Amazon SES vs MailerSend
Amazon SES
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MailerSend
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| Figure | Amazon SES | MailerSend |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $7/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 5 |
| Spec score · Email APIs | 7.8 (#19) | 9.0 (#1) |
| Spec score · Transactional Email Software | 7.8 (#30) | 9.0 (#3) |
| Spec score · Transactional email services | 7.1 (#38) | 8.5 (#15) |
| Audience | AWS presents SES for developers and businesses that send transactional messages, marketing campaigns, newsletters, or email from applications. | MailerSend describes its Professional plan as intended for agencies and white-label resellers sending at scale, and Starter as for growing startups and small businesses. |
| Inbound email | SES can accept or reject incoming mail based on sender email address, IP address, or domain, then store accepted mail in S3, run Lambda code, or publish SNS notifications. | Inbound routing parses replies to application events and routes them to an app for further action. |
| Integrations | AWS documentation describes integrations with EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, SNS, Route 53, IAM, S3, Lambda, KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Data Firehose, Redshift, and OpenSearch Service. | Official integrations include WordPress, WooCommerce, Firebase, Symfony, React Email, Supabase, Make, NocoDB, Pipedream, Zapier-related tools and others. |
| Product | Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service for sending and receiving high-volume transactional, marketing, and newsletter email. | MailerSend provides transactional email delivery through an email API and SMTP relay. |
Plans
Amazon SES
- À la carte pricingPrice not published
- EnterprisePrice not published
- EssentialsPrice not published
- ProPrice not published
MailerSend
- FreeFree
- Hobby$7 a month
- Starter$35 a month
- Professional$110 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Amazon SES
Amazon SES has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
MailerSend
MailerSend delivers transactional email through an email API and SMTP relay. Its editing tools include drag-and-drop, HTML and rich-text editors, along with dynamic templates and split testing. Webhooks, tracking, real-time activity, analytics and suppression-list management support monitoring. Inbound routing can parse replies into application events and route them to an app for further action. Integrations listed include Zapier, Supabase, Firebase, Slack, Laravel, WooCommerce, WordPress, ChatGPT and Claude. The Free plan is free and allows 500 emails per month, 100 daily API requests, one domain and one template. Hobby costs $5.60 a month, billed $67.20 yearly, and includes 5,000 emails per month. The pricing note lists paid plans from $7/mo. A 14-day Professional trial includes 500 emails per month, 100 daily API requests and one day of log retention. MailerSend is available on web, API and iOS; its mobile app is currently only available for iOS. It states that it is GDPR-compliant and hosts services in a certified ISO 27001 data center in Belgium.