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Resend

Email for developers.

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Resend is an email API for sending transactional and marketing email. It covers the sending path end to end - a REST API and SMTP relay, official SDKs across a dozen languages, domain authentication, webhooks for delivery events, contact and segment management, and a visual editor for broadcasts. It is unusually well instrumented for agent use: a published OpenAPI 3.0 specification, a hosted OAuth-protected MCP server, a CLI, and agent skills covering its own API and email best practice.

From official docs
activation/delivery

Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • RESTful API and SMTP relay for transactional sending, with batch sending and scheduled emails
  • Official SDKs for Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, Rust, Java, Elixir and .NET, plus a CLI and framework-specific quickstarts (Next.js, Remix, Nuxt, Express, Hono, Bun, Astro and others)
  • Inbound email - receiving messages and downloading attachments
  • Modular webhooks for delivered, opened, clicked, bounced and complained events, with signed endpoints
  • Deliverability tooling: DKIM, SPF and DMARC authentication, automatic suppression list, bounce details, pristine shared IPs and optional dedicated IPs with warming
  • Broadcasts with a visual editor, React Email support, templates and template folders
  • Contact management with segments, topics and custom contact properties; CSV import with AI column mapping
  • Open and link tracking, broadcast analytics and deliverability insights
  • Multi-region sending, test mode for simulating events without sending real email, and idempotency keys
  • Hosted MCP server with OAuth, a self-hostable MCP server, and OAuth 2.1 + PKCE for building authenticated Resend experiences

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
Bearer token (HTTP bearer auth) per the OpenAPI security scheme; OAuth 2.1 with PKCE was added in July 2026 for building authenticated Resend experiences, and the hosted MCP server is OAuth-protected
Base URL
https://api.resend.com
Notable endpoints
  • POST /emails - send an email, with an optional Idempotency-Key header (max 256 chars)
  • GET /emails - retrieve a list of emails, with cursor pagination (limit/after/before)
  • GET /emails/{email_id} - retrieve a single email
  • PATCH /emails/{email_id} - update a single email
  • Tagged resource groups in the spec: Emails, Domains, API Keys, Contacts, Segments, Topics, Contact Properties, Templates, Broadcasts, Receiving Emails, Webhooks, Automations, Events and Logs
  • Audiences - present but marked Deprecated in the spec, which directs callers to Segments instead
Machine-readable spec
OpenAPI spec retrieved

Pricing

From official docs
PlanPriceIncludedNotable
FreeNot published in the retrieved page - see note100 emails/day, 1 custom domain, 1 webhook endpoint, 30-day data retention, 5 AI credits/moRESTful API, SMTP relay and official SDKs, Inbound emails, scheduled emails and batch sending, Open tracking, link tracking and React Email
ProNot published in the retrieved page - see noteNo daily limit, 10 custom domains, 10 webhook endpoints, 30-day data retention, 100 AI credits/moEverything in Free, No daily sending limit, 10 custom domains and 10 webhook endpoints
ScaleNot published in the retrieved page - see noteNo daily limit, 1,000 custom domains, 10 webhook endpoints, 30-day data retention, 500 AI credits/moEverything in Pro, 1,000 custom domains, Dedicated IPs available with add-on, including dedicated IP warming
EnterpriseNot published in the retrieved page - see noteNo daily limit, flexible custom domains, flexible webhook endpoints, flexible data retention, flexible AI creditsEverything in Scale, Flexible custom domains, webhook endpoints and data retention, Dedicated IPs available with add-on
Dedicated IPs (add-on)$30 / moAvailable to customers exceeding 3,000 emails sent per day on the Scale planWarmed, monitored and autoscaled based on your utilisation

Checked 2026-08-07 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.

