Memorial entry / sendgrid-legacy-free-tier

SendGrid Legacy Free Tier

Paywalled Verified email SendGrid — Verified
You had relayed verification emails, password resets, and accidental double-sends with admirable indifference. Then the old free math changed and bootstrappers had to start budgeting for sincerity.

You had supplied free transactional email volume before legacy no-cost allowances narrowed into stricter commercial limits.

Evidence

official Announced

This source records when SendGrid Legacy Free Tier stopped being meaningfully free and what changed in pricing or access.

Source

https://sendgrid.com/en-us/pricing

Archived docs

https://web.archive.org/web/20190101000000/https://sendgrid.com/pricing/

Contributor note

You were the least glamorous dependency and somehow one of the most beloved.

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@MdSagorMunshi on

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