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Bird Email API

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By Bird

A developer-facing email API for sending transactional email and marketing campaigns, receiving inbound replies and attachments into your app, and tracking delivery and deliverability.

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What it does
  • A developer-facing email API for sending transactional email and marketing campaigns, receiving inbound replies and attachments into your app, and tracking delivery and deliverability.
More detail
  • It runs as one channel in Bird's wider multi-channel workspace, alongside SMS, WhatsApp, Voice and Mailbox.
Best for
  • Engineering and product teams that need application-triggered email plus campaigns and inbound reply routing, especially those already using or planning to use Bird's other channels.
More detail
  • Also suits teams migrating from SparkPost or another email API.
Pricing
  • Paid plans use a monthly deposit that becomes spendable Bird balance, usable for email or other Bird products
More detail
  • unused balance carries forward and email is billed from that balance at the plan's per-email rate.
  • The Free tier allows 1,000 emails per month and 50 per day, and sending stops at the limit
Main limitation
  • Teams that need a self-hosted or on-premises MTA, where Bird points to PowerMTA or Momentum instead.
More detail
  • Very low-volume senders will hit the Free plan's 1,000/month and 50/day limits, and dedicated IPs are not available below the Growth plan.
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About

  • A developer-facing email API for sending transactional email and marketing campaigns, receiving inbound replies and attachments into your app, and tracking delivery and deliverability.
  • It runs as one channel in Bird's wider multi-channel workspace, alongside SMS, WhatsApp, Voice and Mailbox.

What it helps with

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OfferingAvailableDetail
Transactional sending API YesSends return 202 Accepted with a message ID; delivery status is read via webhooks or message endpoints, not synchronously.
Email marketing and broadcasts YesNewsletters, product updates and promotions to audiences, listed alongside transactional sending.
Inbound email routing YesReplies from your domain or a forwarding address, with message content and attachments, can be routed into your app.
Email templates YesBuild in React Email or publish reusable templates the team can edit without a code deploy, with live data personalization.
Sandbox testing YesSimulates deliveries, bounces and spam complaints; signed webhooks and idempotent retries are documented.
Deliverability tooling YesDKIM, SPF and DMARC setup plus automatic suppression after hard bounces; dedicated IP warmup is the customer's responsibility.
Analytics and inbox placement YesDelivery rates, opens, clicks, soft/hard bounce reasons, Inbox Insights across Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo, and Competitive Insights.
Dedicated IPs LimitedNot available on Free or Startup; up to 5 on Growth and up to 10 on Scale as add-ons.
Self-hosted / on-premises MTA NoBird directs on-premises MTA needs to PowerMTA or Momentum MTA rather than this hosted API.
Published enterprise price list UnknownPublic pricing offers Contact Sales and Explore Enterprise; no full rate card was supplied.

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