Samva vs SendGrid.
Twilio SendGrid is one of the longest-running email APIs, with a large feature surface for transactional sending and a separate contact-priced marketing product. Samva is a smaller, TypeScript-first surface with hosted versioned templates, threading on inbound mail, and agent tooling.
Pricing verified July 24, 2026. Sources at the end of this page.
Published plans, side by side.
Samva
| Plan | Price | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 3,000 emails/mo |
| Starter | $5/mo | 15,000 emails/mo |
| Growth | $19/mo | 50,000 emails/mo |
| Scale | $99/mo | 300,000 emails/mo |
Sending, templates, inbound, and webhooks ship on every plan. On paid plans, extra emails past the allowance cost $0.50 per 1,000, under a $50 monthly spend limit you control. Free stops at its allowance.
SendGrid
| Plan | Price | Included |
|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | $0 | 100 emails/day for 60 days |
| Essentials | $19.95/mo | 50,000 emails/mo |
| Essentials | $34.95/mo | 100,000 emails/mo |
| Pro | $89.95/mo | 100,000 emails/mo |
| Pro | $249/mo | 300,000 emails/mo |
| Premier | Custom | 5M+ emails/mo |
The Pro ladder continues to 2.5M emails at $1,099/mo. Overage is metered per extra email, from $0.0013 on Essentials. A dedicated IP, subuser management, and email validation start on Pro.
What each one ships.
| Capability | Samva | SendGrid |
|---|---|---|
| Send API | Typed REST, POST /v1/messages, with an OpenAPI 3.0 spec | REST (Web API v3) and SMTP relay |
| Templates | Versioned templates with rollback and publish history | Dynamic Handlebars templates on all tiers |
| Inbound email | Inbound parsing with conversation threading per recipient | Inbound Parse webhook on all tiers |
| Webhooks | Delivery events signed with HMAC-SHA256 | Event webhook with signing; 1 to 5 endpoints by tier |
| Open and click telemetry | Per-message timeline of provider-observed opens and clicks | Open and click events; searchable activity history 3 to 7 days |
| Deliverability | SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on your domain; bounces and complaints suppressed automatically | Domain authentication, link branding, suppression management; dedicated IP included on Pro |
| SDKs | TypeScript SDK plus an Effect-native SDK | Official libraries for Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Java, Go, C# |
| Agent tooling | Hosted MCP server and a CLI with device-flow login | — |
| Free tier | 3,000 emails a month; 1,000 a day with a card on file, 100 without | 60-day trial at 100 emails a day; no permanent free tier |
| Past the allowance | Metered at $0.50 per 1,000, under a spend limit you set | Metered overage per extra email |
You need Twilio-ecosystem scale into the millions of emails a month, want link branding and email validation in the same product, or send from many languages with official libraries.
Your stack is TypeScript and you want typed contracts end to end, including an Effect-native SDK. Replies should thread into conversations your product can read, and your coding agents can send through a hosted MCP server.
SendGrid's breadth is the draw and the cost. Features like link branding, email validation, and subusers exist, and several of them gate on the Pro tier at $89.95 a month. Samva's surface is smaller and every plan carries all of it, so the comparison comes down to which features you would actually use.
Activity history is worth checking for your debugging workflow. SendGrid's searchable history covers 3 days on Essentials and 7 on Pro; Samva keeps per-message delivery timelines visible in the dashboard as part of the product.
Asked before switching.
How do the free tiers compare?
SendGrid replaced its permanent free plan with a 60-day trial capped at 100 emails a day; after the trial you move to a paid plan. Samva's free plan includes 3,000 emails a month, ongoing, capped at 1,000 a day with a card on file and 100 a day without one.
What does 50,000 emails a month cost?
On plans published as of July 24, 2026: SendGrid's Essentials plan includes 50,000 emails for $19.95 a month. Samva's Growth plan includes 50,000 emails for $19 a month.
What happens when I send past my plan?
On Samva, extra emails cost $0.50 per 1,000, billed to the exact count, under a $50 monthly spend limit you can raise, lower, or pause. SendGrid meters overage per extra email, from $0.0013 on Essentials.
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Sources, verified July 24, 2026