Pay-as-you-go Pricing
Learn how you can enable pay-as-you-go pricing for your transactional email plans.
During busy sending seasons, you may run into your monthly quota limits on your transactional plan with Resend.
While we've always informed customers when they were approaching their quota limits, many have requested the ability to continue sending emails beyond their quota without having to upgrade to a higher plan for temporary spikes in sending volume.
We're happy to announce that Resend now supports pay-as-you-go pricing for paid transactional email plans.
Enable Pay-as-you-go pricing
Any team with a paid transactional plan can enable pay-as-you-go pricing.
Navigate to Settings and toggle on Transactional Overages.
Overage billing
Resend will automatically charge you the overage price per each bucket of additional 1,000 emails using your default card on file. Your price depends on your transactional plan.
For example, if you are on the Pro plan (50,000 emails per month), and you send 51,415 emails in a month, your final invoice would read:
| Description | Emails | Unit Price | Quantity | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transactional Pro | 50,000 | $20.00 | 1 | $20.00 |
| Transactional Overages | 1,000 | $0.90 | 2 | $1.80 |
| Total | $21.80 |
With the total amount being $21.80 plus any other taxes and fees.
Additional emails are billed in buckets of 1,000 emails. If your quota is set at 50,000 emails and you send 50,003 emails with pay-as-you-go enabled, you will be charged for one extra bucket of 1,000 emails.
Observability
To ensure you always have full visibility into your sending activity, Resend emails you an alert when you are approaching your quota limits, as well as when you exceed your quota (at 80%, 100%, etc.).
You can always track your usage and billing history on the Usage page.
Conclusion
We hope this additional pricing flexibility will prevent downtimes in your sending, even during busy seasons.