The best email blast platform is Nitrosend if you want an AI agent to build and send the campaign with receipts in the same account, Klaviyo if a store drives the send, and Omnisend if you want store blasts with SMS on one smaller bill.
The short version
Work out which of these you are, then read only that entry.
- A store. Klaviyo if revenue is attributed to flows and you want on-site forms, browse abandonment and product triggers. Omnisend if the store is smaller and you want email and SMS on one bill.
- B2B, and the send is triggered by behaviour. ActiveCampaign. The deepest automation on this list.
- A large list you email once or twice a month. Brevo, which prices on emails sent rather than contacts held, or Nitrosend, which does the same and puts no ceiling on contacts.
- A local business, a venue, a clinic. Constant Contact, for events and the simplest possible calendar send.
- A newsletter or an audience. Kit, or the platforms on the newsletter platform rankings.
- You want the agent to do it. Nitrosend. You ask Claude, Codex or Cursor for the campaign, review it, and approve the send.
What counts as an email blast, and what does not
I think of every email as one of two things: a triggered one to one message, or a bulk send. A blast is the second one. One creative, one audience, one moment.
That distinction matters more than any feature comparison on this page, because the two halves have different rules and the platforms that pretend otherwise get people into trouble.
Cold outreach infrastructure is not marketing email. Different domains, different mailboxes, different volumes, different deliverability rules, different law. If you are looking for a platform to blast a purchased list of people who have never heard of you, nothing on this page is the right answer, including ours. Nitrosend does not do cold outbound at all. The email marketing laws page covers what consent has to look like before a bulk send is legal in the first place.
The related trap is technical. A bulk or mail merge endpoint should not be built on the transactional messages path. That is a deliverability and compliance trap. Receipts, password resets and one to one messages ride a reputation you spend years building, and a bulk blast pushed through the same route puts that reputation behind whatever the campaign does. Any platform that offers you a "send to everyone" call on its transactional API is handing you a loaded gun with the safety filed off. If you want the distinction in full, we wrote it up on transactional email versus marketing email.
So the honest scope of this page: bulk sending to people who gave you permission, from a domain you control. Within that, mass email marketing is a solved problem, and eight platforms solve it well.
How they compare
Scores are out of 10 against criteria whose weights add to 100. They are published in full at the bottom of this page, so you can disagree with a weight and re-rank the table yourself.
Two notes on what is missing. HubSpot Marketing Hub appears in Google's AI Overview for this term and is not ranked here, because its pricing page returned nothing we could read on 7 September 2026 and a rank built on unverified prices is worth nothing. beehiiv is not here either, because it has no transactional layer and belongs on the newsletter list rather than this one.
We make Nitrosend. It is first on this list because it wins on the criteria published at the bottom of this page, and its own entry names what it loses.
Email blast platforms compared
Checked| Platform | Rank | Best for | Pricing model | Free tier | From | At 10k contacts | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrosend Agent-native | 1 | Agent-driven blasts | per send | 8,000 emails to start, then 500 a month | $20/mo | n/a | 9.5 |
| Klaviyo | 2 | E-commerce | per contact | 250 active profiles, 500 email sends a month, 150 SMS/MMS credits | $20/mo | n/a | 8.3 |
| ActiveCampaign | 3 | B2B automation | per contact | 14-day trial | $15/mo | $149/mo (Starter) | 7.9 |
| Omnisend | 4 | Smaller stores | per contact | 250 contacts, 500 emails a month | $16/mo | $132/mo (Standard) | 7.7 |
| Brevo | 5 | Big list, rare sends | per send | 300 emails a day, unlimited contacts | $9/mo | n/a | 7.7 |
| Kit | 6 | Creators | per contact | Free up to 10,000 subscribers | $33/mo | n/a | 7.3 |
| MailerLite | 7 | Clean simple sends | per contact | 250 subscribers, 2,500 emails a month | $12/mo | $89/mo (Comfort) | 7.0 |
| Constant Contact | 8 | Local business | per contact | Free trial, no credit card, then plans start at $12 a month | $12/mo | n/a | 6.6 |
1. Nitrosend
Best for: teams that want an agent to build and send the campaign, and that send receipts and campaigns from the same domain.
