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Email Bump vs FreeResend

FreeResend is a self-hosted server that speaks Resend's API. We're a hosted platform whose API takes the same field names. Both send through Amazon SES.

Eight rows below, including the three where FreeResend wins.

8 rows Checked 2 August 2026
The short version

Which one you want, in three sentences

Pick FreeResend if you want SES rates, MIT licensing and your existing Resend SDK calls to keep working untouched. That combination is genuinely unique.

Pick Email Bump if you also need contacts, campaigns and flows, and would rather not run Postgres, Node and an SES account.

Pick Amazon SES directly if you were only using FreeResend as an API shim and could call SES from your code instead.

Line by line

8 differences that matter

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

 
FreeResend
Email Bump
Licence
MIT, self-hostable, no network clause.
Proprietary. No self-hosted build.
Cost
Free software plus SES at $0.16 per 1,000.
$19/mo at 10,000 contacts, sending included.
Resend SDK compatibility
Drop-in — set RESEND_BASE_URL and it works.
Same field names, but you'd swap the SDK for an HTTP call.
Who runs it
You — SES, Postgres, Node 18+, DNS.
Us.
Contacts and campaigns
None — transactional only.
Campaigns, live segments and flows on the same plan.
Inbound email
Not part of the project.
Included — receive, parse, download attachments and forward.
Deliverability
Yours, on your own SES account.
Ours — reputation monitoring, bounce and complaint handling.
Project scale
A few hundred stars and a short commit history.
A funded product, though also young.
Against us

Three places FreeResend is the better choice

Your code doesn't change at all. Set one environment variable and the official Resend SDK talks to your server. Nothing else on this page offers a migration that costs literally one line.

MIT rather than AGPL. Embed it, modify it, ship it inside a product — no network-clause obligation. Among the self-hostable options only Postal matches that.

SES rates with no markup. $0.16 per 1,000 on your own AWS account. At volume that's an order of magnitude below any hosted plan including ours.

FAQ

Email Bump vs FreeResend, asked and answered

Does Email Bump work with the Resend SDK?

Not as a drop-in — our endpoint takes the same field names but a different base path, so you'd replace the SDK call with a plain HTTP request. That's usually a few lines rather than a rewrite.

If keeping the SDK untouched is the requirement, FreeResend is the tool built for exactly that.

Do you also send through Amazon SES?

Yes, us-east-1. Same pipe — the difference is who runs the software and who owns reputation management.

Can I self-host Email Bump?

No. FreeResend, useSend, Plunk, Notifuse, listmonk, Postal, Mautic, Keila and Ghost are the self-hostable options on the alternatives page.

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

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