Plunk vs Brevo

Pricing

Brevo

Brevo offers a free plan of 300 emails per day. After that you are forced to upgrade to one of their paid plans that start at $19 per month. Their paid plans still however include branding in the footer, if you wish to remove this you are looking at an extra add-on of $9 per month. If you also want to send transactional emails, you are looking at an extra subscription that starts at $10 month for 20.000 emails.

Plunk

Plunk offers a free plan of 300 emails per month. After that, you pay half a cent per email. This price covers all services, including transactional, marketing and broadcast emails. There are no hidden charges or add-ons to worry about.

Complete Email Solution

Brevo

Brevo is a CRM suite. It offers a complete solution for your business, including a sales platform, marketing emails and transactional emails. While this sounds great, their complex pricing takes away all the benefit of having a single vendor. You will get most value out of Brevo if you use all their services. If you only want to use their email service, you are better off with a dedicated email provider.

Plunk

Plunk is designed for SaaS companies. It offers a complete email solution that includes transactional emails, marketing automations and broadcast emails in one API. A contact in Plunk is the same for all three services and offers a unified view of your customers.

Developer Experience

Brevo

Brevo offers a complex API filled with clutter. Their tooling is designed for marketers, not for developers. This makes it hard to set up and integrate with your existing systems. Their automations and dashboard focus on marketeers, often making it hard to get the results you want.

Plunk

Plunk offers a simple API that is easy to use. It is designed to be easy to set up. Plunk is designed for SaaS companies. Plunk offers a set of SDKs that are designed to be easy to use. Most developers can get Plunk set up and running in less than 5 minutes from start to finish.