Mailercloud

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.

Free covers 12,000 emails a month with no card required. The paid step is $10 a month with unlimited emails at the first contact band, and the band table then runs $50 at 10,000 contacts, $125 at 25,000, $230 at 50,000 and $380 at 100,000. A Premium product is quoted from $16.80 a month and the developer email API from $7. Annual billing is stated as 30 percent off.

Somebody sending a modest newsletter who wants the largest permanent free allowance they can get, since 12,000 emails a month covers a list of three thousand mailed weekly. The single cheap paid step suits growth that has not become a business yet. Anybody wanting sophisticated automation or a large integration library will find this plainer than the tools it undercuts.