Twilio SendGrid Email API

Move blazing fast with the SendGrid Email API

Create an email program with the SendGrid Email API that's trusted by top brands to send at scale—delivering 205+ billion emails monthly.

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How the SendGrid Email API works

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Diagram showing email delivery process using Twilio SendGrid API with steps including authentication and reputation.

The SendGrid Email API enables businesses to create, send, and manage emails at scale through RESTful APIs or SMTP relay.

SendGrid manages delivery with built-in cloud connections and authentication to maximize inbox placement. With features like dynamic templates, real-time validation, deliverability insights, and advanced analytics, you gain the control and visibility to manage outcomes at scale.

Ready to handle your critical email workloads

Send at scale with the developer-first email platform

Alerts and notifications

Reach the inbox with Twilio SendGrid's industry-leading deliverability rates. Maximize your email campaign’s success with dedicated IPs, custom domains, and expert support.


Shopify uses SendGrid's Email API to help their 1.7 million merchants send important alerts about payments and shipping as well as marketing emails.

99.5%

average delivery rate

91.3%

inbox placement rate

1.7M

Shopify merchants

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Smartphone screen showing notification of payment received for $135 with a thank you message.

SendGrid Email API features

Your emails belong in the inbox—make sure they get there with the SendGrid Email API.

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Industry-leading 99% deliverability rate

The SendGrid Email API leverages advanced infrastructure, authentication standards, and reputation management to land more emails where they belong—in the inbox.

  • Manage your email communications with features designed to improve performance, security, and user experience.

  • Create and customize beautiful, responsive emails with ease using our dynamic email templates.

  • Reduce bounce rates and improve sender reputation by validating email addresses in real time.

  • Monitor and improve email deliverability from a single dashboard that shows detailed performance across mailbox providers over time.

  • Start with a free trial to send email with our SMTP relay, SMTP API, or Web API. Send 100 emails per day for 60 days then upgrade to a paid plan.

  • Protect your email communications with comprehensive security features, including SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and TLS encryption.

  • Our team of email experts help set your email up for success, troubleshoot issues, and coach your program to higher deliverability and open rates.

  • Avoid spam filters, validate links, and render flawlessly across browsers and devices with our integrated email testing.

  • Avoid outages with intelligent delivery optimization, fully redundant hybrid infrastructure, global inbound edge locations, and formal failover policies.

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Woman smiling with a recommendation card showing headphones and 20% off offer with a launch email button

How the SendGrid Email API stacks up

See how the Twilio SendGrid Email API compares with Mailchimp, Mailgun, Amazon SES, Bird, and Brevo across pricing, setup, analytics, deliverability, and other key capabilities.

Integrate in minutes, start sending sooner

Integrate and deliver in minutes with our RESTful APIs and SMTP, libraries to support your programming language, and interactive documentation.

# using SendGrid's Python Library
# https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python
import os
from sendgrid import SendGridAPIClient
from sendgrid.helpers.mail import Mail

message = Mail(
    from_email='from_email@example.com',
    to_emails='to@example.com',
    subject='Sending with Twilio SendGrid is Fun',
    html_content='<strong>and easy to do anywhere, even with Python</strong>')
try:
    sg = SendGridAPIClient(os.environ.get('SENDGRID_API_KEY'))
    response = sg.send(message)
    print(response.status_code)
    print(response.body)
    print(response.headers)
except Exception as e:
    print(e.message)

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Email Deliverability Guide

Learn how to get your emails to the inbox with the latest industry trends, email news, and best practices.

12M+ developers can’t be wrong about Twilio

205B+

emails sent every month

99%

deliverability rate

99.99%

uptime SLA

1.9

second median delivery speed

The best things in life are free, including a trial of our SendGrid Email API.

Sign up for a free trial to experience Twilio SendGrid's reliable, scalable email delivery.

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SendGrid Email API FAQs

The Twilio SendGrid Email API lets you create, send, and manage email at scale through REST APIs or SMTP relay. It moves 205+ billion emails a month for brands that need their email to hit the inbox, along with the analytics to see what happened after they clicked send.

Twilio Email lives in the new Twilio Console and is built for teams adding email to existing cross-channel workflows, without juggling separate vendors. Twilio SendGrid is the standalone platform for high-volume transactional and marketing email. Separate tools, same infrastructure.

The Twilio SendGrid Email API connects to your app through REST APIs or SMTP relay, then takes delivery from there. Authentication, reputation management, and redundant cloud infrastructure run in the background to hit a 99% deliverability rate.

The Twilio SendGrid Email API competes on deliverability, scale, and developer experience with 99% deliverability across 205+ billion monthly emails and REST and SMTP options for any stack.

Yes. The Twilio SendGrid Email API runs both from one platform: receipts, password resets, and shipping alerts right next to your marketing campaigns. Shopify sends exactly this mix across its 1.7 million merchants.

Yes. The Twilio SendGrid Email API is built for scale, moving 205+ billion emails a month with a 99.99% uptime SLA and a 1.9-second median delivery speed. Dedicated IPs, redundant infrastructure, and formal failover keep high-volume programs running.

Twilio SendGrid pricing scales with how much email you send, so you pay for the volume your program needs. Start free with 100 emails a day for 60 days, then move to a paid plan. Higher tiers add dedicated IPs, deeper analytics, and custom domains.

Twilio SendGrid's free trial gives you 100 emails a day for 60 days across SMTP relay, SMTP API, and Web API. Send real email, check your deliverability, and see how the platform performs before you pay a cent.

Twilio SendGrid protects deliverability with advanced infrastructure, authentication, and active reputation management. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and TLS keep your email authenticated, and deliverability insights show how you're landing across every mailbox provider.

Twilio SendGrid gives you real-time analytics on every send: opens, clicks, bounces, and spam reports. Deliverability insights break results down by mailbox provider over time, so you can see where email lands and fix what's dragging you down.

Skip the Twilio SendGrid Email API if you're only firing off a handful of personal emails — a standard mailbox handles that fine. It earns its place once you're sending programmatically: app notifications, transactional email, or marketing at a volume where deliverability and analytics matter.

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