You connect Nitrosend to Claude, Codex or Cursor over MCP and ask for the send. Compose the campaign, build the segment, import the list, check what happened afterwards. The MCP server exposes 28 nitro_* tools and the API, MCP and CLI are on every plan including the free one. Nothing goes out without you approving it.
Volume is the part people ask about first. Kam, our co-founder, who built the platform, has measured it: a trusted account can push a half-million email campaign in about an hour and a half with zero failures, capped only by the provider's rate. The counterweight is deliberate. A first campaign targeting 20,000 recipients or more is held rather than sent, and a person looks at it. You can call that friction. Nobody I have put it to has wanted their first big send to be the one nobody looked at.
Contacts are unlimited on every tier, which is the whole argument for a large list that gets blasted monthly. Billing follows the send.
Where it loses: no on-site popups and no browse abandonment tracking, which Klaviyo has and which a store needs. No inbound email parsing over REST. No cold outreach. And if you want a drag and drop template gallery to sit in for an afternoon, the platforms below have deeper ones. For price and scope against the incumbent most people arrive from, we keep a Nitrosend and Klaviyo comparison.
- Nitrosend at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- teams that want an agent to build and send the campaign, and who send receipts and campaigns from one domain
- Pricing model
- per send
- Free tier
- 8,000 emails to start, then 500 a month
- Entry paid plan
- $20/mo (20,000 emails a month, 5 brands, 3 domains, up to 1,000 / 10,000 / 100,000 recipients per rolling 24 hours for Pro Probation / Standard / Trusted)
- At 100,000 emails a month
- $100/mo (Ultra)
- Transactional API
- yes
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- yes
- First-party MCP server
- yes
- Inbound email parsing
- no
- Support
- Help center: docs.nitrosend.com
- Developer docs
- API documentation: docs.nitrosend.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing
- Founding team
- George Hartley and Kam Low ran SmartrMail, an email and SMS platform whose buyer Relay Commerce still operates it and publicly lists more than 8,000 brands on it. Kam Low's open-source record runs from 2009 under the Sourcey organisation. All three founders are in post.
- Founding team score
- 9.25 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- First-party MCP server, a listed app in the ChatGPT app marketplace, and Brand Kit (automatic on-brand email design generation from a scraped brand) -- all three verified.
- AI-native score
- 10 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- No on-site popups or browse-abandonment tracking, which a store needs
- No inbound email parsing over REST
- No cold outreach, and none is planned on the transactional path
- Shallower template gallery than the older marketing platforms
- Facts checked
2. Klaviyo
Best for: online stores where the blast is one part of a revenue attribution model.
Nothing else on this page matches its data model for e-commerce. Abandoned cart, browse abandonment, product triggers, on-site forms, and a segment builder that reads store behaviour rather than email behaviour. If your blast is a product drop, this is the one.
Two things to price in before you sign. It bills on active profiles, meaning every subscribed contact whether you email them or not, a change applied to existing accounts from February 2025. And the attribution defaults are generous to itself: a seven day view window credits the channel for revenue it did not cause once Apple's Mail Privacy Protection pre-loads every image. Neither is a reason to avoid it. Both are reasons to read the settings before you trust the dashboard.
- Klaviyo at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- online stores where the blast is part of a revenue attribution model
- Pricing model
- per contact
- Free tier
- 250 active profiles, 500 email sends a month, 150 SMS/MMS credits
- Entry paid plan
- $20/mo (251 to 500 active profiles)
- Transactional API
- yes
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- yes
- Inbound email parsing
- no
- Support
- Help center: help.klaviyo.com
- Developer docs
- API documentation: developers.klaviyo.com
- Status page
- System status: status.klaviyo.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing: klaviyo.com/pricing
- Founding team
- Andrew Bialecki is still co-chief executive and Ed Hallen still chief strategy officer after the 2023 New York Stock Exchange listing. No prior email product.