What is Resend

Vendor's own claim

An email infrastructure provider positioned against Mailgun, SendGrid and Postmark on developer experience. The distinguishing choice is how completely it is machine-readable: the OpenAPI spec is published at a stable URL in both JSON and YAML, the changelog and pricing are available as markdown, an MCP discovery document sits at a well-known path, and the pricing page itself carries a link addressed to AI agents. The API surface is broader than "send an email" suggests - the spec's tags cover Emails, Domains, API Keys, Contacts, Segments, Topics, Contact Properties, Templates, Broadcasts, Receiving Emails, Webhooks, Automations, Events and Logs, with Audiences marked deprecated in favour of Segments.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

Developers and product teams that need to send email from an application - the vendor's own framing is "a team of engineers who love building tools for other engineers", and the entry point everywhere is a code snippet. The tiering runs from a free plan with a 100-email daily limit up to a flexible Enterprise plan, so the range genuinely spans a side project to a high-volume sender.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

This is an API-first product, and the marketing side of it is thinner than a dedicated marketing platform: there is a broadcast editor, segments and topics, but nothing we retrieved suggests visual journey building or lifecycle campaign orchestration, so a marketing team wanting to design multi-step nurture flows without engineering support is buying the wrong tool. Two concrete limits are worth checking against your case before committing. Data retention is 30 days on Free, Pro and Scale alike - only Enterprise is flexible - so if you need email history beyond a month for audit or support purposes, you are exporting it yourself or negotiating an Enterprise contract. And dedicated IPs are a $30/month add-on that the vendor restricts to customers exceeding 3,000 emails per day on the Scale plan, so a lower-volume sender with a reputation-isolation requirement cannot simply buy one. Support tiering is also sharp: Slack support and an urgent-response SLA exist only on Scale and Enterprise.

Tools in the same layer

Our read

No curated rival set covers this tool yet, so these are simply other tools in the same architectural layer and product form. Treat it as a starting point, not a shortlist.

Resend FAQ

Does Resend publish a machine-readable API spec?

Yes.

From official docs
What does it cost?

We can give you the plan structure but not the prices. The only price we can report is the dedicated IP add-on at $30/month. The Free plan's 100-emails-per-day limit and "start for free" framing are documented. Check the live pricing page for current figures.

From official docs
Is there an MCP server?

Yes, and both hosted and self-hosted. The MCP page describes tools spanning send/list/get/cancel/update/batch email, reading inbound email and attachments, contacts, topics, contact properties, broadcasts, domains, segments, API keys and webhooks.

From official docs
How long is my email history kept?

30 days on Free, Pro and Scale alike. Only Enterprise is listed as flexible. If you need longer retention for audit or support, plan to export or negotiate.

From official docs
Can I get a dedicated IP?

Only conditionally. It is a $30/month add-on, and the pricing page states it is available to customers exceeding 3,000 emails sent per day on the Scale plan. Resend warms, monitors and autoscales it. Below that volume you are on what the vendor calls pristine shared IPs.

From official docs
Can I test without sending real email to real people?

Yes. Webhook events for delivered, opened, clicked, bounced and complained can all be simulated.

Vendor's own claim
Does it handle inbound email as well as sending?

Yes - the OpenAPI spec has a Receiving Emails tag for retrieving and managing received emails and attachments, inbound emails appear on every pricing tier, and the MCP page lists reading inbound email and downloading attachments as agent-accessible operations.

From official docs
What has shipped recently?

The changelog is public and active. Entries in July and August 2026 include template folders, email suppressions manageable from dashboard and API, a Codex plugin bundling the MCP server and Resend skills, a GitHub secret scanner that detects and revokes exposed API keys automatically, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, a one-click Claude connector, Message-ID on all email webhooks and GET endpoints, the remote MCP server, and CSV contact import with AI column mapping.

From official docs
Does Resend publish agent skills?

Its llms.txt says yes - it enumerates five skills covering core API usage, React Email, email best practices, the CLI, and an agent email inbox, along with a skills-discovery document at a well-known path.

From official docs
Where is the status page?

Ask the vendor for the canonical address.

Our read

Verify before you buy

  • The per-tier subscription prices for Free, Pro, Scale and Enterprise - the pricing page's feature comparison rendered but the figures themselves did not appear in the retrieved text. Only the $30/month dedicated IP add-on price was captured.
  • Answers to the vendor's pricing FAQ (annual discounts, non-profit and education pricing, payment methods, free trial, overage behaviour, how inbound emails are counted) - the questions rendered but not the answers
  • The full list of MCP tool names - the MCP page describes tool categories in prose but does not enumerate the tools
  • Official social, GitHub or YouTube URLs - none were confirmed, so none are recorded

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