# Goodbye Sparkpost

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/goodbye-sparkpost/123026>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/goodbye-sparkpost/123026 "2019-07-16T03:29:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![SidV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sidv/32/119460_2.png) [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 3:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/goodbye-sparkpost/123026/1 "2019-07-16T03:29:33Z")

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It was good while it lasted.

Now they communicate that the free plans that they had extended to those who used them will not be available anymore. And they recommend me to go to the starter plan of 30 usd per month, and to the year it would go to 360 usd.

> (…) we will be deprecating our old free plans. On or before September 15, 2019, you will need to login to your SparkPost account to select from our current plans. Based on your sending patterns and feature usage\*, we recommend the 50K Starter plan. If you do not select one of the current plans by September 15, you will automatically be migrated to our free “Test” plan, with a limit of 500 emails/month and 100 emails/day.
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> `*` PS: **I use less than 6.000 emails per week!**

I think starter plan is an armed assault 😲 I do not use any SparkPost feature, only what Discourse needs to send the registration mails, or the summary. I do not even use the discourse feature to answer by email either.

So … what other email service can you recommend?

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