The European alternative to SendGrid
SendGrid is part of Twilio, an American company, and its free plan is now a 60-day trial. AhaSend gives you a simple API and SMTP relay with your data in Europe under European law, and 1,000 emails a month free, for as long as you like.
Fair and simple usage-based pricing
SendGrid's free plan is now a 60-day trial; ours stays free for the first 1,000 emails a month. Extra emails cost less than on SendGrid, and sub-accounts are already included in our Pro plan.
Thoughtfully crafted for sending transactional emails at any scale
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AhaSend keeps your email data in Europe under EU ownership, with pay-as-you-go pricing, campaigns in the same plan, sub-accounts and customizable retention. Here's how that lines up against SendGrid, feature by feature.
Pricing
Email Capabilities
Integrations and APIs
Data Retention
(customizable)
(customizable)
Analytics
Domain Management
Scaling
(for senders with 300k+ emails per month)
Security
(optional)
(optional)
(optional)
(included in all plans)
Compliance
| AhaSend | SendGrid | |
|---|---|---|
Pricing | ||
| Free Plan | 1000 emails / month | no |
| PAYG Pricing | ||
| Pricing for 25,000 emails | $19.95 | |
Email Capabilities | ||
| Supports marketing emails | ||
| Optimized for fast transactional email delivery | ||
| Email API | ||
| SMTP relay | ||
| Suppression management | ||
Integrations and APIs | ||
| Webhooks | Unlimited webhooks | 1-5 Webhooks |
| Inbound Routing | Unlimited routes | Yes |
| CLI app | ||
| Management API | ||
| Scoped API Keys | yes | yes |
Data Retention | ||
| Log retention | 1 to 30 days (customizable) | 3-7 days |
| Message retention | 0 to 30 days (customizable) | No |
| Message and log retention on your S3 buckets | ||
Analytics | ||
| Link and Open Tracking | ||
| Deliverability Analytics | ||
| DSN Reports | Available on Max plan | no |
Domain Management | ||
| Domain Authentication | ||
| Automated DNS setup | ||
| DNS Whitelabel | ||
| Custom subdomains | ||
| Sending Domains | 3 (Free) · Unlimited (Paid) | Unlimited |
Scaling | ||
| Multi-user access | ||
| Sub accounts (per-tenant isolation) | ||
| Dedicated IPs | Free (for senders with 300k+ emails per month) | $30 / IP / month |
| Dedicated IP pools | Included with Max Plan | No |
| Bring Your Own IP | ||
| Deliverability Consultation | Included with Max Plan | No |
Security | ||
| TempMail protection | Yes (optional) | Yes (optional) |
| Typo protection | Yes (optional) | Yes (optional) |
| Toxic recipient protection | Yes (optional) | Yes (optional) |
| Reputation Shield | ||
| Two-Factor Authentication | ||
| Single Sign-On | Available from /mo plan (Max) | Available from $90/mo plan (Pro) |
| Automatic DKIM Key Rotation | ||
| IP Allow List | Yes (included in all plans) | Yes |
Compliance | ||
| European hosting & ownership | ||
| GDPR DPA | Yes (signable) | Yes |
| ISO 27001 | ||
Integrate in minutes
Official SDKs for Go and TypeScript, adapters for Symfony, Swoosh and Drupal, guides for 18 frameworks, and OpenAPI specs for everything else.
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.ahasend.com/v2/accounts/{account_id}/messages \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: UNIQUE-KEY' \
--data '{
"from": {
"email": "[email protected]",
"name": "Example Corp"
},
"recipients": [
{
"email": "[email protected]",
"name": "John Doe"
}
],
"subject": "Welcome to Example Corp",
"html_content": "<h1>Welcome {{first_name}}!</h1>",
"text_content": "Welcome {{first_name}}!",
"substitutions": {
"first_name": "John"
}
}'Need help getting started? Check out our documentation or contact our support team
Why teams choose AhaSend
European, audited and built for platforms, with campaigns included
SendGrid is part of Twilio, an American company. AhaSend is a Dutch company: your messages, logs and metadata stay in Europe, under European law, without relying on US data-transfer frameworks.
SendGrid's free plan is now a 60-day trial at 100 emails a day. AhaSend's Free plan gives you 1,000 emails a month, for as long as you like.
SendGrid sells Marketing Campaigns as a separate product with its own plans, priced by contacts. AhaSend's Campaign Builder is in every plan, and a campaign email counts against the same allowance as a password reset.
AhaSend is ISO 27001 certified, with the whole operation in scope, and a member of the Certified Senders Alliance. The DPA applies from signup, and a countersigned copy is one click away.
On SendGrid, subuser management starts with the Pro plan. AhaSend gives each of your customers a fully isolated sub-account with its own domains, keys and reputation, under one bill: 9 on Pro, unlimited on Max, with white-label DNS on Max.
SendGrid keeps searchable email activity for 3 days on Essentials and 7 on Pro, and sells longer history as an add-on. AhaSend keeps message data up to 7 days on Free, 14 on Pro and 30 on Max, with archiving to your own S3 on Max.
Connect Claude, Cursor or VS Code through the AhaSend MCP server: send email, investigate a bounce, set up a domain or build and send a campaign in plain language, with the permissions you choose.
Replace the @sendgrid/mail package with @ahasend/sdk, our fully typed TypeScript SDK, or use the official Go SDK. On Symfony Mailer or Swoosh, you only change the adapter. For everything else, the SendGrid migration guide takes you through the switch step by step.
AhaSend runs its own MTA on bare-metal servers it operates itself in European datacenters, on its own network with its own ASN (AS197970). The IP addresses, the reputation and every delivery decision are ours.
What our customers say
Fair Pricing, Real Support
just wanted to reach out and say thank you – with SendGrid's pricing phasing my small business out, and support being absolutely nonexistent on platforms like Mailjet or cloud-based solutions like AWS or GCS, my discovery of y'all overnight was like a BREATH of fresh air.
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