Transactional Email APIs · reliability comparison
Elastic Email vs Resend: which is more reliable? (2026)
Elastic Email is more reliable than Resend, scoring 82.4 vs 60.5 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Elastic Email reported 3 incidents and Resend reported 23, with effective uptime of 99.84% and 99.39% respectively. Resend resolves incidents faster on average (3h 39m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Elastic Email | Resend |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 82.4 | 60.5 |
| Rank (transactional email APIs) | #7 | #10 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.84% | 99.39% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 23 |
| Partial / major outages | 1 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 6h 19m | 3h 39m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Elastic Email and Resend differ
- Resend reported 7.7× as many incidents as Elastic Email over the last 90 days (23 vs 3).
- Resend had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Elastic Email.
- Resend fixes problems faster: 3h 39m on average, against 6h 19m for Elastic Email.
- Elastic Email's longest outage on record lasted 1h 43m (Sep 1, 2026); Resend's lasted 2h 39m (Aug 8, 2026).
90-day uptime
Elastic Email
Resend
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Elastic Email incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 1h 54m
- Degraded performanceSep 22, 2026 · resolved in 15h 21m
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 43m
Recent Resend incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 26, 2026 · resolved in 23m
Affected: Email Events
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 49m
Intermittent latency spikes on our emails API
Affected: Scheduled Emails, Single Email, Broadcast Emails, Batch Emails
- Degraded performanceOct 10, 2026 · resolved in 1h 9m
Delayed new team provisioning and contact webhook delivery
Affected: Dashboard, General API, Webhooks
- Degraded performanceOct 9, 2026 · resolved in 23m
Delayed new team provisioning and contact webhook delivery
Affected: Webhooks, Dashboard, General API
- Degraded performanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved in 52m
- Degraded performanceSep 26, 2026 · resolved in 2h 46m
Other transactional email APIs to consider
- Mailjet · #1 · 100% uptime
- Mailtrap Email Sending · #2 · 99.99% uptime
- Loops · #3 · 99.98% uptime
- Twilio SendGrid · #4 · 99.98% uptime
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