Brevo
EU-hosted marketing platform with a competent transactional API attached.
Overall in email apis
6of 13 · score 62
Data coverage
96%
24 of 25 fields sourced
Best for
- •EU-only data residency without self-hosting
- •One vendor covering CRM, marketing and transactional
- •High free-tier volume during prototyping
Strong on
- +Event webhooks delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, deferred, unsubscribed, inbound 1/13
- +Free tier 9,000 emails/mo 1/13
- +Product scope marketing-first 1/13
- +Log retention 30d 2/10
Weak on
- −Shared pool quality 2 12/13Better: Postmark: 5
- −Price / 1k emails $1.8/1k 12/12Better: Amazon SES: $0.1/1k
- −Data residency eu 9/13Better: Amazon SES: us, eu, au, apac, sa, ca
- −IP warmup Partial 9/13Better: Postmark: Yes
vs Mailgun
- •Ahead on Log retention: 30d vs 24h
- •Ahead on Free tier: 9,000 emails/mo vs 3,000 emails/mo
- •Behind on IP warmup: Partial vs Yes
- •Behind on Shared pool quality: 2 vs 3
How Brevo scores among 13 email apis24 of 25 fields known
Features10
Time to first send
4h
8/13
Leader: Resend · 10min
Product scope1st
marketing-first
1/13
Inbound parsing1st
Yes
1/13
Event webhooks1st
delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, deferred, unsubscribed, inbound
1/13
Hosted templates1st
visual-editor
1/13
React Email / MJML
liquid
4/13
Leader: Resend · react-email, mjml
Log retention2nd
30d
2/10
Leader: Postmark · 45d
Throughput ceiling
—
Multi-domain sending1st
Yes
1/13
Data residency
eu
9/13
Leader: Amazon SES · us, eu, au, apac, sa, ca
Deliverability6
IP warmup
Partial
9/13
Leader: Postmark · Yes
DKIM/DMARC friction
3
7/13
Leader: Resend · 1
BIMI
Partial
4/11
Leader: Postmark · Yes
Suppression list1st
Yes
1/13
Bounce handling1st
Yes
1/13
Pricing4
Price / 1k emails
$1.8/1k
12/12
Leader: Amazon SES · $0.1/1k
Free tier1st
9,000 emails/mo
1/13
Dedicated IP
$40/mo
4/7
Leader: Amazon SES · $24.95/mo
Pricing model
volume-tiers
5/13
Leader: Amazon SES · pay-as-you-go
Agentic2
llms.txt docs
No
6/13
Leader: Resend · Yes
Traction1
Funding
series-b+
7/13
Leader: Amazon SES · subsidiary
Positioning1
Positioning
"All your marketing in one place." A CRM suite that also sends transactional mail; the API is real but it is not the product.
Timeline1
GA year
2012
9/13
Leader: Resend · 2023
AhaSend
Amazon SES
Loops
MailerSend
Mailgun
Mailtrap
Plunk
Postmark
