SMTP2GO Pricing 2026: Every Volume Tier, Overage and Annual Price

SMTP2GO is free for 1,000 emails a month, costs $15/mo on Starter for 10,000 emails and $75/mo on Professional for 100,000 emails with a dedicated IP. Paying yearly gives two months free, so Starter drops to $150 a year. Overage runs from $1.20 per 1,000 extra emails on the smallest paid tier down to $0.50 at 1 million.

Prices are from SMTP2GO's pricing page, as of Oct 2026 (read on October 28, 2026). The page says all prices are in USD and that every invoice is billed in US dollars, whatever currency you view it in. The part most buyers miss is the middle of the ladder: there is a 50,000-email Starter tier between the two headline plans, and it changes the math for anyone sending 25,000 to 90,000 emails.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, evaluated 14 transactional email tools for its October 2026 transactional email ranking; 9 of the top 10 have a free plan and the median cheapest paid plan is $9/mo. SMTP2GO is not in that top 10, so its $15 entry price sits above the category's typical starting point; its Toolradar profile lists the full tool record. For the record, MarketingShot and Dupple's other newsletters are sent on beehiiv, not SMTP2GO (see beehiiv pricing for that bill).

SMTP2GO plans and prices at a glance

Source: SMTP2GO pricing, plan data for each step of the volume slider, read October 28, 2026. The page's slider labels the third step 40K while its plan card for that step lists 50,000 emails; the table uses the plan card.

Yearly billing is exactly ten months of the monthly price at every tier, which is the "2 months free" the page advertises. On Starter 10K that saves $30 a year (our arithmetic), and on Professional 100K it saves $150. The yearly toggle is selected by default on the pricing page, so check which billing a quote shows before comparing it with a competitor's monthly price.

What does each SMTP2GO plan include?

The Free plan is a test account, not a production sender. It allows 1,000 emails a month, capped at 200 a day, keeps 5 days of email reporting, and offers ticket support only, with live chat and phone limited to the first 14 days. Extra emails are not permitted, so a password-reset spike on day 20 stops sending. No credit card is required to open it.

Starter is the plan most small senders need. Both Starter tiers include 30 days of reporting, ticket, chat and phone support, subaccount management, SMS messaging and scheduled reports. The jump from 10,000 to 50,000 emails doubles the monthly price, which is a better deal per added email than any other step on the ladder.

Professional adds the two features deliverability-minded teams pay for: a dedicated IP address and email testing tools. A dedicated IP means your sending reputation depends only on your own mail, which matters for a SaaS product sending receipts and alerts, but it also means you have to warm it up and keep volume steady. Every Professional tier from 100,000 to 1 million emails includes it, at no separate fee.

Every plan, free included, gets the same deliverability base: automatic DKIM and SPF, feedback loops, blacklist monitoring, spamtrap detection, real-time analytics and bounce and spam tracking. SMTP2GO also promises a full refund if you are not happy within 30 days.

Which SMTP2GO tier should you pick?

Pick the tier by your real monthly volume, not by the plan name, because overage is expensive on the small tiers. Three crossover points matter, all our arithmetic on the published prices:

• Above 22,500 emails a month, Starter 50K is cheaper than Starter 10K plus overage. At that volume the 10K plan's base fee plus 12,500 extra emails adds up to exactly the bigger Starter's price.
• Above 95,000 emails a month, Professional is cheaper than Starter 50K plus overage. Starter 50K at 95,000 emails carries $45 of overage on top of its base fee, which lands on Professional's price, and Professional also adds the dedicated IP.
• Between Professional tiers, overage beats upgrading for small spikes. A 100K Professional account sending 150,000 emails in one month pays $42.50 in overage on top of its base fee, still far below the 250K tier.

Per 1,000 included emails, the 50K Starter tier is the cheapest step on the monthly ladder at $0.60, cheaper than Professional 100K at $0.75 (our arithmetic). That gap is the price of the dedicated IP and testing tools. If you send 60,000 emails a month and do not need your own IP, Starter 50K plus overage, about $40, beats Professional by roughly $35 a month.

If you want price changes like these in your inbox, MarketingShot covers what marketing tools cost each day, and our SMTP2GO review covers features and limits beyond price.

SMTP2GO vs Postmark, Mailgun and Amazon SES on price

At 10,000 emails a month, SMTP2GO, Postmark and Mailgun all charge the same entry price, and Amazon SES costs about $1. The differences show up in overage rates and in what each charges for a dedicated IP, which is where a growing sender's bill actually diverges. All prices below use monthly billing.

Sources: Postmark pricing, Mailgun pricing and Amazon SES pricing, read October 28, 2026. For SendGrid, check the current price on SendGrid's site.

