Courier Pricing in May 2026

Courier's standard pricing follows tiered structure: Free up to 10K notifications/month, Growth at $250/month for 100K notifications, Business at $1,000/month for 1M notifications, Enterprise custom-quote. Real-world Courier bills for products with multi-channel notifications land at $250-1,500/month for early-stage; mid-stage products with serious orchestration hit $3K-15K/month at Business tiers.

The $500 startup credit covers 4-12 months of Courier at the Growth tier. Eligibility focuses on AI-native and accelerator-backed startups with verified multi-channel orchestration needs. The credit applies to all Courier services. The strategic decision: Courier vs Knock is the active comparison in notification orchestration — both target the same workflow (define a notification once, route across email/push/SMS/Slack/in-app based on user preferences). The decision often comes down to specific feature emphasis and pricing tier. Courier tends to win on template editor flexibility; Knock tends to win on workflow definition simplicity. The credit window is the right time to validate which platform's developer experience matches your team's preferences. For products with simple notification needs (just transactional email + occasional push), Resend + OneSignal as separate tools often beats orchestrated platforms on cost. For products with complex preference management, Courier or Knock collapse the engineering cost dramatically. Novu offers similar orchestration as open-source self-hosted alternative.