Email Bump

Email Bump is an email platform that puts marketing campaigns, automated flows and transactional email on one plan, priced by contacts. Its home page headline presents it as a way to send email with AI, and it describes the product as a way to "Send marketing campaigns and transactional email, build automated flows, and reach the right customers from one simple platform." It is built for small teams that send both newsletters and product email, including developers who want an API, an SMTP server and tools for AI coding agents.

The feature menu covers behavioral tracking, newsletters and campaigns, transactional email and SMTP, email for AI agents, inbound email, automations, signup forms, segmentation and CRM, deliverability, and analytics. Every plan includes unlimited users, projects and sending domains.

What a sender gets

One editor, two styles. The editor writes plain, native-style emails that read as if they came straight from a person, and polished designed campaigns with images, columns, buttons and your brand, without switching tools. AI writing assistance is part of the feature list.

Campaigns and broadcasts. One-time sends come with A/B tests that pick their own winner automatically. Send-time scheduling offers three modes, described on the home page as "gradual, smart, or each recipient's local morning", so a campaign can go out in each reader's timezone rather than yours.

Automations. A visual flow builder, which the site says anyone on the team can use, handles welcome series, follow-ups and personalized customer journeys. Flows run on customer activity, with simple branches and audience rules, and the free-plan comparison pages describe multi-step flows with triggers, waits and branches. The number of flows is not capped on any plan, including the free one.

Behavioral tracking and segments. Customer event tracking feeds both journeys and segments: your application sends events (a purchase, a pricing-page view, a sign-up) and flows and live segments react to them. The segmentation and CRM side organizes customers and targets people by activity, details and interests, with audiences that update themselves. A live activity feed follows every send, open, click and tracked customer action as it happens.

Forms. Signup forms and popups capture new contacts; the menu sums up the form embed as "One line of HTML, and it never goes stale".

Transactional email, SMTP and inbound. For developers there is an HTTP API, a real SMTP server and an events endpoint. The home page says every path "shares the same log, the same domains, and the same limits", and that opens, clicks, bounces and unsubscribes are tracked on all three. Receipts, password resets and order updates go out with a single POST request from your own code; the example on the home page authenticates with a bearer API key and sends a JSON body with the sender, recipient, subject and HTML. Email Bump can also receive email, not just send it.

Built for AI agents. A distinctive part of the offer is tooling for AI agents: SKILL.md files that teach Claude Code, Cursor and Codex to send and stay deliverable, a JSON-first CLI that covers every endpoint with confirmation gates on anything irreversible, and an MCP server with 74 tools for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. The home page says the MCP server "Drafts freely; sending waits for your explicit approval." A separate product gives AI agents their own addresses to send and receive from.

Deliverability and reporting. The site lists authentication and deliverability tools, reports and list hygiene, and analytics that show "What happened, and what it was worth". It advertises 24/7 monitoring.

Plans and prices

Pricing is one plan, Pro, "priced by contacts", with "EVERYTHING INCLUDED". A slider on the pricing section runs from 1,000 to 500,000+ contacts. Billing is monthly or annual, and annual plans include two months free.

Free. The pricing section says your first 5,000 contacts are free and paid plans start at 5,001. The free plan includes 5,000 contacts and 5,000 emails per month, every feature including automations, API and webhooks, and the Email Bump footer on emails. No credit card is required, and the home page promises you can be live in minutes. The free-plan comparison pages add that there is no daily cap and that domains and seats are unlimited, and they describe the branding as a "Powered by Email Bump" badge on marketing footers.

Paid. Paid plans include every feature with nothing to add on, unlimited marketing and transactional sending, unlimited team members and workspaces, unlimited projects and sending domains, full API, webhooks and integrations, and no Email Bump branding. A footnote says unlimited marketing sends are "subject to fair use". Only active subscribers count toward the contact total: unsubscribed and bounced contacts are always free. The home page also promises no seat fees and no deliverability add-on.

Support, compliance and migration

The support section promises help "from people who send email for a living" and lists five points: migration help when you switch, price-match reviews against your current invoice, deliverability guidance, dedicated IP options when you need them, and "SOC 2 compliant". The footer links to a DPA alongside the privacy policy and terms. Resources include API docs, a blog of guides and product notes, a glossary of email terms, and free checkers and calculators.

The company publishes a series of "free alternatives" and "open-source alternatives" pages. Read as a statement about its own plan, they repeat that the free tier carries 5,000 contacts, 5,000 emails a month, unlimited flows, live segments, campaigns, SMTP and the transactional API on the same key.

Who it suits

Email Bump suits startups, SaaS products and small online businesses that need both marketing email and product email and would rather manage one sending setup than two. The free plan's 5,000 contacts and 5,000 monthly emails, with flows and the API included, are enough to run a real onboarding sequence and receipts before paying. Contact-based pricing with unlimited seats and domains suits teams with several people and brands, and the fair-use unlimited sending suits frequent senders on paid plans. Developers who work through Claude Code, Cursor or Codex get agent skills, a CLI and an MCP server designed for that workflow. Senders who want per-plan prices laid out in a table will need to use the contact slider on the pricing page, since the home page shows the model rather than a price list.