Brainito vs Brevo: Cheap Email Volume or One Workspace?
Brevo, formerly Sendinblue, is priced on email volume and is a strong, inexpensive choice for transactional and marketing email. Brainito also prices on sends, in credits, and adds the website, SEO, social and audit around the campaigns.
Brevo is one of the fairest priced tools in email. It charges by emails sent rather than by contacts, its free tier allows 300 emails a day, and its transactional email and SMTP relay are solid enough that developers use it for order confirmations and password resets. The comparison below is about where the two send-based models differ, which channels share a list, and what sits around the campaigns.
| Feature | Brainito | Brevo |
|---|---|---|
| What it is built for | A small business or agency that wants marketing email, SMS and WhatsApp on one list, beside its website, SEO, social and audit | Businesses that send marketing and transactional email from one account and want a low price per email |
| How pricing scales | By emails sent: 25 credits per 1,000 emails, contacts free; plans from $20 a month or 100 credits for $5 once, credits never expire | By monthly email volume, with a free tier of 300 emails a day; unused volume does not carry over, and some features are add-ons |
| Channels on one contact list | Email, SMS and WhatsApp share one contact list and one consent record, where a number has been cleared for the country | Email, SMS and WhatsApp campaigns from one contact base, with SMS and WhatsApp bought as separate credits |
| Sending before a domain is verified | Send from a Brainito address right away, up to 100 emails a day, then verify your own domain with DKIM, SPF, DMARC and warm-up guidance | Verify the sender address to start; authenticating your own domain is required before sending at volume |
| What else sits in the workspace | Website builder, 77-factor audit, SEO suite, social studio, analytics with revenue attribution and 300+ tools | Transactional email and SMTP relay, a sales CRM, live chat, meetings and landing pages |
| Team seats | Users included in every plan: 5, 15, 50 or 100 depending on the plan, no per-seat fee | User count depends on the plan; additional users are an add-on on lower tiers |
| Data ownership and export | Your contacts, consent records and campaign analytics are yours; audiences export to CSV at any time | Contacts and reports export to CSV; templates and sending logs stay in Brevo |
| Support | Email support and a help center on every plan, including pay as you go | Email support on all plans, with phone and chat on higher tiers |
If you need transactional email and an SMTP relay next to your newsletters, and price per email is your deciding factor, Brevo is excellent at that. If you want the campaigns to live beside your website, SEO, social and a 77-factor audit, with users included and one credit balance for everything, Brainito charges by sends too and includes more.
Brevo vs Brainito: two send-based models
Brevo and Brainito agree on the thing most email tools get wrong: you should pay for the emails you send, not the contacts you keep. Brevo, which many people still know as Sendinblue, does this with monthly volume plans and a generous free tier, and adds transactional email, a CRM and live chat. Brainito does it with credits, 25 per 1,000 emails, and spends the rest of its effort on what surrounds the campaign: the website builder, the SEO suite, the social studio, a 77-factor audit and analytics with revenue attribution. The question is which surroundings your business needs.
Where Brevo is simply the better fit
Brevo sends transactional email. If your app or store needs order confirmations, shipping updates and password resets from the same account that sends the newsletter, with an SMTP relay and an API, Brevo does that and Brainito does not. Its free tier allows 300 emails a day, which is enough for a side business to run on for months. A Chicago web developer shipping a client's booking app can wire Brevo in for notifications and hand the client the marketing side in the same login. If that is your shape, Brevo is the straightforward choice, and its sales CRM and live chat widget make it a reasonable first business toolkit as well.
Monthly volume plans versus credits that never expire
Brevo's paid plans are by monthly email volume. As of September 2026 the Starter plan begins at about $9 a month and is about $69 at 100,000 emails, and the Professional plan is about $499 at 250,000 emails. Unused volume does not carry over to the next month. Brainito charges 25 credits per 1,000 emails, so 100,000 emails is 2,500 credits, which the $100 plan covers with 900 credits to spare, and credits never expire. A Nashville event venue that sends 60,000 emails in May and 5,000 in July uses Brainito credits unevenly without changing plans. A business sending a steady 100,000 a month will find the two prices closer, and Brevo's add-ons can tip it either way.
What sits around the campaigns
Brevo surrounds email with a CRM, live chat, meetings and landing pages, which is a sales toolkit. Brainito surrounds it with a marketing one: the website builder that publishes to your own GitHub and Vercel, the 77-factor audit, the SEO suite, the social studio with approvals, analytics with revenue attribution and more than 300 tools, with 5 to 100 users included rather than sold as an add-on. Email, SMS and WhatsApp share one contact list and one consent record, where a number has been cleared for the country, and new workspaces send from a Brainito address right away, up to 100 emails a day, before the domain is verified with DKIM, SPF and DMARC. Plans start at $20 a month, or 100 credits for $5 once, and you can cancel any time.
Frequently asked questions
Is Brainito a Brevo or Sendinblue alternative?
For marketing email, SMS and WhatsApp, yes, and both charge by sends rather than contacts. Brainito does not offer transactional email or an SMTP relay, so if you need those, keep Brevo for them.
Does Brainito have a free tier like Brevo's 300 emails a day?
Not an ongoing one. Creating an account is free, and new accounts arriving from the email pages get 50 free credits, about 2,000 emails. After that email costs 25 credits per 1,000, with plans from $20 a month or 100 credits for $5 once.
How does Brevo pricing compare with Brainito?
Both price on sends. As of September 2026, Brevo's Starter plan begins at about $9 a month and is about $69 at 100,000 emails. On Brainito 100,000 emails is 2,500 credits, covered by the $100 plan, and unused credits roll forward because they never expire.
Can I send transactional email from Brainito?
No. Brainito sends campaigns and automation flows for marketing. Order confirmations and password resets belong in a transactional service such as Brevo.
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