Twilio SendGrid Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026
Usage-based pricing ranges from free to $60/mo across 4 plans. Start free or choose Essentials at $19.95/mo for up to 100K emails.
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Twilio SendGrid pricing: the quick answer
Twilio SendGrid's Marketing Campaigns product starts at $15/mo for Basic and $60/mo for Advanced as of July 12, 2026, over a 60-day free trial that stores 100 contacts and sends 100 emails a day. Those two prices are entry floors, not fixed rates: the bill is set by two dials at once, how many contacts you store and how many emails you send. Basic covers up to 100,000 contacts and 300,000 emails a month; Advanced reaches 200,000 contacts and a million emails plus dedicated IPs. Taxes and overages apply, and this is billed separately from the SendGrid Email API.
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- Basic$15/mo
- Advanced$60/mo
- CustomCustom
At $15/mo to start, Twilio SendGrid sits 15% above the $13/mo median across 18 email marketing tools we track.
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The $15 and $60 numbers are starting floors. Two metering dials and a product split are what actually move the invoice.
Twilio SendGrid pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
SendGrid's Marketing Campaigns product starts at $15/mo for Basic and $60/mo for Advanced, with a 60-day trial that stores 100 contacts and sends 100 emails a day. Both paid numbers are floors, not flat rates. Basic covers up to 100,000 contacts and 300,000 emails a month, which is a lot of capacity for the money, while Advanced reaches 200,000 contacts and a million emails and adds automation plus access to dedicated IPs. For high-volume senders the ceiling-to-price ratio is strong; for a small marketing team the feature set can feel developer-first.
Cost drivers
- 1Price is set by two dials together, contacts stored and emails sent, so the $15 and $60 figures only hold at the low end of both.
- 2Taxes and overages both apply; exceeding your monthly email allowance is billed, not throttled.
- 3Marketing Campaigns is billed separately from the SendGrid Email API, so wanting both means paying for two products.
Watch-outs
Onboarding and account verification are the recurring complaint. Users report sudden suspensions right after signup from automated fraud checks, with slow paths to a human.
Editor’s take
For a developer who wants a reliable sender with real capacity, Basic at $15/mo is a lot of contacts and email for the price, and Advanced at $60/mo is the step up once you need automation or a dedicated IP. The thing to get straight before signing is that two dials set the bill and overages are billed on top, so a spiky month costs more than the floor. A marketer who wants segmentation and automation without wrestling a developer-shaped tool should weigh Mailchimp starting at $13/mo instead.
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| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
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| Official Pricing Page | Source of verified tiers | July 8, 2026 |
| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| G2 | G2 verified user reviews · 4/5 · 366 reviews | — |
| Capterra | Capterra verified user reviews · 4.2/5 | — |
| TrustRadius | TrustRadius verified reviews | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
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