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SendGrid pricing (2026)
Prices on this page come from SendGrid's official pricing page, checked 21 August 2026: www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing. Monthly billing, prices exactly as shown by the vendor, captured and dated by InboxRatio Editorial.
Summary — generated from our pricing datasets
SendGrid's pricing page lists 4 transactional email plans, with no free plan but a 60-day free trial. The cheapest paid plan is Essentials at $19.95/mo. At 50,000 emails/mo, Essentials at $19.95/mo is both the cheapest covering plan and the functional tier, the cheapest one with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications. At 500,000 emails/mo, the functional price is $499/mo on Pro. Averaged across our 3-point volume ladder, those functional prices sit at percentile 48.1 among the 10 transactional email services we price (0 = cheapest), which places SendGrid in the SMB price band. No overage or dedicated-IP price appears among the captured tiers. Every price is as shown by SendGrid, captured with the monthly billing toggle active and promotions excluded, and was last checked on 21 August 2026.
From SendGrid's official pricing page
SendGrid transactional email plans
| Tier | Monthly price | Annual-billed | What's included | Overage /1k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | $0/mo | — | — | — |
| Essentials | $19.95/mo | — | 50,000 emails/mo | — |
| Pro | $89.95/mo | — | 100,000 emails/mo | — |
| Premier | Custom quote | — | — | — |
Checked 21 August 2026 on SendGrid's official pricing page · monthly billing toggle active, promotions excluded, currency as shown. “—” = not published on the captured tier.
Entry tier vs functional tier
Entry tier
$19.95/mo
Essentials — the cheapest paid plan on the page.
Functional tier at 50,000 emails/mo
$19.95/mo
Essentials — the cheapest tier with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications.
From our pricing-by-volume dataset
What SendGrid costs by email volume
| Volume | Cheapest covering plan | Functional tier | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50,000 emails/mo | $19.95/mo | $19.95/mo(Essentials) | 19 August 2026 |
| 100,000 emails/mo | $34.95/mo | $34.95/mo(Essentials) | 21 August 2026 |
| 500,000 emails/mo | $499/mo | $499/mo(Pro) | 21 August 2026 |
Monthly billing, prices as shown. Where SendGrid has no exact step at a volume, the nearest covering step was captured. Functional tier = the cheapest tier with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications.
Free plan, trial and extras
- Free plan
- No perpetual free plan listed
- Free trial
- 60 days (as stated on the pricing page)
- Overage
- No public overage price captured
- Dedicated IP
- No public dedicated-IP price captured
What each tier unlocks
| Tier | API access |
|---|---|
| Free Trial | yes |
| Essentials | yes |
| Pro | yes |
| Premier | yes |
Per-tier clauses as recorded in our pricing dataset (checked 21 August 2026); “limited” = capped or partial, “not stated” = not documented by the vendor.
How SendGrid pricing compares
$$ SMB price band in transactional email — average functional-price percentile 48.1 across 3 volumes, among the 10 services we price (0 = cheapest).
- 50,000 emails/mo: #3 of 10
- 100,000 emails/mo: #3 of 10
- 500,000 emails/mo: #10 of 10
From our feature matrix — documented by the vendor
Headline features
- Marketing campaignsMarketing Campaigns product — 'design, automate, and deliver impactful email marketing campaigns'
- Transactional email'The trusted SendGrid Email API for delivery at scale'
- SMTP relay'Twilio SendGrid Email API and SMTP service'
- Workflow builderWelcome + Custom automations: 'Define either a single message or a workflow for a series of messages'; Advanced Marketing Campaigns plan only, 'Keep workflows to 10 messages'
- APIEmail API core product; API on all tiers
- WebhooksEvent Webhook (1 on trial, 2 Essentials, 5 Pro)
- Dedicated IP1 dedicated IP included from Pro ($89.95+); none on Essentials
- SMSSMS via separate Twilio products, not inside SendGrid
Features checked 10 September 2026. ✓ documented · ◐ limited or plan-gated · × documented as absent · — not documented.
Generated from our datasets — every value verified and dated
Frequently asked questions
How much does SendGrid cost?
Paid SendGrid transactional email plans start at $19.95/mo (Essentials), according to SendGrid's official pricing page as checked on 21 August 2026. At 50,000 emails/mo, the functional tier is Essentials at $19.95/mo.
Is there a free SendGrid plan?
No. SendGrid's pricing page lists no perpetual free plan; it states a 60-day free trial. Checked 21 August 2026.
What does SendGrid cost at 100,000 emails a month?
At 100,000 emails/mo, SendGrid's Essentials tier costs $34.95/mo; it is both the cheapest covering plan and the functional tier (prices as shown, checked 21 August 2026).
What does SendGrid's functional tier include?
At 50,000 emails/mo, Essentials ($19.95/mo) is the cheapest SendGrid tier with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications. We compare transactional email services on this functional tier rather than on the headline entry price. Transactional Email pricing compared.
When was SendGrid pricing last checked?
On 21 August 2026, from SendGrid's official pricing page (https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing). Every price on this page carries its capture date.