A powerful Sendgrid alternative for sending transactional and marketing emails.
AutoSend is an email service offering transactional, marketing and automation features with volume-based pricing.
- for
- Developers and teams building apps or AI agents that need reliable email sending and analytics.
- pricing
- paid
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Key features
6 features of AutoSend
- RESTful Email API — Send transactional emails via a clean, reliable REST API or SMTP.
- Inbound Email Parsing — Receive emails and get structured JSON with bodies, attachments, and headers.
- Email Builder & Templates — Create and edit marketing emails with a no-code builder or markdown.
- Dynamic Segmentation — Segment contacts based on behavior, properties and engagement signals.
- Automation & Smart Triggers — Set up welcome sequences, onboarding flows and re-engagement campaigns that fire automatically.
- Analytics & Webhooks — Track opens, clicks, bounces in real time and receive event webhooks.
Use cases
- Send OTPs and account alerts via transactional API
- Run newsletter or product launch campaigns with the visual email builder
- Automate onboarding and re-engagement flows for SaaS users
- Parse inbound support emails into structured data for AI agents
AutoSend pricing
- Hobby (Transactional)$1/month3,000 emails/month · 1 project · 3 sending domains · 50 templates
- Hobby (Marketing+Transactional)$5/month3,000 emails/month · 1,000 contacts · Unlimited campaigns · Automation not included
- Starter (Transactional)$10/month10,000 emails/month · 5 projects · 10 sending domains · Unlimited templates
- Starter (Marketing+Transactional)$12/month10,000 emails/month · 200,000 contacts · Unlimited campaigns · Automation
- Growth (Marketing+Transactional)$50/month50,000 emails/month · 500,000 contacts · Unlimited campaigns · Automation
AutoSend vs alternatives
| Best for | Volume-priced email API for developers | Email marketing with localized pricing | Temporary email testing | LLM app analytics | Static site generation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free | Subscription | Subscription | One time fee |
| DevHunt upvotes | 2 | 27 | 23 | 89 | 111 |
| Launched | Oct 2025 | Oct 2024 | Jan 2023 | Jan 2023 | Jan 2023 |
- AutoSend vs Maildroppa: Maildroppa targets German markets with a similar price focus but less emphasis on AI agent integrations.
- AutoSend vs GetTestMail: GetTestMail provides disposable email addresses for testing, not full transactional/marketing sending.
- AutoSend vs Langfuse: Langfuse is an observability platform for LLM apps, not an email delivery service.
- AutoSend vs zippystarter: Zippystarter builds static sites, unrelated to email sending.
AutoSend FAQ
Does AutoSend have a free plan?+
No, the lowest tier is the Hobby plan starting at $1 per month.
How is pricing calculated?+
Pricing is volume-based; you pay for the monthly email quota and $0.0010-$0.0020 per additional 1,000 emails.
Can I upgrade or downgrade plans?+
Yes, you can switch plans anytime; upgrades take effect immediately, downgrades at the next billing cycle.
What support is included?+
All plans include email support; Growth adds Slack Connect, and Scale/Enterprise add in-app chat and priority support.
Are dedicated IPs available?+
Dedicated IPs are offered as an add-on for higher-volume senders, typically above 200K emails per month.
Summarized by DevHunt from autosend.com · Sep 29, 2026. Details may change; check the official site.