Best offer on record: Brevo Free plan (free forever): 300 emails/day + up to 100,000 contacts, no credit card, no time limit. 4 verified findings, checked 2026-10-22.
Offers
Brevo Free plan (free forever): 300 emails/day + up to 100,000 contacts, no credit card, no time limit high confidence
Confirmed as of 2026-10-22 from the official help-center article 'About Brevo's pricing plans' (id 208589409, fetched today via API) and the pricing page FAQ. Limits: 300 email sends/day (reset daily; unused sends do NOT roll over); up to 100,000 stored contacts; 1 marketing seat / 1 user; marketing automation limited to 2,000 unique contacts entering active automations; 50 open deals, 1 pipeline, 1 connected calendar/inbox, 1 deal currency (free sales features); basic reporting only; 'Sent with Brevo' sticker cannot be removed; 2 languages; email support; outbound webhooks; Aura AI assistant. Included API/transactional surface: transactional emails and SMS are part of the Free plan (same 300/day cap; once the daily cap is hit, up to 1,000 extra transactional emails wait in a retry queue, then dropped; campaigns to >300 recipients deliver 300/day and require manual Requeue). SMS campaigns exist on Free but SMS messages are a paid add-on (credits sold separately; prepaid SMS/WhatsApp credits 'never expire'). Web/mobile push notifications, landing pages, A/B testing, popups, WhatsApp, dedicated IPs, sales workflows, Instagram DM/Facebook Messenger, and phone support are NOT in the Free plan (official FAQ lists them as excluded).
Eligibility
Anyone worldwide — individuals, solopreneurs, students, startups. No .edu email, no company-age or funding requirement, no region limit. Credit card NOT required (pricing page FAQ: 'No. We only need your email address to sign up'). Must pass account verification and sender (DKIM/domain) approval before the 300/day sending limit unlocks.
How to claim
1) Sign up at brevo.com (email only, no card) — you land on the Free plan automatically. 2) Verify your account and authenticate a sending domain (SPF/DKIM). 3) Import up to 100,000 contacts; send up to 300 emails/day (marketing or transactional). 4) Use SMTP/REST APIs on the same account for transactional email; SMS requires purchasing message credits.
Expiry
No expiry — 'completely free forever... no time limit' (official). CAVEAT: Free plan accounts with no use for 4 months are automatically DELETED (official help-center article 'About the deletion of inactive Free plan accounts'), with 4 email reminders at 30/15/7/1 day before; data is unrecoverable. Any automated activity (automations or transactional sends) counts as 'active' and prevents deletion. Paid-plan accounts are exempt.
Gotchas
The 'trial' of Brevo IS the free plan — Brevo explicitly answers 'Can I try Brevo before purchasing a plan?' by pointing to the automatic Free plan (no time-boxed trial exists for paid plans). Branding sticker always on. Campaigns >300 recipients take multiple days to reach everyone. Daily cap blocks same-day rescheduling. 'Sent with Brevo' + basic stats only. 4-month inactivity deletion of free accounts (GDPR) — export data first. SMS/WhatsApp/WhatsApp-verified numbers cost real money; the free plan includes the channel only, not the messages.
PRO Trial of the Professional plan — sales-gated free trial (no published duration) medium confidence
Official landing page /enterprise/pro-trial-user/ (fetched today): 'Unlock your PRO Trial with Sales — Talk directly with a Brevo Sales expert to explore our Pro deal and unlock a free trial.' It targets the Professional plan (from $499/month, 150,000–10M monthly emails, up to 2M contacts, 10 marketing seats, WhatsApp/mobile push, AI segmentation, SAML SSO add-on, 1 CSM meeting/year on yearly plans, 3 h/yr deliverability strategist). No public figures for trial length, included credits, or whether a card is collected — terms are set individually by sales. Not a self-serve offer and not aimed at students; aimed at mid-market/enterprise deals.
Eligibility
Businesses pursuing a Professional/Enterprise deal; requires submitting the form (work email, country, phone) and accepting contact from Brevo Sales. No published funding/age/region criteria. Not suitable for students seeking free credits.
How to claim
1) Fill the form at brevo.com/enterprise/pro-trial-user/ (email + country + phone). 2) Brevo Sales contacts you, schedules a demo/Pro deal discussion. 3) Sales 'unlocks' a free Professional-plan trial with individually agreed terms.
Expiry
Not public. Trial terms (duration, features, billing after) are negotiated per deal; the page publishes no date or limit.
Gotchas
Sales-gated: no self-serve 'try Pro for 14 days' button exists on the pricing page; there is no general time-boxed free trial of paid plans anywhere on the site or help center (702 help articles scanned, 0 mention trials). If you want to evaluate paid features without sales, the realistic route is upgrading to Starter ($9) which carries no free-trial cushion.
Brevo Startups & VCs Partner program (partner-facing discounts, not free credits) medium confidence
Official page /partners/startups/ (fetched today; /startups/ redirects here): 'Join the Startups and VCs program' — startup companies and VC funds become Brevo partners and 'offer exclusive discounts and advanced marketing & CRM tips to your members': 'industry leading solutions at startup-friendly prices', access to 150+ integrations, and dedicated support. No discount percentages, free-credit amounts, funding caps, company-age rules, or region limits are published on the page; it is a partner/referral relationship, not a free tier for startups themselves. There is no public 'free for startups' credit program (historically Brevo/SENDINBLUE has not run one).
Eligibility
Startup companies or VC/fund organizations applying as partners (no published criteria). End beneficiaries are the partner's members/porfolio companies, who receive 'exclusive discounts' at negotiated terms. No .edu or funding-cap requirement stated.
How to claim
1) Apply via the form on brevo.com/partners/startups/ ('Become a Startup & VC Partner'). 2) Once accepted as a partner, promote/deliver Brevo to members with the program's discounted pricing and dedicated support.
Expiry
No public deadline. Ongoing partner program; discount terms are set per partner agreement.
Gotchas
Do not confuse with a free offer: no dollar amounts or free-credit quotas are published, so the 'startup program' provides discounts (undisclosed %), not free usage. If a specific startup wants free credits, only the standard Free plan (finding 1) qualifies. The page /startups/ now 301s to /partners/startups/, so older 'Brevo for Startups' marketing pages are gone.
Student / education license: none found medium confidence
No Brevo education license, student discount, or .edu program was found as of 2026-10-22: scanned all 702 English help-center article titles (0 matching education/student/university/school), the full English marketing sitemap (1,819 URLs; the only education URL is a customer case-study index, /success_stories_industry/education/, not an offer), and the plan/pricing pages (no edu gating or student tier). The universal Free plan is the only route for students; it requires no verification of affiliation (a normal email address suffices).
Eligibility
n/a — no education-specific offer exists. Students get the standard Free plan with the same terms as any individual (no .edu requirement because there is nothing edu-gated).
How to claim
Nothing to claim separately: a student signs up for the Free plan at brevo.com with any email address (no card, no affiliation proof) and gets 300 emails/day + 100,000 contacts (see finding 1).
Expiry
n/a
Gotchas
Negative finding, verified against Brevo's own site/help center today, but NOT verified against third-party aggregators (e.g., university resource lists), since web search was unavailable at run time. Brevo has historically never announced a student/edu program, so absence is expected, not anomalous. The 4-month inactivity deletion rule applies to student accounts too — a semester-long unused class account can be purged.