$49 a month. One plan, one price, billed monthly, and tax is inside that figure rather than added at the end — so the charge is $49 wherever you are. There are no tiers to compare, no charge per subscriber, no charge per email and no setup fee.

No. The price is tax inclusive, which means any sales tax or VAT that applies where you are is already inside the $49 rather than appearing at the last step. The platform is operated from the Netherlands and tax is calculated at the point of payment; you are never shown one figure and charged a bigger one.

Is there a free plan or a free trial?

No, and there is not a hidden one. There is one price and every account that pays it gets the same product. The single exception is the operator’s own account, which is free because he runs the platform, not because there is a tier behind it to be moved onto.

Can I sign up and pay today?

Not yet. Anyone can sign in with Google, but an account is created only for an address that has been let in, because every creator here shares one sending domain and one bad list damages everybody on it. Join the waiting list at the foot of this page and accounts are opened from it in the order people joined. Nothing is charged until you have an account.

Can I pay now to skip the queue?

No. The queue is about bounce and complaint handling being finished rather than about money, so paying would not make it finish sooner and taking the payment first would be selling something that cannot be delivered yet. The waiting list asks for an address and nothing else.

What currency am I charged in?

US dollars, at 49.00 USD a month, which is the same figure everywhere. If your card is in another currency your bank converts it at their rate, so the amount that leaves your account can move a little from month to month while the price does not.

Do you take a percentage of what I sell?

No. The subscription is the whole business model and nothing in this product processes a payment for you, so there is no transaction here to take a share of. What you sell to your readers happens entirely outside this platform and is never seen by it.

What happens to my course and my list if I stop paying?

Every email you have written stays yours and nothing is deleted behind a payment. Your subscriber list can be exported at any time and that export is never gated on billing, so leaving is a download rather than a negotiation. The subscription is what pays for sending on a shared domain, so it is what keeps an account sending.

Can I get the limits raised?

Yes, by asking, and it is not a paid add-on. An operator can mark an account trusted, which raises the active course limit to 50, the addresses you may add yourself to 2,000 and the readers one course may hold to 50,000. One account’s reader ceiling can also be raised on its own, without the flag. It costs nothing and it is granted case by case. Write to hello@5dayemail.com and say where your list came from.

How many readers can one course take, and does that lift on a bigger plan?

A new course is set to 2,000, which on an ordinary account is already as high as one course may go: you change the figure yourself on the course settings page, and on an ordinary account that means lowering it. 50,000 is available on an account an operator has marked trusted, and that is asked for rather than bought. There is no bigger plan, so nothing lifts by spending: it is a limit per course rather than per account, and a course that reaches its own figure stops taking readers and says so on its opt-in page rather than quietly dropping them. The ten-email ceiling is the one that never lifts at all, because a course that ends is a course people finish.

What 5dayemail costs

Name: 5dayemail
Price: 49.00 USD
Availability: LimitedAvailability

How you get in, before what it costs

An account is not something you can buy here today. The price is real and it is the only one, but accounts are opened a few at a time while bounce and complaint handling is finished, so the way in is the waiting list rather than a card. Nobody is charged before they have an account.

Invite-only for now, while bounce and complaint handling is finished.

Last reviewed 19 September 2026

There is one plan and one price: $49 a month, with tax included rather than added at the end. No tiers, no annual trick, no per-subscriber ladder, and nothing that changes what you pay as your list grows. What the plan gets you is below, taken from the limits the software applies rather than from a brochure. The one thing worth saying before any of it: you cannot open an account for yourself today, so if this is the product you want, the waiting list at the foot of this page is the way in.

The limits below are not a marketing tier. They are the numbers the software applies: a database trigger refuses the fourth active course, another refuses a reader once a course reaches the reader limit set on it — 2,000 on a course you have just made, which is the ceiling an ordinary account has and therefore a figure the creator lowers on the settings page rather than raises — and a check constraint refuses a course shorter than five days or longer than ten. Each one names the file that enforces it, so anything here can be checked against the code rather than believed.

One plan rather than three is a decision and not a stage. Every creator here sends from one shared domain on one provider account, and the limits that matter on a shared domain are about reputation rather than about spend: a bigger plan cannot buy a cleaner list, and pricing one would mean selling the thing that damages everybody else. So the only control that moves a limit is an operator reading how an account got its addresses, and it costs nothing — it is described further down.

Accounts are opening gradually rather than all at once, which is the real constraint today and the reason this page ends in a waiting list rather than a card form. A shared sending domain survives a bad list exactly as well as the slowest thing watching it, so the queue is deliberate and it is not a growth tactic.

One plan, no tiers

5dayemail

One subscription. Everything the product does, for everybody who pays it.

$49a month

Tax is included: any sales tax or VAT that applies where you are is already inside the $49 rather than added at the end, so the charge on your card is the figure on this page.

The subscription is what running this costs, and it is the only revenue here: there is no share of what you sell, no charge per subscriber and no charge per email. What it cannot do today is let you in — an account is opened by hand, a few at a time, so joining the waiting list comes first and paying comes after.

