Tirada vs Mailcheap
Mailcheap pricing as published on 17 October 2026Mailcheap and Tirada charge for the same thing, the emails you send, which is why both are cheap. What changes is everything around it: on Tirada you can charge your readers, and Mailcheap has no paid subscriptions.
In numbers
Mailcheap charges by tiers of emails per month, in dollars. Tirada charges the plan fee plus €2 per 10,000 emails.
| Emails a month | Mailcheap | Tirada Lite | Tirada Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20,000 | $19 (≈ €17) | €9 | €29 |
| 75,000 | $39 (≈ €36) | €20 | €40 |
| 200,000 | $79 (≈ €73) | €45 | €65 |
| 500,000 | $149 (≈ €137) | €105 | €125 |
| 2,000,000 | $349 (≈ €321) | €405 | €425 |
Mailcheap: the tier that covers that volume, as published on 17 October 2026, at €0.92 per dollar. Tirada: excluding VAT.
At low and medium volumes, Tirada Lite costs less. Mailcheap tiers are paid in full: at 21,000 emails a month you are already on the $39 tier, while Tirada charges €9.20. From roughly 1.6 million emails a month, Mailcheap beats Tirada Lite; at 2 million it is about €84 a month cheaper.
If you charge your readers
Mailcheap has no paid subscriptions. On Tirada you connect your own Stripe account, the money goes straight to you and we take no percentage, now or when you grow. You only pay Stripe's fee.
Everything else
- Double opt-in, one-click unsubscribe, automatic suppressions and an emergency brake if something smells like spam.
- Diagnostics with your own AI over MCP on every plan: how to connect it.
- Servers in Finland, sending from Sweden.
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