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Your list doubled.Your bill didn't.

$25 a month, plus 25¢ per thousand emails actually sent. Your subscriber count is free — a thousand names or a million, holding them costs nothing.

Per-subscriber pricing charges you for names you are not mailing. On 22 October 2026 we read the published pricing pages of eight newsletter services. All eight charged by subscriber count.

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  • Your price is fixed for twelve months from the day you sign up
  • Export works even while an account is suspended
  • Support is a person, not a bot. One business day.
  • If we ever hold your sending, we name the campaign and the rule that triggered it — and a person replies
Before you press sendIssue 94 · Friday
$1.20

to send this issue — 4,812 recipients, after suppression

188 people not charged for. They unsubscribed, bounced or complained, so they aren't mailed and they aren't billed.
Base, this month$25.00
Sent so far, this month$2.45
Subscribers held (41,206)$0.00
Your month, after this send$28.65

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. Send the same issue twice by accident and it goes out once.

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.

Posted

21 October 2026
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

$25 / month

The account. Unlimited issues, unlimited lists, every feature there is — because there is only one set of them.

Sending

$0.25 / 1,000, falling

Emails that actually left, and the rate falls as you send more: 25¢ for the first 100,000 in a month, then 20¢, then 15¢ and no lower. Amazon charges us about 10¢ per thousand however much we send — so the discount comes out of our margin, not out of a saving we were handed.

Subscribers held

$0.00 / forever

One thousand names or one million. Contacts are never metered, and that is item four on the list above. Send quarterly and you pay for a quarter’s sending, not a year of storage.

What that actually comes to

Worked out so you don't have to. Every figure is $25 plus the tiered sending rate, and every one is generated by the same code that bills you.

Scroll the table sideways — the columns to the right are the point.

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$70.00
50,000$0.00$37.50$70.00$205.00
100,000$0.00$50.00$110.00$355.00
Read it across. The only thing that moves a figure is another issue actually going out — and it moves by less than you would expect, because the rate steps down as the month grows. Twenty issues to 100,000 people is 2,000,000 emails and costs $355, not the $525 a flat rate would charge.
Read down the zeros. That column is where per-subscriber pricing lives, and under that model it grows every month whether or not you write anything. Ours is zero on every row, at every list size, and item four says it stays that way.

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. Leave an address and you'll hear once, when that happens.