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Once the 300 daily sends are used, no campaign can be scheduled for the next day. The Free plan's limits page names no restriction on recipients."},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable: a send count rather than an object","bytes":null,"notes":""},"retention":{"stated":"unused sends do not roll over","days":null,"notes":"","source_url":"https://help.brevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/208580669-FAQs-What-are-the-limits-of-the-Free-plan"},"egress":{"terms":"not applicable: an outbound sender","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.brevo.com/pricing/"},"interface":["rest","cli"],"tooling":"any SMTP client, or the Brevo API","chaining":"the highest card-free daily cap found: 300/day, which is three times Resend's. It is the outbound half of the inbound-plus-outbound chain and its scarce link is the day.","limits":[{"kind":"request-rate","value":"300 sends per day, resetting daily, with no carry-over","source":"https://help.brevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/208580669-FAQs-What-are-the-limits-of-the-Free-plan"},{"kind":"request-rate","value":"a campaign to more than 300 recipients delivers to 300 that day and needs a manual requeue, so the daily send counter is the campaign's limit too","source":"https://help.brevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/208580669-FAQs-What-are-the-limits-of-the-Free-plan"},{"kind":"write-gated","value":"transactional sending over SMTP or the API needs a separate activation by the vendor, requested by a support ticket from the account, before the first send; the time it takes is unverified: behind a sign-up","source":"https://help.brevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000188150-Troubleshooting-Issues-with-Brevo-SMTP"}],"identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"Signup asks for an email and a password, or a Google or Apple sign-in, with no card; the account then verifies the email and asks for basic business information. Whether a mobile phone number with an SMS code is also required is unverified: behind a sign-up; users on the vendor's community forum report a phone number and SMS code step during registration. A sender on a free domain such as gmail.com cannot be authenticated, and the vendor states that mail from a free address is rejected or filtered to spam, so delivery needs a domain the sender controls.","country":null},"reliability_note":"once the daily limit is hit, up to 1,000 transactional emails are held in a retry queue and anything beyond that is not delivered","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://help.brevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/208580669-FAQs-What-are-the-limits-of-the-Free-plan","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'The Free plan includes 300 email sends per day', unused sends do not roll over, and a campaign above 300 recipients needs the Requeue option on successive days"},{"url":"https://www.brevo.com/free-smtp-server/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'Send 300 emails a day with the best free SMTP server'"},{"url":"probe:smtp://smtp-relay.brevo.com:587","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"banner 250, EHLO advertises SIZE and 8BITMIME, STARTTLS completed against the system trust store, and AUTH LOGIN returned 334. 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