Email & SMS
Send transactional emails, marketing campaigns, and SMS messages
Key Considerations
- ✓ Delivery rates and reputation
- ✓ Pricing per message
- ✓ Analytics and tracking
- ✓ Template management
- ✓ Global coverage
AgentMail
Email inbox API for AI agents. Let your AI agents send, receive, and manage emails programmatically with full inbox access.
Amazon SES
Amazon's Simple Email Service - extremely cost-effective at $0.10/1000 emails. Best for high-volume AWS-integrated apps.
Bird (MessageBird)
Omnichannel communication platform. SMS from $0.008/message (US). $600 setup fee. Enterprise-focused pricing.
Kit
Creator email platform. Newsletter plan free (10K subs). Creator plan $25/mo (1K subs), scales with list size.
Mailgun
Transactional email API service for developers. Used by Microsoft, Slack, Reddit, Stripe, and 150,000+ customers.
Plivo
Enterprise SMS and Voice API covering 220+ countries. 20% cheaper than Twilio on average. 99.99% uptime SLA with tens of billions of API events handled.
Postmark
Fast and reliable transactional email service focused on delivery speed. Separates transactional from marketing via Message Streams.
Resend
Developer-first email API with React Email support. 80k+ developers, clean REST API, SDKs for Node.js, Python, Go, Ruby, and more. Built by YC-backed team.
SendGrid
Twilio's email delivery service for transactional and marketing emails. Used by companies to drive engagement and growth.
Sinch
Multi-channel messaging platform supporting SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and email. Global reach with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Telnyx
Carrier-grade SMS and Voice API built on their own global network. Lower latency and better call quality than reseller-based providers. Strong developer tools.
Twilio
Cloud communications platform for SMS, voice, video, email (via SendGrid), and WhatsApp. Pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Vonage
Communication APIs for SMS, voice, video, and messaging. SMS $0.0075, voice $0.07/min outbound US, per-second billing.