SMTP2GO is the cheapest managed option at 50,000 and 100,000 emails in this table. Mailgun's Foundation plan is $5 more at 50,000 and its Scale plan $15 more at 100,000, though Mailgun's first month on both is free. Postmark's 10K plans differ mainly in features: Basic is $15.00, Pro $16.50 and Platform $18.00, with extra emails falling to $1.20 per 1,000 on Platform.

Amazon SES undercuts everyone on raw sending, at $0.10 per 1,000 emails with no monthly minimum. The trade is that SES is a raw sending service inside AWS, so account setup, bounce handling and monitoring sit with your own team. SMTP2GO's Professional plan buys a dedicated IP, phone support and ready-made reporting, so it suits a team without an engineer to run SES. For a wider field, see our best transactional email services.

SMTP2GO pricing gotchas

• The Free plan blocks overage. Once 1,000 emails or 200 in a day are used, sending stops until the next period. Do not run production password resets on it.
• Overage on Starter 10K costs 2.4 times the rate on the 1 million tier (our arithmetic on the table above). A growing app that never revisits its tier pays the highest overage rate on the ladder.
• Yearly billing is one charge for the year. The Professional year is billed as a single $750 payment, so only commit once your volume has been steady for a few months.
• Premier is quote-only. Above 3 million emails a month, SMTP2GO publishes no list price.
• The slider and plan card disagree on one step. The third slider stop reads 40K while its plan card lists 50,000 emails; confirm the allowance on your invoice.

Choosing between SMTP2GO and a marketing email platform is a different question. Bulk newsletters and campaigns cost less on a list-based tool; see Brevo pricing and the Brevo review, Mailchimp pricing and our email marketing pricing comparison. To keep any sender out of spam, our best email deliverability tools list covers monitoring and testing, and our email marketing statistics put inbox benchmarks in context.

How we checked these prices

We read SMTP2GO's pricing page on October 28, 2026, including the plan data behind each step of its volume slider, and its listed plan features and refund promise. Competitor prices come from the Postmark, Mailgun and Amazon SES pricing pages the same day, at monthly billing. Crossover volumes, per-1,000 costs, savings and SES totals are our arithmetic on those printed prices. We did not send mail through any of these services. Prices on volume-based tools change often, so recheck the slider before you buy.

FAQ

How much does SMTP2GO cost in 2026?

SMTP2GO is free for 1,000 emails a month. Paid plans start at $15/mo on Starter for 10,000 emails, or $150 a year, and Professional costs $75/mo for 100,000 emails with a dedicated IP. Larger Professional tiers run to $520/mo for 1 million emails, and Premier above 3 million is quote-only.

Does SMTP2GO have a free plan?

Yes. The Free plan sends up to 1,000 emails a month, capped at 200 a day, with 5 days of reporting and ticket support. It does not allow extra emails beyond the cap, and it needs no credit card, so it suits testing and very low-volume sites.

How much does SMTP2GO charge for extra emails?

It depends on the tier: $1.20 per 1,000 on Starter 10K, $1.00 on Starter 50K, $0.85 on Professional 100K, then $0.70, $0.60 and $0.50 per 1,000 on the 250K, 500K and 1 million tiers. The Free plan does not allow extra emails.

Is SMTP2GO cheaper if you pay yearly?

Yes. Yearly billing costs ten times the monthly price at every tier, the "2 months free" the page advertises. Starter 10K is $150 a year instead of $180 on monthly billing (our arithmetic), and Professional 100K is $750 instead of $900.

Which SMTP2GO plan includes a dedicated IP?

Professional. Every Professional tier, from 100,000 to 1 million emails a month, includes a dedicated IP address and email testing tools at no separate charge. Starter plans send from shared IPs.

Is SMTP2GO cheaper than Mailgun or Postmark?

At 10,000 emails all three charge the same entry price, but SMTP2GO's overage is lower, a third below the $1.80 per 1,000 on the Postmark and Mailgun base plans. At 50,000 emails SMTP2GO's mid Starter tier undercuts Mailgun Foundation at $35, and at 100,000 its Professional plan undercuts Mailgun Scale at $90.

Is Amazon SES cheaper than SMTP2GO?

On raw sending, yes: SES charges $0.10 per 1,000 emails, about $10 for 100,000 (our arithmetic), against the SMTP2GO Professional fee. SES leaves setup, bounce handling and monitoring to you and charges $24.95 a month per dedicated IP, so the saving shrinks once engineering time counts.

Cite this: MarketingShot, "SMTP2GO Pricing 2026: Every Volume Tier, Overage and Annual Price", November 2026.

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