# The Resend alternative for transactional email | Bird

Resend set a high bar for email developer experience, and Bird shares the same error-as-value API philosophy. The difference is what runs behind the call: Bird is omnichannel and sends on SparkPost, the platform it acquired in 2021 that carries about 40% of the world’s commercial email. Here is where each one fits. See the Bird Email API for the full surface.

## What Resend is great at. Where Bird is different.

## Low.