Resend vs Saleor
The email API for developers — built by the Nodemailer team
vs. Open-source, GraphQL-first commerce for composable brands
Pricing tiers
Resend
Free
3,000 emails/month, 100 emails/day. 1 custom domain. Ideal for side projects.
Free
Pro — 50k
50,000 emails/month. 10 custom domains. Priority support.
$20/mo
Pro — 100k
100,000 emails/month. 10 custom domains.
$35/mo
Scale — 100k+
Tiered from 100k → 2.5M emails/month. Dedicated IP add-on available.
$90/mo
Scale — 2.5M
2.5M emails/month.
$1150/mo
Enterprise
3M+/month, dedicated IP included, SSO, custom contract.
Custom
Saleor
OSS (self-host)
$0. BSD-3-Clause. Self-host Saleor Core + Dashboard.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Development
$0. Dev tier for sandbox projects. Shared infra. Community.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Staging
$179/mo. Staging tier with dedicated env.
$179/mo
Cloud — Production
$1,999/mo. Production tier with SLA + support.
$1999/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Multi-region, SAML, dedicated clusters, PCI.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Resend vs oss on Saleor.
| Metric | Resend | Saleor |
|---|---|---|
| custom domains | 1 domains | — |
| emails per day | 100 emails/day | — |
| emails per month | 3000 emails/month | — |
Features
Resend · 12 features
- Audiences — Contact list management with custom fields.
- Batch Send — Send up to 100 emails in one API call.
- Broadcasts — Bulk email campaigns with audiences, A/B testing, analytics.
- Dedicated IP — Add-on for high-volume senders. Auto warmup.
- Domains — DKIM/SPF/DMARC auto-verification. Per-domain analytics.
- Idempotency — Prevent duplicate sends with Idempotency-Key header.
- Logs + Analytics — Full email logs, delivery heatmap, events table.
- React Email — OSS library (3M+ downloads) to compose emails in React/JSX.
- Scheduled Send — scheduledAt parameter for future delivery.
- Send API — POST /emails endpoint to send. Supports attachments, scheduled send, idempotency…
- Suppressions — Auto-managed bounce + complaint list. API to add/remove.
- Webhooks — Email lifecycle events: sent, delivered, bounced, complained, opened, clicked.
Saleor · 17 features
- Channels — Per-channel pricing/shipping/currency.
- Checkout — Multi-step checkout mutation set.
- Customers + B2B — Customer records + B2B permissions.
- Dashboard — Next.js admin dashboard.
- Gift Cards — First-class gift-card flow.
- Orders — Full lifecycle.
- Permissions + Roles — Granular RBAC.
- Pricing + Promotions — Rule-based promos, catalog pricing.
- Products + Attributes — Full PIM features.
- Saleor Apps — External extensions.
- Shipping Zones + Methods — Multi-zone shipping rules.
- Tax Providers — Pluggable tax (Avalara, etc.).
- Translations — Multi-language product content.
- Variants + Configurable — Deep variant system.
- Vouchers — Discount codes + gift cards.
- Warehouses + Stock — Multi-warehouse inventory.
- Webhooks — Async subscription to events.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Resend | Saleor |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Resend CLI | saleor CLI |
| SDK | react-email, resend-go, resend-node, resend-php, resend-python, resend-ruby | @saleor/app-sdk, @saleor/sdk |
| REST | Resend REST API | — |
| GRAPHQL | — | Saleor GraphQL API |
| OTHER | SMTP Relay, Webhooks (Svix) | Saleor App Store, Saleor Dashboard, Saleor Webhooks |
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