Scaleway TEM

Scaleway TEM — EU-sovereign transactional email from Scaleway, deliberately minimal. Transactional Email is Scaleway's answer to SES for European teams that need the data to stay in the EU under an EU-owned company. The API is small, pricing is metered and cheap, and there is no open or click tracking at all — a privacy stance rather than an omission. Expect no templates, no campaign tooling, and quota increases that go through the Scaleway console. Built by Scaleway (Iliad Group). Founded 2023. Subsidiary (Iliad).

We track it in 1 comparison — Email APIs — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 12 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it wins.

• Price / 1k emails — $0.3 /1k, 2nd of 11.
• Pricing model — pay-as-you-go, tied for best across 4 of 13 tools.

Each of those is ranked against the whole roster on its category page, not against a hand-picked subset, so a first place here means first of everything we list.

Where it gives ground.

• React Email / MJML — , 10th of 12. Resend records react-email, mjml.
• IP warmup — No. Postmark records Yes.
• Inbound parsing — No. Postmark records Yes.
• Free tier — 300 emails/mo, 9th of 10. Brevo records 9,000 emails/mo.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 22 of 25 tracked fields carry a value for Scaleway TEM, and 2 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-05-25. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is AhaSend. Scaleway TEM is ahead on Funding (subsidiary against bootstrapped). AhaSend takes Time to first send (15 min against 1440 min) and Suppression list (Yes against Partial). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see Scaleway TEM alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

Scaleway (Iliad Group)

Founded

2023

Funding

Subsidiary (Iliad)

Fields we track

22 of 25

Last verified

2026-05-25

The clearest answer when the requirement is an EU-owned company holding the data rather than a US company's EU region. Everything else about it is minimal: no templates, no tracking, no dedicated IPs. Judge it on jurisdiction.

React Email / MJML

–10th of 12

Inferred

IP warmup

○No9th of 11

Inferred

Inbound parsing

○No9th of 12

Inferred

Price / 1k emails

$0.3 /1k2nd of 11

Inferred

Free tier

300 emails/mo9th of 10

Inferred

Hosted templates

none12th of 13

Inferred

BIMI

○No10th of 11

Inferred

Pricing model

pay-as-you-go1st of 13

Inferred

Scaleway TEM is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• EU sovereignty requirements a US vendor's EU region does not satisfy.
• Privacy-first products that do not want open tracking to exist.
• Teams already running on Scaleway infrastructure.
• Price / 1k emails is your binding constraint. Scaleway TEM records $0.3 /1k, 2nd of 11 in the Email APIs roster. We define that field as cheapest paid self-serve tier, divided out to USD per 1,000 emails, monthly billing, no annual discount.
• Pricing model is your binding constraint. Scaleway TEM records pay-as-you-go, the best figure in the Email APIs roster. We define that field as how the bill is computed.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• React Email / MJML. Scaleway TEM records , 10th of 12 in the Email APIs roster. Resend records react-email, mjml on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• IP warmup. Scaleway TEM records No on the Email APIs table. Postmark records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Inbound parsing. Scaleway TEM records No on the Email APIs table. Postmark records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Free tier. Scaleway TEM records 300 emails/mo, 9th of 10 in the Email APIs roster. Brevo records 9,000 emails/mo on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Hosted templates. Scaleway TEM records none, 12th of 13 in the Email APIs roster. Postmark records visual-editor on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 3 of the 25 fields we track for Scaleway TEM are still blank: Log retention, Throughput ceiling and Dedicated IP. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.