# Notifly vs Courier

Canonical page: https://notifly.io/compare/courier
Claims last checked: 2026-11-08
Verified November 8, 2026 by the Notifly team. Every claim about Courier links the page it was read from, and this date is the day those pages were last read.

A Courier alternative with flat monthly plans instead of pay-as-you-go billing. Roles, translations and audit logs come on the $149 Team tier. Start free.

Courier bills $0.005 per send once past a 10,000 free tier and lists RBAC and the audit trail under Enterprise. At 50,000 a month: $250 against a $19 flat plan.

## Side by side

| Feature | Notifly | Courier (hosted plans) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Pricing model | Flat plan, metered on trigger events | Pay as you go — $0.005 per send on Business, every send billed once past the 10,000 free tier | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| Free-plan volume | 10,000 events/month | 10,000 sends per month on Developer | https://www.courier.com/pricing |
| First paid tier | $19/month (50,000 events) | Business — pay as you go at $0.005 per send, from the first send | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| Cost at 50,000 notifications/month | $19 (Pro) | $250 on Business — 50,000 sends at $0.005 | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| Multi-channel notifications | One event, every channel it routes to | One send, not one per channel | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| Message log retention | 24h free, 7 days Pro, 90 days Team | 30 days Developer and Business, 365 days Enterprise per the docs; the pricing matrix lists 7 days on Developer | https://www.courier.com/docs/platform/analytics/message-logs |
| Role-based access control | Team — $149/month | Enterprise only | https://www.courier.com/pricing |
| SAML 2.0 SSO | Enterprise — SAML, OIDC and SCIM sync | Custom SSO row in the matrix; Developer lists Google and GitHub only | https://www.courier.com/pricing |
| Translations (i18n) | Team — $149/month | Internationalization on every plan; AI Translations from Business | https://www.courier.com/pricing |
| Audit log of account events | Included, with CSV/NDJSON export | Enterprise — workspace changes such as key rotations, role changes and publishes | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/audit-trail |
| Channel coverage | Email, SMS, push, chat, in-app inbox | Email, push, SMS, in-app and chat with no channel add-on fees | https://www.courier.com/pricing |
| Billing basis for team size | 3 members on Free and Pro, unlimited on Team | Billed on notifications sent, not team size | https://www.courier.com/pricing |

## Frequently asked questions

### Is Notifly a good Courier alternative?

It is if your Courier bill has grown past what a flat plan would cost, or if you need role-based access control without an Enterprise contract. Notifly's Pro plan covers 50,000 workflow events for $19 a month, where the same volume on Courier's pay-as-you-go Business plan comes to $250, and Notifly puts roles and translations on a $149 self-serve plan. If your team lives in Courier's Design Studio or hands its template designer to your own customers, Courier remains the better fit.

### What does per-send pricing actually cost you?

Courier counts a notification as one send however many channels it reaches, and its Business plan charges $0.005 for every send, the first 10,000 included. At 50,000 notifications a month that is $250; at 100,000 it is $500. Notifly's Pro plan covers 50,000 events for a flat $19 and Team covers 500,000 for $149, with higher volumes sized on request rather than billed as an automatic overage. Up to 10,000 a month both products are free, because Courier's Developer plan is.

### How do I migrate from Courier to Notifly?

Create a free workspace, connect your email, SMS, push and chat providers as integrations, and rebuild each Courier notification as a Notifly workflow in the visual editor, with its templates as channel steps. Then replace the send calls in your backend with POST /v1/events/trigger, sync recipients as subscribers over the API, and verify deliveries in the Development environment before switching to the Production key.

### How does Notifly's pricing compare with Courier's?

Both start free at 10,000 a month — events on Notifly, sends on Courier — and both count a notification once however many channels it reaches. Above that, Courier's Business plan is pay as you go at $0.005 for every send, which is $250 at 50,000 a month. Notifly's Pro plan is $19 a month for 50,000 events and Team is $149 a month for 500,000 events with roles and translations; higher volumes are sized on request.

### Which channels does Notifly support?

Email, SMS, mobile and web push, chat — Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp Business and more — and a real-time in-app inbox, across 70+ provider integrations on every plan. You connect your own provider accounts and their invoices stay with them.

### Do I need to talk to sales for roles or SSO?

Not for roles: role-based access control, translations, custom environments and unlimited members are on the $149 Team plan. Start free, and try Pro free for 14 days whenever you’re ready — no card needed. SAML or OIDC single sign-on and SCIM directory sync are Enterprise features — email sales@notifly.io for those, or for volumes above the Team plan.

### What does Courier do that Notifly doesn't?

Courier is a genuinely good product and some of it has no Notifly equivalent: the Design Studio template editor, a drop-in designer you can embed so your own customers edit and publish messages, and data-warehouse integrations and EU data residency on its higher plans. Its billing is also honest about seats — you pay for notifications, not team members, where Notifly caps Free and Pro at three members. Template internationalization is on every Courier plan, where Notifly's translations start on Team, and even Courier's free plan keeps message logs for at least a week against our free plan's 24 hours. Weigh those against where roles and the audit log sit on each price list.

## Pricing breakdown

- Courier pricing: https://notifly.io/compare/courier/pricing (markdown: https://notifly.io/compare/courier/pricing.md) — What Courier costs in 2026: the free Developer plan with 10,000 sends, Business at $0.005 per send, worked bills at 10,000 to 1,000,000 sends, that email and SMS provider fees bill separately on top, and Notifly's flat plans beside them.

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