Yes, Resend has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes access to sending and receiving emails, with a 100 emails per day limit, access to a 3,000 emails per month quota, and Use of 1 custom domain. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $3.00/mo.
About
Resend is an email platform for developers that helps teams send transactional and marketing email at scale. It provides a modern API-first workflow with SDKs, SMTP, REST access, and React Email support so developers can integrate email delivery directly into their applications.
The platform includes tools for sending, receiving, tracking, and managing email programs, along with deliverability features such as domain authentication, suppression handling, webhooks, and regional sending. It is designed to give engineering teams a streamlined experience for building, testing, and operating email infrastructure.
- Email API, SMTP relay, REST API, and official SDKs
- Transactional and marketing email sending
- React Email templates and developer-focused tooling
- Webhooks, open tracking, and link tracking
- Deliverability controls including DKIM, SPF, DMARC, and suppression lists
- Contact management, broadcasts, and analytics
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable but tightly capped: it includes sending and receiving, one custom domain, one webhook endpoint, ticket support, 30 days of retention, 5 AI credits, and 10,000 automation runs, but only 100 emails per day. Compared with the cheapest paid plan at $20/month, that feels like roughly 15% of the practical value, so about $3/month; the offer is perpetual, but the usage caps keep it well below the paid tiers.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to sending and receiving emails, with a 100 emails per day limit.
- Access to a 3,000 emails per month quota.
- Access to the RESTful API.
- Access to SMTP relay.
- Access to official SDKs.
- Access to scheduled emails.
- Access to batch sending.
- Access to open tracking.
- Access to link tracking.
- Access to React Email.
- Use of 1 custom domain.
- 30 days of data retention.
- Access to 1 webhook endpoint.
- Access to all webhook events.
- Ticket support.
- 10,000 automation runs.
- 5 AI credits per month.
See Resend pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- emails / mo
- 50,000
- domains
- 10
- AI credits / mo
- 100
- automation runs
- 10,000
- data retention
- 30 days
- daily limit
- No limit
- Sending & receiving
- Ticket support
- 10,000 automation runs
- 30-day data retention
- 10 domains
- 100 AI credits / mo
- No daily limit
- Dedicated IPs
Scale
- emails / mo
- 100,000
- domains
- 1,000
- AI credits / mo
- 500
- automation runs
- 10,000
- data retention
- 30 days
- daily limit
- No limit
- Sending & receiving
- Slack & ticket support
- 10,000 automation runs
- 30-day data retention
- 1,000 domains
- 500 AI credits / mo
- No daily limit
- Dedicated IP with add-on
Enterprise
- daily limit
- No limit
- domains
- Flexible
- data retention
- Flexible
- AI credits
- Flexible
- Sending & receiving
- Priority support
- Flexible automation runs
- Flexible data retention
- Flexible domains
- Flexible AI credits
- No daily limit
- Dedicated IPs with add-on
Pricing extracted from Resend's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Resend free forever?
Yes. Resend has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Resend's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Resend's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $20 / month.
What is Resend's free tier worth?
Resend's free tier is worth about $3.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 44/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
