Resend

Developer-first email API built around React Email components.

resend.com resend.com/docs

Overall in email apis

2of 13 · score 73.7

Data coverage

100%

25 of 25 fields sourced

Best for

•Shipping transactional email this afternoon
•React and Next.js codebases that want templates in the repo
•Teams who would rather pay than run an approval gauntlet

Strong on

+Time to first send 10min 1/13
+DKIM/DMARC friction 1 1/13
+React Email / MJML react-email, mjml 1/13
+llms.txt docs Yes 1/13
+GA year 2023 1/13
+Shared pool quality 4 2/13

Weak on

−Log retention 3d 7/10
Better: Postmark: 45d
−Throughput ceiling 7,200 emails/hr 4/5
Better: Amazon SES: 50,400 emails/hr
−IP warmup Partial 9/13
Better: Postmark: Yes
−Inbound parsing Partial 9/13
Better: Postmark: Yes

vs MailerSend

•Ahead on llms.txt docs: Yes vs No
•Ahead on Time to first send: 10min vs 24h
•Behind on Log retention: 3d vs 30d
•Behind on IP warmup: Partial vs Yes

How Resend scores among 13 email apis25 of 25 fields known

Features10

Time to first send1st

10min

1/13

Product scope3rd

both

3/13

Leader: Loops · marketing-first

Inbound parsing

Partial

9/13

Leader: Postmark · Yes

Event webhooks

delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, deferred

8/13

Leader: Amazon SES · delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, deferred, unsubscribed, inbound

resend.com · 2026-06-01

Hosted templates

code-editor

8/13

Leader: Postmark · visual-editor

React Email / MJML1st

react-email, mjml

1/13

resend.com · 2026-06-01

Log retention

7/10

Leader: Postmark · 45d

Throughput ceiling

7,200 emails/hr

4/5

Leader: Amazon SES · 50,400 emails/hr

Multi-domain sending1st

Yes

1/13

Data residency2nd

us, eu, apac, sa

2/13

Leader: Amazon SES · us, eu, au, apac, sa, ca

Deliverability6

Shared pool quality2nd

2/13

Leader: Postmark · 5

IP warmup

Partial

9/13

Leader: Postmark · Yes

DKIM/DMARC friction1st

1/13

BIMI

Partial

4/11

Leader: Postmark · Yes

Suppression list1st

Yes

1/13

Bounce handling1st

Yes

1/13

Pricing4

Price / 1k emails3rd

$0.4/1k

3/12

Leader: Amazon SES · $0.1/1k

resend.com · 2026-06-01

Free tier3rd

3,000 emails/mo

3/13

Leader: Brevo · 9,000 emails/mo

resend.com · 2026-11-06

Dedicated IP2nd

$30/mo

2/7

Leader: Amazon SES · $24.95/mo

resend.com · 2026-11-06

Pricing model

volume-tiers

5/13

Leader: Amazon SES · pay-as-you-go

Agentic2

MCP server1st

Yes

1/13

llms.txt docs1st

Yes

1/13

Traction1

Funding

series-a

8/13

Leader: Amazon SES · subsidiary

Positioning1

Positioning

"Email for developers." React Email is the hook; the API is deliberately small and the docs carry most of the product.

Timeline1

GA year1st

2023

1/13

Alternatives8

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Sources3

resend.com/pricing3 fields
resend.com/docs/dashboard/webhooks/introduction1 field
resend.com/docs/send-with-nextjs1 field

Resend logo & brand colours

Logo assets

LogoSVG

Logo (dark)SVG

WordmarkSVG

Wordmark (dark)SVG

MonochromeSVG

Flattened to currentColor, what Toolweight renders in tables and nav.

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Resend brand colours

#000000