Documentation-based comparison
Brevo Transactional Email versus Postmark
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| Requirement | Brevo Transactional Email | Postmark |
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| Pricing | From $9/mo | From $15/mo |
| Who it is for | Transactional email sent by API or SMTP from your application, inside an all-in-one platform that also runs marketing campaigns. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Brevo Transactional Email: official product and plan documentation | Sends transactional email and keeps bulk or broadcast email on separate Message Streams. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark: official product and plan documentation |
| Coverage limits | Attachments are limited to 25 MB per email, and one API request can batch up to 1,000 emails. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Brevo Transactional Email: official product and plan documentation | There is no tier between the free 100 emails a month and the 10,000-email paid tier. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark: official product and plan documentation |
| Sending volume | Plans are priced on emails sent; contact-based pricing applies only to marketing features. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Brevo Transactional Email: official product and plan documentation
| Unused emails do not roll over to the next billing period. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark: official product and plan documentation
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| Sender domains | Not verified |
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| Log retention | Flexible log retention is advertised; a numeric retention window is not stated on this page. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Brevo Transactional Email: official product and plan documentation | Custom activity retention starts at USD 5 a month and is only available on Pro plans or higher; statistics are kept indefinitely. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark: official product and plan documentation
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| Webhooks and events | Event webhooks and real-time tracking are listed. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Brevo Transactional Email: official product and plan documentation
| Inbound email is converted to JSON and posted to your webhook URL. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark: official product and plan documentation
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| Dedicated IP | Dedicated IPs with custom warming schedules are offered to high-volume senders; no price is published. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Brevo Transactional Email: official product and plan documentation
| From USD 50 a month per IP, for accounts sending 300,000 or more emails a month on Pro or higher. Fully managed by Postmark. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark: official product and plan documentation |
| Support |
| Support requests are handled by the customer success team through support tickets. The pricing page lists no support level per plan. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark support centre |
| Overage charges | Pay-as-you-go email credits are an alternative to a plan: they do not expire and one email uses one credit. Pay-as-you-go does not include phone support; the credit price is not shown. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Brevo: official pricing page | Extra emails on paid plans are calculated at the end of the billing cycle and added to the next month's charge. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Postmark: official product and plan documentation
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| Coverage note | Starting volume. | Starting tier; unlimited emails per day. Not listed on the Basic card. |