# Brew vs Unlayer

## The short version

Choose Brew if you want a fully agentic setup, where your AI agent drives lifecycle marketing to engage and retain customers. Brew designs every email from your brand and runs your automations agentically.

Choose Unlayer if you are building a product and want to embed a white-label email, page or document builder for your own users.

Canonical: https://brew.new/compare/brew-vs-unlayer

## Why teams switch from Unlayer to Brew

Brew is fully agentic: your agent designs on-brand emails, sends them and runs your automations. In Unlayer, AI drafts designs inside a builder and another platform sends them.

### Key differences

| Feature | Brew | Unlayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fully agentic | Yes: Your agent designs, sends and runs automations end to end | Partly: AI and MCP generate designs; another platform sends them |
| Designs finished, on-brand emails | Yes: Layout, copy and images from your brand, ready to send | Partly: AI drafts templates in the builder on paid plans |
| Sends your email | Yes: From your own domain, to unlimited contacts | No: Builder only; the app it is embedded in sends |
| Runs your automations | Yes: Event triggers, waits and branches, built from a description | No: Not part of the builder |
| Holds your contacts and audiences | Yes: Unlimited contacts on every plan | No: Contacts stay in your app or email platform |
| Design and sending in one plan | Yes: One plan covers design and sending | No: Pay for an email platform as well |

### Creating emails

| Feature | Brew | Unlayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Visual editor | Yes: Infinite canvas, edit by hand or in chat | Yes: Drag-and-drop email, page and document builders |
| Brand settings for AI | Yes: Brand files built from your website | Yes: Brand Context: colors, logos and voice, paid plans |
| Bring the emails you already have | Yes: HTML, MJML, React Email, Figma or a forwarded email | Yes: AI Template Importer for HTML or screenshots |
| Multi-language templates | No: Not built in | Yes: From the Scale plan |
| AMP emails | No: Not built in | Yes: On the Optimize plan and up |
| Landing pages and popups | No: Email only | Yes: Page and popup builders |

### Export and sending

| Feature | Brew | Unlayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HTML export | Yes: Download the HTML of any email | Yes: HTML, PDF, image, plain text or ZIP |

### Agents and developers

| Feature | Brew | Unlayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MCP server for AI agents | Yes: Every Brew tool, in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Grok | Partly: Generates, imports and exports designs; no sending |
| API | Yes: REST API, typed SDK and CLI | Yes: Cloud API to render and export designs |
| Embeddable editor for your own app | No: Not offered | Yes: White-label builders, the core product |

### Pricing

| Feature | Brew | Unlayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Billed on | Emails sent and AI credits | Monthly plan, plus AI and export credit packs |
| Getting started | Free trial with 500 AI credits and 1,000 sends | Free plan with the builders; no AI |
| First paid plan | Growth, $99/month: 10,000 AI credits and 50,000 sends | Launch, $250/month; 10% off billed yearly |
| Next plan | Pro, $249/month: 25,000 AI credits and 200,000 sends | Scale, $750/month; Optimize, $2,000/month |
| Top plan | Enterprise: custom volume and a dedicated account manager | Enterprise, price on request |

### Security and compliance

| Feature | Brew | Unlayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SOC 2 Type II | No: Not yet; security review and DPA on request | Yes: SOC 2 Type II |

## Your agent runs your lifecycle email.

Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Grok over MCP and your agent gets every Brew tool. It designs emails from your brand, builds audiences, runs automations and schedules sends. OAuth and organization-scoped MCP connections ask you to confirm live sends and launches. Brand-scoped API keys can execute permitted calls without the MCP confirmation step.

## Every email designed from your brand.

Paste your website and Brew writes your brand into two files your agent reads for every email. Describe the email and it appears on the canvas, ready to edit by hand or in chat.

## Moving from Unlayer

Keep your current email platform sending until Brew passes your tests. We’ll do the move with you on a call if you like.

