Hasura vs SendGrid (Twilio)
Instant GraphQL + REST on your data sources — with permissions
vs. Legacy email infrastructure at scale — 100B+ emails/year
Pricing tiers
Hasura
OSS (Community)
Free forever (Apache-2.0). Self-host GraphQL Engine v2.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
$0. 1 project. 60 req/min. Community support.
Free
Professional
$99/mo (starts). Usage-based compute + data pass-through. Production SLAs.
$99/mo
Advanced
Custom. Multi-region, dedicated, observability, SSO.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. On-prem / air-gap / advanced security.
Custom
SendGrid (Twilio)
Free Trial
100 emails/day for 60 days. After: upgrade required.
Free
Essentials — 50k
50,000 emails/month. 1 teammate. 2 event webhooks.
$20/mo
Essentials — 100k
100,000 emails/month.
$35/mo
Pro — 100k
100,000/mo. Dedicated IPs + subusers + email validation (2.5k). 1000 teammates. 5 webhooks.
$90/mo
Pro — 2.5M
2,500,000/mo. Same Pro features.
$449/mo
Premier (5M+)
Custom. SSO, custom overage rates, white-glove.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Hasura vs free-trial on SendGrid (Twilio).
| Metric | Hasura | SendGrid (Twilio) |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Hasura · 14 features
- Actions — Custom resolvers via HTTP.
- Data Connector Hub — Build connectors to any source.
- Event Triggers — DB changes → webhook.
- GraphQL API — Auto GraphQL over relational + NoSQL.
- Hasura DDN (v3) — Multi-source supergraph with OpenDD.
- JWT Auth — Pluggable JWT verification.
- Metadata Migrations — Git-versioned Hasura config.
- Permissions — Row + column + session-based.
- Query Caching — Edge caching with cache-control directive.
- Remote Schemas — Merge external GraphQL into supergraph.
- REST Endpoints — Turn any GraphQL op into REST.
- Scheduled Triggers — Cron + one-off webhook triggers.
- Subscriptions — Live queries via WS.
- Webhook Auth — Custom auth via webhook.
SendGrid (Twilio) · 12 features
- Dedicated IPs — Auto IP warmup, multiple IP pools per brand/customer.
- Dynamic Templates — Handlebars-based with versioning + A/B testing on subject/content.
- Email API (v3) — REST + SMTP. Dozens of endpoints for mail, stats, templates, subusers.
- Email Validation — Verify email addresses before sending. Credits per check.
- Event Webhook — Raw stream of send/delivery/bounce/open/click/unsubscribe/spamreport events.
- Inbound Parse — Route incoming mail → your webhook. Attachments + spam score.
- Link Branding — Track links on your own domain for reputation.
- Marketing Campaigns — Separate UI for bulk promotional sends. Segmentation, A/B, automation.
- SAML SSO — Premier tier only. SAML 2.0 auth for account access.
- Stats + Reports — Aggregated + per-category + per-subuser delivery metrics.
- Subusers — Isolate multi-tenant sends. Each subuser has own stats + API key + reputation.
- Suppression Groups — Granular unsubscribe groups (newsletter vs billing, etc.).
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Hasura | SendGrid (Twilio) |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | ddn CLI (v3), hasura CLI | — |
| SDK | — | sendgrid-go, sendgrid-java, @sendgrid/mail, sendgrid-php, sendgrid-python, sendgrid-ruby |
| REST | Hasura REST Endpoints, Metadata API | SendGrid v3 API |
| GRAPHQL | Hasura GraphQL Engine | — |
| OTHER | Data Connectors, Hasura Console | Event Webhook, Inbound Parse Webhook, SMTP Relay |
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