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Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Anypost – transactional and broadcast email API, 8¢ per 1k

We think it's too damn expensive to send email these days. We built Anypost on modern (non-cloudy) infrastructure to ensure we can offer a top-shelf product without having to hit you with the cloud tax. We're not looking to be the next unicorn. We just want a sustainable product that helps solopreneurs and high-volume senders get their message out without having to worry about the bill. We're around - feel free to ask questions!

Anypost is a transactional and broadcast email API designed for solopreneurs and high-volume senders who need affordable email delivery. Built on modern, non-cloud infrastructure, it charges 8¢ per 1,000 emails… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    AhaSend▲132

    I'm the founder of AhaSend. We've built a transactional email service specifically for developers, with a Pay-As-You-Go pricing model ($0.50 per 1,000 emails) and up to 70% volume discount for platform partners. While there are many ESPs out there, we focused heavily on the Developer Experience to solve the pain of building and testing email flows: * The CLI: Heavily inspired by the Stripe CLI, we built a tool that lets you develop and debug locally. You can listen to webhooks, trigger events, manage your domains, and send / list / debug messages directly from your terminal. * True…

    2024 · ahasend.com · its alternatives →

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    Unosend▲205

    Send transactional + marketing email w/ 99.9% deliverability

    Dec 2025 · unosend.co · its alternatives →

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    Build and enrich B2B lists by chatting to your agent

    Aug 2026 · anysite.io · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Create unlimited email aliases for free. Protect your real email from spam by using a different address for each service. Privacy friendly, anonymous replies.

    2019 · anonaddy.com · its alternatives →

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    Maillayer▲462

    Send email campaigns via Amazon SES with NoCode

    2024 · maillayer.com · its alternatives →

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    One inbox. Outreach, team chat, AI, and video — built in.

    2025 · greenmormail.com · its alternatives →

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    1,000+ Emails per Second with 99%+ Deliverability

    Mar 2026 · mailercloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! I'm Kristyna, maker of Sidemail. I'd love to share with you what we've been building. We built Sidemail because sending emails from a SaaS app was way harder than it should be. Sidemail is made for developers and teams that want one simple place to handle SaaS emails with reliable delivery and no bloat. It has: - Everything for creating, managing and delivering SaaS emails in one platform, - Easy-to-use email API for sending password resets, receipts, etc. - Messenger for writing product updates and newsletters, - Email automations for onboarding and lifecycle flows, - Fast email…

    Nov 2025 · sidemail.io · its alternatives →

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    Cheap and simple transactional emails API with Amazon SES

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Shipping for developers

    2014 · easypost.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I built an email deliverability SaaS with a RAG system. It's trained on all my knowledge and hundreds of real deliverability use cases from 4+ years experience as an Email Deliverability Specialist on Upwork. It solves a frustration problem a lot of businesses are experiencing. I'm looking for feedback so let me know in the comments.

    Aug 2026 · helloinbox.email · its alternatives →

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    EasyPost's best-in-class Shipping APIs provide end-to-end flexibility and more control over parcel shipping and logistics processes.

    2012 · easypost.co · its alternatives →

  13. 13BA

    Spent the last month building Fertit - basically a newsletter manager but you bring your own SMTP and skip the DevOps nightmare. All the features (subscriber management, admin dashboard, custom preferences) without the infrastructure markup. The math that broke me: Mailchimp: $230/month for 15k contacts My solution: $10/month infrastructure + $10 SendGrid = unlimited What I learned: The "enterprise" features are mostly database operations with SMTP APIs. But the 3 weeks of Go/PostgreSQL/Redis setup explains why people just pay ConvertKit $300/month. Here's the thing:…

    2025 · fertit.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Email component library that works in Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail. MIT. Install with npm or a Skill. No account.

    Sep 2026 · unitpost.com · its alternatives →

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    AnonAddy▲132

    Open-source anonymous email forwarding. Stop spam.

    2019 · addy.io · its alternatives →

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    Launch better & faster, forever

    2024 · validatefast.app · its alternatives →

  17. 17HW

    We recently launched a new project called https://www.markdownmail.io The motivations behind https://www.markdownmail.io was that we wanted to be able to occasionally send out an email to our user base. Currently we have over 100k subscribers and on average send an email once every other month. With the mailchimp it was costing us $475 per month. That's a lot of money to send an occasional newsletter. So we started to look for alternatives. We decided to move to sendy.co which is self hosted and uses SES. Whilst the costs where lower we found the product unstable and…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Most sites I work on have at least one contact form and I got tired of building out the logic to send them and handle the spam into every project. I built and launched Sendfly for myself 5 years ago and it's been a rock solid service that I've relied on ever since. Recently I've done a full re-write, simplifying the product and making it super affordable. I wanted to share it here in case it comes in handy for someone else. There are lots of competitors out there but I found them too expensive for my needs. For $15/year you get unlimited forms and 5,000 form submissions every year.…

    2022 · sendfly.io · its alternatives →

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    Takeout▲112

    Just another email service, but 10x better

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I’m Arvid, cofounder of Anysphere (https://anysphere.co). With my two friends Sualeh and Shengtong I have been spending the last few months building a dedicated home for important, long-form conversations. We’re super excited to let the HN community test it out! We think that no existing platform for point–to-point communication prioritizes the conversations that you actually care about and that really matter. Instant messaging is filled with careless texts and stickers, email is filled with receipts and spammers, and physical mail, while better in those respects, is…

    2022 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    MeowMail▲103

    Send Emails like Social Media, with 98% Inbox Deliverability

    2024 · apps.shopify.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN :) really excited to share this with you. The one thing AI reliably does is generate noise. Half the tools I see launch are just machines for producing more noise across more channels. And people are starting to see this in the form of emails in their inboxes as spam filters are struggling. There used to be a useful signal in email: the effort a sender put into customizing a message was a rough proxy for how relevant it actually was. AI killed that. Now it's customized slop with the appearance of effort with none of the cost. It is painful that the open internet / open channels…

    Jul 2026 · captchainbox.com · its alternatives →

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    Send email campaigns and transactional emails, set up automations, grow your list, and track revenue. Unlimited emails, unlimited contacts, $20/mo flat. No per-contact charges, no surprises.

    Mar 2026 · topmail.so · its alternatives →

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    Unlimited branded, ready-to-send emails at $499 per month

    2020 · grabdigital.co · its alternatives →

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