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See GET /api/jtbds/transactional-email + GET /api/methodology.","asOf":"2026-10-27","honesty":["Recommended provider is the current Depot Pick from GET /api/decide. This quote does not change scores.","SKU rows are copied from data/pricing-rows.json via GET /api/pricing. No new pages were scraped for this response.","normalizedUsdPerMillionTokens on this quote is always null. Input and output stay on separate rows.","cheapestInput compares one native unit that matches this job. Chat and coding jobs use priceSortEligible input $/1M. Embedding jobs use embedding SKUs only. Speech-to-text uses a stored speech unit only (per minute when that unit exists; a voice-agent hosting minute and a speech-engine minute are not speech-to-text). Speech synthesis uses one stored TTS unit in preference order (per minute, then per 1k characters, then per million characters) and does not mix those units or a speech-engine minute. Hosted-browser jobs compare usd_per_browser_hour only (lowest tier per provider, not quality-adjusted); proxy per GB, CAPTCHA solves, monthly plans, and chat tokens are not included. Sandbox, code-interpreter, ephemeral CI, and persistent dev env compare usd_per_vcpu_hour only, and only when the Depot Pick has that row; GPU-hour, GiB-hour, and vCPU-second are not converted. Secret jobs compare identity-month or user-month, never both; if both are stored, cheapestInput is null (mixed_secret_units). Voice-agent platform jobs compare a voice-agent hosting minute only. Transactional email compares usd_per_1k_emails only. Marketing email compares usd_per_1k_emails when a non-transactional per-1k SKU exists; otherwise it ranks a marketing-labeled usd_per_email and does not convert that rate to per 1k or mix it with per-1k. Monthly plans are not a unit price (plan_not_a_unit_price). Outbound and inbound webhook jobs compare usd_per_message only. Queue jobs compare usd_per_100k_messages or usd_per_million_events, never both (mixed_units). Push does not rank MAU or monthly plans. Error observability ranks a unit only when every candidate shares it; per-error fractions are not ranked against monthly plans. MotherDuck CU-hours and flight hours are not vCPU-hours. Composio's unsplit sandbox token rate is not chat $/1M. CAPTCHA SKUs are not ranked. Other non-token jobs do not borrow a chat $/1M rate. If nothing matches, cheapestInput is null.","excluded counts candidates with zero sourced pricing rows. excludedFromCheapestInput also counts candidates whose rows are a different unit than this job.","A Depot Pick is not a price winner unless its matching sourced price is the lowest among candidates. The comparison is not quality-adjusted. pickIsPriceWinner is null (not false) when nothing was compared."],"links":{"decide":"/api/decide?jtbd=transactional-email","quote":"/api/quote?jtbd=transactional-email","pricing":"/api/pricing?provider=resend","leaderboardPrice":"/api/leaderboards?jtbd=transactional-email&sort=price","humanPage":"/jtbds/transactional-email#quote","methodology":"/api/methodology"},"sourceConflicts":[{"providerId":"mailgun","field":"Dedicated IP inclusion and a 'Growth' plan named only in the FAQ","sourceUrl":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/","asOf":"2026-10-22","quotes":["One dedicated IP is included with Foundation 100k, Growth and Scale plans. … you can add additional IPs to your account for $59/IP/month (FAQ, https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/)","Dedicated IPs: Free — Basic — Foundation 'Access at 50k, included at 100K+ volumes' Scale 'One Dedicated IP Included' (comparison table, same page); the plan cards and slider list only Free, Basic, Foundation and Scale"],"safeAssumption":"No Growth row is encoded (the page offers no Growth plan or price). Dedicated IPs are not a meter: treat one IP as included on Foundation 100k and every Scale tier, none on Free, Basic or Foundation 50k, and price extra IPs from the console."},{"providerId":"sendgrid","field":"Free Trial (60 days) vs a standing 'Free' plan in the slider data","sourceUrl":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing","asOf":"2026-10-22","quotes":["Free trial lets you send 100 emails/day for 60 days (summary); 'Free Trial $0/mo for 60 days' (comparison table); FAQ 'Twilio SendGrid's free trial runs $0 for 60 days and lets you send 100 emails a day' (https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing)","[\"Free\",\"Send 100 emails/day for free\",false,false,\"$0/mo\"] (slider data-plans entries at every volume after the first, same page; the first entry is [\"Free Trial\",\"Send 100 emails/day\",true,false,\"$0/mo for 60 days\"])"],"safeAssumption":"Treat it as a 60-day trial (the visible summary, table and FAQ), not a standing free plan. No Free row is encoded and trials are not applied to any estimate; no daily meter is added."