Resend pricing explained
every plan, every tier

The short version

Resend uses four transactional tiers (Free, Pro, Scale, Enterprise) billed by monthly email volume, with a separate pricing system for marketing email billed by contacts. Free starts at 3,000 emails per month with a 100 per day limit. Pro runs from $20 to $35 per month. Scale runs from $90 (100k) to $1,150 (2.5M). Enterprise is custom.

• The cheapest paid tier is $20/mo (Pro, 50,000 emails)
• At 100k emails, you pick between $35 (Pro) and $90 (Scale). Scale unlocks dedicated IPs, Slack support, and 1,000 domains.
• Marketing email is a separate product billed per contact, not per email.
• Resend doubled several Scale tier prices in October 2024. Budget for continued increases.
• No fully EU-hosted plan. Sending can originate in Ireland, but account data and logs remain in the US.

Resend plans side by side

Volume, domain, retention, and support breakdown for each tier.

Resend Free: $0/mo for 3,000 emails

The Free plan covers small projects and evaluation. It is not a trial, it is a permanent free tier with the following limits:

• 3,000 emails per month maximum
• 100 emails per day cap (the hard constraint for most users)
• 1 verified sending domain
• 30 days of log and event retention
• Ticket support with no SLA
• Shared IPs only

The 100 emails per day cap is what forces most teams to upgrade before hitting 3,000 monthly. If you send password resets, magic links, or onboarding emails, a single busy day can burn through the daily quota and silently queue or drop deliveries depending on your integration.

Resend Pro: $20/mo starting point

Pro is the first paid tier and the one most small teams land on. It is priced on a slider from 50,000 to 100,000 emails per month.

Pro removes the daily cap, lifts domain count to 10, and keeps the same 30-day retention and ticket support as Free. There is no dedicated IP option on Pro, which matters if you care about sender reputation control.

Resend Scale: $90/mo to $1,150/mo

Scale is the tier for growing SaaS with multiple domains, reputation requirements, or high volumes. It reuses the slider pattern with six published steps:

Scale adds Slack-based support, 1,000 domains, and the option to attach a dedicated IP. The per-email cost decreases as volume grows, from $0.90 per 1,000 at 100k down to $0.46 per 1,000 at 2.5M.

Resend Enterprise: custom pricing

Enterprise is sales-led. It covers custom volumes, bespoke SLAs, dedicated IP pools, and typically starts being worth it somewhere past 2.5M emails per month or when procurement requires signed MSAs. Resend does not publish entry prices. Expect custom annual contracts with commits.

Resend pricing at every volume

The full grid with cost per 1,000 emails, the single most useful number when comparing providers.

What the list price does not include

The plan price is not the whole bill. Three line items often surprise teams at the first invoice.

Marketing email is priced separately

The pricing page has two tabs: Transactional Email and Marketing Email. They are separate products with separate billing and separate quotas.

• Transactional is billed by monthly email volume. Free to Enterprise as described above.
• Marketing is billed by contact count. Free includes 1,000 contacts. Pro Marketing ranges from $40 (5,000 contacts) to $650 (150,000 contacts). Enterprise is custom.

If you run password resets plus a newsletter from the same product, you pay for both. Factor this into your comparison when benchmarking against all-in-one providers.

Silent product and pricing changes

Two moments matter when forecasting the total cost and behavior of Resend over a 12 to 24 month horizon. Neither was proactively communicated to existing customers.

How Resend pricing compares to Nuntly

Side-by-side view at every published Resend tier, in each provider's native currency. Prices verified on 2026-04-21.

Nuntly is cheaper than Resend at every paid tier above 50k emails, and the gap widens with volume. At 100k, Nuntly Starter is €28 vs Resend Pro at $35 or Scale at $90. At 500k, Nuntly is €265 vs $350. At 1M, Nuntly is €492 vs $650. Nuntly also includes EU data hosting on every plan at no additional cost, which Resend does not offer on any plan.

Nuntly: the closest Resend alternative

If you like Resend's developer experience but want lower prices at 100k+ volumes, EU data hosting by default, and predictable pricing from a bootstrap company, Nuntly is designed as a drop-in alternative. The SDK surface mirrors Resend (nuntly.emails.send matches resend.emails.send), domain verification follows the same SPF/DKIM/DMARC pattern (though the exact records you publish are Nuntly-specific), and migration typically takes under 30 minutes.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about Resend pricing, plans, and alternatives.

Keep reading