Stripe vs Resend
Payments, subscriptions, fraud protection, and financial infrastructure
vs. The email API for developers — built by the Nodemailer team
Pricing tiers
Stripe
Payments (Pay-as-you-go)
Default pricing: 2.9% + 30¢ per domestic card transaction. No setup/monthly fees.
$0 base (usage-based)
Billing (Pay-as-you-go)
0.7% of billing volume (on top of payment fees). Stripe-hosted subscription + invoice management.
$0 base (usage-based)
Billing (Monthly plan)
Starting $620/month with 1-year contract. Discount on high volumes.
$620/mo
Enterprise / Custom
Volume discounts + IC+ pricing (interchange-plus) available at scale.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing payments-payg on Stripe vs free on Resend.
| Metric | Stripe | Resend |
|---|---|---|
| custom domains | — | 1 domains |
| emails per day | — | 100 emails/day |
| emails per month | — | 3000 emails/month |
Features
Stripe · 17 features
- Atlas — Incorporate a US Delaware C-Corp in minutes.
- Billing (Subscriptions) — Recurring invoices, trials, proration, metered billing, tax-included.
- Climate — Route % of revenue to carbon removal.
- Connect — Multi-party payments for marketplaces/platforms. Express, Custom, Standard accou…
- Data Pipeline — Nightly sync of Stripe data to your warehouse (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, S3…
- Identity — Document + selfie verification for KYC.
- Invoicing — One-off invoices with hosted pages + reminders.
- Issuing — Issue virtual/physical cards programmatically.
- Payments — Core card + wallet (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link) + bank payment processing.
- Radar (Fraud) — ML-based fraud detection. Teams tier for custom rules.
- Sigma — SQL analytics over your Stripe data.
- Stripe Checkout — Hosted prebuilt checkout page. Zero UI work.
- Stripe Elements — Pre-styled UI components for custom checkout flows.
- Stripe Tax — Auto-calc sales tax, VAT, GST across jurisdictions + reporting.
- Terminal (In-Person) — Card readers + SDKs for POS and mobile payments.
- Treasury — Embedded banking — accounts, ACH, issuing cards via platform.
- Webhooks — Event notifications for all resource changes. Signed with webhook secret.
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.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Stripe | Resend |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | Stripe CLI | Resend CLI |
| SDK | stripe-dotnet, stripe-go, stripe-java, stripe-js (client), stripe-node, stripe-php, stripe-python, @stripe/react-stripe-js, stripe-ruby | react-email, resend-go, resend-node, resend-php, resend-python, resend-ruby |
| REST | Stripe REST API | Resend REST API |
| MCP | Stripe MCP | — |
| OTHER | Webhook Events | SMTP Relay, Webhooks (Svix) |
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