What is Courier?
A notification platform that consolidates email, SMS, push, and chat delivery across multiple third-party providers, offering centralized routing, templating, automatic failover, and in-app notifications through one API.
Courier pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier with 10,000 sends/month, then $0.005 per send. No per-seat or channel fees.
Developer
FreeFor developers building with Courier
- sends
- 10,000/month
- 10,000 sends per month
- Journeys & broadcasts
- MCP server, CLI, & SDKs
- SSO via Google, Github
- Email support
Business
Pay-as-you-grow usage pricing
- All Developer features
- Pay-as-you-go pricing
- AI Translations
- AI Agent node
- Email & chat support
Enterprise
Contact salesFor high-volume deployments
- All Business features
- Volume pricing
- Dedicated Slack channel
- Observability integrations
- Role-based access control
- Enterprise SLA
- EU Data Residency
What Courier does
The capabilities that matter for communication apis, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- SMS
- ✓
- Voice
- ✗
- ✓
- RCS
- ✗
- Transactional email
- ✓
- Video / real-time
- ✗
- In-app chat
- ✓
- Verify / OTP / 2FA
- ✗
- Two-way messaging
- ✗
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Email deliverability tools
- ✓
- Published per-unit pricing
- ✗
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- iOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (27)
Independently observed- Gmail→
- MailerSend→
- Mailchimp→
- SendGrid→
- SMTP→
- AWS SNS→
- Azure SMS→
- MessageMedia→
- SMSCentral→
- Twilio→
- Vonage→
- Apple Push Notifications→
- Firebase→
- Google FCM→
- Slack→
- Microsoft Teams→
- StreamChat→
- WhatsApp→
- Segment
- Datadog
- Okta
- Courier→
- Amply
- AWS SES
- Postmark
- Mailgun
- Webhook
Courier FAQ
Common questions about Courier, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Courier?
A platform that enables software companies to send and manage customer notifications across multiple channels using workflow automation, message templates, and built-in analytics. It is indexed under Communication APIs.
Source: https://www.courier.com
Is Courier free?
Courier offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.01. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.courier.com
What platforms does Courier support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Courier. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.courier.com
Can Courier be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Courier, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://www.courier.com
What does Courier integrate with?
We have confirmed 4 integrations for Courier, including Amply, AWS SES, Postmark and Mailgun. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.courier.com
What security certifications does Courier have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Courier. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Courier not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://security.courier.com
Courier alternatives
Other communication apis we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- NovuOpen-source platform for sending notifications and enabling agent conversations across email, SMS, chat, push, and in-app messagingmedium · 73%
- DailyLow-latency infrastructure for building real-time voice, video, and AI conversationsmedium · 71%
- StreamUnified platform for building real-time communication and community featuresmedium · 74%
- PlivoAI voice agents and omnichannel communications platform with usage-based pricinghigh · 75%
- SinchAPIs for SMS, voice, email, video, and verificationmedium · 72%
- InfobipConnect with customers across multiple messaging and communication platformslow · 48%
Compare Courier
Side by side against other communication apis, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Courier, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 75 | 0.12 | 8.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 42 | 0.05 | 2.0 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Rcs: No · Sms: Yes · Chat: Yes · Email: Yes · Video: No · Voice: No | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 27 | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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