Pombo
Pombo is an email platform for marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email that teams can operate with AI agents.
What Pombo is
Pombo is an email platform for marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email that teams can operate with AI agents. AI can prepare an audience, email, and campaign from a brief, while keeping the campaign in draft until review and sending approval. Multi-step sequences can begin after signup, an event, or a date. Pombo can derive a brand voice and style from a website and apply it to emails, templates, and campaigns. Users can ask plain-English questions about sending data and receive suggested campaigns, sequences, or list-cleanup actions. Its MCP server uses OAuth with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, and other MCP clients; actions are logged and sending requires approval. The REST API handles contacts, events, and transactional email, with webhook or API events from services such as Stripe, Segment, Clerk, Supabase, Zapier, Make, or a backend. Migration support covers contacts, templates, and sequences from platforms such as Mailchimp and Klaviyo. A free plan allows 1,000 contacts and 1,000 sends weekly, with a Pombo footer.
Good
- AI drafts audiences, emails, and campaigns from briefs
- Sequences can start on signups, events, or dates
- Brand voice can come from an existing website
- MCP access includes OAuth, logs, and sending approval
- REST API supports contacts, events, and transactional email
Watch out
- Free plan limits contacts and weekly sends
- Free emails include a Pombo-branded footer
- Sending requires review and approval
Who it suits
Pombo suits teams managing marketing, lifecycle, or transactional email with AI-assisted campaigns and sequences. It also fits teams needing APIs, event webhooks, agent access, or migration support.
Verdict
Pombo combines AI-assisted email creation with sequences, APIs, analytics questions, and controlled agent access. The free plan is limited, while paid plans provide unlimited sending and seats from $29/mo.
Plans and prices
From Pombo's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | up to 1,000 contacts · 1,000 email sends per week · Pombo-branded footer · free forever |
| Paid plans from | $29 a month | All features included · Unlimited sending · Unlimited seats · Cancel anytime · Billing is monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Pombo's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI agent access
- Pombo offers an MCP server with OAuth for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, and other MCP clients; agent actions are logged and sending requires approval.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- Users can ask questions about sending data in plain English and receive suggested campaigns, sequences, or list cleanup actions.checked 8 Oct 2026
- API and integrations
- The REST API supports contacts, events, and transactional email; Stripe, Segment, Clerk, Supabase, Zapier, Make, or a user's backend can send events by webhook or API.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Audience segmentation
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Branding
- Pombo can derive a brand voice and style from a website and apply them to emails, templates, and campaigns.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Campaigns
- AI can draft an audience, email, and campaign from a brief; the campaign remains a draft until reviewed and sent.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Deliverability
- Pombo says it permanently suppresses hard bounces and complaints, retries temporary failures, and paces large sends, pausing if bounces climb.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Email automation
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Migration
- Pombo says agents or its chat can migrate contacts, templates, and sequences from platforms such as Mailchimp and Klaviyo, carrying unsubscribes over.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Paid from
- 29checked 22 Sep 2026
- Product
- Pombo is an email platform for marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email that teams can run with AI agents.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Sequences
- Sequences are multi-step email flows that can start on signup, an event, or a date.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- Pombo's AI agents page links to a contact option labeled “Talk to us.”checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- The site identifies the company as Pombo LLC.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Free plan limits
- The free plan includes up to 1,000 contacts and 1,000 sends per week; Pombo says unsubscribes are free.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Paid plan terms
- The homepage says paid plans start from $29/mo, include unlimited sending, and can be cancelled anytime.checked 8 Oct 2026
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