Brevo vs Resend Comparison 2026
Both cover email marketing & automation and newsletter & email. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Email, SMS and automation on one free plan
Email for developers, with broadcasts attached
Why people weigh these two
- Resend instead of Brevo
- Resend is an API built for developers first, with newsletter broadcasts attached rather than the main feature, from $20 against Brevo's $9.
- Brevo instead of Resend
- Brevo carries email, SMS and automation on one free plan, paid from $9, if broadcasts need marketing features.
At a glance
- Brevo starts cheaper, at $9.
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
Brevo | Resend | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9 | From $20 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Yes |
Brevo
Email, SMS and automation on one free plan
Brevo, formerly Sendinblue, prices by messages sent rather than by contacts stored, which is the cheaper shape for anybody with a big list they mail rarely. Email, SMS and WhatsApp sit in one place. The editor and templates are plainer than the newsletter-first tools.
Our note
This is the one to pick when the list is big and quiet. If you mail weekly, the send-based pricing stops being a saving and a newsletter-first tool will serve the writing better.
Only on this side
- Works with WhatsApp
Resend
Email for developers, with broadcasts attached
Resend sends transactional email through an API that a developer can wire up in an afternoon, and it has grown a broadcast side so a product's receipts and its newsletter come from the same domain and the same reputation. The free tier covers 3,000 emails a month, which is enough for a small product's transactional traffic. Automation runs are metered separately with their own free allowance. Anybody wanting a drag-and-drop campaign builder and a marketer's dashboard is in the wrong place.
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