Email pricing. Built to grow.
Start with the published Free allowance. A paid Email plan adds its monthly deposit to your Bird balance. Email usage is charged from the first send at your applicable rate.
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Compare published monthly deposits. Sending rates appear when Bird publishes them for each plan. Select a currency to see available prices.
Free
US$0
1K emails / month included
- Sending stops at the Free plan limit
Startup
US$15/ month
Approx. 37,5K emails / month
- Deposit becomes spendable Bird balance
- Balance can pay for email or other Bird usage
- Unused balance carries forward
Growth
US$250/ month
Approx. 555K emails / month
- Deposit becomes spendable Bird balance
- Balance can pay for email or other Bird usage
- Unused balance carries forward
Scale
US$1,000/ month
Approx. 2,85M emails / month
- Deposit becomes spendable Bird balance
- Balance can pay for email or other Bird usage
- Unused balance carries forward
Compare Email plans
Your monthly deposit becomes spendable Bird balance.
Startup Start sending | Growth More sending control | Scale Higher volumes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly deposit | US$15 | US$250 | |
| Per 1,000 emails | $0.40 | $0.45 | $0.35 |
| Approx. emails* | 37,5K | 555K | 2,85M |
| Sending capacity | |||
| Send API | 30 / minute | 100 / minute | 300 / minute |
| Sending domains | 10 | 500 | 1.000 |
| SMTP connections | 20 | 50 | 100 |
| Delivery control | |||
| Dedicated IP add-ons (max) | - | 5 | 10 |
| IP pools | - | 5 | 10 |
* Estimates are rounded down and assume your full deposit is spent on transactional email, before taxes or other Bird usage.
Organization and provider limits may also apply.
Compare all features
| Free | Startup | Growth | Scale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume | ||||
| Included emails per month | 1.000 | - | - | - |
| Emails per day | 50 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Emails per month | 1.000 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Sending and receiving | ||||
| Send API | 10 / minute | 30 / minute | 100 / minute | 300–3.000 / minute |
| Batch API | 5 / minute | 10 / minute | 30 / minute | 100–1.000 / minute |
| SMTP connections | 10 | 20 | 50 | 100–1.000 |
| Email API | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| SMTP relay | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Batch sending | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Scheduled sending | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Inbound email | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Templates | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Domains and deliverability | ||||
| Sending domains | 1 | 10 | 500 | 1.000 |
| Dedicated IP add-ons (max) | - | - | 5 | 10 |
| IP pools | - | - | 5 | 10 |
| Suppression management | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Open and click tracking | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Mailboxes | ||||
| Mailboxes | 5 | 10 | 25 | 100 |
| Custom mailbox handles | - | 2 | 5 | 20 |
| Mailbox storage | 1,25 GB | 2,5 GB | 5 GB | 10 GB |
| Message retention | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days |
Need more mailboxes, storage or retention? See Mailbox pricing. | ||||
| Integrations and tools | ||||
| Webhook endpoints | 3 | 3 | 10 | 25 |
| Webhooks | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| SDKs, CLI and MCP | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Mail sandbox | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| API limits | ||||
| Create requests | 60 / minute | 600 / minute | 2.000 / minute | 3.000–10.000 / minute |
| Retrieve requests | 500 / minute | 600 / minute | 1.200 / minute | 2.000–5.000 / minute |
| List requests | 150 / minute | 450 / minute | 900 / minute | 1.500–5.000 / minute |
| Update requests | 60 / minute | 600 / minute | 2.000 / minute | 3.000–10.000 / minute |
| Delete requests | 60 / minute | 600 / minute | 2.000 / minute | 3.000–10.000 / minute |
| Message status requests | 500 / minute | 500 / minute | 1.000 / minute | 2.000–5.000 / minute |
| Verification sends | 60 / minute | 60 / minute | 300 / minute | 600–2.000 / minute |
| Verification checks | 120 / minute | 120 / minute | 600 / minute | 1.200–4.000 / minute |
| Contact imports | 30 / minute | 30 / minute | 30 / minute | 30 / minute |
| Suppression imports | 15 / minute | 15 / minute | 15 / minute | 15 / minute |
Rate limits describe how fast the API accepts requests, and a higher plan raises them. Webhook endpoints from each of your plans add up. Organization and provider limits may also apply.