MailerSend
Transactional sibling of MailerLite, bootstrapped and cheap at mid volume.
Overall in email apis
3of 13 · score 66.8
Data coverage
96%
24 of 25 fields sourced
Best for
- •Mid-volume sending where SES is too raw and Postmark too dear
- •Non-engineers who need to edit templates
- •Teams already using MailerLite for marketing
Strong on
- +React Email / MJML handlebars, mjml 1/13
- +BIMI Yes 1/11
- +DKIM/DMARC friction 2 2/13
- +Log retention 30d 2/10
- +Product scope both 3/13
Weak on
- −Free tier 500 emails/mo 11/13Better: Brevo: 9,000 emails/mo
- −Dedicated IP $50/mo 5/7Better: Amazon SES: $24.95/mo
- −Multi-domain sending Partial 9/13Better: Resend: Yes
- −Funding bootstrapped 10/13Better: Amazon SES: subsidiary
vs Resend
- •Ahead on Log retention: 30d vs 3d
- •Ahead on IP warmup: Yes vs Partial
- •Behind on llms.txt docs: No vs Yes
- •Behind on Time to first send: 24h vs 10min
How MailerSend scores among 13 email apis24 of 25 fields known
Features10
Time to first send
24h
10/13
Leader: Resend · 10min
Product scope3rd
both
3/13
Leader: Loops · marketing-first
Inbound parsing1st
Yes
1/13
Event webhooks
delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, unsubscribed, inbound
6/13
Leader: Amazon SES · delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, deferred, unsubscribed, inbound
Hosted templates1st
visual-editor
1/13
React Email / MJML1st
handlebars, mjml
1/13
Log retention2nd
30d
2/10
Leader: Postmark · 45d
Throughput ceiling
—
Multi-domain sending
Partial
9/13
Leader: Resend · Yes
Data residency
us, eu
4/13
Leader: Amazon SES · us, eu, au, apac, sa, ca
Deliverability6
IP warmup1st
Yes
1/13
DKIM/DMARC friction2nd
2
2/13
Leader: Resend · 1
BIMI1st
Yes
1/11
Suppression list1st
Yes
1/13
Bounce handling1st
Yes
1/13
Pricing4
Price / 1k emails
$0.56/1k
7/12
Leader: Amazon SES · $0.1/1k
Dedicated IP
$50/mo
5/7
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
bootstrapped
10/13
Leader: Amazon SES · subsidiary
Positioning1
Positioning
"Transactional email for developers and marketers." Positions on the template builder, which is genuinely its strongest feature.
Timeline1
GA year
2020
6/13
Leader: Resend · 2023
AhaSend
Amazon SES
Brevo
Loops
Mailgun
Mailtrap
Plunk
Postmark
