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 "id": "smtp2go",
 "name": "SMTP2GO",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "smtp2go.com",
 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Hosting & websites",
 "summary": "Reliable transactional and bulk email delivery. Send via a simple SMTP relay or API with strong deliverability, real-time analytics and global sending infrastructure.",
 "best_for": "businesses that want dependable transactional/bulk sending via SMTP or API with human support and clear per-volume pricing",
 "skip_if": "you're inside a marketing platform that already sends for you, or you need advanced template/campaign tooling bundled in",
 "honest_knock": "It's the pragmatic middle of email infrastructure: simpler and better-supported than the hyperscale APIs, cheaper than most, with genuinely useful reporting — but sending reputation is still yours to earn. A relay delivers what your domain deserves: without proper SPF/DKIM/DMARC and list hygiene, no provider saves you. Check the overage rate for your tier before you size up: on the 10,000 plan an extra thousand emails costs $1.20 against the $1.50 a thousand you already pay, and the 50,000 plan at $30 works out cheaper per email than Professional at $75.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$15",
  "entry_price_terms": "per month or $150/yr for 10,000 emails",
  "from_price_usd_month": 15.0,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-26 on smtp2go.com/pricing with the volume slider walked through all nine stops; the plan cards carry the amounts in their data-rate-monthly and data-rate-annual attributes) Free: 1,000 emails a month, 200 a day, 5 days of reporting, ticket support only (toll-free phone and live chat limited to 14 days), extra emails not permitted. Starter: $15/mo or $150/year for 10,000 (overage $1.20 per thousand); $30/mo or $300/year for 50,000 ($1 per thousand). Professional: $75/$750 for 100,000 ($0.85), $170/$1,700 for 250,000 ($0.70), $280/$2,800 for 500,000 ($0.60), $520/$5,200 for 1,000,000 ($0.50), and it adds a dedicated IP address and email-testing tools. Premier: custom, over 3,000,000 a month. Annual is exactly ten months' money at every step (their 'two months free'). All invoices are billed in US dollars; EUR, GBP, AUD and NZD are shown as approximations. 30-day money-back promise.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-26",
  "source_url": "https://www.smtp2go.com/pricing/",
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-07-26",
   "last_read": "2026-09-09",
   "read_days": 6,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-07-26",
    "until": "2026-09-09",
    "reads": 6,
    "days": 45
   },
   "changes": [],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "(read 2026-09-26 on smtp2go.com/pricing with the volume slider walked through all nine stops; the plan cards carry the amounts in their data-rate-monthly and data-rate-annual attributes) Free: 1,000 emails a month, 200 a day, 5 days of reporting, ticket support only (toll-free phone and live chat limited to 14 days), extra emails not permitted.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Starter: $15/mo or $150/year for 10,000 (overage $1.20 per thousand); $30/mo or $300/year for 50,000 ($1 per thousand).",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-26",
   "source_url": "https://www.smtp2go.com/pricing/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "SMTP.com or Postmark",
  "why": "close relay peers — Postmark leans transactional purity; SMTP2GO wins on support reputation and price at SMB volumes"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/smtp2go.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/smtp2go-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/smtp2go/",
  "vendor_site": "https://smtp2go.com"
 },
 "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://get.smtp2go.com/ypwj175gg6j4",
  "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": "smtp2go: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": "smtp2go:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "smtp2go:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "smtp2go: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_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "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"
  }
 }
}