What the subscription includes, and the file that applies each limit
Limit	Figure	Where it comes from
Active courses	3, not counting archived ones	day_app.day_max_active_courses, sql/019_day_limits.sql
Readers per course	2,000 on a new course, which is also the highest an ordinary account may set on one course — so it is a figure you lower to suit the course rather than one you raise. A course that reaches its own figure tells the opt-in page the list is full	DAY_SUBSCRIBER_CAP_DEFAULT in shared/day-collect-limits.ts, day_app.day_max_subscriber_cap in sql/025_day_course_cap.sql, day_trg_subscriber_cap in sql/019_day_limits.sql
Emails in a course	Between 5 and 10. This one does not lift for anybody, on any plan	day_course_day_count_chk, sql/002_day_core_tables.sql
Addresses you add yourself	25 per account, counting typed addresses and imported ones together	shared/day-collect-limits.ts
Readers who join through your own opt-in page	Not counted against that allowance at all, and not charged for	shared/day-collect-limits.ts
Importing a list	Open to every account, as a re-permission campaign rather than a transfer	server/api/day/courses/[id]/subscribers/import.post.ts
Sending	One email per reader per day, with volume ramped over the first three weeks	dayDailySendCap, server/utils/day-reputation.ts
Your own sending domain	Not available at any price. Every creator sends from the one shared course domain	dayCourseFromAddress, worker/day-dispatch-message.ts
Taking your list with you	Export the whole subscriber list whenever you like. It is never gated on payment	server/api/day/courses/[id]/subscribers/export.csv.get.ts

One account does not pay: the operator’s own. That is how this is run rather than a plan you can ask to be put on — there is no free tier behind it, nothing to apply for, and every other account on the platform is on the one price above.

Asking for a higher limit

There is one thing that moves the numbers above, and paying more is not it. An operator can mark an account trusted by hand, which raises three of the limits and nothing else, and can raise one account’s reader ceiling on its own without the flag. It is not an add-on and it has no price: it is granted case by case, and the way to ask is to write and say where your list came from.

Active courses: 50 instead of 3; day_app.day_max_active_courses, sql/019_day_limits.sql
Addresses you add yourself: 2,000 instead of 25, still counted per account; shared/day-collect-limits.ts
Readers per course: 50,000 instead of 2,000 as the highest figure you may set on one course. The cap itself still belongs to the course, and you set it; day_app.day_max_subscriber_cap, sql/025_day_course_cap.sql
One account’s reader ceiling on its own: An operator can set a single account anywhere up to 250,000 without marking it trusted, which is the narrow answer when the question is only about readers; day_creator.subscriber_cap_max, sql/025_day_course_cap.sql

Write to [email protected]. It is the same inbox every confirmation and course email on this platform is sent from.

Questions about price

What does it cost?: $49 a month. One plan, one price, billed monthly, and tax is inside that figure rather than added at the end — so the charge is $49 wherever you are. There are no tiers to compare, no charge per subscriber, no charge per email and no setup fee.
Is tax added on top?: No. The price is tax inclusive, which means any sales tax or VAT that applies where you are is already inside the $49 rather than appearing at the last step. The platform is operated from the Netherlands and tax is calculated at the point of payment; you are never shown one figure and charged a bigger one.
Is there a free plan or a free trial?: No, and there is not a hidden one. There is one price and every account that pays it gets the same product. The single exception is the operator’s own account, which is free because he runs the platform, not because there is a tier behind it to be moved onto.
Can I sign up and pay today?: Not yet. Anyone can sign in with Google, but an account is created only for an address that has been let in, because every creator here shares one sending domain and one bad list damages everybody on it. Join the waiting list at the foot of this page and accounts are opened from it in the order people joined. Nothing is charged until you have an account.
Can I pay now to skip the queue?: No. The queue is about bounce and complaint handling being finished rather than about money, so paying would not make it finish sooner and taking the payment first would be selling something that cannot be delivered yet. The waiting list asks for an address and nothing else.
What currency am I charged in?: US dollars, at 49.00 USD a month, which is the same figure everywhere. If your card is in another currency your bank converts it at their rate, so the amount that leaves your account can move a little from month to month while the price does not.
Do you take a percentage of what I sell?: No. The subscription is the whole business model and nothing in this product processes a payment for you, so there is no transaction here to take a share of. What you sell to your readers happens entirely outside this platform and is never seen by it.
What happens to my course and my list if I stop paying?: Every email you have written stays yours and nothing is deleted behind a payment. Your subscriber list can be exported at any time and that export is never gated on billing, so leaving is a download rather than a negotiation. The subscription is what pays for sending on a shared domain, so it is what keeps an account sending.
Can I get the limits raised?: Yes, by asking, and it is not a paid add-on. An operator can mark an account trusted, which raises the active course limit to 50, the addresses you may add yourself to 2,000 and the readers one course may hold to 50,000. One account’s reader ceiling can also be raised on its own, without the flag. It costs nothing and it is granted case by case. Write to [email protected] and say where your list came from.
How many readers can one course take, and does that lift on a bigger plan?: A new course is set to 2,000, which on an ordinary account is already as high as one course may go: you change the figure yourself on the course settings page, and on an ordinary account that means lowering it. 50,000 is available on an account an operator has marked trusted, and that is asked for rather than bought. There is no bigger plan, so nothing lifts by spending: it is a limit per course rather than per account, and a course that reaches its own figure stops taking readers and says so on its opt-in page rather than quietly dropping them. The ten-email ceiling is the one that never lifts at all, because a course that ends is a course people finish.

Joining the list costs nothing and commits you to nothing: it asks for an address, sends no email, and accounts are opened from it in the order people joined. The guides are free to read either way and are about the format rather than about this software.

Thinking of writing one of these?

5dayemail hosts a five-to-ten day email course: you write it once, and everyone who joins your list gets one email a day, in order, starting from the day they confirm.

Accounts are opened a few at a time rather than by signing up. Leave your address and you will be written to when the next ones open.

One message, when there is room. No course emails, no newsletter, and the address is not passed on. Ask and it is deleted; what is kept, and for how long, is in the privacy policy.