SendHQ for newsletters

Your newsletter, priced per email. Not per subscriber.

10,000 readers, one issue a week: $19 a month on SendHQ, instead of .

Import your list, verify your domain and send from your own address. Double opt-in forms, broadcasts and one-click unsubscribe are built in, and an AI agent can run all of it for you.

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50,000 emails a month on Starter. Annual billing is 10% off. Prices checked against competitors in October 2026.

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See what your list costs here and elsewhere

Most newsletter platforms charge for every subscriber you keep. SendHQ charges for the email you send, so a large list that you mail once a week costs far less.

10,000

A weekly issue goes out about 4.33 times a month. SendHQ plans are monthly email allowances; plans do not add up, so above 200,000 emails a month, contact us.

What you get

Everything a newsletter needs to land in the inbox

Double opt-in signup forms

Turn on a hosted form for any list and share the link. Subscribers confirm by email, bots hit a honeypot and a rate limit, and every signup keeps its IP, time and source.

Import from any platform

Bring a CSV from Mailchimp, beehiiv, Substack or Kit. You record how people opted in, and addresses that unsubscribed, bounced or complained are never resubscribed.

Lists, fields and merge tags

Keep several lists and custom fields per contact. Write “Hi {{first_name | there}}” and every reader gets their own copy, with preview text for the inbox line.

Broadcasts, one message per reader

Each issue is sent as an individual message, so one bad address never holds up the rest. You can see the outcome for every recipient.

Unsubscribe handled for you

Every issue carries a signed unsubscribe link and one-click unsubscribe headers that Gmail and Yahoo require. Unsubscribes, bounces and complaints are suppressed automatically.

Your domain, your reputation

Send from news@yourdomain.com with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, set up in one click on Cloudflare and Domain Connect providers.

Replies come back to you

Point replies at a SendHQ inbox on your domain and read them in the dashboard, the API or your AI agent, threaded by conversation.

Run it from an AI agent

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can import contacts, draft an issue and send it through the SendHQ MCP server, the same way you do in the dashboard.

A clean neighbourhood

Paid-only sending, first-send screening, strict pause thresholds and linked-account detection keep spammers off the platform you share.

Agent-first

Ask Claude to send this week's issue

Connect the hosted MCP server at https://mcp.sendhq.cc/mcp in Claude or ChatGPT, or run sendhq mcp for Claude Code and Cursor. The agent works with the same lists, contacts and broadcasts you see in the dashboard.

# "Import last week's signups and send Issue 42 to the weekly list"
import_contacts      csv=signups.csv  list_id=lst_weekly  consent_basis="Signed up on example.com"
create_broadcast     list_id=lst_weekly  from="News <news@example.com>"  subject="Issue 42, {{first_name | friend}}"
get_broadcast        # the agent shows you the draft and the audience count
send_broadcast       broadcast_id=brd_123  idempotency_key=issue-42  # only after you say send
list_broadcast_recipients  status=skipped  # who was skipped and why

Deliverability

Why issues sent here reach the inbox

Your newsletter shares sending reputation with everyone else on the platform. We protect it with rules we publish rather than promises, and we do not quote a delivery rate we cannot show you.

  • Paid-only sending. There is no free plan to abuse, and new workspaces are screened on their first sends.
  • Consent on record. Every contact keeps how and when they agreed to hear from you. Signup forms use double opt-in.
  • Automatic suppression. Hard bounces, complaints and unsubscribes are suppressed for every future send, including re-imports.
  • Strict pause rules. A sender is paused when 7-day complaints reach 0.1% or hard bounces reach 10%, before mailbox providers notice.
  • A sending ramp. New workspaces start at 100 emails a day and climb to 50,000 as healthy sending builds trust.
Step 1: 100/dayStep 12: 50,000/day

The daily sending ramp, log scale. A step is gained after a day that used at least half the limit with healthy feedback, and lost when 7-day bounces reach 3% or complaints reach 0.1%.

