Resend vs Zapier
The email API for developers — built by the Nodemailer team
vs. The OG automation platform — 8,000+ app integrations + Zapier Copilot AI
Pricing tiers
Resend
Free
3,000 emails/month, 100 emails/day. 1 custom domain. Ideal for side projects.
Free
Pro — 50k
50,000 emails/month. 10 custom domains. Priority support.
$20/mo
Pro — 100k
100,000 emails/month. 10 custom domains.
$35/mo
Scale — 100k+
Tiered from 100k → 2.5M emails/month. Dedicated IP add-on available.
$90/mo
Scale — 2.5M
2.5M emails/month.
$1150/mo
Enterprise
3M+/month, dedicated IP included, SSO, custom contract.
Custom
Zapier
Free
100 tasks/month. Two-step Zaps. Zapier Copilot with daily limits. Unlimited Zaps, Tables, Interfaces.
Free
Professional
$19.99/month annual. Multi-step Zaps. Unlimited premium apps. Webhooks. Email + chat support. AI fields.
$20/mo
Team
$69/month annual. 25 users. Shared Zaps/folders. Shared connections. SAML SSO. Premier support.
$69/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, advanced admin, VPC peering, observability, TAM.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Resend vs free on Zapier.
| Metric | Resend | Zapier |
|---|---|---|
| custom domains | 1 domains | — |
| emails per day | 100 emails/day | — |
| emails per month | 3000 emails/month | — |
Features
Resend · 12 features
- Audiences — Contact list management with custom fields.
- Batch Send — Send up to 100 emails in one API call.
- Broadcasts — Bulk email campaigns with audiences, A/B testing, analytics.
- Dedicated IP — Add-on for high-volume senders. Auto warmup.
- Domains — DKIM/SPF/DMARC auto-verification. Per-domain analytics.
- Idempotency — Prevent duplicate sends with Idempotency-Key header.
- Logs + Analytics — Full email logs, delivery heatmap, events table.
- React Email — OSS library (3M+ downloads) to compose emails in React/JSX.
- Scheduled Send — scheduledAt parameter for future delivery.
- Send API — POST /emails endpoint to send. Supports attachments, scheduled send, idempotency…
- Suppressions — Auto-managed bounce + complaint list. API to add/remove.
- Webhooks — Email lifecycle events: sent, delivered, bounced, complained, opened, clicked.
Zapier · 18 features
- AI Actions — LLM-powered actions inside Zaps (summarize, extract, classify).
- Chatbots — AI chatbots that trigger Zaps.
- Code by Zapier — Run JS or Python inside a Zap step.
- Delays — Schedule step execution.
- Filters — Condition-based step skipping.
- Formatter — Data transforms (date, text, number, utilities).
- Paths — If/else branching inside Zaps.
- Premier Support — Team+ chat + email priority.
- SAML SSO — Team+ SAML authentication.
- Storage by Zapier — Simple key-value store across Zaps.
- Webhooks by Zapier — Custom HTTP triggers + actions.
- Zapier Agents — Autonomous AI agents with 8k+ app access.
- Zapier Canvas — Visual workflow diagrams for planning.
- Zapier Copilot — Build Zaps from natural-language description.
- Zapier Interfaces — No-code forms + pages + chatbots from Zaps.
- Zapier MCP — Bring 8k+ Zapier integrations to Claude + other MCP clients.
- Zapier Tables — No-code DB integrated with Zaps.
- Zaps (workflows) — Multi-step automations across apps.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Resend | Zapier |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Resend CLI | Zapier Platform CLI |
| SDK | react-email, resend-go, resend-node, resend-php, resend-python, resend-ruby | — |
| REST | Resend REST API | Zapier Platform API |
| MCP | — | Zapier MCP |
| OTHER | SMTP Relay, Webhooks (Svix) | Webhooks by Zapier, Zapier Web App |
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