Bird European alternative

Yes, Lettermint is a great free alternative to Bird for transactional emails . Are you using the free Bird plan and looking for a free alternative? Good news, Lettermint offers a free plan too! Lettermint provides reliable and efficient transactional email services, including a free plan.

Yes, Lettermint supports both transactional and marketing emails, just like Bird. At Lettermint, marketing emails are referred to as Broadcast Emails . You can easily send order confirmations, password resets, newsletters, and promotional campaigns.

Lettermint sends from its own infrastructure and its own IP ranges (AS213427), so your sender reputation is not shared with unrelated tenants on a hyperscaler. Transactional and broadcast email run on separate IP pools.

Instead of a claim, we publish the numbers: our Time to Inbox page shows live measurements of how many seconds an email takes to reach Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud and others. Compare those with what Bird shows you.

The Free plan covers 300 emails per month with no credit card, and you can stay on it for as long as you fit within it. Paid plans start at €10 per month for 10,000 emails and scale with your volume. See pricing for every tier.

Billing is in euros from an EU company, so there is no currency conversion and the invoice works for European bookkeeping and VAT.

Lettermint supports both API and SMTP, just like Bird, so a migration takes four steps:

1. Add your domain and verify it with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
2. Replace your Bird API token or SMTP credentials with Lettermint ones.
3. Import your suppression list as a CSV, so known bounces and unsubscribes stay blocked from day one.
4. Send a test email and follow its delivery on the Time to Inbox page.

Or skip the manual work. The Team API covers every step, so you can script the migration end to end, or let an AI assistant run it for you through our MCP server. The documentation has the details.

Lettermint is a great European alternative to Bird because our entire infrastructure and support are fully European. This ensures faster delivery and full compliance with EU regulations like GDPR.

In comparison, Bird (formerly MessageBird) was founded in Amsterdam, but announced in 2025 that it is leaving the Netherlands for hubs in the United States, Singapore and Dubai. Its email service, the former SparkPost, is run by Bird.com Inc., a US entity, so the US CLOUD Act applies to it.

A region setting controls where data is stored, not which law applies. Bird's email service is run by Bird.com Inc., a US entity, and the company is moving its headquarters out of the EU, so the US CLOUD Act reaches it wherever its servers are. Your compliance review still needs extra safeguards for that provider.

With Lettermint both are European: the infrastructure is in the EU and the company behind it is a Dutch B.V. under EU law. That is what digital sovereignty means in practice.

Sign up without a credit card, verify your domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC, create an API token and send your first email, usually within minutes. The documentation walks through each step.

You can send over the REST API, SMTP relay or the official SDKs for Laravel, Node.js, PHP, Python, Go and Java, plus integrations such as WordPress, Zapier and Make.