How does Monthly Pricing work?
Postmark offers several monthly plans starting at 10,000 emails/month. A sent Transactional or Broadcast message, a Sandboxed test message, and processed Inbound message all count as 1 email. Each CC'd or BCC'd address also counts as 1 email. You can use the pricing calculator her to determine the plan that is right for you.
Need more emails? Get in touch to discuss our high-volume tiers.
Optional add-ons
Dedicated IPs: Starts at $50/month per IP
Our fully managed dedicated IPs are available to customers sending 300,000 emails per month or more.
DMARC Monitoring: Starts at $14/month per domain
Fix authentication issues that prevent your email from reaching the inbox and see who’s sending using your domain with DMARC Digests.
Custom activity retention: Starts at $5/month
Customize how long Postmark will store activity data and message content for your emails. Statistics are always kept indefinitely.
- If you are looking for High-Volume Plans we encourage you to get in touch.
- We offer a Free Developer plan that is limited to 100 emails a month with no monthly overages allowed.
- Overages on regular monthly plans are calculated at the end of your monthly plan cycle and included with your plan cost for the upcoming month. Learn more about how billing/invoicing works.
- Unused emails in your plan will not roll over into the next month.
You can upgrade, downgrade and cancel your plan at any time#
To upgrade from the Free Developer plan, simply enter your credit card details and you will be charged for your new plan right away. When upgrading to a higher plan you will be placed in the new plan immediately but not charged right away. New charges (prorated increase based on when you upgraded, as well as any overages) will happen at the start of the next billing cycle. If you are on a paid plan and decide to downgrade to a lower (or the free) plan, this downgrade will be scheduled to happen at the end of the billing cycle. You will be charged for any overages at the end of the billing cycle. You can cancel your account at any time. If any overages have been incurred, they will be charged at the time of cancellation. The cancellation will be processed once a successful charge for overages has been completed.
Postmark separates outbound mail through Message Streams. Bulk or announcement emails can only be sent through Broadcast Message Streams. Dedicated IPs are also available at $50/mo for senders on the 300,000 emails/mo or higher plans, though we think they’re a bad idea for senders with lower volumes.
What happens if I need more emails than my plan allows?#
There's no limit on the number of emails you can send on a monthly subscription. Your service will continue working if you send/receive more than your limit, and you'll be charged "overages" for the additional emails you use in your next month's bill. For example, on the 10,000 emails/month plan, you will pay $15 every month, even if you use 0 emails. If you use more than 10,000 emails, you'll pay more than $15. For example if you were to select the 10,000 emails/month plan, and you need to send/receive 25,000 emails, you'll pay an overage for the 15,000 difference. This happens automatically—there's no action needed on your part.
- $15 for the first 10,000 emails, which are included in your plan
- Additional 15,000 emails at the overage rate of $1.80 per 1k emails = $27.00
- Your total cost that month would be $15 + $27 = $42
Below you can find the table of the overage prices for each plan’s tiers, calculated per 1,000 emails.
| Monthly Emails | Postmark Basic | Postmark Pro | Postmark Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10k | $1.80 | $1.30 | $1.20 |
| 50k | $1.80 | $1.30 | $1.20 |
| 125k | $1.80 | $1.30 | $1.20 |
| 300k | $1.70 | $1.25 | $1.15 |
| 700k | $1.70 | $1.25 | $1.15 |
| 1.5M | $1.70 | $1.20 | $1.15 |
You'll receive an email notifying you that you have used the emails included in your plan. It looks like this and has the subject line, "You’ve used all your Postmark emails"
Please note — if you are an existing customer on a credits-based plan: we retired credits-based plans on July 5, 2023. If you’re on one of our legacy credit plans, we’ll ask you to migrate to a Postmark subscription. If you switch to a subscription and still have a balance of purchased credits in your Postmark account, we will “buy” back your credits at the rate of your last purchase and put it towards your new monthly plan. Learn more.