Both send email over a REST API. Every row below was read from Rasket's own pages and Brevo's own pages, and the day they were read is printed under the table.
Rasket is an email API for developers: one REST API and a dashboard for transactional email and campaigns, with inbound mail, signed webhooks and an MCP server in the same product and on the same key.
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.
| Criterion | Rasket | Brevo |
|---|---|---|
| Sending and receiving | ||
| Inbound email | ||
| Transactional and campaigns on one plan | Yes · both in the API | |
| Idempotent sends | Batch only | |
| Versioned templates | Not published | |
| Automations | Yes · Workflows | |
| SMTP relay | ||
| DKIM key size | 2048-bit | Not published |
| Webhooks and developer tools | ||
| Signed webhooks | ||
| Replay a webhook event | Not published | |
| MCP server | ||
| Markdown docs and llms.txt | ||
| Official SDKs | Coming soon | 3 languages · Node.js, Python, PHP |
| Plans and pricing | ||
| Free plan | 3,000 / mo · 100 a day | Not published |
| Entry paid plan | $20 / mo · 50,000 emails | Not published |
| Extra emails, per 1,000 | $0.60 · down to $0.25 on Scale | Not published |
| Data retention | 30 days | Not published |
| Dedicated IP | $30 / mo · on Scale | Not published |
| Best for | Developers who want sending, receiving and campaigns behind one API key | Teams who want marketing, CRM and transactional email from one vendor |
Facts checked on against each company’s public pricing and documentation.
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 publish three official SDKs while ours are still coming. Their developer documentation is also unusually well set up for assistants: Markdown at every URL, an llms.txt index and an MCP server.
Brevo is best for: Teams who want marketing, CRM and transactional email from one vendor
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.
Rasket is best for: Developers who want sending, receiving and campaigns behind one API key
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. 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.
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.
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.
Yes. Point any app that sends over SMTP at smtp.rasket.com on port 465 or 587, with the username rasket and an API key as the password, and each message becomes an ordinary API send: the same verified domains, suppressions, quota and webhooks. Moving an SMTP integration is a change of host and credentials, not of code.
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, or point an SMTP mailer at smtp.rasket.com with the username rasket and a Rasket key, 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 campaign covers sending to a segment, not a CRM.
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.
Create a key, verify a domain, and send your first email the same morning. The free plan does not expire.