Alternatives to Amazon SES
Compare the same workload. Check the differences behind the price.
Amazon SES
Metered outbound delivery with separate message-data charges.
$5.19 / month
À la carte outbound
Official pricing · Checked 2026-10-05
Cost breakdown and exclusions
- Monthly subscription: $0
- Outbound messages: $5.00
- Outgoing message data: $0.19
- Production sending approval and account-specific sending quotas are required. Temporary AWS credits are excluded. Infrastructure for templates and event handling may cost extra.
- EC2 transfer, global endpoints, tenant features, inbound email, dedicated IPs and deliverability add-ons.
What this comparison covers
Outbound transactional email, one recipient per send, shared IPs and one sending domain. Monthly billing without introductory discounts. Deliverability and support differ. Marketing automation, inbound processing, validations and dedicated IPs are excluded.
Evaluating 5 products from 5 published in this category. USD monthly equivalents, before tax. Features and service compatibility need separate evaluation.
- Emails sent
- 50,000 emails / month
- Peak daily sending
- 2,000 emails / day
- Average message size
- 32 KB / email
4 alternatives in this comparison
Resend
A developer-focused email API with React templates.
$20.00 / month
$14.81 more per month
- Pro · 50,000: $20.00/month at reference usage.
- Pay-as-you-go must be enabled. Additional emails are charged in whole 1,000-email buckets. Higher prepaid volume plans are not modeled.
- Inbound processing, dedicated IPs, email validation, marketing automation and premium support.
Official source · Checked 2026-10-05
Compare with Amazon SES →Mailgun
Email API and SMTP delivery with tiered operational features.
$35.00 / month
$29.81 more per month
- Foundation: $35.00/month at reference usage.
- Recurring price after any trial. Only the included allowance is verified; higher-volume quotes are unavailable.
- Inbound processing, dedicated IPs, email validation, marketing automation and premium support.
Official source · Checked 2026-10-05
Compare with Amazon SES →Postmark
Transactional delivery with clear message retention.
$66.00 / month
$60.81 more per month
- Platform · 10,000: $66.00/month at reference usage.
- Models the published 10,000-message subscription with overages. Larger prepaid message allowances may be cheaper and are not modeled.
- Inbound processing, dedicated IPs, email validation, marketing automation and premium support.
Official source · Checked 2026-10-05
Compare with Amazon SES →MailerSend
Transactional email with a low-volume monthly subscription.
Not modeled
Savings cannot be established at this workload.
- Free: Estimate unavailable at reference usage.
- Approval and card required. Assumes one send per API request; API calls for other actions consume daily limits.
- 1,000 API requests/day; assumes one send per request and no other API activity. Other plans and annual discounts are not modeled.
- Free plan includes 500 emails/month.
- Peak sending exceeds 100 emails/day.
- Monthly volume exceeds 100 emails/day over a conservative 28-day period.
- Inbound processing, dedicated IPs, email validation, marketing automation and premium support.
- Peak sending exceeds 1000 emails/day.
- Monthly volume exceeds 1000 emails/day over a conservative 28-day period.
Official source · Checked 2026-10-05
Compare with Amazon SES →Questions before you decide
Are these drop-in replacements for Amazon SES?
No compatibility is implied by sharing the Transactional email category. Check the selected plans, workload assumptions, API compatibility and required features before switching.