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15 Best Open Source SendGrid Alternatives

A curated collection of the 15 best open source and self-hosted alternatives to SendGrid in 2026.

Looking for a free, privacy-friendly, or self-hosted replacement for SendGrid in 2026? The top open-source alternative is Listmonk — Send email campaigns and transactional messages to millions of subscribers with a single high-performance binary backed by Postgres..

Other highly rated open-source SendGrid alternatives include Billion Mail, Mautic and Plunk.

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Send email campaigns and transactional messages to millions of subscribers with a single high-performance binary backed by Postgres.

Listmonk preview

Send email campaigns and transactional messages to millions of subscribers with a single high-performance binary backed by Postgres.

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Self-hosted email marketing platform with unlimited sending, AI-powered email creation, real-time analytics, and no monthly fees. Complete SMTP solution.

Billion Mail preview

Self-hosted email marketing platform with unlimited sending, AI-powered email creation, real-time analytics, and no monthly fees. Complete SMTP solution.

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Mautic is a free and open source marketing automation platform that helps businesses manage leads, create campaigns, and analyze results.

Mautic preview

Mautic is a free and open source marketing automation platform that helps businesses manage leads, create campaigns, and analyze results.

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Plunk unifies marketing, transactional, and broadcast emails into a single, complete solution for businesses of all sizes.

Plunk preview

Plunk unifies marketing, transactional, and broadcast emails into a single, complete solution for businesses of all sizes.

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Open source email platform for transactional and marketing emails. Self-host or use cloud service with transparent pricing - pay only for emails sent.

useSend preview

Open source email platform for transactional and marketing emails. Self-host or use cloud service with transparent pricing - pay only for emails sent.

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Free open-source email platform for newsletters and transactional emails. Self-hosted alternative to Mailchimp with visual MJML editor, A/B testing, and analytics.

Notifuse preview

Free open-source email platform for newsletters and transactional emails. Self-hosted alternative to Mailchimp with visual MJML editor, A/B testing, and analytics.

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A comprehensive platform for managing transactional and marketing emails through AWS SES, featuring customer data management, SMS capabilities, and workflow automation.

Sendune preview

A comprehensive platform for managing transactional and marketing emails through AWS SES, featuring customer data management, SMS capabilities, and workflow automation.

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Self-hosted newsletter platform with powerful features, data protection, and full control over your mailing lists and campaigns.

Keila preview

Self-hosted newsletter platform with powerful features, data protection, and full control over your mailing lists and campaigns.

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Open-source email marketing platform offering unlimited subscribers, campaigns, and workspaces. Self-hosted solution with powerful API and beautiful interface.

Sendportal preview

Open-source email marketing platform offering unlimited subscribers, campaigns, and workspaces. Self-hosted solution with powerful API and beautiful interface.

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Track SES deliveries, bounces, opens and clicks in a self-hosted dashboard with real-time search, analytics and reputation monitoring.

Sessy preview

Track SES deliveries, bounces, opens and clicks in a self-hosted dashboard with real-time search, analytics and reputation monitoring.

Self-hosted email API alternative to AWS SES & Mailgun. Open-source AGPL-3.0 with enterprise features, automated deliverability, and cloud version coming 2026.

Hyvor Relay preview

Self-hosted email API alternative to AWS SES & Mailgun. Open-source AGPL-3.0 with enterprise features, automated deliverability, and cloud version coming 2026.

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00 is an open-source email API and infrastructure solution that allows developers to own and control their email stack.

DoubleZero preview

00 is an open-source email API and infrastructure solution that allows developers to own and control their email stack.

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Build email templates as React components and automations in TypeScript. Deploy to your AWS account with SES integration. Marketing teams edit content without code.

Wraps preview

Build email templates as React components and automations in TypeScript. Deploy to your AWS account with SES integration. Marketing teams edit content without code.

Create and send newsletters with complete privacy protection. No tracking, no data collection - just simple, clean email delivery with customizable templates and archive sites.

Hyvor Post preview

Create and send newsletters with complete privacy protection. No tracking, no data collection - just simple, clean email delivery with customizable templates and archive sites.

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Email inbox API for AI agents to create, send, and receive messages via REST

AgentMail preview

AgentMail provides AI agents with real email inboxes, enabling them to create, send, receive, and search messages entirely via REST API. Built specifically for autonomous agents and agentic workflows, it eliminates the need for manual email handling. - Inboxes API: Create, manage, and operate email inboxes entirely via API with custom domains and multi-tenancy support - Threads & Replies: Full email thread management including attachments and realtime events - Semantic Search: Advanced search capabilities to find relevant emails quickly - Data Extraction: Automatically extract structured data from emails - SDKs & MCP: Python, TypeScript, and CLI SDKs with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support - Agent Integrations: Native support for popular AI agents like Claude Code, Hermes, OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, and Grok - Security: Agent Armor feature to screen inbound mail before agents process it - Scalability: Built for enterprise-grade performance with global infrastructure AgentMail is a fully managed cloud service with no self-hosting option available. The platform provides REST APIs, SDKs (Python, TypeScript, CLI), and MCP servers for seamless integration with AI agent frameworks. All infrastructure is managed by AgentMail with enterprise-grade security and compliance standards.

About SendGrid

A platform for sending transactional and marketing emails with tools for email creation, delivery, and analytics.