About
MailChannels provides email infrastructure for hosting providers, platforms, and developers through outbound filtering, inbound filtering, and an Email API. The service supports SMTP relay, REST API access, webhooks, and cPanel integration for sending and filtering email across multi-tenant environments.
The Email API has a free tier and paid plans from $10/month. Outbound Filtering, a separate product for hosting providers, starts at $99.99/month. The product is aimed at transactional email, abuse prevention, and delivery control rather than general-purpose inbox hosting.
- Free Email API plan
- Up to 3,000 emails per month
- 100 emails per day cap
- REST API and SMTP integrations
- 30-day transaction log retention
- Up to 3 domains
- Outbound filtering for hosting providers
- Inbound spam and phishing filtering
Free Tier Value
This free developer plan is a genuinely usable monthly allowance rather than a trial: up to 3,000 emails per month with no overages, plus the core REST API and SMTP integrations, open and click tracking, and 30-day logs. The cheapest paid step, Pay as You Grow, is $10/month for 10,000 emails, and the free tier covers only about a third of that volume, so it works out to roughly $3/month of value for a developer. Sign-up is required, which adds a little friction.
What's included in the free tier
- Up to 3,000 emails per month.
- No overages, capped at 100 emails per day.
- REST API and SMTP integrations.
- 30-day transaction log retention.
- Trusted IP reputation and deliverability.
- Community support.
- Up to 3 domains.
See MailChannels pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pay as You Grow
- emails per month (starting tier)
- 10,000
- volume tiers available
- 10K – 1.5M
- REST API & SMTP integrations
- 30-day transaction log retention
- Open and click tracking
- Up to 1,000 domains
- Email support on 300,000+ emails/mo plans
Custom
- emails per month
- 1,500,001+
- Custom pricing and policies
- Custom domain limits
- Priority email support
- Dedicated account manager
Pricing extracted from MailChannels's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
