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Mailyte vs SendGrid: your team’s mailboxes on the same invoice
Mailyte puts your team’s mailboxes, your app’s email and your campaigns in one account, billed in naira, with campaigns kept on a different sending path from your password resets. SendGrid is part of Twilio and covers app email and email campaigns, with a drag-and-drop designer, EU data residency and official libraries in seven languages.
The difference
What sets Mailyte apart
Your team’s mailboxes, included
Mailyte hosts mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP, SMTP and webmail, in the same account as your app email and campaigns.
Marketing on its own path
Campaigns leave on a different path from transactional mail, so a newsletter is kept off the path that carries your password resets.
Billed in naira
Pay by card or bank transfer in naira, or in dollars if you prefer.
Side by side
Mailyte and SendGrid, row by row
This compares scope, visibility and billing — not delivery speed.
| Mailyte | SendGrid | |
|---|---|---|
| What you sign up for | ||
| Business mailboxes on your own domain | Yes. Free for up to 5, then from ₦850 a mailbox a month, billed yearly. | Not offered. Its products are an Email API and SMTP service plus email campaigns. |
| Email from your app (SMTP and REST API) | Yes, over SMTP and REST. 500 a day free; plans from ₦4,550 a month for 25,000. | Yes: an Email API and SMTP service. |
| Email marketing campaigns | Yes. Free up to 500 contacts; plans from ₦2,900 a month. | Yes: its Marketing Campaigns product. |
| Visibility and reputation | ||
| Delivery logs you can read | 3, 30 or 90 days of visible history by plan | 3 days on the free trial and Essentials, 7 days on Pro and Premier; more history can be bought. |
| Signed webhooks | 17 event types, each signed with HMAC-SHA256 | Its Event Webhook can be signed with ECDSA; signing is optional and switched on per webhook. |
| Dedicated IP | An add-on on Pro and included on higher Scale plans. Warmed automatically, day by day. | One included on Pro and Premier, none on the free trial or Essentials; extra IPs can be bought. |
| Where Mailyte stops | ||
| Drag-and-drop email builder | No builder. Code templates with editable regions; variables are {{ name }}. | Yes: a Design Editor with drag-and-drop modules. |
| SMS and WhatsApp from the same company | — | It is part of Twilio, whose site lists SMS and WhatsApp. |
| SDKs | No SDK. One REST API, one key with scopes — any HTTP client works. | Official libraries for C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby. |
| Choice of EU or US data region | — | Data residency (EU) is listed on its pricing page. |
| Price and billing | ||
| Prices quoted in | Naira and dollars. | Dollars, as shown on its pricing page. |
| Free plan | Yes, on each product, with no time limit. | A free trial, not a free plan: 60 days at no charge, up to 100 emails a day. |
SendGrid’s details are from its own public pages, checked on 12 October 2026: SendGrid pricing, SendGrid products, SendGrid libraries, SendGrid signed Event Webhook, SendGrid Design Editor. Prices and plans change, so check SendGrid’s own pages before you decide.
Kept apart
Campaigns on one path, receipts on another
Marketing campaigns leave Mailyte on a different path from transactional mail, so a newsletter is kept off the path that carries your password resets. Campaigns also bring unsubscribe handling, a review step and reporting, which the batch endpoint deliberately leaves out.
- Campaigns will not schedule without an unsubscribe link
- Batch sending is for transactional mail that goes to many people at once
- Every new marketing sender is checked by a person
Choose SendGrid if
- You want SMS and WhatsApp from the same company as your email. SendGrid is part of Twilio, whose site lists both; Mailyte is email only.
- You want a visual, drag-and-drop email designer. SendGrid has a Design Editor with drag-and-drop modules; Mailyte’s templates are code with editable regions.
- You want an official SDK in your language. SendGrid lists official libraries for C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby.
- You need your data held in the EU. SendGrid lists EU data residency; Mailyte has no region choice.
Choose Mailyte if
- You want your team’s mailboxes in the same place as your campaigns and app email.
- You want to pay in naira, by card or bank transfer.
- You want marketing and transactional mail kept on different sending paths.
- You want the option to run the mail server yourself: its core is open source under the AGPL-3.0.
Compare Mailyte with Mailgun, Mailchimp, Postmark, MailerLite or Brevo. You can also see business email, app email and email marketing in one platform or go straight to pricing.
Frequently asked
Can I switch from SendGrid to Mailyte without changing my code?
Over SMTP, mostly: point your SMTP client at Mailyte’s relay with new credentials. Over the API, the endpoints and payloads differ, so that path is a mapping exercise rather than a one-line change. Mailyte publishes an endpoint-by-endpoint map from SendGrid, and recommends importing your suppression list before your first send.
Can Mailyte host my team’s business email as well?
Yes. Mailyte hosts mailboxes on your own domain, with IMAP, SMTP and webmail, in the same account as your app email and campaigns, so your team’s email, your receipts and your newsletters sit on one invoice.
Does Mailyte have a drag-and-drop email designer like SendGrid’s?
No. Mailyte’s templates are code with editable regions: a developer or designer sets a template up once, and your team edits the text, image, button and colour regions in place. Variables are written {{ name }}, with one filter, default.
Can I keep marketing email off my transactional sending path?
Yes. Campaigns leave Mailyte on a different path from transactional mail, so a newsletter is kept off the path that carries your password resets. Campaigns also bring unsubscribe handling, a review step and reporting, which the batch endpoint deliberately leaves out.
Does Mailyte offer an SLA?
Not below Enterprise. Mailyte has a public status page that probes each listed service live, but it publishes no uptime history, and the terms contain no service level agreement. An uptime commitment in writing is part of the Enterprise plan.
Does Mailyte bill in naira?
Yes. Mailyte is priced in naira, by card or bank transfer, and in dollars if you prefer. SendGrid’s pricing page shows dollar amounts.
Try Mailyte free.
Free mailboxes to start, with free plans for app email and marketing. No card needed.