We have added a Free plan to Sendybay. $0 a month, 10,000 emails, unlimited subscribers, no credit card.
The thing that stops most people trying managed Sendy hosting isn't the $19. It's that you can't tell whether your setup will actually work until you've already paid for it. You bring your own SES keys and a Sendy license, you point a domain at it, and only then do you find out if sending behaves the way you expected.
Now you can find that out first.
10,000 emails a month, unlimited subscribers with no per-contact pricing, one-click setup with no setup fee, monthly backups and 10 GB of bandwidth. It's a full Sendy install rather than a stripped-down version, so brands, autoresponders, segments and the API all work the way they normally do.
The drag and drop email builder starts on Basic at $19 a month, and support on Free is the community rather than email.
Two other things apply to every Sendybay plan, this one included. You bring your own Sendy license ($69 one time, from sendy.co) and your own Amazon SES or SMTP credentials. We run the server and the software. We don't resell licenses and we never touch your sending account.
Anyone with a list in the low thousands who sends a newsletter every so often. Agencies who want to test a client's setup before committing to anything. And the people who have had "install Sendy on a VPS" sitting in a todo list since last year.
If you send more than 10K a month you'll outgrow it quickly, which is fine, Basic covers 125K for $19.
Setup takes a few minutes and there's no card involved. Start free at app.sendybay.com.