Brevo
Brevo is the most intuitive all-in-one customer engagement platform: email and SMS marketing, automation, CRM, live chat, and transactional email. [1]
Brevo is an all-in-one customer engagement platform spanning transactional and marketing email, SMS, WhatsApp, automation, and CRM. The REST API supports API-key and OAuth2 auth, webhooks, seven SDKs, and an official MCP server. Pricing is published and self-serve with a free tier of 300 emails/day and paid plans from $9/month, and the platform is GDPR and ISO 27001 compliant with a published SLA. Used by eBay, H&M, and Louis Vuitton.
Scores
Pricing & procurement
- Pricing model
- Hybrid (base + usage) [2]
- Published pricing
- ✓ Yes [3]
- Free tier
- ✓ Yes [4]
- Free tier details
- Free forever, no credit card needed, no time limit. Includes 300 daily email sends (unused sends do not carry over), storage for up to 100,000 contacts, multi-channel marketing automation for up to 2,000 unique contacts, free sales features, outbound webhooks, email support. Emails include mandatory 'Sent with Brevo' branding. [5]
- Self-serve signup
- ✓ Yes [6]
- Requires sales call
- ✗ No [7]
- Enterprise plan
- ✓ Yes [8]
| Plan | Item | Per | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 300 emails | day | $0 | source |
| Starter | 5,000 emails | month | $9 | source |
| Starter | 5,000 emails | month (annual billing) | $8.08 | source |
| Standard | 5,000 emails | month | $18 | source |
| Standard | 5,000 emails | month (annual billing) | $16.17 | source |
| Professional | 150,000 emails | month | $499 | source |
| Professional | 150,000 emails | month (annual billing) | $449.08 | source |
| yearly billing discount | year | 10% | source | |
| Starter | Remove Brevo logo | month | $9 | source |
| Sales Essentials seat | month | $31 | source | |
| Sales Advanced seat | month | $64 | source | |
| Standard | additional marketing seat | month | $9 | source |
| Dedicated IP | year | $251 | source | |
| Professional | SAML SSO | month | $324 | source |
Capabilities
- Supported actions
- send_transactional_email, send_batch_transactional_emails, list_transactional_emails, get_transactional_email_content, get_blocked_contacts, get_blocked_domains, block_domain, delete_transactional_email_log, get_scheduled_email_status, delete_scheduled_email, create_email_template, list_email_templates, get_email_template, update_email_template, delete_email_template, send_transactional_sms, get_sms_aggregated_statistics, get_sms_daily_statistics, get_sms_events, send_whatsapp_message, get_whatsapp_events, create_whatsapp_campaign, list_whatsapp_campaigns, get_whatsapp_campaign, update_whatsapp_campaign, delete_whatsapp_campaign, list_whatsapp_templates, create_whatsapp_template, submit_whatsapp_template_for_approval, get_whatsapp_config, create_contact, list_contacts, get_contact, update_contact, delete_contact, import_contacts, export_contacts, list_contact_attributes, create_contact_attribute, delete_contact_attribute, create_contact_list, list_contact_lists, get_contact_list, update_contact_list, delete_contact_list, add_contacts_to_list, remove_contacts_from_list, create_contact_folder, list_contact_folders, get_contact_folder, update_contact_folder, delete_contact_folder, list_folder_lists, create_contact_segment, list_contact_segments, get_contact_segment, update_contact_segment, delete_contact_segment, create_email_campaign, list_email_campaigns, get_email_campaign, update_email_campaign, delete_email_campaign, send_email_campaign, send_email_campaign_test, upload_campaign_image, create_sms_campaign, list_sms_campaigns, get_sms_campaign, update_sms_campaign, delete_sms_campaign, send_sms_campaign, send_sms_campaign_test, get_sms_campaign_statistics, create_webhook, list_webhooks, get_webhook, update_webhook, delete_webhook, export_webhook_events, list_inbound_events, get_inbound_event, download_inbound_attachment, get_account_info, track_event, batch_track_events, create_order, get_order, update_order_status, create_product, get_product, update_product, delete_product, list_products, create_custom_object, get_custom_object, update_custom_object, delete_custom_object, list_custom_objects, create_conversation, get_conversation, list_conversations, get_conversation_message, send_conversation_message [9]
- Regions
- Global [10]
- Input types
- JSON, HTML, plain text, CSV, multipart/form-data [11]
- Output types
- JSON, CSV [12]
- Webhooks
- ✓ Yes [13]
- Sandbox / test mode
- ✓ Yes [14]
- SDK languages
- Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby [15]
- MCP server
- ✓ Yes [16]
Trust & compliance
- SOC 2
- – Unknown [17]
- HIPAA
- – Unknown [18]
- GDPR
- ✓ Yes [19]
- ISO 27001
- ✓ Yes [20]
- PCI DSS
- – Unknown [21]
- Published SLA
- ✓ Yes [22]
- Rate limits
