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Email Bump vs SendLayer

SendLayer is a $5 relay with three days of logs. We're a contact-priced platform with campaigns, flows and untiered retention. Different products at different prices.

Eight rows below, including the two where SendLayer wins.

8 rows Checked 2 August 2026
The short version

Which one you want, in three sentences

Pick SendLayer if you send a small amount of transactional mail from a WordPress site and want the cheapest possible reliable relay. $5/mo is hard to argue with for that job.

Pick Email Bump if three days of logs isn't enough, or if you also send campaigns and would rather not run a second platform for them.

Pick neither if you want the best logs per dollar, which is SMTP2GO, or the most volume per dollar, which is Elastic Email.

Line by line

8 differences that matter

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

 
SendLayer
Email Bump
Entry price
$5/mo billed annually for 1,000 emails.
$19/mo at 10,000 contacts, sending uncapped.
Log retention
3 days on Starter, 15 on Business, 30 on Growth.
Not tiered by plan — the free plan sees the same history as the top one.
Free option
A 200-email trial and a 14-day money-back guarantee.
5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails a month, permanently.
Marketing email
None — no contacts, segments or campaigns.
Campaigns, live segments and flows on the same plan.
Inbound email
Not part of the platform.
Included — receive, parse, download attachments and forward.
Team seats
Not a headline feature.
Unlimited on every plan, including free.
WordPress
A strong following in the WordPress world, with plugin integrations.
SMTP works with any WordPress mailer plugin, but there's no first-party plugin.
Agent surface
A REST API and SMTP relay.
CLI, an MCP server with 29 tools, and agent skills.
Against us

Two places SendLayer is the better choice

$5/mo. The cheapest paid transactional plan in this comparison. If you send a few hundred emails a month from a website and have no contact list, paying us for contacts you don't have would be daft.

The WordPress ecosystem. SendLayer is well established among WordPress site owners and integrates cleanly with the usual mailer plugins. Our SMTP works with those plugins too, but we have no first-party presence there.

FAQ

Email Bump vs SendLayer, asked and answered

Is Email Bump cheaper than SendLayer?

Not for a small relay job — $5/mo is below our entry tier and our free plan caps at 5,000 emails a month.

It becomes cheaper as soon as campaigns are involved, since that would be a second subscription alongside SendLayer.

How long do you keep logs?

Retention isn't a plan feature here — the free plan sees the same history as the top one. SendLayer keeps 3 days on Starter and 30 on Growth at $25/mo.

Can I use Email Bump with WordPress?

Yes, over SMTP with any of the usual mailer plugins, using the same key as the API. There's no first-party plugin, so it's a settings screen rather than an install.

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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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