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Rasket vs Brevo

Both send email over a REST API. Every row below was read from Rasket's own pages and Brevo's own pages on 2026-09-16, and every one of them links to the page it came from.

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Rasket
Rasket is an email API for developers: one REST API, a dashboard and typed SDKs for transactional email and broadcasts, with inbound mail, signed webhooks and an MCP server in the same product and on the same key.
Brevo
Brevo is a marketing platform with a transactional email API attached: an SMTP relay, three official SDKs, secured webhooks, inbound parsing, idempotency keys for batch sends and an MCP server over its developer documentation.

Key takeaways

  • Extra emails, per 1,000 — Rasket: $0.60. Brevo: Not published.
  • Entry paid plan — Rasket: $20 a month for 50,000 emails. Brevo: Not published.
  • Free plan — Rasket: 3,000 emails a month, 100 a day, 3 domains. Brevo: Not published.
  • Data retention — Rasket: 30 days on the self-serve plans. Brevo: Not published.
  • Transactional and broadcasts on one plan — Rasket: Yes. Brevo: Marketing campaigns and transactional email are both in the API.

How they compare

Rasket first, then the same row for the other product. A number beside a cell is the source it was read from; the list at the foot of the page has the link and the date.

Rasket and Brevo compared, row by row
CriterionRasketBrevo
Inbound emailYes Rasket, source 1Receive at your own domain on every plan, delivered as a signed webhook.Yes Brevo, source 13Inbound parse webhooks, documented in their developer guide.
Transactional and broadcasts on one planYes Rasket, source 2A broadcast travels the same send pipeline as a password reset, on the same plan and the same key.Marketing campaigns and transactional email are both in the API Brevo, source 14
Signed webhooksYes Rasket, source 3Yes Brevo, source 15Their secured webhooks guide.
Replay a webhook eventYes Rasket, source 3Send the event again from the dashboard or the API; a replay carries the identical payload under the same event id.Not published Brevo, source 14
Idempotent sendsYes Rasket, source 4An Idempotency-Key is remembered for 24 hours.For batch transactional email Brevo, source 16
Versioned templatesYes Rasket, source 5Published versions with typed variables; every send records the version it used.Not published Brevo, source 14
AutomationsYes Rasket, source 6Workflows, started by events their tracker records Brevo, source 17
MCP serverYes Rasket, source 7An HTTP MCP server with seven toolsets, plus a setup skill.Yes Brevo, source 18
Markdown docs and llms.txtYes Rasket, source 8Markdown at every docs URL, with llms.txt and llms-full.txt.Yes Brevo, source 14A .md suffix on a developer documentation URL returns Markdown, and llms.txt indexes them.
Official SDKsNode.js and Python Rasket, source 9Node.js, Python and PHP Brevo, source 19
Free plan3,000 emails a month, 100 a day, 3 domains Rasket, source 10Not published Brevo, source 20Their pricing page builds its plan table in the browser; nothing could be read from the page itself on the day.
Entry paid plan$20 a month for 50,000 emails Rasket, source 10Not published Brevo, source 20Same page, same reason.
Extra emails, per 1,000$0.60 Rasket, source 10The rate steps down to $0.25 as the Scale ladder climbs.Not published Brevo, source 20Same page, same reason.
Data retention30 days on the self-serve plans Rasket, source 10Custom retention on a Custom plan.Not published Brevo, source 20
Dedicated IPAn add-on on Scale Rasket, source 10Not published Brevo, source 20
SMTP relayNo Rasket, source 11Sending is the REST API, the SDKs and the MCP server. There is no relay to point a mail client at.Yes Brevo, source 21
DKIM key size2048-bit, one key per domain Rasket, source 12Not published Brevo, source 14
Best forDevelopers who want sending, receiving and broadcasts behind one API keyTeams who want marketing, CRM and transactional email from one vendor

Where Brevo wins

Brevo reaches further than email. Campaigns, contacts, a CRM and conversations live in the same account, so a small team that would otherwise buy three products can buy one, and their API covers all of it. They run an SMTP relay and publish three official SDKs to our two. Their developer documentation is also unusually well set up for assistants: Markdown at every URL, an llms.txt index and an MCP server.

