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Do AI agents pick Resend?

How often agents choose Resend when a developer needs transactional email — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

12%Pick Rate
95% CI 8%17%

When developers ask an AI agent for transactional email, Resend is picked 12% of the time — ranking #2 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 12% Named, not picked 25% Never surfaced 63%

Beaten by Postmark (14%).

Awareness

7.5M package downloads / week

Known but not preferred — widely used, but agents pick competitors. That's a preference problem, not awareness.

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 496 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

28.9M installs / month ▲ 21% MoM

Growing despite a low Pick Rate — winning the agent pick is upside, not a dependency.

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About Resend

An email API for sending transactional email from your application.

Resend is a transactional email service built for developers. It lets you send emails via API using plain text, HTML, or React components as templates. You verify your sending domain through the Resend dashboard, then trigger emails from your backend code.

Where to start

Sign up for a Resend account to get an API key from the dashboard, then verify your sending domain. From there, install the Node.js SDK and make your first send call with a few lines of code.

Install

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