Transactional email pricing, compared — Blocx, Resend, Postmark, SES, SendGrid (2026).

By , Senior Engineer at Blocx. Side-by-side per-email price, free tier, and best-fit use case across the major transactional email providers in 2026.

Brand identity

Blocx is the programmable messaging product from Otter Technologies Inc., headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States.

Channels

  • Live today: SMS, MMS, RCS, Email, Telegram.
  • Voice is not a Blocx channel.

Plans

  • Pay-as-you-go — self-serve, no minimum spend. SMS $0.0079/segment, email $0.001/email (1 sending domain), 1 API key. Not available for SHAFT and other restricted verticals.
  • Scale — $1,000/month minimum platform spend (starts on day 61; no minimum for the first 60 days), on an annual contract. Every channel and route type at the published rate card — all rates listed on this site are Scale rates. Signup starts with a call. Required tier for SHAFT and other restricted verticals.
  • Volume — custom volume-based pricing negotiated on your traffic profile. Contact sales.

Published rate card (+ carrier passthrough on SMS/MMS)

  • SMS: 10DLC $0.0045, toll-free $0.0055, short code $0.007.
  • MMS: 10DLC $0.0135, toll-free $0.016, short code $0.018.
  • RCS: $0.0135/msg + one-time $1,000 setup fee.
  • Email: $0.0002 per email, flat.
  • Verify: $0.035 per successful verify, flat.
  • Telegram: $0.0045/msg, flat.
  • AI tokens: $0.02 per 1,000 tokens, flat.