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useSend

The open source email platform for everyone.

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useSend positions itself as an open-source platform for product, transactional, and marketing email, with a hosted option and self-hosting.

Vendor's own claim
activation/delivery

Core capabilities

Vendor's own claim
  • Transactional and marketing email sending
  • SMTP relay
  • Contact, list, consent, and suppression-list management
  • Delivery, open, click, bounce, and unsubscribe analytics
  • REST API and TypeScript, Python, Go, and PHP SDKs

API & agent surface

From official docs
Authentication
Bearer API key
Base URL
https://app.usesend.com/api
Notable endpoints
  • List and create domains
  • Verify a domain
  • Send and batch-send email
  • Create, schedule, pause, and resume campaigns
  • Create and upsert contacts
Machine-readable spec
OpenAPI spec retrieved

What is useSend

Vendor's own claim

useSend is an email-delivery platform that its site presents as an open-source alternative to Resend, SendGrid, Mailgun, and Postmark. Its documentation covers adding a sending domain, creating an API key, using its API or SMTP, and self-hosting.

Ideal customer profile

Vendor's own claim

Teams that want transactional and marketing email with an option to self-host and build through an API or SMTP relay.

Who should look elsewhere

Our read

Teams that need a vendor-managed enterprise email program with published support, compliance, uptime, or pricing commitments should look elsewhere: the retrieved material only presents a free tier and self-hosting, while the pricing and support endpoints were unavailable.

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.

useSend FAQ

Can useSend send marketing as well as transactional email?

Yes. The site describes product, transactional, and marketing email, with campaigns, contact lists, and consent management.

Vendor's own claim
Can I self-host useSend?

Yes. The site says it is open source and can be self-hosted; its documentation includes local-development guidance.

From official docs
Does it support SMTP?

Yes. The docs list SMTP support as an alternative to the REST API.

From official docs
Is there an API?

Yes. The retrieved OpenAPI 3.0 specification documents domain, campaign, contact, and email operations.

From official docs
What must I do before I send?

The getting-started documentation says to add a domain and generate an API key.

From official docs

Verify before you buy

  • Published pricing was not available in the reviewed source set; confirm current commercial terms with the vendor.

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