Any annual discount. The pricing page shows monthly rates only, with an FAQ entry on annual subscriptions whose answer we could not read from the page. Assume monthly until told otherwise.
• Nonprofit or education pricing. An FAQ entry exists; no figure is shown on the pricing page.
• Enterprise pricing, and anything above 2.5 million transactional emails or 200,000 marketing contacts.
• Team member or seat limits. No seat count appears on any tier, which usually means seats are not metered, but it is not stated.
• Whether broadcast emails consume the transactional allowance. The FAQ poses exactly this question; the answer is not visible on the page. If you plan to run both products, ask before you budget.

Frequently asked questions