- Founding team score
- 7.75 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- Not independently verified for MCP/agent access in this comparison; no on-brand automatic design generation or ChatGPT app marketplace listing found in a light spot-check.
- AI-native score
- 2 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- Bills on active profiles, so contacts you never email still cost
- Attribution defaults overstate what the send earned
- Overkill outside e-commerce
- Facts checked
3. ActiveCampaign
Best for: B2B senders whose blast is really a sequence, triggered by what a contact did.
Behavioural triggers, a real CRM alongside the email, and multi-step workflows that hold up when the logic gets complicated. If your "blast" is actually twelve variants firing off a lead score, this is the right product.
The trade is the fine print. Every published price is an annual commitment rate with no monthly option, and from November 2025 new accounts are charged for all contacts including unsubscribed, bounced and unconfirmed ones, while accounts opened before that date still pay only for active contacts. Two customers on the same plan can be billed on entirely different definitions. It also owns Postmark, which matters if you were planning to run transactional mail somewhere unrelated.
- ActiveCampaign at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- B2B senders whose blast is really a sequence triggered by behaviour
- Pricing model
- per contact
- Free tier
- 14-day trial
- Entry paid plan
- $15/mo (1,000 email contacts, 1 user, limited segmentation, 5 actions per automation; billed annually)
- At 10,000 contacts
- $149/mo (Starter)
- Transactional API
- yes
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- yes
- Inbound email parsing
- no
- Support
- Help center: help.activecampaign.com
- Developer docs
- API documentation: developers.activecampaign.com
- Status page
- System status: status.activecampaign.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing: activecampaign.com/pricing
- Founding team
- Jason VandeBoom founded ActiveCampaign in 2003 and is still chief executive after thirteen bootstrapped years and three funding rounds.
- Founding team score
- 7.00 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- Not independently verified for MCP/agent access in this comparison; no on-brand automatic design generation or ChatGPT app marketplace listing found in a light spot-check.
- AI-native score
- 2 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- Every published price is an annual commitment rate
- New accounts since November 2025 are billed on all contacts, including unsubscribed and bounced
- Cost climbs steeply as the list grows
- Facts checked
4. Omnisend
Best for: smaller stores that want the same shape as Klaviyo without the same bill.
E-commerce triggers out of the box, email and SMS inside one automation, and an entry price well below the category leader. For a store under 10,000 contacts sending a weekly promotion, this is usually the sensible buy.
Reporting is thinner than Klaviyo's and the integration list is shorter. One note on the number in the table: Omnisend's pricing page loads with a "Pay 3 months upfront (save 30%)" toggle already on, and the figure recorded here is the billed-monthly list price with that toggle off, checked 7 September 2026.
- Omnisend at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- smaller stores that want Klaviyo's shape at a lower entry price
- Pricing model
- per contact
- Free tier
- 250 contacts, 500 emails a month
- Entry paid plan
- $16/mo (500 contacts, 3,000 emails a month, unlimited web push notifications; billed monthly)
- At 10,000 contacts
- $132/mo (Standard)
- Transactional API
- yes
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- yes
- Inbound email parsing
- no
- Support
- Help center: support.omnisend.com
- Developer docs
- API documentation: api-docs.omnisend.com
- Status page
- System status: status.omnisend.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing: omnisend.com/pricing
- Founding team
- Rytis Lauris co-founded Omnisend in 2014 and is still chief executive. A second co-founder is named only by Wikipedia and appears nowhere on the company's own site.
- Founding team score
- 5.25 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- Not independently assessed for MCP/agent access, on-brand design generation, or ChatGPT marketplace listing in this comparison.
- AI-native score
- 2 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- Reporting is thinner than Klaviyo's
- The entry price shown was a 30% promotional figure
- Fewer integrations outside the main platforms
- Facts checked
5. Brevo
Best for: a large list emailed occasionally, where per-contact billing is the enemy.
