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Lekalao and Sendy
Both send through a provider you choose rather than reselling delivery. The difference is who runs it: Sendy is software you install on your own server; Lekalao is a service. Everything said of Sendy here comes from its own site, as of October 2026.
Free up to 1,000 subscribers, no card. Paid plans: 14 days to try.
Side by side
| Sendy | Lekalao |
|---|---|
| A licence bought once, $69, and a server you run yourself, with PHP and MySQL. | A service you do not run, paid by the month or for up to twelve months, in your currency. |
| Sends through Amazon SES, and natively through SendGrid, Mailjet and Elastic Email. | Sends through Amazon SES, Postmark, Mailgun, SendGrid, Brevo, Resend or any SMTP server. |
| Autoresponders: a series of e-mails sent on a schedule. | Automations with seven triggers, conditions, goals and exits; and transactional e-mail by API, Laravel or SMTP. |
| Updates, backups and security are yours, on your server. | Updates, backups and security are ours. |
When Sendy is the better choice
If you have a server and someone to look after it, a licence bought once costs less over the years than any subscription, ours included. And if newsletters over SES are all you need, Sendy does exactly that.
When Lekalao is
If nobody on your team wants to run a server, its updates and its backups. If you need journeys with goals, segments on what people did, transactional e-mail, or one version per language. If you want to pay in your own currency, by Mobile Money.
Where this comes from
Read on 31 October 2026 on their own pages, linked below. Plans and prices change; check theirs before you decide. Something here is wrong or out of date? Write to us and we correct it.
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Free up to 1,000 subscribers, with no card. Starter, Growth and Pro can be tried for 14 days, with no card either; if you do not pay, your team simply goes back to Free on day 15.
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