---
title: MailerSend
slug: mailersend
url: "https://toolweight.com/tools/mailersend"
homepage: "https://www.mailersend.com"
categories: email-sending-apis
last_verified: 2026-11-07
dataset_version: 0738be72
license: CC-BY-4.0
---

# MailerSend

> Transactional sibling of MailerLite, bootstrapped and cheap at mid volume.

- Transactional product from the MailerLite team, with a genuinely good drag-and-drop builder
- Clear analytics, pricing attractive between 50,000 and a million messages a month
- New-account approval is manual and can take a day
- Free tier has been cut over time; treat the current allowance as a floor

## Identity

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Name | MailerSend |
| Company | MailerLite |
| One-liner | Transactional sibling of MailerLite, bootstrapped and cheap at mid volume. |
| Site | https://www.mailersend.com |
| Docs | https://developers.mailersend.com |
| Founded | 2020 |
| Funding | Bootstrapped |
| Compared in | 1 |

## Where it is compared

### [Email APIs](https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis)
Ranked **#3 of 13** on default weights.
| Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note | Permalink |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Time to first send | 24h | Community-reported | - | - | Trial accounts must be approved by a human before they can mail unverified recipients; commonly around 24 hours. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--time_to_first_send |
| Product scope | both | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--product_scope |
| Inbound parsing | ● | Inferred | - | - | Inbound routing with parsed payloads. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--inbound_parsing |
| Event webhooks | delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, unsubscribed, inbound | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--event_webhooks |
| Hosted templates | visual-editor | Inferred | - | - | Inherits MailerLite's drag-and-drop builder, which is the best of the group. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--hosted_templates |
| React Email / MJML | handlebars, mjml | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--react_email_mjml |
| Log retention | 30d | Inferred | - | - | Approximate and plan-dependent. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--log_retention |
| Throughput ceiling | - | Unknown | - | - | No published figure. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--throughput_ceiling |
| Multi-domain sending | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | Domain count is capped on the entry plan. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--multi_domain |
| Data residency | us, eu | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--data_residency |
| Shared pool quality | 3 | Inferred | - | - | The manual approval step keeps the pool cleaner than the free-tier-heavy alternatives. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--shared_pool_quality |
| IP warmup | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--ip_warmup |
| DKIM/DMARC friction | 2 | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--dkim_dmarc_friction |
| BIMI | ● | Inferred | - | - | One of the few here with explicit BIMI documentation. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--bimi_support |
| Suppression list | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--suppression_management |
| Bounce handling | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--bounce_complaint_handling |
| Price / 1k emails | $0.56/1k | Inferred | - | - | Approximate: the entry paid plan is roughly $28/mo for 50,000 emails. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--price_per_1k |
| Free tier | 500 emails/mo | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://www.mailersend.com/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--free_tier |
| Dedicated IP | $50/mo | Inferred | - | - | Approximate monthly add-on. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--dedicated_ip_cost |
| Pricing model | volume-tiers | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--pricing_model |
| MCP server | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://www.mailersend.com/features/mcp | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--mcp_server |
| llms.txt docs | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--llms_txt_docs |
| Funding | bootstrapped | Inferred | - | - | Same team as MailerLite; no outside funding publicly reported. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--funding_stage |
| Positioning | "Transactional email for developers and marketers." Positions on the template builder, which is genuinely its strongest feature. | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--positioning |
| GA year | 2020 | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#mailersend--ga_year |

**Verdict.** The best price per message past 50,000/month with a real UI, taxed by a manual approval gate.

## Alternatives

- [AhaSend](https://toolweight.com/tools/ahasend), Small indie transactional API competing on price and instant signup.
- [Amazon SES](https://toolweight.com/tools/amazon-ses), The cheapest way to send email at scale, and the least finished product.
- [Brevo](https://toolweight.com/tools/brevo), EU-hosted marketing platform with a competent transactional API attached.
- [Loops](https://toolweight.com/tools/loops), Lifecycle and marketing email for SaaS, priced on contacts rather than sends.
- [Mailgun](https://toolweight.com/tools/mailgun), Long-running transactional API with strong routing and inbound handling.
- [Mailtrap](https://toolweight.com/tools/mailtrap), Email testing sandbox that grew a production sending product.
- [Plunk](https://toolweight.com/tools/plunk), Open-source email console you self-host on top of your own AWS SES account.
- [Postmark](https://toolweight.com/tools/postmark), Transactional-only sender with the best-policed shared IP pool in the category.
- [Resend](https://toolweight.com/tools/resend), Developer-first email API built around React Email components.
- [Scaleway TEM](https://toolweight.com/tools/scaleway-tem), EU-sovereign transactional email from Scaleway, deliberately minimal.
- [SendGrid](https://toolweight.com/tools/sendgrid), The incumbent: enormous scale, enormous shared pool, everything bolted on.
- [SparkPost](https://toolweight.com/tools/sparkpost), High-volume sender with deep analytics, now folded into Bird's platform.

## Logo & brand colours

SVG files: https://toolweight.com/teams/mailersend/logo.svg and https://toolweight.com/teams/mailersend/mono.svg. JSON: https://toolweight.com/api/v1/brands/mailersend.

| Hex | oklch |
| --- | --- |
| #5cc4cd | oklch(76.2% 0.097 203.0) |
| #1c81c1 | oklch(58.0% 0.131 243.2) |

## Licence and attribution

Data from Toolweight (https://toolweight.com), licensed CC-BY-4.0.

- Licence: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Canonical HTML: https://toolweight.com/tools/mailersend
- Machine-readable: https://toolweight.com/tools/mailersend.md · https://toolweight.com/api/v1 · https://toolweight.com/mcp
- Toolweight takes no affiliate revenue and sells no placements.