The cost-effective alternative to SendGrid's Email API

Choose Elastic Email to send transactional and bulk email via a REST API and SMTP relay built for scale, with straightforward pricing, and 24/7 human support from day one.

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Straightforward pricing that scales with you

emails/month	SendGrid	Elastic Email API (Starter)
50,000	$19.95 (Essentials)	$19
100,000	$34.95 (Essentials)	$29
150,000	$249 (Pro)	$59
200,000		$79
250,000		$99
300,000		$109

Why developers are switching to Elastic Email

Lower cost at every volume tier

At 50,000 emails/month, Elastic Email's Starter plan costs $19 vs. SendGrid Essentials' $19.95. At 100,000 emails, that gap widens to $29 vs. $34.95, and SendGrid's next tier up costs far more per email sent.

Your own infrastructure, transparently

Elastic Email runs its own in-house Mail Transfer Agent and offers a built-in DMARC generator. SendGrid also runs a proprietary MTA, but has no native DMARC generator. You need a third-party tool to create your DMARC record.

Broader language support

Elastic Email supports API libraries and SDKs for 12 programming languages (TypeScript Angular, TypeScript Axios, Ruby, Java, Go, Rust, Bash, C#, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, Python). SendGrid explicitly covers 7 (PHP, Python, Node.js, Java, C#, Go, Ruby).

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See how Elastic Email's API compares to SendGrid's

Beyond price and infrastructure, Elastic Email's API offers tools that SendGrid keeps separate, gated behind higher tiers, or leaves out of its Email API product entirely. Here's what else you get in the same plan.

Track every email you send, in real time

Elastic Email's Email Logs give you full visibility into the delivery status, opens, clicks, and bounces for every message sent through the API. Email logs are searchable right from your dashboard, so you can debug a delivery issue without digging through raw webhook data.

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Track every email you send, in real time

Send through a modern REST API

Elastic Email's RESTful API gives you full control over sending, webhooks, and inbound routing. Simply authenticate with a single API key and integrate email into your app or software and build your own email infrastructure.

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Easily send through SMTP relay

Already built around SMTP, or working with a system that expects it? Elastic Email's SMTP relay runs on the same account and credentials as the API - no separate signup, plan, or pricing required to use it. Quickly connect with our SMTP relay and send email directly from your hosting or domain.

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24/7 free and human support, no matter your plan

Elastic Email offers 24/7 human customer support via email and live chat, free from the moment you sign up. On free and paid plans. SendGrid's free trial includes ticket support only. Live chat and phone support only become available once you upgrade to a paid plan.