Brevo prices on emails sent, not contacts held, and its free tier puts no cap on contacts at all. If you hold 60,000 addresses and mail them twice a month, that model is the right way round and the bill will be a fraction of what a per-contact platform charges. It also bundles SMS, WhatsApp and a basic CRM at the bottom of the market.
The documented risk is enforcement. Brevo publishes hard thresholds and acts on them quickly, and the reporting goes with the account when it does, which locks the diagnostics behind the same door. If you are already on the wrong side of that, the Brevo alternatives page covers the exit.
- Brevo at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- a large list emailed occasionally, where per-contact billing is the enemy
- Pricing model
- per send
- Free tier
- 300 emails a day, unlimited contacts
- Entry paid plan
- $9/mo (from 5,000 emails a month)
- Transactional API
- yes
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- yes
- First-party MCP server
- yes
- Inbound email parsing
- yes
- Owner
- Brevo (formerly Sendinblue, independent)
- Support
- Help center: help.brevo.com
- Developer docs
- API documentation: developers.brevo.com
- Status page
- System status: status.brevo.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing: brevo.com/pricing
- Founding team
- Armand Thiberge founded Brevo in 2012 and is still chief executive, though ownership is now heavily institutional after the December 2025 round.
- Founding team score
- 5.75 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- Has a first-party MCP server for agent-callable access, but no verified on-brand automatic design generation (Brand Kit-style) or ChatGPT app marketplace listing.
- AI-native score
- 4 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- Suspends fast on published thresholds and the reporting goes with the account
- Automation depth stops well short of ActiveCampaign
- Deliverability support is thin at the bottom tiers
- Facts checked
6. Kit
Best for: writers, podcasters and creators whose list is an audience rather than a customer database.
Free up to 10,000 subscribers, which is the most generous free ceiling on this page by a wide margin, and a product built around publishing, recommendations and referrals rather than campaigns. If your blast is a letter to readers, this fits better than any e-commerce tool will.
Not built for store triggers, no SMS, and the commerce features assume you sell your own products. The paid Creator plan starts at 1,000 subscribers, which overlaps oddly with the free ceiling, so read the current plan page rather than assuming.
- Kit at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- writers, podcasters and creators blasting an audience
- Pricing model
- per contact
- Free tier
- Free up to 10,000 subscribers
- Entry paid plan
- $33/mo (1,000 email subscribers, $390 billed yearly)
- Transactional API
- yes
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- no
- Inbound email parsing
- no
- Owner
- Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
- Support
- Help center: help.kit.com
- Developer docs
- API documentation: developers.kit.com
- Status page
- System status: status.kit.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing: kit.com/pricing
- Founding team
- Nathan Barry founded Kit in 2013, took no venture capital and is still chief executive. No engineering reputation attached to a named person.
- Founding team score
- 6.25 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- Not independently assessed for MCP/agent access, on-brand design generation, or ChatGPT marketplace listing in this comparison.
- AI-native score
- 2 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- Not built for store triggers
- No SMS
- Paid plan starts at 1,000 subscribers, overlapping the free ceiling
- Facts checked
7. MailerLite
Best for: a clean, well-designed blast from a small team that does not want a platform.
The most pleasant interface in this category and consistently good delivery. For a monthly send to a list under 10,000 people, it does the job with the least resistance of anything here.
Worth knowing before you commit: MailerLite repriced, and the free plan is now 250 subscribers and 2,500 sends a month, down from 500 and 12,000. Paid tiers moved with it. It is still a good product and it is no longer the cheap, stable option it used to be. The free plan also excludes API and MCP sending, which its own pricing page states, so a free account cannot be driven by software.
- MailerLite at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- small teams sending a clean campaign to a list under 10,000
- Pricing model
- per contact
- Free tier
- 250 subscribers, 2,500 emails a month
- Entry paid plan
- $12/mo (up to 500 subscribers, 5,000 monthly emails, 3 user seats, 24/7 email support)
- At 10,000 contacts
- $89/mo (Comfort)
- Transactional API
- yes
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- no
- First-party MCP server
- yes
- Inbound email parsing
- no
- Support
- Help center: mailerlite.com/help
- Developer docs
- API documentation: developers.mailerlite.com
- Status page
- System status: status.mailerlite.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing: mailerlite.com/pricing
- Founding team
- No founder is named on any first-party source. Vercom S.A., listed in Warsaw, acquired MailerLite in 2022 for 90 million dollars.
