--- title: Resend slug: resend url: "https://toolweight.com/tools/resend" homepage: "https://resend.com" categories: email-sending-apis last_verified: 2026-11-06 dataset_version: 0738be72 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # Resend > Developer-first email API built around React Email components. - Transactional email API from ex-Vercel engineers, send call as a typed function - Maintains React Email; the Node SDK accepts a React element directly - Broadcasts adds a campaign product, covering transactional and marketing without the usual split ## Identity | | | | --- | --- | | Name | Resend | | Company | Resend, Inc. | | One-liner | Developer-first email API built around React Email components. | | Site | https://resend.com | | Docs | https://resend.com/docs | | Founded | 2023 | | Funding | Series A | | Compared in | 1 | ## Where it is compared ### [Email APIs](https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis) Ranked **#2 of 13** on default weights. | Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note | Permalink | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Time to first send | 10min | Community-reported | - | - | No approval queue: create an account, paste three DNS records, send. The only variable is your registrar. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--time_to_first_send | | Product scope | both | Inferred | - | - | Broadcasts added a campaign product on top of the transactional API. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--product_scope | | Inbound parsing | ◐ | Community-reported | - | - | Inbound is newer here and thinner on routing rules than Mailgun or Postmark. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--inbound_parsing | | Event webhooks | delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, deferred | Vendor-claimed | 2026-06-01 | https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/webhooks/introduction | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--event_webhooks | | Hosted templates | code-editor | Inferred | - | - | React Email in your own repo is the intended path; Broadcasts has a visual editor. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--hosted_templates | | React Email / MJML | react-email, mjml | Vendor-claimed | 2026-06-01 | https://resend.com/docs/send-with-nextjs | React Email is a Resend project and the Node SDK takes a React element directly. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--react_email_mjml | | Log retention | 3d | Inferred | - | - | Approximate and plan-dependent; Resend's window is short by category standards. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--log_retention | | Throughput ceiling | 7,200 emails/hr | Community-reported | - | - | Default API rate limit is 2 requests/second; the batch endpoint lifts effective throughput well past this. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--throughput_ceiling | | Multi-domain sending | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--multi_domain | | Data residency | us, eu, apac, sa | Community-reported | - | - | Sending region is chosen per domain. No Australian region. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--data_residency | | Shared pool quality | 4 | Inferred | - | - | Well managed and improving, but younger and larger than Postmark's. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--shared_pool_quality | | IP warmup | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | New dedicated IPs are ramped, but the schedule is not documented. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--ip_warmup | | DKIM/DMARC friction | 1 | Inferred | - | - | Registrar auto-configuration for Vercel and Cloudflare domains; otherwise three pre-generated records with live verification. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--dkim_dmarc_friction | | BIMI | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--bimi_support | | Suppression list | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--suppression_management | | Bounce handling | ● | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--bounce_complaint_handling | | Price / 1k emails | $0.4/1k | Vendor-claimed | 2026-06-01 | https://resend.com/pricing | Pro is $20/mo for 50,000 emails. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--price_per_1k | | Free tier | 3,000 emails/mo | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://resend.com/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--free_tier | | Dedicated IP | $30/mo | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-06 | https://resend.com/pricing | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--dedicated_ip_cost | | Pricing model | volume-tiers | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--pricing_model | | MCP server | ● | Community-reported | - | - | Resend publishes an MCP server for sending mail from agents. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--mcp_server | | llms.txt docs | ● | Inferred | - | - | Mintlify-hosted docs, which publish an llms.txt index automatically. | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--llms_txt_docs | | Funding | series-a | Community-reported | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--funding_stage | | Positioning | "Email for developers." React Email is the hook; the API is deliberately small and the docs carry most of the product. | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--positioning | | GA year | 2023 | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/email-sending-apis#resend--ga_year | **Verdict.** The fastest path to a delivered email, templates in your codebase, but four times SES with stingy retention. ## 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. - [MailerSend](https://toolweight.com/tools/mailersend), Transactional sibling of MailerLite, bootstrapped and cheap at mid volume. - [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. - [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/resend/logo.svg and https://toolweight.com/teams/resend/mono.svg. 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