# European alternatives to SendGrid in 2026

Last updated: 2026-11-10

If you want transactional email from a European company that keeps message data in the EU, start with **Lettermint**, a Dutch service with a free tier and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. **Scaleway Transactional Email** fits teams already on Scaleway, and **Sweego** fits teams that want a French sender with SMS in the same API. **Brevo** is French too, but its privacy policy describes US operations, so read it before you treat it as an EU-only choice.

SendGrid itself now offers EU data residency, with conditions covered below.

## EU email senders at a glance

| Provider | Company | Where email data is kept | Free tier | Paid plans start at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lettermint | Lettermint B.V., Netherlands | Only in the EU | 300 emails a month | €10 a month for 10,000 emails |
| Scaleway Transactional Email | Scaleway, France | Hosted and processed in the EU | 300 emails a month | Billed per email over the free tier |
| Sweego | Sweego, France, part of Mindbaz | Datacenters in France | 100 emails a day | €10 a month, or €8 billed yearly, excl. VAT |
| Brevo | Brevo SAS, Paris, France | Not stated | 300 emails a day | Not stated |
| SendGrid with EU residency | Twilio Ireland Limited in the EEA, parent Twilio Inc. in the US | Stored in the EU when set up for it | Free trial | Pro or Premier with an EU dedicated IP |

Prices are from each provider's own page, checked on 10 November 2026.

## What to check before you switch

- **Where the data sits and who can reach it.** Recipient addresses, message bodies and event logs are personal data. Look for a plain statement of where each one is stored, and of when support or engineering staff outside the EU can access it.
- **The parent company.** A European subsidiary of a US group is still part of that group. If your contract names an EU company as the requirement, read who owns the provider, not only where its servers are. The [EU region vs EU company](/i/eu-region-vs-eu-company-cloud-act) explainer covers why that matters.
- **The subprocessor list and DPA.** Ask for the data processing agreement before you sign up, and read the subprocessor list for anyone based outside the EU.
- **SMTP and API support.** If your app or framework already speaks SMTP, a relay is the smallest change. If your code runs somewhere without outbound TCP, you need an HTTP API.
- **How overage works.** Some plans keep sending and bill the extra emails, others let you set a cap. Know which before a signup spike.

## 1. Lettermint

Lettermint is a transactional and broadcast email service run by Lettermint B.V., built in the Netherlands. Its own pages describe a European company with no US parent that keeps and processes email data inside the EU on servers it runs itself, and it holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. Every plan includes an SMTP relay, a REST API, SDKs, a CLI, an MCP server and webhooks, and paid plans add inbound email.

- **Best for:** a startup or SaaS that wants a Dutch provider with EU-only email data, an API and an SMTP relay.
- **Price:** a Free plan with 300 emails a month and no card, then Starter at €10, Growth at €13 and Pro at €15 a month for 10,000 emails. Extra emails cost €1.10 to €1.50 per 1,000 depending on the plan, unless you set a spend limit that pauses sending.
- **What it lacks:** on the Free plan, inbound email and open or click tracking. Message history is kept for 28 days on every plan.

## 2. Scaleway Transactional Email

Scaleway's Transactional Email is a managed service for sending transactional messages through an API or SMTP, with SPF and DKIM set up per sending domain. Scaleway's docs say no personal data from this service is transferred outside the EU and that the whole technical stack is managed by Scaleway in the EU. A Scale plan adds a dedicated IP with both IPv4 and IPv6, plus deeper tracking and webhook controls.

- **Best for:** teams whose app, storage or database already runs at Scaleway and who want one bill and one DPA.
- **Price:** a free tier of 300 emails a month, then you're billed for each email beyond what your plan includes. See Scaleway's pricing page for the rate.
- **What it lacks:** marketing email. Scaleway's FAQ says the service is for transactional messages only.

## 3. Sweego

Sweego is a French platform for developers that sends both email and SMS through one API. Sweego describes itself as based in France, datacenters included, and as part of Mindbaz, a French email sender that has worked on deliverability since 2013. SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup is automatic, and the Free plan already includes the API, SMTP, webhooks and a test mode.

- **Best for:** a product that sends email and SMS notifications and wants both from a French company.
- **Price:** Free for 100 emails a day. Individual is €10 a month, Startup €79 a month and Scaleup €270 a month, all excl. VAT, with 20% off on yearly billing.
- **What it lacks:** inbound email routing on the Free plan. Logs are kept 7 days on Free and 30 to 90 days on paid plans.