Straight answers

What SendHQ does not do (yet)

If one of these is essential to your newsletter today, a platform that has it is the better choice, and the comparison pages name which ones do.

  • No hosted website or post archive. Issues go to the inbox; publishing them on the web is up to you.
  • No paid subscriptions, referral program or ad network. SendHQ does not take a cut of your revenue, and does not offer these growth tools either.
  • No scheduling, automations or open and click tracking yet. Broadcasts send when you press send, and reports cover delivery, bounces, complaints and unsubscribes.

Switching

Move your list in an afternoon

  1. ExportDownload your subscribers as a CSV from Mailchimp, beehiiv, Substack, Kit (ConvertKit) or any other platform.
  2. Verify your domainAdd the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, in one click on Cloudflare and Domain Connect providers.
  3. ImportUpload the CSV to a list and say how people opted in. Unsubscribed and bounced addresses are skipped.
  4. SendWrite the issue with merge tags and send it. Larger lists keep sending as your daily limit grows.

Pricing

Two plans. Priced by what you send.

Starter

$19 /month

or $205.20 a year ($17.10/month)

  • 50,000 emails a month
  • For newsletters up to about 11,500 subscribers sent weekly.
  • 25 verified domains
  • Unlimited contacts and lists
  • Signup forms, imports, broadcasts
  • API, MCP server and CLI
Choose Starter

Scale

$39 /month

or $421.20 a year ($35.10/month)

  • 200,000 emails a month
  • For newsletters up to about 46,100 subscribers sent weekly.
  • 100 verified domains
  • Unlimited contacts and lists
  • Signup forms, imports, broadcasts
  • API, MCP server and CLI
Choose Scale

Prices in US dollars. Plans renew monthly or yearly and are paid by card or USDC. See all plans.

Questions

Newsletter FAQ

How is SendHQ priced for newsletters?

By emails sent, not by subscribers. Starter Marketing is $19 a month for 50,000 emails, and Scale Marketing is $39 a month for 200,000 emails. A weekly issue to 10,000 subscribers is about 43,334 emails a month, so it fits Starter. Annual billing is 10% off.

Is there a free plan or trial?

No. Sending needs a paid plan. Keeping the platform paid-only is one of the ways we keep spammers off the shared sending reputation your newsletter depends on.

Can I send my whole list on day one?

New workspaces start with a daily limit of 100 emails and climb one step after each day that used at least half the limit with healthy feedback, up to 50,000 a day after 12 steps. A broadcast larger than today's limit is not rejected: it keeps sending as the limit allows. Mailbox providers trust a new domain that ramps up this way.

Can I bring my subscribers from Mailchimp, beehiiv, Substack or Kit?

Yes. Export a CSV from your current platform and import it in the dashboard or with the import_contacts API and MCP tool. You state how these people agreed to hear from you (for example, 'Signed up on example.com, exported from beehiiv'), and that consent basis is kept with every contact. Unsubscribed, bounced and complained addresses are never resubscribed by an import.

Do I send from my own domain?

Yes. You verify your domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, with one-click DNS for Cloudflare and Domain Connect providers. Issues go out from your address, not a shared one.

Does SendHQ have signup forms?

Yes. Turn on the hosted signup form for a list and share its link. It uses double opt-in: the subscriber confirms by email before they are added, and a link scanner opening the confirmation link cannot confirm for them.

Can I schedule issues or track opens and clicks?

Not yet. Broadcasts send when you press send, and SendHQ reports delivery, bounces, complaints and unsubscribes rather than opens and clicks. If scheduling or engagement analytics are essential today, beehiiv, Kit and Mailchimp offer them.

Can an AI agent run my newsletter?

Yes. The SendHQ MCP server has tools to import contacts, manage lists, draft a broadcast and send it, so Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can do the work. Sending a broadcast is a separate tool that agents are told to call only when you ask.

Send your next issue from SendHQ

Your list, your domain, $19 a month for 50,000 emails.

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