Outsend and SendGrid
SendGrid is the incumbent, and incumbency is a real feature: it works, it scales, and everyone has integrated it before. The differences that matter are about evidence and ownership.
Scale and ubiquity
Enormous volume, a long history, and an integration for essentially everything. Whatever you are building with, someone has already connected it to SendGrid.
A broad marketing feature set
Marketing campaigns, template management, and analytics well beyond what we offer today. If you need a full marketing suite, we are not it.
Address validation built in
On their higher Email API plans, SendGrid can score an address in real time or check a list of up to a million in bulk. We clean lists by suppressing what bounces, but we do not validate addresses before you send.
Enterprise procurement is solved
Compliance documentation, contracts, and vendor review packets already exist. That is worth a lot in a large organisation.
Reputation isolation by default
Shared pools mean the worst-behaved sender sets everyone's ceiling. We score reputation per domain and per workspace, and stop bad senders at their own boundary instead of yours.
Raw evidence, not a normalised summary
Every event keeps the receiving provider's own response. When something defers, you get the SMTP code and the host that said it.
Pricing that does not need a call
One free plan and one paid plan, each with its numbers published. Nothing short of dedicated infrastructure needs a conversation with sales.
A plan sized for small senders
Free covers 3,000 emails a month with no card, and Pro is $10 for 10,000, so a low-volume sender is not paying for headroom they will not use.
If you need a full marketing suite or enterprise procurement that is already solved, SendGrid is the safer institutional choice. If you want isolated reputation and inspectable evidence, that is the trade we built for.
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Switching from SendGrid?
The migration guide has the field map, the event map, and the checklist — including the suppression-list import everybody forgets.
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