Brevo alternative

The Brevo alternative built for developers

Brevo is an all-in-one marketing platform (formerly Sendinblue) — email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, and a CRM — priced by email volume with unlimited contacts on paid plans.

Why teams switch from Brevo

Built for developers first, marketers included — not the reverse

Brevo is a marketer’s suite with an API attached. MailBlastr leads with the API: typed SDKs in 8 languages, a CLI, copy-paste quickstarts, signed webhooks, idempotency keys, batch endpoints, and an MCP server — while still shipping the campaign, segment, and automation UI marketers need.

Automation and A/B without the Business tier

On Brevo, unlimited automation and A/B testing arrive with the Business plan ($18+/month); Starter excludes them. Every MailBlastr plan — Free included — has visual automations, A/B testing, segments, topics, and polls.

Transactional email is a first-class citizen

Brevo’s transactional sending exists but plays second fiddle to the marketing suite. MailBlastr treats product email — delivery speed, event webhooks, searchable 30-day logs, suppression management — as the core product, with marketing built on the same rails.

A daily-cap-free paid ladder

Brevo’s free tier caps at 300/day and paid tiers meter by monthly volume with feature gates per tier. MailBlastr paid plans have no daily cap and one consistent feature set — tiers change volume, not capability.

What Brevo still does well

  • Genuinely broad suite: email, SMS, WhatsApp, chat, meetings, and a free CRM
  • Unlimited contacts on paid plans — volume-based pricing, not list-based
  • Strong European presence and multilingual support

If you want one login for email, SMS, WhatsApp, live chat, and a CRM — and your list is huge while your send volume is small — Brevo’s unlimited-contacts, pay-per-email model and channel breadth are a genuinely good fit for marketing-led teams.

Migrate from Brevo in five steps

  1. Create a free account

    The free tier (3,000 emails/month) needs no card — you can run the whole migration before paying anything.

  2. Verify your domain

    Add your sending domain and follow the guided DKIM, SPF, and DMARC setup. One-click flows exist for Cloudflare, GoDaddy, and Namecheap; verification usually completes in minutes.

  3. Swap the send call

    Replace your current send with one HTTPS request or a typed SDK in 8 languages. Batch endpoints, idempotency keys, and scheduling are built in.

  4. Re-point webhooks

    Subscribe a webhook to delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, and unsubscribed events — every request is signed so you can verify the source.

  5. Import contacts and templates

    Bring audiences over via CSV or the contacts API; templates port as plain HTML or rebuild in the block editor.

The send call, after the switch

curl -X POST https://www.mailblastr.com/api/emails \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer mb_xxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "domain": "acme.com",
    "from": "Acme <hello@acme.com>",
    "to": ["ada@example.com"],
    "subject": "Welcome to Acme",
    "html": "<p>You are in.</p>"
  }'

MailBlastr vs Brevo at a glance

Feature and pricing comparison between MailBlastr and Brevo
FeatureMailBlastrBrevo
Free tier3,000 emails/month (100/day), 1,000 contacts, 1 domain — no card required300 emails/day, 100k contacts
Entry paid plan$14/mo — 50,000 emails, 2,500 contacts, 10 domains$9/mo — 5,000 emails (Starter)
100k emails/month$24/mo (Pro 100k) · $63/mo (Scale, 1000 domains)Volume tiers on Starter/Business (e.g. $19/mo for 20k; higher for 100k)
Extra volume$0.90 per 1,000 emails — credits never expireBuy a bigger monthly volume tier
Transactional + marketing in oneAPI sends, campaigns, automations, and audiences in every planMarketing suite + transactional, feature-gated by tier
Contacts & audiencesIncluded on every plan — 1,000 on Free, up to 250,000 on stock plansUnlimited on paid plans
AutomationsIncluded — visual automations, 10,000 runs/monthBusiness plan for unlimited automation
A/B testingBusiness plan
Inbound receivingInbound parsing available
Event webhooksSigned webhooks: delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, unsubscribed
Official SDKs8 languages + CLISDKs for major languages
Log retention30 days on every planVaries by plan
Dedicated IPAdd-on on Scale — $21/30 daysPaid add-on
INR billing for India

Brevo pricing and features summarized from public pricing pages, last checked 2026-08-02. MailBlastr figures come from the live plan catalog.

Want the row-by-row breakdown? See the full MailBlastr vs Brevo comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Brevo has unlimited contacts — doesn’t that beat MailBlastr?

For huge lists with tiny send volume, yes, and that is Brevo’s sweet spot. MailBlastr plans include contacts up to 250,000 on stock tiers, and its pricing rewards the opposite shape: high sending volume with a focused list, where Brevo’s per-email tiers climb quickly.

Which is better for developers?

MailBlastr — the API is the product: 8 typed SDKs, CLI, signed webhooks, batch sends, idempotency, natural-language scheduling, and docs written for engineers. Brevo’s API covers the suite but the platform is designed around the marketing UI.

Does Brevo gate automations behind higher tiers?

Starter excludes unlimited automation and A/B testing — those arrive with Business ($18+/month). MailBlastr includes automations (10,000 runs/month) and A/B testing on every plan, including Free.

Does MailBlastr do SMS or WhatsApp like Brevo?

No — MailBlastr is deliberately email-only. If multichannel campaigns are core to your strategy, Brevo’s breadth wins; if email is the job, a focused platform does it better.

How do I migrate from Brevo?

Export contacts to CSV (or sync via API), port templates as HTML, verify your domain, and swap transactional calls to POST /emails or an SDK. Automation journeys rebuild quickly in the visual builder.

Try the Brevo alternative that includes everything

Free tier with 3,000 emails a month — API, campaigns, automations, and webhooks included. No card required.

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