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Marketing and lifecycle email

Platforms for behavior-triggered, lifecycle, and broadcast email. Workflows, segments, audience modeling, and analytics. Picked for SaaS, ecommerce, and product teams that need more than transactional sends.

Lifecycle, broadcast, and behavior-triggered email platforms.

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SendGrid

Transactional Marketing

Twilio-owned veteran with broad SDK coverage.

free tier
60-day free trial only (permanent free tier was removed May 2025)
starts at
$19.95/mo for 50,000 emails

Loops

Marketing Transactional

Modern lifecycle and broadcast email for SaaS.

free tier
1,000 contacts and 4,000 sends/mo on the Free plan
starts at
$49/mo for 5,000 contacts

Brevo

Transactional Marketing

All-in-one with a generous daily free tier.

free tier
300/day permanent
starts at
$9/mo for 5,000 emails

Mailjet

Transactional Marketing

European-focused, GDPR-friendly all-in-one.

free tier
6,000/mo (200/day cap) permanent
starts at
$17/mo for 15,000 emails

Elastic Email

Transactional Marketing

Low-cost email API and SMTP relay with marketing features nearby.

free tier
$0/mo test plan with limited sending only to yourself
starts at
$19/mo for Email API up to 50,000 emails/mo

SendPulse

Transactional Marketing

Marketing suite with a generous transactional SMTP tier.

free tier
12,000 transactional emails/mo on SMTP Basic, 50 messages/hour
starts at
$15 pay-as-you-go for 10,000 emails, or $74.85/mo monthly for Pro 100,000

Customer.io

Marketing Transactional

Behavior-driven lifecycle messaging.

free tier
No permanent free tier; trial only
starts at
$100/mo (Essentials)

Encharge

Marketing

SaaS-focused marketing automation with behavior-based flows.

free tier
14-day free trial
starts at
$99/mo monthly for Growth up to 2,000 subscribers, or $79/mo billed yearly

Userlist

Marketing

SaaS lifecycle email with account-level data.

free tier
14-day free trial, card required
starts at
Dynamic slider pricing; Basic includes 10,000 users and $10/mo per additional 1,000 users

Drip

Marketing

Ecommerce marketing automation with behavior-based segmentation.

free tier
14-day free trial, no credit card required
starts at
$39/mo for 1 to 2,500 people

ActiveCampaign

Marketing

Broad marketing automation and CRM for growing businesses.

free tier
14-day free trial, no credit card required
starts at
Public pricing page uses a calculator; no static paid start exposed to crawler

Sender

Marketing

Budget-friendly email marketing with a generous free plan.

free tier
Free forever for 2,500 subscribers and 15,000 emails/mo
starts at
Paid plans start at the 1,000-subscriber tier; exact price is shown in the account slider

Klaviyo

Marketing

Ecommerce-focused marketing automation.

free tier
500 emails to 250 contacts
starts at
$45/mo for 5,000 emails

Mailchimp / Mandrill

Marketing Transactional

Legacy marketing giant, transactional via Mandrill.

free tier
500 contacts, 1,000 sends/month
starts at
$13/mo Essentials

Kit

Newsletter Marketing

Creator-focused newsletter platform (formerly ConvertKit).

free tier
10,000 subscribers, broadcasts only
starts at
$15/mo for 1,000 subscribers (Creator)

Plunk

Self-hosted Marketing

Open-source unified email platform.

free tier
3,000/mo on hosted free plan
starts at
$19/mo or self-host