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Comparison

OutSend and Resend

Resend built the best developer experience in transactional email and earned the audience it has. The reasons to choose OutSend are specific, and they are not about polish.

01Where Resend wins

Genuinely excellent developer experience

The API shape, the docs, and React Email set a standard the rest of the category has been reacting to ever since. If DX is your deciding factor, they are a good answer.

Managed dedicated IPs

Worth saying plainly, because competitors sometimes imply otherwise: Resend ships managed dedicated IPs. If you have seen a comparison claiming they do not, it is out of date.

A large and active community

More integrations, more example code, and more people who have already hit your problem. That is a real advantage and we are not going to pretend it is not.

02Where we differ

The core is open source and self-hostable

You can read exactly how sending, suppression, and reputation scoring work, run the whole thing on your own infrastructure, and leave whenever you like. The exit is a documented path rather than a promise.

Events keep the provider's raw payload

We store the receiving provider's original response alongside our normalised version, so you can see the actual SMTP code and reason rather than our summary of it.

No venture capital

No acquisition clock and no quarter where reliability loses to a growth number. This is a structural difference, not a moral one.

Published measurement methodology

Our definitions for acceptance, deferral, placement, and latency are published before any numbers are, so you can judge the method independently of the result.

03The honest verdict

If open source, self-hosting, raw event evidence, or the funding structure matter to you, we are worth a trial. If they do not, Resend is a good product and staying put is a reasonable decision.

We do not publish competitor pricing tables. Prices change, our table would go stale, and a stale number on a site arguing that claims should be checkable would be the worst possible own goal. Compare our pricing against Resend's directly.

Think something on this page is unfair or out of date? Tell us — corrections get published.

Switching from Resend?

The migration guide has the field map, the event map, and the checklist — including the suppression-list import everybody forgets.

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