# Courier pricing in 2026

Canonical page: https://notifly.io/compare/courier/pricing
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.

Courier pricing in 2026: free Developer plan with 10,000 sends, Business at $0.005 per send, bills to 1M sends; email and SMS provider fees bill separately on top.

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.

## Courier and Notifly side by side

| Feature | Notifly | Courier (Developer and Business) | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paid plan, entry price | Pro, $19 a month flat, for 50,000 events | Business, $0.005 per send from the first send, so $250 at 50,000 sends | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| What the bill scales with | Events you trigger; one event is one event however many channels it reaches | Sends: one template to one recipient, however many channels; a list of 100 users is 100 sends | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| Free plan | 10,000 events a month, no card; all 70+ providers, all 5 channels; up to 20 workflows | 10,000 sends a month on Developer, until a card is added | https://www.courier.com/pricing |
| Past the paid plan's allowance | Higher event volumes on request | Enterprise volume pricing "below $0.005 per send", quoted by sales | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| Email, SMS and push provider fees | Paid to your own providers, on top of the plan | Paid to the providers you connect (SendGrid, Twilio and others), on top of the per-send price | https://www.courier.com/docs/workspaces/billing |
| Role-based access control | Team, $149 a month | Enterprise | https://www.courier.com/pricing |
| Team members | 3 on Free and Pro, unlimited on Team | No per-seat fee on any plan | https://www.courier.com/pricing |

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does Courier cost?

As of November 8, 2026, Courier's pricing page lists three plans: Developer, free with 10,000 sends a month; Business, $0.005 per send; and Enterprise, which has custom volume pricing and no published rate. Courier's billing docs say Business bills every send, including the first 10,000, so 100,000 sends a month is $500.

### How much does Courier cost for high-volume email and SMS?

On Business the send bill is the number of sends times $0.005: $500 at 100,000 sends, $2,500 at 500,000 and $5,000 at 1,000,000 a month. A send is one template to one recipient, so an email and an SMS to the same person from one template are one send. Courier's Enterprise plan has volume pricing below $0.005 per send, but publishes no figure. Your email and SMS providers' own charges are separate and come on top.

### Is Courier free?

Yes, within limits. Courier's Developer plan is free and includes 10,000 sends a month, journeys, broadcasts, the MCP server, the CLI, the SDKs and SSO via Google and GitHub. Adding a credit card to a workspace moves it to Business, which charges $0.005 for every send, including the first 10,000.

### What counts as a send on Courier?

According to Courier's billing docs, a send is one template sent to one recipient. A template that goes out as an email, an SMS and a push is one send. A send to a list of 100 users is 100 sends. A send counts whether or not the provider delivers it, so bounced messages and messages blocked by a user's preferences count too, and so do sends from Test and custom environments.

### Do I still pay for email and SMS providers on top of Courier?

Yes. Courier's billing docs say its per-send price covers Courier, and that the providers you connect, such as SendGrid or Twilio, bill you separately under their own pricing. Courier describes itself as not an email or SMS provider. The same is true of Notifly, which sends through provider accounts you connect and pay directly. Neither bill includes the other's, and neither page can quote your provider's rates, so add them to either side before comparing.

### How can I reduce my Courier bill?

Courier's billing docs point to digests and batching, which combine several events into one notification, so a user gets one send instead of many. That lowers both the Courier bill and your provider costs. A broadcast to a list is the other lever: it is counted once per recipient, so 10,000 notifications to a list of 50 users are 500,000 sends, $2,500 a month.

### How much does Courier Enterprise cost?

Courier does not publish it. Enterprise is listed as Custom, with volume pricing below $0.005 per send, quoted by its sales team, plus role-based access control, observability integrations, a dedicated Slack channel and an enterprise SLA.

### What else does Courier bill for?

Two things on top of sends. AI credits, which pay for AI journey nodes and AI Translation on the Business and Enterprise plans, cost $1 per 100 credits, bought in packs. Device Preview is a monthly add-on that needs a card on file, in three tiers: $20 for 100 previews, then $0.20 each; $50 for 400 previews, then $0.15 each; $100 for 1,000 previews, then $0.12 each.

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

They meter different things. Courier charges for sends: one template to one recipient. Notifly charges for events you trigger, so one event that reaches email and SMS is one event. Free is $0 forever for 10,000 events per month, Pro is $19/month for 50,000 events per month and Team is $149/month for 500,000 events per month, with unlimited subscribers on every plan. Courier has no per-seat fee, where Notifly allows three team members on Free and Pro, so if seats are your constraint Courier is the more generous of the two.

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