What is useSend?
Email API and dashboard on Amazon SES for transactional mail, campaigns and contact lists.
Who is useSend best for?
useSend is best for developers and small SaaS teams who want a low-cost email API with a dashboard on Amazon SES.
Transactional email from code
Typed SDKs, a REST API, webhooks and a schedule API send password resets and receipts from any stack.
Product updates to a list
A visual editor, contact books with per-list subscription status and a suppression list handle newsletters.
Apps that only speak SMTP
The SMTP relay plugs into tools such as Supabase so their emails go through your own domain.
How much does useSend cost?
useSend is free to self-host, its cloud Free plan sends up to 3,000 emails a month, and the Paid plan has a $10 monthly minimum, with transactional email at $0.0004 and marketing email at $0.001 each.
- Runs on your AWS account's SES rates
- Needs PostgreSQL and Redis
- Railway template for a quick start
- 3,000 emails a month, 100 a day
- 1 domain and 1 contact book
- 1 team member
- $10 of usage credit every month
- $0.0004 per transactional, $0.001 per marketing email
- Unlimited domains, contact books and team members
The $10 minimum is credited against what you send, so 12,500 transactional and 5,000 marketing emails in a month cost $10 in total. Prices are before tax. Full pricing on usesend.com. We checked these prices on .
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Is useSend open source?
Yes. useSend's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
4,802stars
+75 (+1.6%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 12 Nov
- Repository age
- 2 years
- Latest release
- 12 Nov
- Licence
- AGPL 3.0
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- usesend/usesend
What are the best useSend alternatives?
useSend is an open source alternative to Loops and Nitrosend. MailCheap and Plunk do the same job and are open source too.
LoopsFreeSend newsletters, product emails and app receipts from one contact list, made for SaaS companies.
NitrosendFreeEmail platform run from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or any MCP agent, for agencies and SaaS teams.
MailCheapOpen SourceNewsletter app with a web archive, signup forms and an MCP server, billed by emails sent.
PlunkOpen SourceTransactional email, newsletters and event-triggered workflows on one contact list, with an API.
Questions about useSend
What does useSend use to deliver email?
useSend delivers through Amazon SES, in the cloud and when self-hosted. Self-hosting needs your own AWS account with SES for sending and SNS for delivery status, plus PostgreSQL and Redis.
Who is useSend for?
useSend is best for developers and small SaaS teams who want a low-cost email API with a dashboard on Amazon SES.
Is useSend free?
Yes. useSend has a free Self-hosted plan: runs on your AWS account's SES rates.
How much does useSend cost?
useSend's paid plans are Paid at $10 minimum usage per month.
Is useSend open source?
Yes. useSend's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best useSend alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Loops, Nitrosend, MailCheap and Plunk.
Where can I try useSend?
On its official website, usesend.com.
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