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title: "Resend review: pricing, pros and cons"
description: "Developer-first email API from the React Email team: the most modern DX of the group, built for JS/TS-native stacks."
canonical: "https://saaskly.com/category/email/resend"
last-updated: "2026-09-21"
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# Resend review: pricing, pros and cons

> Saaskly verdict: **3.9/5**. Developer-first email API from the React Email team: the most modern DX of the group, built for JS/TS-native stacks.

- Category: [Email](https://saaskly.com/category/email.md)
- Vendor website: https://resend.com/
- Last updated: 2026-09-21

## Pros and cons

**Pros**

- Best free tier for actual small-scale production use (3,000/mo)
- Modern DX: React Email components, native Next.js/Vercel/Supabase/Cloudflare Workers/Lambda integration
- Every tier including free gets API, SMTP relay, inbound email, batch sending, DKIM/SPF/DMARC

**Cons**

- Newest/least track record of the group
- Retention windows are short relative to price (7 days on the $20 Pro tier)
- Overage pricing needs modeling if traffic is spiky

## Pricing

Month-to-month price first (what you pay without committing), then the annual-commit rate.

- **Free**: $0/mo on an annual commitment; month-to-month price not published
  - Includes: 3,000 emails/mo, 1 domain
- **Pro**: $20/mo on an annual commitment; month-to-month price not published
  - Includes: 50,000 emails/mo
- **Pro 100k**: $90/mo on an annual commitment; month-to-month price not published
  - Includes: 100,000 emails/mo

## Specification

| Attribute | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Automation Builder | No |
| Dedicated IP | No |
| A/B Testing | No |
| Source IP allow/deny* | No |

*Source IP allow/deny listing: whether you can restrict which IP addresses may use your sending credentials (SMTP/API), checked against each vendor’s official documentation, 2026-09-01. SendGrid, Mailgun, SMTP2GO and SparkPost offer a native allowlist (no denylist); Amazon SES has no native switch but achieves both allow and deny shapes through IAM policy conditions. Postmark, Resend and Mailjet document no such control.

## Our review

Resend is the newest platform of the group and it shows in the product design: React Email templating (compose emails as React components), native integrations across the modern JS deployment stack, and a genuinely usable free tier for small production use rather than testing alone.

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