I built Bento to give solo marketers CRM-grade automation and transactional email without enterprise pricing.
Entry price
Free, then $5/mo
Free: 100 transactional emails/month free
Our Bento verdict
Bento costs free, then $5/mo. Nobody has reviewed it here yet, so this page is about what it costs and what it does, not how well it does it.
Ecommerce and SaaS founders wanting automation. There is a free tier: 100 transactional emails/month free.
- Who it is not for
- Pricing climbs fast at high volume
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from Bento's own page on 2026-08-28, and what the product says it does. No reviews yet, so no score.
Pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual /mo | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing Platform | $29 | Same as monthly | Up to 5,000 active users; unlimited sends, automations, and seats included |
| Transactional Email | $5 | Same as monthly | Up to 12,500 emails/month; 100 free; $0.09 per 1,000 after |
| Bento Chat (add-on) | $30 | Same as monthly | Adds shared inbox, live chat, SMS, AI agents; requires Marketing plan |
Bento price history
Every price changeBento's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off Bento's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from Bento's own pricing page, dated on the day we read it. We only claim a change happened between two dates we actually looked, never on a date we did not.
Free tier
100 transactional emails
Automations
Yes, unlimited included
Transactional email
Yes, from $5/mo
Landing pages
Forms only, no pages
Paid newsletters
Not built-in
API/dev friendly
Yes, API and SDKs
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