Resend Pricing Explained: Plans, Limits, and Costs (2026)

What Resend Costs, in Short

As of July 2026, Resend runs four tiers: Free, Pro, Scale, and Enterprise. The Free plan gives you 3,000 emails a month, capped at 100 a day, on one domain. Pro and Scale scale by volume of emails sent, with published pricing running from $20/mo (Pro, 50,000 emails) up to $1,150/mo (Scale, 2,500,000 emails), plus a per-1,000-email overage rate once you exceed your plan’s included volume. Resend also runs a separate marketing track, billed by number of contacts rather than emails sent, for teams sending newsletters or broadcasts through the same account. Enterprise pricing is custom and kicks in around 3M+ emails/month.

How Resend’s Pricing Model Works

Resend prices transactional email (receipts, password resets, notifications, the kind you send via API) by monthly send volume. Each paid tier includes a set number of emails, and going over that allotment bills at a per-1,000-email overage rate rather than bumping you to the next tier automatically.

Marketing email (newsletters, broadcasts, anything sent to an opted-in list) is priced differently: by number of contacts, not by emails sent. Resend’s pricing page states plainly that “marketing plans are not limited by the number of emails sent, only by the number of contacts.” That distinction matters if your SaaS product sends both transactional receipts and marketing broadcasts. You’re billed on two different axes depending on which kind of email you’re sending, not a single blended volume.

Plan Tiers and Limits

Plan	Price (transactional)	Emails/mo included	Daily cap	Domains	Data retention	Dedicated IP
Free	$0/mo	3,000	100/day	1	30 days	Not available
Pro	$20/mo–$35/mo	50,000–100,000	None	10	30 days	Not available
Scale	$90/mo–$1,150/mo	100,000–2,500,000	None	1,000	30 days	$30/mo add-on
Enterprise	Custom	Custom (3M+/mo minimum)	None	Flexible	Flexible	Included

Pricing and limits confirmed directly from Resend’s official pricing page as of July 2026. Resend updates pricing periodically, so treat the tier structure (Free/Pro/Scale/Enterprise, the daily free-tier cap, the shift from per-email to per-contact billing on marketing plans) as more durable than the exact dollar figures, and check the pricing page directly before budgeting.

On the marketing side, Resend’s contact-based pricing for the Pro tier spans from $40/mo up to $650/mo depending on list size, covering roughly 5,000 to 150,000 contacts. Every tier, including Free, includes the same core feature set: a RESTful API, SMTP relay, official SDKs, inbound email handling, batch sending, open and click tracking, React Email support, multi-region sending, and DKIM/SPF/DMARC authentication.

Automation and AI features scale with the tier too, though not by much. Free includes “10,000 Automation Runs per month with no overage” and 5 AI credits/mo; Pro and Scale both include the same 10,000 automation runs but jump to 100 and 500 AI credits/mo respectively. In practice, the automation-run allowance is generous enough that it rarely factors into an upgrade decision, unlike email volume or dedicated IP access.

Where Costs Escalate

Two things push a Resend bill up as a SaaS product grows. The first is straightforward volume: once transactional send volume crosses a tier’s included allotment, the per-1,000-email overage rate applies to everything above it, per Resend’s pricing page. On Pro, that rate is $0.90 per 1,000 emails. On Scale, it ranges from $0.90 down to $0.46 per 1,000 depending on which volume bracket you’re in, so the marginal cost of sending more actually drops as committed volume rises. The second cost driver is dedicated IP infrastructure. Resend restricts dedicated IPs to the Scale plan and further limits them to “customers exceeding 3,000 emails sent per day,” at $30/mo per IP on top of the plan price. A team that needs the sending reputation isolation of a dedicated IP, common once transactional volume is high enough to make shared-IP reputation risk material, needs both the Scale plan and the add-on.

Domain limits rarely bind in practice (Pro alone allows 10 domains), but 30-day data retention is fixed across every published tier except Enterprise, where it becomes “flexible.” If your team needs longer log or event retention for debugging or compliance, that’s an Enterprise conversation, not something a lower tier can be configured for.

Worked Cost Example

Consider a SaaS product sending 80,000 transactional emails a month (signup confirmations, password resets, billing receipts) with no marketing broadcasts.

• The Pro tier’s 50,000-email plan ($20/mo) doesn’t cover 80,000 emails, so the team needs the 100,000-email Pro tier at $35/mo, which covers the full 80,000 with headroom to spare.
• If volume grows to 150,000 emails/month, that exceeds every Pro tier’s included volume, so it lands on the Scale plan (starting at $90/mo for 100,000 emails), with the additional 50,000 emails billed at the applicable overage rate for that bracket.
• If that same team later needs a dedicated IP because shared-IP reputation is affecting inbox placement at that volume, add $30/mo. That’s only available on Scale, so a Pro-tier team with a dedicated-IP need has to upgrade first.

This example uses only the tier boundaries and overage mechanics Resend publishes. Actual overage math depends on the specific bracket and rate in effect at the time of billing, so confirm the live rate on the pricing page before forecasting a budget.

How Resend’s Model Compares

Resend’s split between volume-based transactional pricing and contact-based marketing pricing isn’t universal among competitors. Some providers price everything by total emails sent regardless of type; others price by contacts across the board. If you’re evaluating Resend against alternatives for a specific mix of transactional and marketing volume, the tier structure alone won’t tell you which is cheaper. For a broader look at how other providers stack up on price and features, see Best Resend Alternatives for SaaS Teams and Best Transactional Email Services Compared.

Resend’s developer-experience positioning centers on React Email, which ships as a standard feature on every tier including Free, and a REST Email API with official SDKs. That’s relevant to cost because it changes what you’re not paying for elsewhere: teams that would otherwise license a separate templating tool or build one in-house get it bundled into the base plan price.

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