Mailercloud vs Sendy Comparison 2026
Mailercloud is a hosted subscription with 12,000 emails a month free and no setup required, then $10 a month for unlimited sends at the entry band. Sendy is self-hosted software bought once for $69, sending through Amazon SES at roughly $1 to $1.60 per 10,000 emails. For a modest list, Mailercloud's free tier likely covers everything with zero effort. For a large list mailed regularly, Sendy's one-time purchase and near-free SES rate become the cheaper route once a server is set up and maintained.
At a glance
- Mailercloud starts cheaper, at $10.
- Only Mailercloud has a free tier.
Side by side
Mailercloud | Sendy | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $10 | From $69 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | One-time purchase |
| Free tier (they differ) | Yes | No |
| Billing | Not stated | One-time purchase |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
Mailercloud
Twelve thousand free emails every month
Mailercloud gives twelve thousand emails a month on a free plan that needs no card, which is one of the larger permanent allowances in this category. Above it, a single cheap tier lifts the send limit rather than adding features. A separate email API is sold beside the marketing product for anybody who needs transactional sending too. The list-management and reporting tools are ordinary rather than clever, and the free allowance is the reason to be here.
Our note
The free allowance is the reason to look, and it is larger than Mailjet's or MailerLite's on emails a month. Check the contact bands before growing, because the price moves on contacts once you are paying even though the free tier is measured in sends.
Sendy
Self hosted sending on top of Amazon SES
Sendy is a PHP application you install on your own server, which then sends through Amazon SES at Amazon's rates rather than at a newsletter platform's. You buy the software once. At a list size where a hosted platform starts charging hundreds a month, the arithmetic is what people come for, and the cost is that hosting, deliverability and upgrades are now yours.
Why people weigh these two
- Sendy instead of Mailercloud
- Sendy is a one-time $69 purchase you host yourself on top of Amazon SES, for someone willing to run the server in exchange for near-zero sending costs afterward.
- Mailercloud instead of Sendy
- Mailercloud sends twelve thousand emails a month free, paid from $10.
Which one should you pick
Pick Mailercloud if you want a working newsletter tool today with no server to configure, and 12,000 free emails a month is enough for what you send. Nothing needs installing, and the first paid step is $10 a month once that allowance runs out.
Pick Sendy if the list has grown large enough that a hosted platform's bill has become real money, and you are willing to run a server and configure Amazon SES yourself. Sixty nine dollars once is the entire software cost, with SES billed separately at Amazon's own rate, which is where the maths starts to favour Sendy at real scale.
Common questions
- Which requires less setup, Mailercloud or Sendy?
- Mailercloud, by a wide margin, since it is hosted and needs only an account to start sending. Sendy requires installing PHP software on your own server and configuring Amazon SES before a single email goes out.
- Is Sendy cheaper than Mailercloud at scale?
- Yes, once a list passes roughly ten thousand subscribers mailed regularly. Sendy's one-time $69 purchase plus Amazon SES's roughly $1 to $1.60 per 10,000 emails undercuts Mailercloud's ongoing subscription at that volume, according to Sendy's own guidance.
- Does Mailercloud's free plan cover a small newsletter completely?
- Likely yes. Twelve thousand emails a month with no card required covers a list of about 3,000 people mailed weekly, which is enough for most starting newsletters without paying anything at all.
- Can Mailercloud also be self-hosted like Sendy?
- Its listing does not describe a self-hosting option, so it is a hosted service only. Sendy is self-hosted by design, which is the entire reason its per-email cost stays so low once a server is already running.
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