- Founding team score
- 2.75 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- Not independently assessed for MCP/agent access, on-brand design generation, or ChatGPT marketplace listing in this comparison.
- AI-native score
- 2 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- Free plan cut to 250 subscribers and 2,500 sends a month
- API and MCP sending are paid-plan only
- Automation branches stay shallow
- Facts checked
8. Constant Contact
Best for: a local business, a venue or a clinic sending an announcement and running events.
Straightforward contact management, event marketing, scheduling, and an interface a non-marketer can be handed. If the person sending the blast is the owner and does it between other jobs, this is the least demanding option on the list.
There is no free plan, only a trial, sends over the plan allowance bill at $2 per 1,000 as its own page states, and there is no transactional API, so it is a campaign tool and nothing more. SMS is included on the top plan and is a paid add-on below it.
- Constant Contact at a glance
- Verified on the vendor's own pages
- Best for
- a venue, clinic or shop where the owner sends the email between other jobs
- Pricing model
- per contact
- Free tier
- Free trial, no credit card, then plans start at $12 a month
- Entry paid plan
- $12/mo (email marketing, social posting and the AI content tools)
- Transactional API
- no
- Marketing campaigns
- yes
- Automation flows
- yes
- SMS
- yes
- Inbound email parsing
- no
- Owner
- Constant Contact
- Support
- Help center: knowledgebase.constantcontact.com
- Developer docs
- API documentation: developer.constantcontact.com
- Status page
- System status: status.constantcontact.com
- Pricing page
- Current pricing: constantcontact.com/pricing
- Founding team
- Randy Parker founded it in 1995 and it listed on NASDAQ in 2007. It is now owned by Clearlake Capital and no founder is involved.
- Founding team score
- 3.50 of 10 on the founding-team criterion
- AI-native capability
- Not independently assessed for MCP/agent access, on-brand design generation, or ChatGPT marketplace listing in this comparison.
- AI-native score
- 2 of 10 on the AI-native criterion
- Limitations
- No free plan, only a trial
- No transactional API
- Overage billed at $2 per 1,000 sends
- Facts checked
Which email blast platform is best for a big list on a small budget?
Brevo or Nitrosend, because both bill on emails sent rather than contacts held. A list of 50,000 addresses mailed twice a month is roughly 100,000 emails, and on a per-contact platform you pay for all 50,000 people every month whether you mail them or not. Check how each one counts before you check what each one costs. The counting method decides the bill far more than the headline price does, and it is the single most common reason people move, which we cover in what small businesses should actually pay.
Can I send an email blast through a transactional email API?
You can, and you should not. Transactional infrastructure carries password resets, receipts and confirmations, and its reputation is built on the fact that every recipient asked for that specific message. Push a promotional blast down the same path and a complaint rate that would be unremarkable on a campaign stream starts landing on the messages your users cannot afford to miss. Use a platform that separates the two streams internally, or use two accounts. Nitrosend keeps both in one account with the streams separated, which is the point of the design.
How many emails can I send at once?
More than you should on day one. The technical ceiling is high, and Kam has measured a half-million recipient campaign completing in about an hour and a half from a trusted account. The practical ceiling is your sending reputation, not the platform's throughput. A domain that has never sent 50,000 emails should not send 50,000 emails, whatever the plan allows. Warm up gradually and increase volume incrementally with each send.
How to send your first blast without wrecking your domain
The failure mode is always the same. The list is older than people think, the domain is newer than people think, and the first send is the biggest one.
- Clean the list before you import it, not after. A bad list does not improve by changing platforms, and the email blacklist checker tells you what you are carrying.
