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Shortwave pricing
Shortwave publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 29 August 2026, Shortwave pricing is free, then $30/month across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $30/month
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Shortwave plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Business | $30/month | 7 | +$30/month, 7 more features |
| Premier | $45/month | 6 | +$15/month, 6 more features |
| Max | $120/month | 5 | +$75/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers email search and organization, basic inbox tools, limited ai features, no credit card required for signup.
Business
$30/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Full standard search history
- 5 years AI search history
- Max 50 threads per AI search
- 3 AI-powered filters
- AI integrations and web browsing
- AI autocomplete
- Summaries and attachment analysis
Premier
$45/monthOver Business, this tier adds:
- Everything in Business
- 2x more AI usage
- Unlimited AI search history
- Max 100 threads per AI search
- 10 AI-powered filters
- Smarter AI answers with 2x context tokens
Max
$120/monthOver Premier, this tier adds:
- Everything in Premier
- 6x more AI usage
- Max 150 threads per AI search
- 50 AI-powered filters
- Smarter AI answers with 3x context tokens
Where Shortwave stops being free
Free, Free
- Email search and organization
- Basic inbox tools
- Limited AI features
- No credit card required for signup
Business, $30/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Full standard search history
- 5 years AI search history
- Max 50 threads per AI search
- 3 AI-powered filters
- AI integrations and web browsing
- AI autocomplete
- Summaries and attachment analysis
What the product covers
The full Shortwave feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- AI Email Filtering
AI
- Intelligent Autocomplete
- Email Summaries
Composition
- Voice-Style Composition
Automation
- Meeting Scheduling
Productivity
- Email-to-Todo Conversion
Search
- AI-Powered Search
Collaboration
- Team Collaboration
People bring Shortwave in for reducing inbox overload through ai-powered organization, drafting professional emails using natural language, scheduling meetings without back-and-forth coordination, searching email archives using conversational queries, converting emails to tasks for team task tracking. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Shortwave are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Email Marketing
Too few email marketing tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shortwave (this page) | Free, then $30/month | - | - | |
| Zoho Campaigns | Free | Per month by contact tier once on a paid plan | - | vs Shortwave |
| Amazon SES | On request | Per 1,000 emails sent, tiered by volume, no campaign features included | - | vs Shortwave |
| Campaign Monitor | On request | Per month by contact tier and plan level | - | vs Shortwave |
| Listmonk | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Shortwave |
| Attentive | On request | quote | - | vs Shortwave |
| Keila | Free, then €8/month | Per month by emails sent | - | vs Shortwave |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Shortwave badges page.
Before you pay for Shortwave
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and $120/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Shortwave runs on ios, android, macos, windows, and is published by Shortwave. The full record is on the Shortwave review, and the rest of the category is under best email marketing tools.
Shortwave pricing questions
- How much does Shortwave cost?
- Shortwave publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to $120/month for Max. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Shortwave have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers email search and organization, basic inbox tools, limited ai features. Paying starts at $30/month for Business.
- What is the difference between Free and Business on Shortwave?
- Business costs $30/month against Free, and adds full standard search history, 5 years ai search history, max 50 threads per ai search, 3 ai-powered filters.
- Is the Max plan on Shortwave worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is everything in premier, 6x more ai usage, max 150 threads per ai search, 50 ai-powered filters. It costs $120/month against $30/month for Business. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which email marketing tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 email marketing tools listed alongside Shortwave have a free tier: Zoho Campaigns, Listmonk, Keila.
- What am I actually paying for with Shortwave?
- The record lists 8 features across 7 areas: core, ai, composition, automation, productivity, search, collaboration. In practice it is brought in for reducing inbox overload through ai-powered organization, drafting professional emails using natural language, scheduling meetings without back-and-forth coordination.
- Does Shortwave charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Shortwave prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Shortwave against before paying?
- The closest email marketing tools in this directory are Zoho Campaigns, Amazon SES, Campaign Monitor, Listmonk. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Shortwave covering price, platforms and features.