Best for
Best for teams that need marketing automation without a per-contact bill, and have someone able to run a PHP application.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Email Marketing Comparison
Mautic vs. Resend
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for product and engineering teams that want transactional email, broadcasts and templates in the same codebase as the application that sends them.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Mautic | Resend |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free and open source if self-hosted; managed hosting from €247.50 / month The software carries no licence cost, but the server and the email sending provider are your own. Managed hosting through the official partner Dropsolid starts at €247.50 per month billed annually, or €275 per month billed quarterly. | Free tier; Pro from $20 / month Transactional and marketing volume are billed separately. The transactional ladder runs Free, Pro from $20 per month and Scale from $90 per month, priced in bands by monthly email volume; marketing runs Free, Pro Marketing from $40 per month and Enterprise, priced by contact count. |
| Free trial | 14-day trial of the hosted offering, no credit card required | Free tier: 3,000 emails per month, 100 per day, 3 domains, plus 1,000 marketing contacts |
| Commercial use | Yes, GPL v3 | Not stated |
| API | Yes, a REST API plus an in-app marketplace of community plugins and themes | Yes, REST API with official SDKs for Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Elixir, Java and .NET, plus a CLI, webhooks and an official MCP server |
| Hosting | Self-hosted on your own infrastructure, or managed hosting through certified partners | Cloud (SaaS) |
| Campaign types | Email campaigns and newsletters alongside SMS, push notifications and WhatsApp, plus landing pages and forms that embed in a site or open as a popup | Transactional email over the API, broadcasts to contacts and segments, and inbound email by pointing MX records at Resend |
| Automation and journeys | Yes, a drag-and-drop campaign builder for multi-step journeys from capture through to conversion | Yes, flows triggered by custom events from your own application, built from condition, delay, wait for event, send email, contact update, contact delete and add to segment steps, with a Runs view for debugging |
| Segmentation and personalisation | Yes, contact segmentation driven by behaviour and engagement tracking, with customisable point-based lead scoring to prioritise contacts | Yes, contacts with custom properties grouped into segments, plus Topics so recipients can opt in or out of individual categories |
| Templates and editor | Yes, a drag-and-drop email builder with personalisation and A/B testing, plus a landing page builder and a form builder; community themes come through the marketplace | React Email, a component-based template system written in code; there is no drag-and-drop builder |
| Deliverability and testing | Sending runs through a provider you supply, not one bundled with the product. SMTP is the default transport, configured as a DSN, and since version 5 the Symfony Mailer transports add SendGrid, Amazon SES and others by Composer; a SparkPost plugin is available from the Mautic Marketplace. The documentation warns that the Symfony transports do not support batch sending or the bounce-management callbacks the dedicated plugins handle | Domain verification with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, delivery event webhooks and event monitoring in the dashboard; dedicated IPs are a $30 per month add-on on Scale and above |
| Ecommerce and CRM data | Contacts, companies and lead scoring are native, and CRM, ecommerce and SMS systems connect through marketplace plugins or webhooks rather than shipping preconfigured | Contacts are created and updated over the API or bulk-imported by CSV up to 200 MB, with custom properties carrying the data used for personalisation |
| Integrations and API | Yes, a REST API for contacts, campaigns and data transfer, webhooks, and an in-app marketplace of community plugins | Yes, REST API with bearer key authentication, a batch endpoint for up to 100 messages per request, SDKs for nine languages, a CLI, webhooks and an official MCP server |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | more entries On-premise, Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Community forum | Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | SMTP, SendGrid, Amazon SES, SparkPost | Not stated |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Mautic Free and open source if self-hosted; managed hosting from €247.50 / month Resend Free tier; Pro from $20 / month
- Free trial Mautic 14-day trial of the hosted offering, no credit card required Resend Free tier: 3,000 emails per month, 100 per day, 3 domains, plus 1,000 marketing contacts
- Deployment Mautic On-premise, Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Resend Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
- Company size Mautic Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Resend Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Hosting Mautic Self-hosted on your own infrastructure, or managed hosting through certified partners Resend Cloud (SaaS)
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Mautic
Strengths
- No licence cost and no per-contact fee, so list growth does not change the bill
- Self-hosting keeps contact data in a jurisdiction you pick
- Campaign builder, email builder, landing pages, forms and lead scoring are all in the core product
- REST API, webhooks and an in-app marketplace for extending it
Limitations
- You supply and pay for the email sending provider separately
- Running and patching a PHP application is your responsibility unless you buy managed hosting
- Support is community forums and Slack; paid support comes only through partners
- Symfony Mailer transports do not batch-send or handle bounce callbacks
Resend
Strengths
- Transactional sending, broadcasts, contacts and automations on one API and one account
- Official SDKs for Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Elixir, Java and .NET, plus a CLI
- Standing free tiers on both ladders rather than a time-limited trial
- Inbound email by pointing MX records at Resend, delivered as webhooks
- Official MCP server, so the platform can be driven by AI agents
Limitations
- Templates are React components, so building an email needs a developer
- Two separate price ladders, one for sending volume and one for contacts
- Dedicated IPs, extra domains and SSO are priced as add-ons on top of the plan
- SSO and dedicated IPs require the Scale plan or above
- The free tier caps sending at 100 emails per day
Plans
Pricing
Mautic
- Self-hosted €0 The open source application under the GPL v3 licence. No licence cost; the server and the email sending provider are your own.
- Mautic Essential €247.50 Per month billed annually, or €275 per month billed quarterly. Managed shared hosting through Dropsolid, up to 50,000 emails per month and 50,000 contacts.
- Mautic Professional €1,237 Per month. Dedicated hosting, up to 3 million contacts, with a dedicated support manager.
- Mautic Enterprise Custom Quoted by the vendor. Dedicated infrastructure, up to 6 million emails per month, enterprise-grade security.
Resend
- Free $0 3,000 emails per month, capped at 100 per day, 3 domains, 10,000 automation runs and 30-day data retention. Marketing side is free up to 1,000 contacts.
- Pro $20 Per month, 50,000 emails and 10 domains, no daily limit, 5 webhook endpoints. $35 per month for 100,000 emails. Overage $0.90 per 1,000 emails.
- Scale $90 Per month, from 100,000 emails and 1,000 domains, 10 webhook endpoints and a dedicated Slack channel. Rises through $160, $350, $650, $825 and $1,150 per month up to 2.5 million emails, with the overage rate falling from $0.90 to $0.46 per 1,000.
- Pro Marketing $40 Per month for 5,000 contacts, rising to $650 per month for 150,000 contacts.
- Enterprise Not stated Custom volume and contact limits, a 99.99% uptime SLA, a dedicated customer success manager, migration support and flexible AI credits.
What users say
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Resend
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Resend https://resend.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-07
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