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Overview
Courier is a notification infrastructure platform that lets developers send messages across email, push, SMS, and chat channels through a single API, using journeys, broadcasts, and reusable templates. It offers CLI and SDK tooling, AI-assisted translations, and an AI agent node for building notification workflows. Courier prices on a pay-as-you-go basis per notification sent, with a free developer tier and custom enterprise plans.
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Novu: Novu is an open-source alternative offering similar multi-channel notification infrastructure with a self-hostable option.
Resend: Resend focuses specifically on email delivery for developers rather than multi-channel notifications.
Pricing
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Developer
Free
Business
On request
Enterprise
On request
Capabilities
Multi-channel sending
Send notifications via email, push, SMS, and chat from one API
Journeys and broadcasts
Build automated notification sequences and one-off broadcasts
Digest and batching
Combine multiple notifications into digests to reduce noise
AI translations
Automatically translate notification content for internationalization
MCP server and CLI
Developer tooling for integrating and managing notifications
Role-based access control
Manage team permissions on Enterprise plans
Answered, with sources
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Courier has three plans: Developer is free for 10,000 sends per month, Business is pay-as-you-go at $0.005 per send, and Enterprise is custom-priced with volume discounts.
SourceYes, the Developer plan is free and includes 10,000 notification sends per month along with journeys, broadcasts, the MCP server, CLI, SDKs, and email support.
SourceCourier bills based on the number of notifications sent, not on team size or number of channels used, with Business plan sends charged at $0.005 each.
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