# Volanea

> The complete email platform — transactional email, campaigns, and automation on one contact graph. 1,000 free credits every month, then Starter at $5/mo or Growth at $20/mo.

Volanea is a developer-first email platform: a single API and contact graph for transactional email, marketing campaigns, and automation. Domains with DKIM/SPF/DMARC, reusable templates, living segments, HMAC-signed webhooks, an SMTP relay, and a reputation guard that throttles sending before a domain gets burned. The free tier includes 1,000 credits every month with no card; beyond that, Starter is $5/month for 7,500 emails and Growth is $20/month for 50,000.

## Product
- [Home](https://www.volanea.com/): What Volanea is and why it exists.
- [Pricing](https://www.volanea.com/pricing): Free 1,000 credits/month, Starter $5/mo (7,500 emails), Growth $20/mo (50,000 emails) — no contact limits.
- [Free Email Verifier](https://www.volanea.com/tools/email-verifier): Check any address for syntax, live MX records, disposable domains, and role accounts — free, no signup.

## Documentation
- [API Documentation](https://www.volanea.com/docs): REST API reference — authentication, sending, errors and pagination, the SMTP relay, and signed webhook verification.
- [MCP server](https://www.volanea.com/docs#mcp): Volanea exposes a Model Context Protocol server at POST /mcp, so an AI coding agent can integrate Volanea into an app end to end — create the templates, segments, and workflows, write the sending and webhook code, and verify delivery. Authentication is a project API key as a bearer token; there is no separate MCP token.

## Comparisons
- [Volanea vs Resend](https://www.volanea.com/compare/resend): An honest comparison of Volanea and Resend: free tiers, what 50,000 emails costs ($20 either way), marketing features, and when each is the right choice.
- [Volanea vs Plunk](https://www.volanea.com/compare/plunk): Volanea and Plunk both unify transactional and marketing email. The real differences: flat tiers vs per-email pricing, hosting, and feature depth.
- [Volanea vs Mailgun](https://www.volanea.com/compare/mailgun): Volanea vs Mailgun, honestly: free tiers, what 50,000 emails costs ($20 vs $35), the marketing features Mailgun lacks, and where Mailgun wins.
- [Volanea vs SendGrid](https://www.volanea.com/compare/sendgrid): SendGrid retired its free plan; Volanea gives 1,000 free emails a month and a $5 Starter. Honest comparison of pricing and marketing features.
- [Volanea vs Postmark](https://www.volanea.com/compare/postmark): Postmark is the deliverability specialist; Volanea is the flat-tier all-in-one. Honest numbers: 50,000 emails costs $20 here versus roughly $87.
- [Volanea vs Mailchimp](https://www.volanea.com/compare/mailchimp): Mailchimp bills per contact — even unsubscribed ones. Volanea bills by emails sent, with unlimited contacts. An honest side-by-side comparison.

## Migration guides
- [Migrate from Resend to Volanea](https://www.volanea.com/migrate/resend): Move from Resend to Volanea in an afternoon: the send-call swap, webhook event mapping, contact import, and the gotchas in between.
- [Migrate from SendGrid to Volanea](https://www.volanea.com/migrate/sendgrid): Move from SendGrid to Volanea: swap @sendgrid/mail for one POST, remap event webhooks, import contacts, and keep sending through the cutover.
- [Migrate from Mailgun to Volanea](https://www.volanea.com/migrate/mailgun): Move from Mailgun to Volanea: replace messages.create with one POST, remap webhooks, and pick up campaigns and automation your old stack didn't have.
- [Migrate from Postmark to Volanea](https://www.volanea.com/migrate/postmark): Move from Postmark to Volanea: swap sendEmail for one POST, remap webhook events, import contacts, and cut the overage bill at higher volume.
- [Migrate from Mailchimp to Volanea](https://www.volanea.com/migrate/mailchimp): Move from Mailchimp to Volanea: export your audience, escape per-contact billing, and rebuild your automations on an API-first platform.
- [Migrate from Plunk to Volanea](https://www.volanea.com/migrate/plunk): Move from Plunk to Volanea: a near-identical send call, the same pricing philosophy, plus A/B tests, template versioning, and segments.

## Legal
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.volanea.com/legal/privacy): What Volanea collects, why, who processes it, and the rights you have over your data.
- [Terms of Service](https://www.volanea.com/legal/terms): The agreement between you and Volanea — what the service is, what's allowed, billing, and liability.