# The Email API for developers who ship the rest of the message too.

Transactional and marketing email on the same infrastructure that carries your SMS, voice, and WhatsApp. About 40% of the world's commercial email transits the Bird network — we've been at this a decade. On Black Friday weekend 2025 we processed 19.9 billion emails.

## 5 minutes from npm install to first send

## Send an email from the language you already use.

SDKs in every major runtime. The first send can go to a sanctioned test address (delivered@messagebird.dev), so you can build against the live API (sends, webhooks, the whole flow) before you verify a domain.

## Ten parts of email that aren't your problem anymore.

Deliverability and operational primitives, named and audit-able.

Running an email marketing program? The same platform powers email marketing: audiences, campaign broadcasts, and engagement reporting, framed for marketers.

Running your own infrastructure, or after deliverability data? Bird also offers the on-prem MTAs Momentum and PowerMTA, plus Inbox Tracker, Competitive Tracker, and Recipient Validation.

Email isn't its own product; it's one channel in a flow. Auth codes start as email and fall back to SMS. Receipts ship by WhatsApp when the customer prefers it. Bird Email is the one whose API, webhooks, and idempotency contract match every other channel, because the same engineering team built them all on the same network.