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Marketing founded 2017

Userlist

SaaS lifecycle email with account-level data.

overview

Userlist is purpose-built for SaaS email marketing, lifecycle automation, transactional email, in-app messages, company accounts, and account-level segmentation. Its pricing page uses a dynamic slider, so this profile captures the published structure rather than inventing a fixed entry price.

for SaaS product teams

A SaaS product sends on behalf of its customers, so the deciding factors are tenant isolation, whether suppressions can be scoped rather than global, and whether support can answer why one specific account did not receive one specific email. Lifecycle automation and transactional sending usually need to coexist.

Against trial expiry notices, dunning, onboarding sequences, and per-tenant transactional mail, Userlist covers event stream, the suppressions API, scheduling, and webhook coverage, and does not cover multi-tenant support and operating track record. Whether that gap matters depends on how central those are to the build.

  • Multi-tenant: No
  • Event stream: Yes
  • Suppressions API: Yes
  • Operating since: 2017
  • Scheduling: Yes
  • Best published rate per 1,000: Tiers not published in comparable form
  • Deliverability: Lifecycle platform, not a standalone sender reputation product. Best suited to opt-in SaaS product and lifecycle mail with clear user and company data.
  • Webhooks: Yes
  • Starts at: Dynamic slider pricing; Basic includes 10,000 users and $10/mo per additional 1,000 users
deliverability

Lifecycle platform, not a standalone sender reputation product. Best suited to opt-in SaaS product and lifecycle mail with clear user and company data.

best for

SaaS teams that need lifecycle email tied to users, accounts, and product behavior.

not great for

Ecommerce, creator newsletters, and teams that only need bulk broadcasts.

pros
  • Company accounts and account-level automation are first-class
  • Marketing, lifecycle, transactional, and in-app messages share one data model
  • Direct API integration and custom events are core features
  • Early-stage startup discount is published for qualifying SaaS companies
cons
  • No permanent free plan
  • Public page does not expose a static base price without the pricing slider state
  • Narrower fit outside SaaS products

Features at a glance

API Yes
SMTP No
SDKs None
Webhooks Yes
Templates rich
React Email No
Batch send Yes
Scheduled send Yes
Suppressions Yes
Multi-tenant No
Inbound parsing No
Event stream Yes
Idempotency keys No
Dedicated IP No

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