Some platforms are made for newsletters. RadarSend is made for yours.
Most newsletter platforms come with a business model built in. RadarSend works with the one you already have, with reports that count real readers and sending through a sending account you own.
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Run your newsletter your way, not the way your platform says to.
The platforms made for newsletters are good at growing a free list and turning some of it into paid subscribers, but the business model comes with the tool: their site, their recommendation network, their checkout. Plenty of newsletters run differently, and RadarSend works with the business you already have.
Your site.
Tracking runs on your own domain, so you can see who reads what on your site, from articles to the member library to the pricing page.
Your checkout.
When someone buys, renews, or cancels, your checkout can tell RadarSend through the API, webhooks, or the WordPress plugin, and that can start a sequence or move them into a segment.
Your data.
Add custom fields for whatever you keep track of, like plan, company, role, or renewal date.
What “engaged” means to you.
Build scores from the things that matter to your business, such as issues opened, articles read, or a visit to the pricing page.
Your sponsors.
Security scanners click every sponsor link, but they never buy anything. RadarSend keeps their clicks separate from people’s, so the numbers you share with sponsors hold up.
You should know who’s actually reading.
55–60% of email opens now come through Apple Mail Privacy Protection, and about half of email clicks were bots by mid-2026, most of them security scanners. On most platforms, those show up as readers. RadarSend labels every open and click as a person, a possible person, or a machine, and shows both numbers on every report.
And when a reader clicks through, RadarSend keeps tracking on your site. You can see that someone read three articles, spent nine minutes, and came back two days later. For a newsletter that earns through its content, that tells you a lot more than a click.
Apple Mail Privacy Protection now accounts for 55–60% of email opens
It loads each email automatically, whether or not anyone reads it.
Bots now make about half of all clicks tracked through email platforms
Most of them are security scanners checking links before anyone reads the email.
Segments that keep themselves up to date.
You can build a segment of readers who opened three of the last five issues, and RadarSend keeps it current as people start or stop reading. Send a re-engagement series to readers who’ve drifted away, or a premium offer to the ones who read everything.
A/B tests are judged on people, too. Test the subject line, the content, or the sender, and RadarSend shows which version readers responded to, not which one scanners clicked.
Priced by list size, without the big-platform markup.
RadarSend is priced by list size, like most platforms. The difference is sending: you pay your sending service directly, at about $0.16 per 1,000 emails on Amazon SES.
Big-platform ranges are list prices for Mailchimp Standard, ActiveCampaign Plus (billed annually), and Klaviyo email as of September 2026, and they include sending. RadarSend figures are annual plan prices plus SES at four issues a month to the whole list, at SES’s Essentials rate of $0.16 per 1,000. On SES’s pay-as-you-go rate of $0.10 per 1,000, it’s even less.
At 50,000 contacts, that’s roughly $270–$540 a month to put back into writing, promotion, or hiring. Every feature is on every plan, including automation, segmentation, scoring, A/B testing, site tracking, and bot filtering.
We expected a hosted platform to cost much more than our Mautic setup. RadarSend costs about what we were already spending on the server alone and we no longer have to maintain it.
The sending account, the domains, and the reputation are yours.
RadarSend connects to Amazon SES, SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailjet, or Resend. Mail goes out on your account and from your domains, and tracked links, unsubscribe pages, and email headers all use your domain, so readers don’t see RadarSend’s name anywhere. The reputation you build is yours, and it goes with you if you ever leave.
Write it yourself, or let your AI assistant assemble it.
Use the template system for consistent layouts, MJML for emails that fit any screen, or raw HTML. Merge tags, conditional blocks, preview text, and previews across email clients are built in.
Or hand the assembly to an AI assistant. RadarSend’s MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT, or any assistant that supports MCP work with your account directly.
Your templates already define what goes where: which fields, how long they can be, and which image slots and content blocks. The assistant reads those rules, fills in the template from your blog or site, checks its work, and leaves a finished draft in your account, in your design, ready to review and schedule.
Questions from newsletter senders
Can I run a paid newsletter on RadarSend?
Yes, through the checkout you already use. RadarSend sends to your paying members and picks up purchases, renewals, and cancellations through the API, webhooks, or the WordPress plugin. We don’t take a cut of your subscription revenue.
Do I need my own sending service?
Yes. RadarSend sends through a sending account you own, such as Amazon SES, SendGrid, or Mailgun. Connecting an existing SES account takes about 15 minutes, and if you don’t have one yet, the setup wizard walks you through it.
Can you move my list over?
Yes. Contacts, tags, and custom fields come across, and we can bring your templates too. We’ll do the move for you at no charge, or you can follow the guide and do it yourself.
Does it connect to the rest of our tools?
Yes. There’s a full REST API, signed webhooks, a WordPress plugin, and MCP support for AI assistants. If you need something connected that isn’t covered, let us know and we’ll help.
Can I try RadarSend first?
Yes. Monthly plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can move your list over, send a few issues, and see the numbers for yourself. If it isn’t the right fit, we’ll refund you in full.
Built around your newsletter, not the other way around.
Reports that count real readers, reading tracked on your own site, and a sending reputation you own, priced by list size. If you have questions about your setup, we’re happy to walk through it with you.
30-day money-back guarantee on monthly plans.