1. **Bring your templates**: Export each design as HTML, from the builder with exportHtml or from your server with Unlayer’s Cloud API, then paste it into Brew; imports are free. Most teams have Brew redesign their emails from their brand instead, which is faster and looks better.
2. **Set up your brand**: Paste your website and Brew writes your brand into two files your agent reads for every email.
3. **Import your contacts**: Export your contacts as a CSV from your current email platform and import them into Brew. The import shows who opted out before it runs. Before importing, prepare a Subscribed column: true for opted-in contacts, false for unsubscribed, cleaned or suppressed contacts. Invert any Unsubscribed true/false flag first. Map the column to Subscribed and review the opt-out preview; new contacts default to subscribed if this value is missing.
4. **Connect your sending domain**: Connect and verify your sending domain, then review its health and inbox placement. For a new domain, select Gradual send to ramp the campaign in configurable batches before a large send. Gradual send is off by default; connecting a domain does not automatically warm it up.

## Questions

### Is Brew a good Unlayer alternative?

Yes, if you want your own email designed and sent from one tool. Unlayer sells email, page and document builders that developers embed in their own products, and it shut down Unlayer Studio, its editor for marketing teams, on July 1, 2026. Brew designs finished, on-brand emails from your brand, sends them from your own domain and runs your automations from your AI agent, with unlimited contacts on every plan. Brew has no embeddable editor, landing pages or AMP emails.

### Can I use Brew alongside Unlayer?

Yes. If your product embeds Unlayer for your users, you can keep it there and run your own lifecycle email from Brew. You can also export a design from Unlayer as HTML and import it into Brew, which sends it from your domain and runs your automations.

### How is Brew’s agent different from Unlayer’s AI?

In Brew, your agent designs the finished email from brand files it reads every time, builds audiences, runs automations and sends. Unlayer’s AI Assistant, on paid plans, edits designs from a chat inside the builder and can draft a full template, using Brand Context for colors, logos and voice. Unlayer’s MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or Codex generate, import, render and export designs; the app or email platform you use still sends them.
OAuth and organization-scoped MCP connections ask you to confirm live sends and launches. Brand-scoped API keys can execute permitted calls without the MCP confirmation step.

### Do Unlayer’s AI emails come out on-brand?

Unlayer’s AI Assistant drafts templates inside the builder for someone to edit, and it follows Brand Context, your colors, logos and voice, when the app or Unlayer Console sets it on a paid plan. Teams that move to Brew tell us these drafts rarely look like their brand, so someone still redesigns them. Brew designs the whole email, layout, copy and images, from brand files your agent reads every time, so it goes out on-brand.

### Will Brew cost more or less than Unlayer?

They bill on different things, and Brew also takes the place of your email platform. Unlayer has a free plan with the builders and no AI, then Launch at $250/month, Scale at $750/month and Optimize at $2,000/month, with AI and export credits sold in packs, and sending happens in a platform you pay for separately. Brew bills on sends and AI credits with unlimited contacts and seats. Start with the free trial and compare at your own numbers.

### Do I still need an email platform with Brew?

No. Brew sends marketing and transactional email from your own domain, runs your automations and holds your contacts and audiences, with unlimited contacts on every plan.

### Is Brew SOC 2 certified?

Not yet. We complete security reviews and sign a DPA on request, and our privacy policy, DPA, GDPR page and subprocessor list are public at docs.brew.new/legal.

### How long does it take to move from Unlayer?

Your first on-brand email is ready the day you start the trial. Most teams have Brew redesign their emails from their brand rather than import them, then import contacts from their email platform’s CSV and connect their sending domain. Keep your current email platform sending until Brew passes your tests.
Before importing, prepare a Subscribed column: true for opted-in contacts, false for unsubscribed, cleaned or suppressed contacts. Invert any Unsubscribed true/false flag first. Map the column to Subscribed and review the opt-out preview; new contacts default to subscribed if this value is missing.

### Do you help with the move?

Yes. We get on a call to import your contacts and unsubscribe list, bring over or redesign your emails, rebuild your flows and connect your sending domain.

## Sources and review

Brew publishes this comparison. Brew Team reviewed the linked first-party documentation. This is a documentation review, not a claim of hands-on testing of every product. Pricing and plan limits can change.

Work at Unlayer? If anything on this page is wrong or out of date, email support@brew.new and we will correct it. We want to compete on the product, not on a mistaken comparison.

Updated October 2026

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- [Unlayer full-template generation](https://docs.unlayer.com/ai/assistant/how-it-works/full-template)
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