JetEmail vs MX Guarddog

JetEmail combines transactional email delivery, inbound filtering, and email marketing in a web-based platform with API access. Outbound messages can be sent through SMTP or a REST API using the same allowance. The Marketing Suite includes campaigns, templates, segments, custom fields, signup forms, automations, and reporting for opens, clicks, bounces, and unsubscribes. Its free tier does not expire and covers up to 1,000 subscribers with 1 GB of image storage. Paid Marketing Suite plans start at $29 a month for 5,000 subscribers; this Starter tier includes unlimited marketing sends, 100 AI requests per month, and 1 TB of image storage. Inbound filtering can block spam, phishing, and malware, then quarantine or deliver filtered mail by SMTP, webhook, or forwarding. The API supports attachments up to 40 MB, batches of 100, scheduled sends up to 30 days ahead, idempotency keys, and signed delivery webhooks. JetEmail lists integrations for cPanel, DirectAdmin, Enhance, and WordPress, and SDKs for six programming languages. It was founded in 2024 and is based in Australia.

MX Guarddog is a hosted email gateway for standard SMTP servers serving owned domains. It scans incoming messages for spam, phishing, malware and viruses, quarantines offending mail, and forwards clean messages to the customer’s server. The service runs in the cloud, so it requires no hardware or software installation and no configuration changes to email clients or the server. Quarantine reports summarize stopped spam, and users can adjust report preferences; quarantine retention is seven days. If a customer’s server is unavailable, MX Guarddog says it holds mail for up to 168 hours and delivers it when the server returns. It can sync active addresses from Windows AD, LDAP or cPanel, and says it uses Transport Layer Security, including Perfect Forward Security, for email in transit. The listed per-address price is $0.25 per month; aliases are not charged. A free plan and 30-day trial are listed. The service is for web use and does not support consumer Gmail or Hotmail accounts.