Email Sending Limits of Email Service Providers

Email Sending Limits of Email Service Providers

When dealing with big marketing campaigns, many things can go wrong – personalization problems, email search, obsolete lists, numerous follow-ups, and so on. These can all be dealt with with the help of numerous affordable tools and platforms. But when it comes to the sending part of your campaign, you need to know the email sending limits. 

Luckily, you don’t need to test email sending abilities of each service provider as we have already compiled the table of email service providers:

1&1
20i
Amazon Workmail
AOL Mail
AWeber
BlueHost
Campaign Monitor
CounterMail
DNS Exit
DreamHost
FastMail
Gmail
GoDaddy
G Suite
Hostinger
HostMonster
HushMail
iCloud Mail
iPower
Lycos
MailChimp
MailFence
Outlook
Planet Hoster
ProtonMail
Rackspace
Rochen
Runbox
SaskTel
Spectrum
Tutanota
Yahoo!Mail
Zoho

Why is knowing the email sending limits of your provider important? Because otherwise your email campaign is at risk of not getting delivered and your account may be blocked.

To give you the most accurate comparison of email providers, I have to present the full picture. The table below compares email providers on the following issues: pricing, attachment size limits, recipients/messages per hour limits, and daily email limits.

  1. Pricing. Depending on your budget and campaign size, you might need a free or a paid provider. We will provide information on both options. As a rule, most providers offer a free trial for anywhere between a week and a month.
  2. Email attachment size limit. If your email campaign involves attachments, make sure they fit the attachment size limits of your provider. Every ESP differs in this parameter, for example, the AOL attachment size limit is 25MB and iCloud email attachment limit is 20 MB, while you can send up to 150 MB through 1&1.
  3. Recipients/messages per hour limit. The key characteristic. Every provider sets its own limits, the breaking of which can lead to a temporary ban. Choose your provider depending on the size of your campaign.
  4. Daily email limit. The amount of email that can be sent in a day without getting banned.

If you break the email provider’s sending limits, you will get temporarily banned, meaning your campaign will be paused. We will not be comparing the ban length: usually, the ban lasts only 1-24 hours.

The table is based on the information provided by the providers through their websites or support teams.

Email service provider Price Max attachment size Sending limits per hour, minute, or email Sending limits per day

1&1

$0.99-9.99 per month 70-150 MB 100 recipients per message
200 recipients per 5 minutes
Click for more provider recommendations
N/A

20i

 

$0-34.99 per month 50 MB 100 individual email addresses per email 8,000 messages
10,000 recipients
2,000 unique recipients

Amazon Workmail

1 month free trial for 25 users, then $4 per month per user 25 MB Depends on your account reputation, may be changed upon request 10,000 recipients per user
100,000 recipients per account

AOL Mail

Free 25 MB 100 recipients per message
500 recipients

AWeber

1 month free trial, then
$19-149 per month
1 MB Unlimited (both within the free trial and paid plans) Unlimited (both within the free trial and paid plans)

BlueHost

From $7.99 per month 35 MB 150 messages per hour
Limits can be changed on demand
N/A

Campaign Monitor

Freemium
(up to 5 subscribers)


$9-989 per month
25 MB 1,000 messages per hour 5 recipients (freemium)

Depends on the number of subscribers in a plan

CounterMail

Free 1 month trial

$59 per year
25 MB 10 messages per 120 seconds N/A

DNS Exit

 $1.50-77.99 per month 30 MB   500 recipient per email N/A

DreamHost

(No separate email service)
$0.99-509.99
40 MB From 100 recipients per hour
Limit depends on the plan
N/A

Fast Mail

30-day free trial
$3-9 per user per month
$30-90 per user per  year
50 MB ½ daily limit per hour
½ hourly limit per 10 minutes
120 messages (trial)
4,000-16,000 messages (paid plans)

Gmail

Free 25 MB 20 messages per hour 500 messages/
recipients

GoDaddy

Free 1 month trial, then
$6.99-14.99 per month
20 MB 100 recipients per message 250 messages
(Up to 500 messages per additional order)

G Suite

14-day free trial (up to 10 users), $5-25 per user per month 25 MB N/A 500 messages (trial)
2,000 messages (paid plan)

Hostinger

$3.99-11.99 per month (billed for 3 months) 25 MB SMTP: 200-500 emails per hour (depending on the plan)
Sendmail: 60 per minute
N/A

HostMonster

From $9.49 per month 35 MB 150 messages per hour
(May be raised upon request)
N/A

HushMail

Free 14-day trial, from $3.99 per user per month for businesses,
$48.98 per year for personal use
20 MB N/A 350 messages (sent through the webmail interface)
2,000 messages (sent using IMAP/POP/SMTP clients)

iCloud Mail

Free to $9.99 per month 20 MB 500 recipients per message 1,000 messages

 iPower

$14.95 per month (billed annually)   25 MB 500 messages per hour  5,000 messages

Lycos

$4.95 per month,
$19.95 per year, $49.95 per 3 years
25 MB N/A 250 messages

MailChimp

Free plan

$10-199 per month

10 MB N/A 2,000 messages per day (free)

Unlimited (paid)

MailFence

Free plan

€2.50-7.50 per month
10 MB (free)

50 MB (paid plan)

50 messages per hour (free)

120/140 messages per hour (paid plans)
1,200 messages (free plan)

2,880 – 3,360 messages

Outlook

Free

$6.99-9.99 per month (premium plans)
20 MB 30 messages per minute

100-500 recipients per message
300 messages (free)

10,000 messages (paid plans)

Planet Hoster

Free plan

€6 per month
50 MB 200 messages per hour

90 messages/30 minutes
N/A

ProtonMail

Free plan

€4-24 per month
25 MB 50 messages per hour (free plan)
300 messages per hour (plus plan)
Unlimited (professional and visionary plans)
150 messages (free plan)
1,000 messages (plus plan)
Unlimited (professional and visionary plans)

Rackspace

$2-6.50 per user per month 50 MB N/A 10,000 recipients

Rochen

From $4.95 per month N/A 100 messages/10 minutes 1,000 messages

Runbox

$19.95-79.95 per year 100 MB N/A 500 messages

SaskTel

No separate email service

$91.95-157.30 per month

 25 MB 250 messages per hour

100 email addresses per email 

500 messages 

Spectrum

No separate email service

$99.97-139.97 per month

 5 MB  N/A 1,000 messages 

Tutanota

Free plan

€1-5 per month
20 MB 100 messages per hour 100 messages

Yahoo! Mail

Free
$34.99 per year (pro)
$9.99 per year (mobile only)
~15 MB N/A (free plan)

95 messages per hour (paid plans)
N/A (free plan)

500 messages(paid plans)

Zoho

Free plan

$3-6 per user per month
3-10MB N/A 200 messages (free plan)
250-1,000 messages (depending on the plan)
Campaigns option available

All the mentioned email sending limits of ESPs are precautions used to prevent spam-sending and let the provider support all of their users at all times.

What else affects email deliverability?

  1. Email content (sender name, subject line, preheader, greeting, body, call-to-action, sign-off, and signature).
  2. Email frequency, the amount of sent messages, and adherence to email attachment limitations.
  3. Sending emails only to those contacts who have given their consent. The addresses must be valid. You can check this with Snov.io Email Verifier.
  4. Reputation of your domain.
  5. The DMARC policy, SPF records, and DKIM settings.

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Knowledge is power, especially in the world of sales. Now you have all the data at your fingertips: send emails based on this knowledge, become much better than your competitors, and your satisfied customers will bring more leads! Good luck!

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