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 covers transactional and product email with TypeScript-first tooling. SendGrid's free send is a 60-day trial at 100 emails a day. Samva's free plan is 3,000 emails a month, ongoing.

Pricing verified September 19, 2026. Sources at the end of this page.

What SendGrid charges next to Samva

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.

Send and receive

How you send email, build templates, and bring replies back.

Capability	Samva	SendGrid
Send API	Typed REST, POST /v1/messages, with an OpenAPI 3.1.0 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

Send API: Samva
Typed REST, POST /v1/messages, with an OpenAPI 3.1.0 spec
SendGrid
REST (Web API v3) and SMTP relay
Templates: Samva
Versioned templates with rollback and publish history
SendGrid
Dynamic Handlebars templates on all tiers
Inbound email: Samva
Inbound parsing with conversation threading per recipient
SendGrid
Inbound Parse webhook on all tiers

Delivery and visibility

How you follow delivery, observe engagement, and protect your sending.

Capability	Samva	SendGrid
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

Webhooks: Samva
Delivery events signed with HMAC-SHA256
SendGrid
Event webhook with signing; 1 to 5 endpoints by tier
Open and click telemetry: Samva
Per-message timeline of provider-observed opens and clicks
SendGrid
Open and click events; searchable activity history 3 to 7 days
Deliverability: Samva
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on your domain; bounces and complaints suppressed automatically
SendGrid
Domain authentication, link branding, suppression management; dedicated IP included on Pro

Integration tools

The SDKs and agent tools you can build with.

Capability	Samva	SendGrid
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	—

SDKs: Samva
TypeScript SDK plus an Effect-native SDK
SendGrid
Official libraries for Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Java, Go, C#
Agent tooling: Samva
Hosted MCP server and a CLI with device-flow login
SendGrid
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Volume and billing

What you can send for free and how extra volume is billed.

Capability	Samva	SendGrid
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
Past the allowance	Metered at $0.50 per 1,000, under a spend limit you set	Metered overage per extra email

Free tier: Samva
3,000 emails a month; 1,000 a day with a card on file, 100 without
SendGrid
60-day trial at 100 emails a day
Past the allowance: Samva
Metered at $0.50 per 1,000, under a spend limit you set
SendGrid
Metered overage per extra email

Choose SendGrid when

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.

Choose Samva when

You want an ongoing free plan instead of a 60-day trial, hosted MCP, and the full send product on every plan. Several SendGrid extras, including a dedicated IP, subusers, and email validation, start on Pro at $89.95 a month.

SendGrid's breadth is the draw and the cost. Link branding, email validation, and subusers exist, and several of them gate on the Pro tier at $89.95 a month. Samva ships one send product and every plan carries all of it, so the comparison comes down to which features you would 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 in the dashboard on every plan.

Switching

Questions before you move.

Is there still a free SendGrid plan?

SendGrid publishes a 60-day trial capped at 100 emails a day, and its upgrade guide says you need a paid plan to continue sending after the trial. 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 verified September 19, 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.