Resend
Ranked 2 of 5 email APIs by recommenders
Developers recommend Resend for easy setup and a free tier that suits small projects. Critics most often point to costs as sending volume and domains grow.
Developers recommend Resend for easy setup and a free tier that suits small projects. Critics most often point to costs as sending volume and domains grow.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 12
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 57%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 12 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easy to set up
“It's very easy to get started with Resend, and they have a free tier that basically works for any bootstrapped project”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents” “very convenient and easy to configure”
Comment from 22 Sep 2026 in “Resend · Email for Developers” Used in side projects and stacks
“an automation that redesigns prospects’ websites and sends the saved redesign as an offer using Resend.”
Comment from 18 May 2026 in “Design CLI – Automate design workflows” “Other nice options would be Resend and the Cloudflare Email Service”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Show HN: Open-source Workspace (mail,docs,spreadsheet,drive) web/iOS” “used boring proven tools (Next.js, Stripe, Resend)”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “I'm just having fun”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Costs rise with volume and domains
“paying $20/month to Resend et al to send few thousand emails”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents” “Resend will change the pricing - guaranteed.”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents” “I have to pay extra for each domain I add.”
Comment from 16 Apr 2026 in “Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta. Ready for your agents”
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See all 5 email APIs, rankedWhat people said
17 of the 22 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Resend just kept getting stuck in spam folders for me when sending”
“very convenient and easy to configure”
“Hyping up an SES wrapper like it's the cure for cancer.”
“You don’t need resend anymore, email is CF native.”
“Funny how Resend doesn’t have a “resend” button in their UI.”
“Other nice options would be Resend and the Cloudflare Email Service”
“it needs multiple SaaS API keys (Openrouter, Resend, Textbelt) AND requires Temporal?”
“an automation that redesigns prospects’ websites and sends the saved redesign as an offer using Resend.”
“That works great for developers, but as soon as someone non-dev needs to create and send a newsletter, you become the bottleneck.”
“I have to pay extra for each domain I add.”
“It's very easy to get started with Resend, and they have a free tier that basically works for any bootstrapped project”
“paying $20/month to Resend et al to send few thousand emails”
“Resend will change the pricing - guaranteed.”
“deliver to subscribers with Resend”
“Resend for sending (but it can't receive)”
“I wanted the resend like experience”
“used boring proven tools (Next.js, Stripe, Resend)”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.