Free Messaging tiers
44 free tiers, safest first. Each one shows the limits, whether it needs a card, and how fresh the data is.
Free tierWhat you get freeRiskCardFreshness
Brevo · Messaging
300 emails/day · Store up to 100,000 contacts · 2,000 unique contacts can enter active automations
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
MailerLite · Messaging
250 subscribers · 2,500 emails/month · 2 user seats
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Mailjet · Messaging
200 emails/day · 6,000 emails/month · Basic analytics
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Postmark · Messaging
100 emails/month · No overages allowed
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Resend · Messaging
3,000 emails/month · 100 emails/day · 3 sending domains
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Synadia · Messaging
10 connections · 5 GiB storage · 10 GiB network data/month
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Mailgun · Messaging
100 emails/day · 1 sending domain · 1-day log retention
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
SendGrid · Messaging
100 emails/day · 60-day trial length · API access
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Pusher · Messaging
100 concurrent connections · 200,000 messages/day
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
CloudAMQP · Messaging
Shared multi-tenant broker · 20 connections · 100 queues
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Scaledrone · Messaging
20 concurrent connections · 100,000 events/day
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Sender · Messaging
2,500 subscribers · 15,000 emails/month · 1 seat
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
SendPulse · Messaging
15,000 emails/month to 500 subscribers · 3 chatbots included · Web push notifications included
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Tencent · Messaging
10,000 minutes/month for audio/video (RTC Engine) · Free forever, no trial expiry
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Webpushr · Messaging
Up to 10,000 subscribers · Unlimited push notifications · Unlimited segments
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Zoho · Messaging
2,000 subscribers · 6,000 emails/month · Basic templates
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
AhaSend · Messaging
1,000 emails/month · 1 to 7-day message retention · 3 sending domains
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Loops · Messaging
Up to 4,000 sends per rolling 30 days · Sends go to your 1,000 newest contacts · Unlimited contacts stored
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
ntfy · Messaging
Free without sign-up · Publish with a simple HTTP PUT or POST
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Pingram.io · Messaging
100 SMS/month (US) or 3,000 emails/month, shared budget · 1 free local phone number · 30-day log retention
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Stream · Messaging
1,000 MAU · 100 concurrent connections · All chat features
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Hookdeck · Messaging
10,000 events per month · 3-day retention
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Plunk · Messaging
1,000 emails/month · Unlimited contacts · Transactional emails
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Sweego (Mindbaz) · Messaging
100 emails/day · 5 email templates · 7-day log retention
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Cloudflare · Messaging
10,000 operations per day · Message retention: 24 hours
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
EmailOctopus · Messaging
2,500 subscribers · 10,000 emails per month
Billing risk: None
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Ably · Messaging
6 million messages/month · 500 messages/second · 200 concurrent connections
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Pubnub · Messaging
200 monthly active users · 1 million transactions per month · 1 GB storage, 7-day retention
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
OneSignal · Messaging
Unlimited mobile push notifications · 10,000 email sends per month · In-app messaging included with mobile push
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Buttondown · Messaging
100 subscribers · Rich text or markdown editor included · Custom domain sending and hosted archives included
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Courier · Messaging
10,000 notifications/month · All channels (email, SMS, push, in-app, chat) · Journeys and broadcasts, CLI, SDKs, MCP server
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
EMQX · Messaging
1,000,000 session minutes/month · 1 GB traffic/month · 1,000,000 rule actions/month
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
SendStreak · Messaging
100 emails/day, forever · Full API and SMTP access · Pay-as-you-go beyond free amount: €2/10,000 emails
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
SuprSend · Messaging
10,000 notifications/month · All channels included · Unlimited team members
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Knock · Messaging
10,000 messages per month · 500 guide active users
Billing risk: Low
No card
✓ 1 Oct 2026
Azure · Messaging
20 concurrent connections · 20,000 messages/day · 1 unit
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · Messaging
1 million pushes/month · 100 namespaces · 500 active devices/namespace
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · Messaging
20 concurrent connections · 20,000 messages per day · 1 unit
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
MailerSend · Messaging
500 emails/month · 1 domain · 100 API requests/day
Billing risk: Low
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
AWS · Messaging
1 million requests/month (Standard and FIFO queues) · Additional usage billed per request
Billing risk: Medium
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Google Cloud · Messaging
10 GiB throughput/month (Message Delivery Basic SKU) · $40 per TiB after the free amount
Billing risk: Medium
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
AWS · Messaging
1M API requests/month (publish and topic/subscription operations) · 1M mobile push notification deliveries/month · 100,000 HTTP/S notification deliveries/month
Billing risk: Medium
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026
Azure · Messaging
100,000 operations/month (Basic tier) · 1,000,000 MQTT operations/month (Standard tier namespace) · 1,000,000 event operations/month (Standard tier namespace)
Billing risk: Medium
Card
✓ 28 Sep 2026