Notifuse is an open source email platform you can self-host — a Resend and Mailchimp alternative that sends newsletters, marketing campaigns, and transactional email through your own delivery provider, with a visual MJML builder and built-in analytics.

What is Notifuse?

Notifuse is an open source email platform that handles both marketing email — newsletters, campaigns, broadcasts — and transactional email like receipts and password resets. You build emails in a visual drag-and-drop MJML editor, and Notifuse sends them through your own delivery provider (Amazon SES, Postmark, Mailgun, Mailjet, SparkPost, or SMTP) rather than its own sending service.

What is Notifuse best for?

Notifuse fits teams and developers who want one place to run every email their product sends — marketing and transactional — without paying per-contact or per-email and without handing subscriber data to a SaaS vendor. The bring-your-own-provider model means you pay your ESP’s raw sending rates and nothing for the software itself.

What can Notifuse do?

Build responsive emails with a drag-and-drop MJML editor and Liquid templating for personalization
Send through Amazon SES, Postmark, Mailgun, Mailjet, SparkPost, or any SMTP relay
Run marketing campaigns with scheduling, A/B testing, and dynamic segmentation
Fire transactional email programmatically through a REST API
Track opens, clicks, and conversions with engagement analytics and contact timelines
Build event-driven automation workflows in a visual builder
Manage multiple workspaces with granular per-user permissions and a subscriber preference center

Is Notifuse free?

Yes — Notifuse is free and fully featured when you self-host it under the AGPL-3.0 license; you only pay your email provider’s sending costs. Notifuse Cloud is the managed option, priced by active contacts from $16/month (billed yearly) on the Lite plan up to custom enterprise tiers, with unlimited emails on every plan.

Where does Notifuse fall short?

It doesn’t send email itself — you must bring and configure your own ESP (SES, Postmark, etc.), so deliverability and sender reputation are on you.
It’s a younger project than established platforms, so the integration catalog, community, and third-party documentation are thinner.

What does Notifuse replace?

Notifuse is a self-hosted alternative to Resend for transactional and product email, and to Mailchimp for newsletters and marketing campaigns. It covers both jobs in one tool, so you can drop a per-email developer API and a per-contact marketing platform at the same time.

FAQ

Is Notifuse open source? Yes. Notifuse is released under the AGPL-3.0 license, and the full platform — all features included — is free to self-host forever.

Can I self-host Notifuse for free? Yes. Self-hosting is free under AGPL-3.0; your only cost is your own server plus whatever your chosen email provider charges to send. Notifuse Cloud is the paid, managed alternative.

Is Notifuse a good Resend or Mailchimp alternative? For teams that want to own their email stack, yes — it handles transactional and marketing email in one tool with no per-email or per-contact software fees. If you’d rather not manage infrastructure or an ESP, a fully hosted service is simpler.

What do I need to run Notifuse? A server (Go binary or Docker), a PostgreSQL database, S3-compatible storage for assets, and an account with a supported email provider such as Amazon SES or Postmark.