Plunk review
Open sourceFree tierOpen-source email platform, marketing and transactional
I built Plunk as an open-source, developer-first alternative that unifies transactional and marketing email under one API.
Entry price
Free
Free: 1,000 emails/month free
Our Plunk verdict
Plunk costs free. Nobody has reviewed it here yet, so this page is about what it costs and what it does, not how well it does it.
Developers wanting open-source, self-hostable email. There is a free tier: 1,000 emails/month free.
- Who it is not for
- Fewer pre-built templates than larger competitors
- What this is based on
- Based on pricing read from Plunk'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Same as monthly | 1,000 emails/month, unlimited contacts, full API, Plunk branding on emails |
| Pay-as-you-grow | Not published | Same as monthly | Unlimited emails, no branding, monthly spend cap available |
Plunk price history
Every price changePlunk's pricing has not moved since we started tracking it on 2026-08-27. We read it off Plunk's own pricing page on every update, and this section fills in when something changes.
Read from Plunk'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
Yes, 1,000 emails/mo
Automations
Yes, workflow automation
Transactional email
Yes, core feature
Landing pages
No
Paid newsletters
No
API/dev friendly
Yes, open-source API
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- GitHub5,406stars28 August 2026Check it
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