Revenue Breakdown

How Resend
makes money

Usage-based pricing on emails sent per month

Est. ARR: $5M–$15M
Email Infrastructure

Pricing tiers

Free
$0
  • 100 emails/day
  • 1 domain
  • Basic support
Pro
$20/month
  • 50K emails/month
  • Custom domains
  • Webhooks
Scale
$90/month
  • 200K emails/month
  • Dedicated IP
  • Priority support
Enterprise
Custom
  • Unlimited
  • SLA
  • Dedicated account manager

Revenue breakdown

Pro subscriptions40%
Scale subscriptions35%
Enterprise contracts25%

Key metrics

Free-to-paid conversion
~10-15%
Average revenue per user
$40–$60/month
Monthly churn
~2-3%
Emails sent/month
Hundreds of millions

Monetization lessons

  • Developer experience (DX) is the moat — React Email templates are the killer feature
  • Usage-based pricing with generous free tier captures developers early
  • Infrastructure products have very low churn once integrated
  • Dedicated IPs and deliverability features justify premium pricing

How to replicate this model

[01]Focus obsessively on developer experience — docs, SDKs, error messages
[02]Generous free tier to get developers building on your platform
[03]Usage-based pricing that scales with customer growth
[04]Build on top of AWS SES for cost efficiency, add DX layer on top
$$$

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