Keep a million subscribers.Pay only for what leaves.
$25 a month, plus 25¢ per thousand emails actually sent. Contacts are never metered, so your list can double this year without your bill moving a cent.
Everyone else charges you by the size of your list. We think that's a tax on the thing you worked hardest for.
- Prices fixed for twelve months
- Export works even while an account is suspended
- No account closed without a stated reason and evidence
to send this issue — 4,812 recipients, after suppression
That count comes from the same code that does the sending — the set counted is the set mailed. No estimate, no rounding in our favour.
A promise, not a roadmap
Things we will never build
Most of this industry's roadmap is a list of ways to need you more. Here is ours, in reverse: the five things TellJet is never going to grow into, written down so you can hold us to them.
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- 01
An automation builder
No drip sequences, no branching flows, no "customer journeys." You write an issue and you send it. If you ever need a flowchart to explain your newsletter to yourself, something has gone wrong and it isn't going to be our fault.
- 02
A social feed or a recommendation network
Nothing that turns your readers into our audience. We will never put your subscribers in a discovery surface, never cross-promote another publication to them, and never build the app that makes that tempting.
- 03
Anything that writes your newsletter for you
No generated drafts, no suggested subject lines, no rewriting your paragraphs. The writing is the entire reason your readers are there. It is not a step we are looking to remove.
- 04
Per-subscriber pricing
Contacts will never be metered. Not at ten thousand, not at a million, not as a "growth plan," not as an overage. Your list getting bigger will never by itself make your bill bigger.
- 05
A tier where better deliverability costs more
Every account sends the same way, down the same path, with the same care taken over whether it lands. Reaching the inbox is the product. It is not an upsell.
If this list ever changes, the change and the date it changed will be posted here, on this page, next to the version it replaced. Nothing gets quietly removed.
Pricing
Three numbers. One of them is zero.
There are no plans to compare and no tier to be promoted out of. Everyone pays the same base, the same rate per thousand, and nothing at all for the names they're holding.
Base
The account. Unlimited issues, unlimited lists, every feature there is — because there is only one set of them.
Sending
Emails that actually left. Suppressed addresses are counted out before you're quoted, not after you're billed.
Subscribers held
One thousand names or one million. Contacts are never metered, and that is item four on the list above.
What that actually comes to
Worked out so you don't have to. Every figure is $25 plus 25¢ for each thousand emails that left the building.
| List size | Held, per month | 1 issue / month | 4 issues / month | 20 issues / month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $0.00 | $25.25 | $26.00 | $30.00 |
| 10,000 | $0.00 | $27.50 | $35.00 | $75.00 |
| 50,000 | $0.00 | $37.50 | $75.00 | $275.00 |
| 100,000 | $0.00 | $50.00 | $125.00 | $525.00 |
Moving a list over
Your list is yours on the way in and on the way out.
Import from a CSV or straight from your current provider. Anyone who unsubscribed, bounced or complained stays that way — an import can never make somebody mailable who had stopped being mailable, whatever the file says.
Export works the same in every direction, including while an account is suspended. A list you can't take with you isn't yours, and holding it hostage is not a retention strategy we're willing to have.
Write the issue. Press send.
That's the whole product, and you've now read the whole roadmap. TellJet isn't open for signups yet — the first newsletter running on it is the founder's own, and it opens to everyone else once it has carried that one for a while without drama.