Head to head

Email Bump vs Brevo

Brevo charges for emails sent and treats contacts as nearly free. We charge for contacts and don't cap sending. Which of us is cheaper is a division problem, not an opinion — sends per contact per month.

Eleven rows below, including the four where Brevo wins outright. It's EU-based and we aren't, which for some readers ends the comparison on the first row.

11 rows Checked 2 August 2026
The short version

Which one you want, in three sentences

Pick Brevo if you hold a large list you email occasionally, if you need EU data handling, or if you want SMS, WhatsApp and a CRM in the same subscription. All three are real advantages and none of them are close.

Pick Email Bump if you email a smaller list frequently — lifecycle flows, a weekly newsletter, transactional email — and the send meter has become the thing you plan around.

Pick neither if you need the deepest automation logic available, which is ActiveCampaign, or if you run an ecommerce store, which is Klaviyo.

Line by line

11 differences that matter

Brevo's column comes from their published pricing and documentation on 2 August 2026.

 
Brevo
Email Bump
What's metered
Emails sent. Contacts are effectively free to store.
Contacts. Sending is uncapped under fair use.
Cheaper when
You hold a big list and email it rarely.
You email a smaller list often — high sends per contact.
Free plan
300 emails a day forever, against a large stored list. Doesn't roll over.
5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails a month, no daily cap. A 'Powered by Email Bump' badge on marketing footers.
Data region
European Union — Brevo is a French company.
United States, on Amazon SES. No EU region.
Channels
Email, SMS, WhatsApp, plus a CRM and landing pages.
Email and inbound email. Nothing else.
Automation
A capable builder, widely described as a step down from ActiveCampaign's.
Flows with triggers, waits and branches on every plan, including free.
Transactional email
Included in the platform, metered with everything else you send.
Included — same plan, same key, SMTP on the same credential.
Inbound email
Not a core part of the platform.
Included — receive, parse, download attachments and forward.
Team seats
1 seat on the free plan; more on paid tiers.
Unlimited on every plan, including free.
Deliverability
Shared infrastructure with a very broad sender base; reports vary.
Amazon SES underneath, with our own reputation management on top. Also newer, with less public history.
Agent surface
A REST API and integrations.
CLI, an MCP server with 29 tools, and agent skills. An agent can create the account, verify the address and send without a browser.
Against us

Four places Brevo is the better choice

It's European and we're not. Brevo is a French company handling EU data as standard. We send from Amazon SES in us-east-1 with no EU region. If GDPR data residency is a requirement rather than a preference, this row ends the comparison and no feature of ours changes that.

Big lists are nearly free to hold. If you have 80,000 contacts you email once a quarter, Brevo charges you for the quarterly send and we'd charge you for 80,000 contacts every month. That's a large difference in your favour and it's the reason Brevo tops most of these listicles.

SMS, WhatsApp and a CRM. Included in the platform, not bolted on. We do email and inbound email. A genuinely multi-channel programme replacing Brevo with us plus three other tools is not obviously a saving.

A free tier that never ends. 300 a day forever, with real contact storage behind it, is the most generous permanent free plan in this comparison for a low-volume sender. Ours is bigger monthly but capped at 5,000 emails; theirs keeps going.

FAQ

Email Bump vs Brevo, asked and answered

Is Email Bump cheaper than Brevo?

Only if your sends-per-contact ratio is high. Divide your monthly sends by your contact count. Above roughly three or four, contact-priced pricing tends to win; below one, Brevo wins comfortably.

A 5,000-contact SaaS list running a newsletter plus lifecycle flows is $19/mo here with no send ceiling. A 60,000-contact list emailed monthly is much cheaper on Brevo.

Does Email Bump have SMS or WhatsApp?

No. Email and inbound email only. If your programme genuinely uses Brevo's SMS or WhatsApp channels, we replace part of your stack rather than all of it, and you should price the replacement for the rest before switching.

Do you have an EU region?

No. Sending is from Amazon SES in us-east-1. If you chose Brevo for EU data handling, that's a good reason to stay, and MailerLite, GetResponse and Omnisend are the other EU-based options on the alternatives page.

Is there a daily sending limit?

No. Brevo's free plan caps you at 300 emails a day and it doesn't roll over. Here the free plan is 5,000 emails a month with no daily ceiling, and paid plans have no send cap at all under fair use.

That difference matters most on launch days and imports, which is exactly when a daily cap is most annoying.

Try it against your own list

Import a segment and compare

5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails free. Run one campaign through both and let the delivery and click numbers decide.