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Notifications founded 2019

Courier

Notification infrastructure with visual journeys.

overview

Courier blends notification infrastructure with marketing-style journeys. Visual template builder, drop-in inbox UI, native Slack and Teams routing. Bridges product notifications and customer engagement.

for teams choosing a transactional API

Judged purely as an API. What the request contract guarantees on retry, how complete the webhook event coverage is, whether suppressions are readable and writable programmatically, and how much the message log retains when something needs debugging in production.

Against high-frequency programmatic sends where a missed delivery is a product failure, Courier covers webhook coverage, event stream, the suppressions API, batch sending, and SDK breadth, and does not cover idempotency keys and operating track record. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

  • Idempotency keys: No
  • Webhooks: Yes
  • Event stream: Yes
  • Operating since: 2019
  • Suppressions API: Yes
  • Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
  • Batch sending: Yes
  • SDKs: node, python, go, ruby, php, java
  • Deliverability: Inherits providers you connect.
deliverability

Inherits providers you connect.

best for

Teams that need both product notifications and marketing-style journeys.

pros
  • Visual journey editor
  • Native Slack/Teams routing
  • Drop-in inbox component
cons
  • Less code-first than Knock
  • Pricing climbs with volume

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP No
SDKs node, python, go, ruby, php, java
Webhooks Yes
Templates rich
React Email No
Batch send Yes
Scheduled send Yes
Suppressions Yes
Multi-tenant Yes
Inbound parsing No
Event stream Yes
Idempotency keys No
Dedicated IP No

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