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 "id": "sendhq",
 "name": "SendHQ",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "sendhq.cc",
 "category": "Developer Tools",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "Email API for developers with transactional and marketing plans, verified-domain sending, inbound email, delivery events and hosted templates.",
 "best_for": "developers and small product teams that want a simple email API with fixed monthly plans and no overage billing, and that keep bounce and complaint rates low",
 "skip_if": "you need a free tier, pay-as-you-go overage instead of a hard cap, or a high-volume plan above 200,000 emails a month",
 "honest_knock": "There is no free plan, only a 100-delivery trial to your own address. The monthly allowance is a hard cap: further sends are rejected, not billed. Sending is limited per sender address and paused automatically at the published bounce and complaint rates, and a pause stops sending for the whole workspace until support reviews it.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$9",
  "entry_price_terms": "Starter Transactional · Starter Transactional billed monthly, 50,000 emails a month and 25 verified domains",
  "from_price_usd_month": 9.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-11-06 on sendhq.cc/pricing) SendHQ sells an email API in two plans, each for transactional or for marketing email. Starter costs $9 a month for transactional email or $19 a month for marketing email and includes 50,000 emails a month and 25 verified domains. Scale costs $39 a month for either type and includes 200,000 emails a month and 100 verified domains, plus priority support. Annual billing is 10% off twelve monthly payments: $97.20 a year for Starter Transactional, $205.20 for Starter Marketing and $421.20 for Scale. Every To, Cc and Bcc address counts as one email, and there are no automatic overage charges: once the monthly allowance is used, further sends are rejected until the next month or until you move to a larger plan. There is no free plan; new workspaces get a trial of 100 deliveries to your own account email or a test address. Plans are billed in USD, and stablecoins (USDC) are accepted on every plan.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06",
  "source_url": "https://sendhq.cc/pricing",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 9.0,
   "currency": "USD",
   "description": "Starter Transactional, Starter Transactional billed monthly, 50,000 emails a month and 25 verified domains; Starter Marketing $19 a month; Scale $39 a month for either type with 200,000 emails and 100 verified domains; annual billing is 10% off ($97.20 Starter Transactional, $205.20 Starter Marketing, $421.20 Scale); no overage charges. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-06.",
   "page": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/sendhq-review/"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "Annual billing is 10% off twelve monthly payments: $97.20 a year for Starter Transactional, $205.20 for Starter Marketing and $421.20 for Scale.",
   "verified_at": "2026-11-06",
   "source_url": "https://sendhq.cc/pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Brevo",
  "why": "Brevo is in our directory as an email, SMS and light CRM platform priced by monthly send volume. SendHQ is an email API you call from your own code, with fixed plans by email type. We have not compared the two on price or limits, so check both pricing pages against your own monthly volume"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/sendhq.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/sendhq-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/sendhq/",
  "vendor_site": "https://sendhq.cc"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://sendhq.cc/?via=aibuildermarketplace",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "sendhq:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "sendhq:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "sendhq:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "sendhq:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}