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15 self-hosted SendGrid alternatives

Cloud email delivery platform for sending transactional and marketing emails via SMTP and APIs. Provides deliverability tools, analytics, templates, and email automation for managing sends and tracking performance.

Alternatives to SendGrid

Open-source, self-hosted platform to manage subscribers, run campaigns, and track analytics. Single Go binary with a Vue UI.

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23.1k stars2.6k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Postal is an open source mail delivery platform for sending and receiving email, with SMTP support, web-based management, and tools for running your own SendGrid-style service.

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16.8k stars1.3k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

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All-in-one secure mail server with SMTP, IMAP, webmail, automatic TLS (ACME), and built-in SPF/DKIM/DMARC plus junk filtering for low-maintenance domains.

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5.8k stars218 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Haraka is a fast, event-driven SMTP server for receiving, filtering, and relaying email, featuring a modular plugin architecture for customization at scale.

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5.6k stars712 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Developer-focused platform for automated, omnichannel messaging (email, SMS, push, WhatsApp) with low-code journeys, segmentation, templates, and self-hosting.

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2.9k stars380 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Open-source emailing platform for newsletters and transactional emails with a visual MJML builder, segmentation, A/B testing, analytics, and a REST API with webhooks.

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2.1k stars220 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

AGPL-3.0 open-source email API for developers that can be self-hosted; supports SMTP sending, webhooks, DNS automation, observability, multi-tenancy, and project isolation.

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876 stars59 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Exim is an open source SMTP message transfer agent (MTA) for Unix-like systems, offering flexible mail routing and extensive controls for handling inbound email.

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Postfix is a fast, secure, and easy-to-administer SMTP server for sending and routing email on Unix-like systems, commonly used as an MTA or mail relay.

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Lightweight SMTP server written in Go that receives and sends email via a single JSON config and executable hooks; supports per-user DKIM and TLS.

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E-MailRelay is a lightweight SMTP relay/store-and-forward mail server with optional POP3 access to spooled messages, designed for simple, scriptable mail handling.

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OpenSMTPD is an open-source, minimal SMTP daemon from the OpenBSD project providing an RFC-compliant MTA with privilege separation, table backends, filters and TLS support.

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chasquid is a minimalist SMTP server (MTA) for individuals and small groups, focused on secure defaults, easy configuration, and straightforward operation.

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What replacing SendGrid actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 7 of 15 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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