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Comparison

OutSend and SendGrid

SendGrid is the incumbent, and incumbency is a real feature: it works, it scales, and everyone has integrated it before. The differences that matter are about evidence and ownership.

01Where SendGrid wins

Scale and ubiquity

Enormous volume, a long history, and an integration for essentially everything. Whatever you are building with, someone has already connected it to SendGrid.

A broad marketing feature set

Marketing campaigns, template management, and analytics well beyond what we offer today. If you need a full marketing suite, we are not it.

Enterprise procurement is solved

Compliance documentation, contracts, and vendor review packets already exist. That is worth a lot in a large organisation.

02Where we differ

Reputation isolation by default

Shared pools mean the worst-behaved sender sets everyone's ceiling. We score reputation per domain and per workspace, and stop bad senders at their own boundary instead of yours.

Raw evidence, not a normalised summary

Every event keeps the receiving provider's own response. When something defers, you get the SMTP code and the host that said it.

Open source and self-hostable

Read the implementation, run it yourself, export everything. A vendor relationship you can actually leave behaves differently from one you cannot.

Pricing that does not need a call

Published tiers with published overage rates. If a bigger plan would cost less than your overage, we will tell you rather than bill you.

03The honest verdict

If you need a full marketing suite or enterprise procurement that is already solved, SendGrid is the safer institutional choice. If you want isolated reputation and inspectable evidence, that is the trade we built for.

We do not publish competitor pricing tables.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 SendGrid's directly.

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Switching from SendGrid?

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

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