- Authenticate the sending domain properly. SPF, DKIM and a DMARC policy you actually understand, all covered on the email authentication page.
- Warm up rather than switching in one send. How to warm up an email domain has the ramp schedule.
- Send to your most engaged segment first. Widen only once bounce and complaint rates hold across two or three sends.
- Test placement before the big one. An inbox test costs nothing next to a burnt domain.
Budget time, not just setup. We ported email onto an existing tool about a year ago and it was hours of setup, then weeks of warm-up and optimisation, and on a large platform it turned into a three-month project. The import is the easy part.
FAQ
What is an email blast platform?
Software that sends one message to a whole list at once, with the list management, unsubscribe handling, authentication and reporting attached. It is distinct from a transactional email API, which sends individual messages triggered by something a single user did, and it is distinct from cold outreach infrastructure, which sends to people who never asked and lives under different rules.
What is the best free email blast platform?
Kit is free up to 10,000 subscribers, which is the largest free ceiling among the platforms ranked here. Brevo's free plan puts no cap on contacts and allows 300 emails a day. Klaviyo and Omnisend are both free to 250 contacts with 500 sends a month, and MailerLite is free to 250 subscribers with 2,500 sends. Nitrosend gives 8,000 emails to start and then 500 a month, with full API, MCP and CLI access on the free plan, up to 100 / 500 / 5,000 recipients per rolling 24 hours for Free Probation / Standard / Trusted. All figures checked 7 September 2026.
Is an email blast the same as spam?
Not if the people on the list gave you permission and can leave in one click. It becomes spam when the list was bought, scraped or inherited, and the complaints that follow will hurt every future send from that domain. Even a genuine business can torch a shared IP with a list that is stale or was never consent-collected.
Can an AI agent send my email blast?
Yes. Nitrosend, MailerLite, Brevo and beehiiv publish first-party MCP servers, so an agent can drive them directly rather than clicking through a browser. What an agent cannot do is decide who should receive the send, so the segment is still yours to define.
What bounce rate is too high for a blast?
Above 2% and you are in trouble on most platforms, and several will stop you there automatically. Nitrosend pauses an account above a 2% bounce rate and then a person investigates and tells you what to do, rather than closing the door and taking the reporting with it. Anything above 5% on a first send usually means the list was never verified.
Should I keep my transactional email somewhere else?
You can, and it is often the least disruptive way to move. Nitrosend supports bring-your-own sending keys, so if you already send receipts through SendGrid, Mailgun, Postmark, Resend or Amazon SES you can keep that transport and move only the campaign layer across.
How this list is ranked
Seven criteria, weighted, adding to 100. Every price in the table below was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 7 September 2026 and every one of them moves, so confirm before you commit.
- Fit for the stated job, 21%. Built for that kind of blast, not adapted to it.
- Deliverability at volume, 17%. What happens on the day you send to the whole list, and what the platform does to stop you making a mistake.
- Pricing model honesty, 17%. Whether the bill tracks what you send or charges you for holding a list you rarely mail.
- Automation depth, 13%. How far the flows go before you hit a wall.
- Agent and API surface, 9%. Whether software can operate the account rather than only fire a send.
- Migration cost, 8%. What it takes to move contacts, templates and engagement history in.
- Founding team and track record, 15%. Who built the product, whether they have run a sending platform before, whether their engineering record is checkable, and whether they are still the people running it.
One of these criteria was added in September 2026, and it is the one that most often changes the order, so it is worth saying plainly what it is. Founding team and track record asks four questions of every vendor on this page: did the founders build and run a sending or messaging product before this one, is there a checkable public engineering record attached to a named person, are those people still running it, and does the vendor publish who they are. Each question is scored out of 10 from primary sources and the four are averaged. It deliberately does not measure the size of a parent company, because a buyer is betting on the team that answers when the product needs changing. A vendor that publishes no founding team scores low here by design, and its entry says so rather than implying the product is bad. Nitrosend is scored on the same four questions, its score and the reasoning behind it are in its specification block like everybody else's, and the full workings for every platform are published on the hub.