- Rate limits expressed in RPS (Requests per second) and RPH (Requests per hour). General tier: POST /v3/smtp/email 1,000 RPS / 3,600,000 RPH; POST /v3/transactionalSMS/send 150 RPS / 540,000 RPH; POST /v3/events 10 RPS / 36,000 RPH; POST /v3/contacts/* 10 RPS / 36,000 RPH; GET /v3/smtp/emails 2 RPS / 7,200 RPH; all other endpoints 100 RPH. Advanced tier (Professional/Enterprise): POST /v3/smtp/email 2,000 RPS / 7,200,000 RPH; POST /v3/transactionalSMS/send 200 RPS / 720,000 RPH. Extended tier (Enterprise only): POST /v3/smtp/email 6,000 RPS; POST /v3/transactionalSMS/send 250 RPS. [23]
- Known restrictions
- Free plan limited to 300 daily email sends; unused sends do not carry over, Free plan emails always include 'Sent with Brevo' sticker; cannot be removed, Free plan allows up to 2,000 unique contacts in active automations, Batch transactional email: 'Send up to 1000 email messages in one API call; Execute the endpoint up to 6000 times per hour (100 times per minute)', Subscriptions are fixed-term contracts and non-cancellable prior to the end of the ongoing subscription period, As of May 5th, 2025, Brevo no longer supports sending SMS messages to Singapore [24]
Developer surface
Integration
- API style
- rest
- Base URL
- https://api.brevo.com/v3/
- Version
- v3
- Versioning
- url
- Stability
- ga
- Auth methods
- api_key, oauth2
- Error format
- vendor-specific
Adoption & maturity
- Launched
- 2012-01-01
- Notable customers
- eBay, H&M, Louis Vuitton, Sodexo, Carrefour, Michelin, Florida Trend, Bodybuilding.com, Amnesty International
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References
- ↑Description: brevo.com
- ↑Pricing model: brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑Published pricing: brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑Free tier: brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑Free tier details: brevo.com · help.brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑Self-serve signup: developers.brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑Requires sales call: developers.brevo.com · brevo.com
- ↑Enterprise plan: developers.brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑Supported actions: developers.brevo.com
- ↑Regions: help.brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑Input types: developers.brevo.com · developers.brevo.com
- ↑Output types: developers.brevo.com
- ↑Webhooks: developers.brevo.com · developers.brevo.com · developers.brevo.com
- ↑Sandbox: developers.brevo.com
- ↑SDK languages: developers.brevo.com · developers.brevo.com
- ↑MCP server: developers.brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑SOC 2: brevo.com
- ↑HIPAA: brevo.com
- ↑GDPR: brevo.com · help.brevo.com
- ↑ISO 27001: brevo.com
- ↑PCI DSS: brevo.com
- ↑Published SLA: brevo.com · engineering.brevo.com
- ↑Rate limits: developers.brevo.com
- ↑Known restrictions: developers.brevo.com · help.brevo.com
Change history
- 2026-06-08 Changelog URL: (none) → https://www.brevo.com/releases
- 2026-06-08 Docs URL: (none) → https://developers.brevo.com
- 2026-06-08 Llms Txt Present: (none) → No
- 2026-06-08 Rendering: (none) → static
- 2026-06-08 Status Page URL: (none) → https://status.brevo.com
- 2026-06-07 SDK Packages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby → Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby
- 2026-06-07 Summary Md: (none) → Brevo is an all-in-one customer engagement platform spanning transactional and …
- 2026-06-07 SDK Packages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby → Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby
- 2026-06-07 SDK Packages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby → Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby
- 2026-06-07 MCP URL: (none) → https://developers.brevo.com/_mcp/server
- 2026-06-07 Quickstart URL: (none) → https://developers.brevo.com/reference/quickstart-reference
- 2026-06-07 Error Format: (none) → vendor-specific
- 2026-06-07 Webhook Events URL: (none) → https://developers.brevo.com/docs/how-to-use-webhooks
- 2026-06-07 Requires Verification: (none) → No
- 2026-06-07 Data Retention Policy URL: (none) → https://help.brevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/19317424653586-FAQs-About-the-data-ret…
- 2026-06-07 Starting Price Usd: (none) → 9
- 2026-06-07 Price Basis: (none) → month
- 2026-06-07 Free Tier Limit: (none) → 300 emails/day
- 2026-06-07 Launched At: (none) → 2012-01-01
- 2026-06-07 Notable Customers: (none) → eBay, H&M, Louis Vuitton, Sodexo, Carrefour, Michelin, Florida Trend, Bodybuild…
- 2026-06-07 Fields Not Found: (none) → ga_date, idempotency_supported
- 2026-06-07 SLA URL: (none) → https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/
- 2026-06-07 Auth Methods: (none) → api_key, oauth2
- 2026-06-07 Auth Docs URL: (none) → https://developers.brevo.com/docs/authentication-schemes
- 2026-06-07 API Style: (none) → rest
- 2026-06-07 Base URL: (none) → https://api.brevo.com/v3/
- 2026-06-07 API Version: (none) → v3
- 2026-06-07 Versioning Scheme: (none) → url
- 2026-06-07 Stability: (none) → ga
- 2026-06-07 SDK Packages: (none) → Node.js, Python, PHP, Java, C#, Go, Ruby
- 2026-06-07 Capabilities: {"smtp":true,"inbound":true,"analytics":true,"marketing":true,"templates":true,… → {"smtp":true,"inbound":true,"analytics":true,"marketing":true,"templates":true,…