Side by side with the two providers an agent builder actually shortlists, using each one’s published prices. Each page also says plainly when the other product is the better choice, because sometimes it is.
The other agent-native email API. The difference is the model: they sell a monthly tier with inboxes as a line item, we sell metered credit with inboxes free.
10,000 emails: $4 here, $20 there
The scaled developer benchmark, built for an application sending mail. We are built for an agent that also needs to receive it, hold many addresses and pay for itself.
10,000 emails: $4 here, $20 there
Amazon SES is the third honest answer, and cheaper per message at $0.10 per 1,000 — we run on it ourselves. What you take on is receipt rules, inbound parsing, bounce and complaint handling, suppression lists, and DKIM, SPF and DMARC per domain. The Resend comparison covers that trade in more detail.
Pricing as of October 2026, from each provider’s public pricing page.