The verdict

This one is hard to settle on price, and the page says so rather than guessing: Brevo builds its plan table in the browser, so on the day we checked nothing about the free plan, the entry price or the cost of extra mail could be read from the page itself. What is comparable is the product. Both sign webhooks, both receive inbound mail, both publish an MCP server and Markdown documentation. Choose Brevo if you want marketing, CRM and email from one vendor; choose Rasket if email is the whole job and you want replay, versioned templates and a published price you can read without a browser.

Frequently asked questions

Is Rasket a good alternative to Brevo?

It is, if what you want is an email API rather than a marketing suite. Rasket publishes its prices as text you can read, replays webhook events from the dashboard, versions templates and keeps thirty days of history on the self-serve plans. Brevo covers ground Rasket does not — campaigns, a CRM, conversations — and runs an SMTP relay. On the day we checked, Brevo's pricing page rendered its plan table in the browser, so the price rows of our table say Not published rather than a number we could not read.

Does Brevo include inbound email?

Brevo: Yes. Inbound parse webhooks, documented in their developer guide. Rasket receives mail at your own domain on every plan, including the free one, and delivers each message to a signed webhook with its headers, text, HTML and attachments.

Which is cheaper at 50,000 emails a month?

We cannot say, and would rather not invent it. On the day we checked, Brevo's pricing page built its plan table in the browser, so no price could be read from the page. Rasket is $20 a month for 50,000 emails with extra mail at $0.60 per thousand. Read Brevo's pricing page yourself for their figure at that volume.

Does Rasket have an SMTP relay?

No. Rasket sends over the REST API, the Node and Python SDKs, and the MCP server, and there is no relay to point a mail client or an off-the-shelf application at. If moving means changing an SMTP host rather than changing code, that is a real reason to stay where you are.

Can I migrate from Brevo to Rasket?

Add the domain in Rasket and publish the generated DKIM, SPF and DMARC records; nothing about that stops Brevo sending in the meantime. Then move transactional sends to POST /emails, and rebuild the templates you use as Rasket templates with typed variables, published as a version. Inbound parse webhooks become a Rasket receiving domain and one signed webhook; contacts come across as a CSV import. If you are using Brevo's campaign tooling, plan that part separately — a Rasket broadcast covers sending to a segment, not a CRM.

Which is better for AI agents?

Both, genuinely. Brevo publishes an MCP server, Markdown at every developer documentation URL and an llms.txt index; Rasket publishes an MCP server with seven toolsets, a setup skill, Markdown twins, llms.txt and llms-full.txt. The distinction is scope again: Brevo's surface spans a marketing platform, so an agent has more to get right, where Rasket's is email and stops there.

Sources

  1. 1. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/receiving. Read 2026-09-16.
  2. 2. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/broadcasts. Read 2026-09-16.
  3. 3. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/webhooks. Read 2026-09-16.
  4. 4. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/docs/idempotency. Read 2026-09-16.
  5. 5. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/templates. Read 2026-09-16.
  6. 6. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/automations. Read 2026-09-16.
  7. 7. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/agents. Read 2026-09-16.
  8. 8. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/llms.txt. Read 2026-09-16.
  9. 9. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/about. Read 2026-09-16.
  10. 10. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/pricing. Read 2026-09-16.
  11. 11. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/email-api. Read 2026-09-16.
  12. 12. Rasket — http://localhost:3000/features/domains. Read 2026-09-16.
  13. 13. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/docs/inbound-parse-webhooks. Read 2026-09-16.
  14. 14. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/llms.txt. Read 2026-09-16.
  15. 15. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/docs/secured-webhooks. Read 2026-09-16.
  16. 16. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/docs/heterogenous-versions-batch-emails. Read 2026-09-16.
  17. 17. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/guides/track-website-activity. Read 2026-09-16.
  18. 18. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/docs/mcp-protocol. Read 2026-09-16.
  19. 19. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/docs/api-clients. Read 2026-09-16.
  20. 20. Brevo — https://www.brevo.com/pricing/. Read 2026-09-16.
  21. 21. Brevo — https://developers.brevo.com/docs/smtp-integration. Read 2026-09-16.

Last checked 2026-09-16. Prices and plan contents change. Every figure above was read from the linked page on the date beside it; if one has moved since, the page it came from is the one to trust.

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