Brevo alternatives (2026): free tiers & pricing compared

What do you optimize for?

Pick the priority that matters most for your project and we'll point you to the provider that wins on it.

Top Brevo alternatives, side by side

Free tier, entry price, dedicated-IP cost and deliverability — pulled from each vendor's own pricing page. Sort any column; star a provider to watch it.

Brevo: current pricing

What you actually pay on Brevo today, for context. Source: https://www.brevo.com/pricing/ + secondary.

Where you should land

Brevo is a solid transactional email provider, but teams put it up for comparison for concrete reasons: free quota shared between sending and campaigns and pure developer experience trails specialists. Its strengths are generous no-expiry free tier (300/day) and combines email + SMS + CRM, so whether an alternative is worth the switch depends on which trade-off actually affects your project.

Brevo is free up to 300 emails/day (no time limit, ~9,000/mo, shared with campaigns), then paid plans run $9/mo. API and SMTP available; a large free tier makes it a good catch-all for testing and small transactional volume.

Among the alternatives, Resend (3,000 emails/mo (100/day) free, from $20/mo) for best-in-class developer experience (React Email, type-safe), Postmark (100 emails/mo (no expiration) free, from $15/mo) for industry-leading deliverability and speed, and Mailgun (100 emails/day (~3,000/mo) free, from $15/mo) for flexible routing and inbound processing. On Next.js specifically, Resend is the smoothest migration thanks to its type-safe SDK and React Email templates.

Pick by priority: Mailtrap if a generous always-free tier matters most, Postmark if inbox placement for receipts and password resets is critical, and Amazon SES for the lowest per-email cost at scale. All figures were verified against each vendor's pricing page on 2026-07-05.

Swap Brevo in one Route Handler

Most migrations are a one-call change. Here's the Next.js Route Handler for each top alternative.

import { Resend } from "resend";

const resend = new Resend(process.env.RESEND_API_KEY!);

export async function POST(req: Request) {
  const { to, subject, html } = await req.json();
  const { data, error } = await resend.emails.send({
    from: "noreply@yourdomain.com",
    to,
    subject,
    html, // was: sgMail.send({ to, from, subject, html })
  });
  if (error) return Response.json({ error }, { status: 500 });
  return Response.json({ id: data?.id });
}

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