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Listmonk

Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager.

overview

Listmonk is a single-binary, high-performance newsletter manager written in Go. Bring your own SMTP. Excellent for technical operators who want full control.

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, Listmonk covers webhook coverage, event stream, the suppressions API, and batch sending, and does not cover idempotency keys and SDK breadth. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

  • Idempotency keys: No
  • Webhooks: Yes
  • Event stream: Yes
  • Operating since: Not published
  • Suppressions API: Yes
  • Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
  • Batch sending: Yes
  • SDKs: None
  • Deliverability: Inherits the deliverability of whichever SMTP relay you point it at.
deliverability

Inherits the deliverability of whichever SMTP relay you point it at.

best for

Technical operators who want a self-hosted newsletter platform.

pros
  • Single binary, easy to deploy
  • AGPL-3.0 license
  • Performant at scale
cons
  • Bring your own SMTP
  • Requires operational ownership

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP Yes
SDKs None
Webhooks Yes
Templates rich
React Email No
Batch send Yes
Scheduled send Yes
Suppressions Yes
Multi-tenant No
Inbound parsing No
Event stream Yes
Idempotency keys No
Dedicated IP No

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