Lume is a sovereign email engine you set up once and own forever. No monthly fees. No data harvesting. No landlord. Just your list, your server, your rules.
Every email SaaS charges you per subscriber — forever. The more your list grows, the more they charge. You're renting access to your own audience.
No lock-in. No ongoing dependency. Lume runs on your own infrastructure — if we disappear tomorrow, your emails keep sending.
A $6/month server from Hetzner or DigitalOcean. Docker runs everything. Takes 10 minutes.
Add 3 DNS records (SPF, DKIM, DMARC). We walk you through it. Emails land in inboxes, not spam.
Import your list. Send broadcasts. Build audiences. Zero monthly fees. Zero vendor risk. Just yours.
Lume includes the full email stack — list management, broadcasts, analytics, and a queue that handles 100k emails a day without breaking a sweat.
Create multiple lists, import contacts via CSV, segment subscribers. Full CRUD with search. Your data, your database.
Write once, send to thousands. HTML or plain-text. Schedule or send immediately. Built on BullMQ — 100k emails/day at full speed.
Your subscribers live in your PostgreSQL database on your server. No one else can access, analyze, sell, or hold it hostage.
Redis-backed BullMQ queue with automatic retries, rate limiting, and dead-letter jobs. Built for scale, not just demos.
Know who opened, who clicked, who unsubscribed. All analytics stored locally — no third-party pixels feeding ad networks.
Stripe bans your business? Mailchimp suspends your account? Lume runs on your server. No one can pull the plug.
Compare what you'd pay per year for a 100k subscriber list. Lume wins at 10k. It wins at 10M. The price never changes.
| Feature | Mailchimp | ConvertKit | ActiveCampaign | 🔥 Lume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100k subscribers/month | $500/mo | $679/mo | $449/mo | $6/mo |
| Annual cost | $6,000/yr | $8,148/yr | $5,388/yr | $72/yr |
| You own the data | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Can't be shut down | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No per-subscriber fee | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ Forever |
"I was paying Mailchimp $340/month for 60k subscribers. Moved to Lume, saved over $4k in the first year. Setup took a Saturday morning."
"ConvertKit suspended my account with zero notice — 3 days before a big launch. Now my email stack can't be killed by anyone. Never again."
"As a developer, I love that I can see exactly what's happening. No black box, no mystery fees, no 'please upgrade to unlock analytics'."
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