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useSend

useSend

Self-hostable email service for transactional, marketing, and product emails with pay-per-use pricing and no contact storage fees.

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The open source email platform for everyone

Send product, transactional and marketing emails. Pay only for what you send and not for storing contacts.

Key Features

  • Pay-per-use pricing: Only pay for emails sent, not for storing contacts
  • Multi-purpose email sending: Supports product, transactional, and marketing emails
  • Real-time analytics: Track deliveries, opens, clicks, bounces and unsubscribes with searchable logs
  • Visual email editor: Notion-like WYSIWYG editor for designing campaigns without code
  • Contact management: Import/export contacts, manage lists, and track subscription status
  • Suppression list: Automatically blocks bounced and complained emails
  • SMTP relay: Drop-in SMTP service that works with any application or framework
  • Multi-language SDKs: TypeScript, Python, Go, and PHP libraries available
  • Self-hosting: Deploy in minutes with open source code
  • Free tier: Send up to 3000 emails/month with 100/day limit

Tech / Self-Hosting

  • Open source: Full source code available on GitHub
  • Self-hosting: Deployable in minutes with Docker or direct installation
  • API-first: RESTful API with SDKs for multiple programming languages
  • Database: Uses PostgreSQL for reliable data storage
  • Infrastructure: Requires Node.js runtime and Redis for caching
  • Hosting: Can be deployed on any cloud provider or on-premise servers