},{"providerId":"sendgrid","field":"Email API overage rate: support article defers to a FAQ that publishes no rate","sourceUrl":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing","asOf":"2026-10-22","quotes":["Find overage costs incurred for paid plans, excluding any national or local taxes, in Twilio SendGrid Email API pricing FAQ, What happens if I go over my email plan? (https://support.sendgrid.com/hc/en-us/articles/40779261694875-Twilio-SendGrid-Overage-Rates, fetched 2026-10-22)","Send past what your plan includes and overage charges may apply on top of your monthly rate. If you're regularly pushing your limit, upgrading to the next tier usually beats paying overages. Check your plan details for the specifics. (FAQ 'What happens if I go over my plan's email limit?', https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing)"],"safeAssumption":"No overage rate is encoded (overageUsd null, overageReason overage_rate_not_published). Above a tier's included volume the tier is not costed and the next tier up is costed; every tier above Essentials 50k is flagged upper bound because a lower tier plus overage could be cheaper."},{"providerId":"customer-io","field":"Essentials billing cadence: 'billed monthly' vs the FAQ's 'anniversary' charge","sourceUrl":"https://customer.io/pricing","asOf":"2026-10-22","quotes":["Essentials starts at $ 100 per month / billed monthly for 5k profiles … Plan term Monthly Annual Annual (plan card and Usage + Billing table, https://customer.io/pricing)","We charge you based on your account's maximum number of uniquely identified people and objects (profiles). On the anniversary of your subscription, we will charge the method of payment on file in USD. Message limits vary by plan, and any messages that exceed these limits will be charged at a nominal rate. (FAQ 'How do you calculate my bill?', same page)"],"safeAssumption":"Essentials is encoded as monthly ($100 per month): the card, the table and the docs agree ('For monthly billing plans (essentials and sometimes premium or enterprise plans), Customer.io charges your plan fee plus any overages from the previous billing period at the beginning of a billing period', https://docs.customer.io/accounts/billing/how-we-bill/). The FAQ's 'anniversary' wording is read as the start of each billing period; the 'nominal rate' for extra messages is taken as the table's and docs' $0.12 per 1,000 emails."},{"providerId":"customer-io","field":"Premium/Enterprise profile overage: 'Custom' on the pricing page vs $0.004 per profile in the docs","sourceUrl":"https://docs.customer.io/accounts/billing/how-we-bill/","asOf":"2026-10-22","quotes":["Additional people & object profiles $0.009 Custom Custom (Usage + Billing table, Essentials / Premium / Enterprise, https://customer.io/pricing)","Type Essentials Rate Premium/Enterprise Rate Profiles $0.009 per profile $0.004 per profile Emails * $0.12 per 1,000 emails $0.12 per 1,000 emails (https://docs.customer.io/accounts/billing/how-we-bill/)"],"safeAssumption":"Only Essentials is encoded, at $0.009 per profile, where both sources agree. Premium and Enterprise are not encoded (annual term, 'Custom profile volume & pricing', no published included volumes), so the docs' $0.004 rate is not applied to any estimate."},{"providerId":"postmark","field":"overage rate: flat per-plan rate in the Depot catalog and the page's default card vs volume-dependent rates in the published tier tables","sourceUrl":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing.txt","asOf":"2026-10-22","quotes":["Extra emails @ $ 1.80 / 1,000 (Basic card at the default 10,000 position, https://postmarkapp.com/pricing; Depot catalog rows postmark-basic-overage $1.80, postmark-pro-overage $1.30, postmark-platform-overage $1.20 usd_per_1k_emails, asOf 2026-10-21, 'Extra emails beyond the plan's included volume')","| Basic    | Solo developers and smaller teams | $1.70–$1.80 (volume-dependent)| ; '| 300,000–700,000| $1.70   | $1.25   | $1.15    |' ; '| 1,500,000      | $1.70   | $1.20   | $1.15    |' (pricing.txt 'Overage Rates by Volume')"],"safeAssumption":"Plan limits encode each tier's own rate (10k–125k: $1.80 / $1.30 / $1.20; 300k–700k: $1.70 / $1.25 / $1.15; 1.5M: $1.70 / $1.20 / $1.15), matching the slider script. The catalog rows are correct for the 10k–125,000 tiers only and are NOT changed here (re-pricing needs a reviewed --catalog step)."},{"providerId":"postmark","field":"where published pricing ends: 3,000,000 emails/month vs the Big Sender form's lowest volume option","sourceUrl":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing","asOf":"2026-10-22","quotes":["Published pricing covers volumes up to 3 million emails per month. Sending 3 million or more? Postmark offers custom pricing for high-volume senders. (https://postmarkapp.com/pricing.txt; slider script max_volume:3e6, 'Big Sender!')","Hey Big Sender! … What is your anticipated monthly volume? Select a volume… Less than 1.5 million/month Between 1.5 – 10 million/month More than 10 million/month (contact-sales form shown on the pricing page at the slider's 'More' position)"],"safeAssumption":"Published tier prices are costed up to 2,999,999 emails/month (the 1.5M tiers cover 1,500,000–2,999,999 with overage); 3,000,000+ returns exceeds_plan_maximum_big_sender_custom_pricing. The form's volume buckets are not prices and are not encoded."}],"volumeEstimateHint":"Add &volume=<number> for a plan-level monthly cost (GET /api/estimate?jtbd=transactional-email&workload=...)"}