Pharos
Transactional email that arrives.
What is Pharos?
Most email providers treat deliverability as a support ticket. Pharos treats it as the product. It is a transactional email gateway — receipts, password resets, magic links, alerts — reachable over a REST API or an SMTP relay, with the first email sent in about a minute. What is different is underneath: SPF, DKIM and DMARC alignment enforced at send time instead of merely recommended, forward-confirmed reverse DNS re-scanned daily, and an event log that shows the receiving server's own response to every message rather than a generic status. Sending IPs are dedicated to Pharos rather than a public shared pool. Bounce and complaint suppression is automatic. Every feature is on every plan, from the free 3,000 emails a month upward, and there is no card required to start.
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