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Self-hosted Marketing Transactional

Plunk

Open-source unified email platform.

overview

Plunk unifies marketing, transactional, and broadcast email under one self-hostable open-source app. AGPL-3.0 license, EU hosting available. Developer-friendly API.

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, Plunk covers webhook coverage, event stream, the suppressions API, batch sending, and SDK breadth, and does not cover idempotency keys. 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: node, python
  • Deliverability: Self-hosted depends on your relay. Hosted plan inherits Plunks reputation.
deliverability

Self-hosted depends on your relay. Hosted plan inherits Plunks reputation.

best for

Indie devs and EU-data teams who want self-hostable unified email.

pros
  • Unified marketing + transactional
  • Self-hostable
  • Open source
cons
  • Smaller community than Postal
  • No SMTP relay option

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP No
SDKs node, python
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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