## 4. Brevo

Brevo, a Paris company, sells marketing email alongside transactional email over SMTP and API. On the Free plan, approved accounts get 300 emails a day.

Its privacy policy says Brevo has operations in the United States and the European Union, uses service providers outside the EU, and names the United States and India among the countries personal data may go to. That doesn't rule it out, but it's a different promise from an EU-only provider.

- **Best for:** teams that want newsletters and transactional email from one French provider.
- **Price:** free up to 300 emails a day. Paid prices aren't shown in the page text, so use its pricing page.
- **What it lacks:** an EU-only data commitment in its privacy policy.

## 5. Staying on SendGrid with EU data residency

If moving isn't worth it, SendGrid can store your data in the EU. Its FAQ asks for three things: an EU subuser, the `api.eu.sendgrid.com` endpoint and a dedicated IP provisioned in the EU. Shared IP customers have to move to a Pro or Premier package first.

EU-bound subusers can't use Marketing, Activity, Validation or Geostats. Data can still be processed outside the EU when you ask support for help or use the Point Delete Service and Whitelist mail settings, and Twilio engineers may need access to troubleshoot. Customers in the European Economic Area contract with Twilio Ireland Limited, but the group's parent, Twilio Inc., is a Delaware corporation in San Francisco.

## How to move off SendGrid

1. Add your sending domain at the new provider, publish its DKIM records and add it to your existing SPF record. A domain keeps one SPF record and one DMARC record.
2. Recreate your templates. Template syntax differs between providers.
3. Swap the API client or SMTP credentials behind an environment variable, so you can switch back fast.
4. Send a share of traffic through the new provider first and watch bounces and spam complaints.
5. Move webhooks for bounces and unsubscribes, then export your suppression list from SendGrid and import it.
6. Remove the old DNS records once nothing sends through SendGrid.

## Where your app runs still matters

An email provider handles only the mail. The app that triggers it, its logs and its database need a European home too. Eurobase hosts your web app on European infrastructure run by Scaleway, a French provider, and leaves sending mail to one of the services above. Apps on Eurobase's V8 isolates can call an email API with `fetch()` over HTTPS, while outbound TCP isn't supported there, so use an HTTP API rather than SMTP from a Worker. The [EU data plan for SaaS](/i/saas-hosting-eu-data) walks through every other layer, the [GDPR hosting checklist](/i/gdpr-hosting-checklist) lists what to ask each vendor, and the [Resend alternatives](/i/resend-alternatives-europe) guide covers more senders.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is SendGrid GDPR compliant?

SendGrid offers EU data residency, but only with an EU subuser, the EU endpoint and an EU dedicated IP, which needs a Pro or Premier package if you're on shared IPs. Some support and engineering access can still happen outside the EU, so check whether that fits your own GDPR assessment.

### Is there a free European alternative to SendGrid?

Yes. Lettermint and Scaleway Transactional Email each include 300 emails a month for free, Sweego includes 100 a day, and Brevo allows up to 300 a day once your account is approved.

### Which EU email providers support SMTP?

Lettermint, Scaleway Transactional Email, Sweego and Brevo all offer SMTP as well as an HTTP API, so an app that already sends through SMTP can switch by changing its credentials.

### Is Brevo an EU company?

Brevo is based in France, but its privacy policy states operations in the United States and the EU and service providers elsewhere. If you need an EU-only data commitment, compare that with Lettermint's or Scaleway's statements.

### Can I send email from Eurobase?

Eurobase doesn't send email for your app. Call an email provider's HTTP API from your app, and keep its API key out of your code. Read the [Workers docs](/docs/workers) for the outbound request limits.

## Sources

- [Lettermint](https://lettermint.co/) and [Lettermint pricing](https://lettermint.co/pricing)
- [Scaleway Transactional Email FAQ](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/transactional-email/faq/) and [Scaleway pricing](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/?tags=managedservices-transactionalemail-transactionalemail)
- [Sweego](https://www.sweego.io/) and [Sweego pricing](https://www.sweego.io/pricing)
- [Brevo pricing](https://www.brevo.com/pricing/) and [Brevo privacy policy](https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/)
- [SendGrid EU data residency FAQ](https://www.twilio.com/docs/sendgrid/data-residency/faq), [Twilio SendGrid](https://www.twilio.com/en-us/sendgrid) and [Twilio terms of service](https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/tos)
- [Eurobase Workers docs](/docs/workers) and [Eurobase subprocessors](/legal/subprocessors)