Email and newsletters

Resend alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

Notifuse/notifuse2,046AGPL-3.0Self-hosted platform for newsletters, email marketing, and transactional email with a visual editor.Open on GitHub dittofeed/dittofeed2,901MITCustomer engagement platform automating transactional and marketing messages across email, SMS, push, and more.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Managed dedicated IPs with automated warmup and autoscaling
Built-in deliverability monitoring, blocklist tracking and BIMI/VMC guidance
SOC 2-backed enterprise compliance and advanced security features out of the box
Multi-region delivery infrastructure and pristine shared IP pools
Polished broadcast editor, contact management UI and built-in analytics

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Resend, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.