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Free allowance: 100 emails per day and 3,000 emails per month on the Email API Free plan, up to 1,000 contacts, at USD 0 with no card
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, phone unknown
Binding limit: request-rate100 emails per day, resetting daily with no carry-over; each attachment counts as one more email; 3,000 emails per month
Evidence: documented37 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03

Free tier	100 emails per day and 3,000 emails per month on the Email API Free plan, up to 1,000 contacts, at USD 0 with no card unit requests; metered on request-count; The daily limit resets every day and unused sends do not carry over. Each attachment counts as one more email against the daily limit, so a message with one attachment uses 2 of the 100. The Free plan keeps 3 days of logs and allows single address verification only. Email API and Email Marketing are separate accounts. The cheapest paid Email API plan is USD 19 per month for 50,000 emails, and paid plans have no daily limit.
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate (binding) 100 emails per day, resetting daily with no carry-over; each attachment counts as one more email source request-rate (binding) 3,000 emails per month source write-gated the account must be verified before it can send, and a verified domain set as the default sender is required from the start source counts of things, not rates, so no vocabulary kind names them: 1,000 contacts on the Free plan. SMTP accepts 20 concurrent requests from a single IP.
Binding	request-rate 100 per day rather than 3,000 per month: the monthly figure is the daily cap summed over 30 days.
Identity	email The Email API signup form asks for an email, a password, a first and last name and a field labelled Address, behind a reCAPTCHA, and offers Google sign-in; it has no card field, and the email is confirmed. A profile survey then asks for accurate information about the primary person and organization behind the account, and the account must be verified before it can send; whether that verification asks for a phone number is unverified: behind a sign-up. A domain the sender owns must be verified from the start (SPF mandatory, DKIM encouraged, a tracking CNAME and DMARC recommended); domains of free providers such as gmail.com cannot be verified, and on the Free plan an added domain cannot be removed from the account.
Egress	not applicable: an outbound sender
Per-object cap	20 MB for the entire message with its attachments, as stated for the API
Retention	3 days of log history on the Free plan, against 7 days on Pro
Interface	rest SMTP at smtp.elasticemail.com on ports 25, 2525, 587 and 465 with TLS 1.2, and the HTTP REST API; the interface vocabulary has no smtp term
Tooling	any SMTP client, or curl and the official API libraries against the REST API
Composes with	an outbound sender at 100 a day that pairs with an inbound router such as Cloudflare Email Routing for the receiving half; the daily count is the scarce link.
Reliability	an account placed Under Review has delivery paused; mail submitted meanwhile is queued and sent if the account is reactivated
Notes	The 3,000 a month is the 100 a day summed over 30 days, so the monthly figure cannot be spent in a burst.
Evidence note	documented no message was sent, so no delivery is proved; smtp.elasticemail.com answered a 220 banner on ports 587 and 2525. The account verification step and any phone check are behind a sign-up.
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 37

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	the Free plan sends to any recipient, 100 emails per day, resetting daily with no carry-over
2026-10-30	elasticemail.com/email-api	the Email API Free plan offers 3,000 emails per month
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	each attachment counts as one more email against the 100 per day
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	the Free plan holds up to 1,000 contacts
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	the Free plan keeps 3 days of logs
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	Pro plans keep 7 days of logs against 3
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	the cheapest paid Email API plan is 19 per month for 50,000 emails
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	the daily limit applies to the Free plan only
2026-10-31	elasticemail.com/email-marketing-pricing	prices are in USD
2026-10-31	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2446055-what-are-sending-l	the Free plan phase needs no upfront payment
2026-10-31	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2446055-what-are-sending-l	a Free account must be verified before it can send
2026-10-31	elasticemail.com/getting-started	registration is a short form and an email confirmation
2026-10-31	app.elasticemail.com/api/create-account	the Email API signup offers Google sign-in beside the form
2026-10-31	app.elasticemail.com/api/create-account	the signup form asks for email, password, a field labelled Address, first and last name, with no card field
2026-10-31	app.elasticemail.com/api/create-account	the signup form is behind a reCAPTCHA
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2361393-how-to-get-started	a profile survey asks for the person and organization behind the account
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2361393-how-to-get-started	a verified domain set as default sender is required from the start
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/4934400-how-to-verify-your	a free-provider domain cannot be verified, so sending needs a domain the sender owns
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/4934400-how-to-verify-your	SPF is mandatory and DKIM encouraged in the domain steps
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/4934400-how-to-verify-your	the SPF record value to publish
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/4934400-how-to-verify-your	on the Free plan an added domain cannot be removed from the account
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/4803409-smtp-settings	SMTP at smtp.elasticemail.com accepts ports 25, 2525, 587 and 465
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/4803409-smtp-settings	SMTP accepts 20 concurrent requests from one IP
2026-10-30	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2361427-what-is-your-elast	an account under review has delivery paused
2026-10-30	probe: `smtp.elasticemail.com:587`	smtp.elasticemail.com answered a 220 banner on ports 587 and 2525; no message was sent
2026-11-02	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/3331811-elastic-email-pric	the Free plan limit is 100 emails per day, resetting daily with no carry-over, and each attachment counts as one email
2026-11-02	elasticemail.com/email-api	the Email API page states a Free plan of 3,000 emails per month
2026-11-02	elasticemail.com/developers/api-libraries/php	the API library page states that the entire message with its attachments cannot exceed 20 MB
2026-11-02	api.elasticemail.com/public/help/legacy	the legacy API reference lists the phone number as an optional field of the account profile update
2026-11-02	api.elasticemail.com/public/help/legacy	the legacy API reference lists the first address line as a required field of the account profile update
2026-11-02	elasticemail.com/resources/usage-policies/anti-spam-policy	each account must have a completed account profile
2026-11-02	help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2361427-what-is-your-elast	an Active account that is fully set up has a default verified domain and a verified profile, and no restrictions
2026-11-02	codemasterhub.com/doc/deliverykit-smtp-documentation/elastic	a third-party setup guide lists the first onboarding survey screen as the industry and the number of employees
2026-11-02	codemasterhub.com/doc/deliverykit-smtp-documentation/elastic	a third-party setup guide lists the second onboarding survey screen as how the user heard of the service and why they chose it
2026-11-02	codemasterhub.com/doc/deliverykit-smtp-documentation/elastic	a third-party setup guide lists the final onboarding survey screen as goals, experience level and any earlier provider
2026-11-02	cybermail9000.com/docs/elastic-email-setup	a third-party setup guide reports a phone number verification step on the onboarding page
2026-11-02	cybermail9000.com/docs/elastic-email-setup	the same third-party guide says the send error may mention verifying a phone number while no phone verification screen is shown

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