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AutoSend vs SendGrid: Complete Comparison

Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, deliverability, API design, and developer experience.

Why teams switch from SendGrid to AutoSend

  • VOLUME-BASED PRICING

    Only pay for the emails you send. Not for the contacts you save.

  • CLEANER UI/UX

    Clean interface, intuitive workflows, and design that gets out of your way.

  • BUILT FOR MODERN TEAMS

    Designed for developers and marketers who actually work together.

How do the features compare?

SendGrid

AutoSend

Transactional Emails

Marketing Emails

Multiple team members

Setup time

Several days. Sometimes weeks.

Minutes.

UX

Complex and extensive

Clean, purpose-built for devs and marketers

Min data retention

3 days

7 days

Volume-based pricing

Combined pricing

Free plan

Trial period

$1 hobby plan

Transactional email features

Email Templates

RESTful email API

SMTP

React email

HTML email

No-code email builder

Dynamic suppression

Event Webhooks

Marketing email features

Campaigns

Unlimited

Unlimited

Email Automation

Add-on

Contact storage

Tier wise limits

Unlimited

Lists

Unlimited

Unlimited

Segments

Unlimited

Unlimited

Custom fields

Unlimited

Unlimited

Campaign analytics

Signup form

Unlimited

Unlimited

Suppress Disposable Emails

Feature set as of Nov 2025. Notice something inaccurate?
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Quick migration

Migrate in minutes.

Bring all your contacts lists, unsubscribe groups and email templates in a matter of minutes.

best support

(Almost) Instant Human Support

Our product team handles all the support queries directly. We’re usually quick on our feet, but tiny delays might happen sometimes.

case study

How Peerlist saved 41% of their email costs with AutoSend.

Peerlist relied on SendGrid for all their transactional and marketing emails.

At <100k users, they were on SendGrid’s Advanced 100k plan at $450/month, plus an extra $89.95 transactional email plan.

But the moment Peerlist crossed 100k users, SendGrid bumped them into the next pricing tier.

The Advanced 200k plan suddenly cost $900/month, even though their sending volume stayed the same.

That's almost $1,000/month just to send ~600k emails.

With AutoSend, the cost dropped immediately.

AutoSend doesn't charge for storing contacts.

AutoSend offers simple volume-based plans that include both marketing and transactional emails in the same plan.

Peerlist only needed the 600k email plan — priced at $580/per month, covering everything they send.

That's a monthly saving of $409.95, or about 41% less than SendGrid.

SendGrid

Marketing Emails

Advanced 200K plan

$900/mo

Transactional Emails

Advanced 200K plan

$89.95/mo

Total

$989.95/mo

Autosend

Transactional + Marketing emails

Combined 600K plan

$580/mo

Total Saved

$409.95/mo

Combined 600K plan

41% Savings

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