Comparison of the cloud email services that provide
transactional email or bulk email
software (marketing software to manage mass email such as
newsletters), such as EndinBlue, Mailjet, Amazon SES....
These services help you to send these emails without having to
configure and manage mail servers, ensuring you to
have state of the art configuration to ensure email
deliverability. Your application can usually use
SMTP protocol using their SMTP
Relay, or use a specific API.
Transactional email is an expected email
because it has been triggered automatically after a transaction or
a specific event. Common examples of transactional
email is : account opening and welcome message, order
shipment confirmation, shipment tracking and purchase order status,
registration via a contact form, account termination, payment
confirmation, invoice...
These messages are especially important for ecommerce, shopping
sites... (crucial step of the customer
relationship : the customer would be really disappointed
if he never receives the expected email). The deliverability
criteria is really important.
This detailed comparison chart will help you to
choose your cloud email solution for bulk email or
transactional email. Most of them have a free
plan, it will help you to test several email
sender before deciding which one is the best for your
needs.
Yes Reporting available both through Control Panel and API
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Via HEMS Package
Yes Real-time via webhook API
Yes
Yes Through webhooks real-time event reporting.
Yes
Conditional Personalization (if/else)
Yes
Yes
Yes
- Yes but, not through web newsletter editor, only by using the API
Yes
Yes
Yes By Using API ref: https://sarv.com/docs/
No
Yes
Yes
Yes Via HEMS Package
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor
Yes Available for free with all the plans
Yes
Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package
Yes
No
Yes Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included)
No
No
Yes Only in Marketing Platform
-
No
Yes
Yes
Yes Via HEMS Package
Yes
No
Yes
- only with "Elite for Marketers" plan
Yes
Dedicated IP available
Yes Gold or Higher Plan
Yes
Yes
Yes
No $25 per month for EC2 users
Yes With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address.
Yes
Yes Gold or higher plan
Yes $59 per month
Yes $20 per month
Yes
Yes
Yes $29 per month
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
REST API
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Event API
Yes
Yes
Yes Yes, for our Silver plan and higher (and Free plan too)
Yes you can set up Amazon SES to publish email sending events to Amazon CloudWatch or Amazon Kinesis
Yes For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real time
Yes via webhooks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Notification API
Yes
Yes
Yes Via Webhooks
Yes
Send email through API
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Includes advanced merging and customization capabilities as well as ability to merge to templates created in the SocketLabs Control Panel.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Incoming Email Support
Yes
Yes
Yes Parse inbound email, including attachments and content. See docs.sendgrid.com for webhook examples. Supported by Griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler
No
Yes
Yes Using the Parse API you can get the content of an incomming email POSTed by HTTP on a server : dev.mailjet.com/guides/parse-api-guide/
No
No
Yes Parse emails, including attachements and quoted text. Easily forward using different expression matches, including regex, and POST to HTTP. Supported by Griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler
No
Yes
Yes Parses inbound, can be handled by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler
Yes
No
Yes Parses inbound mail streams into JSON messages and posts that data to a predefined endpoint. http://www.socketlabs.com/api-reference/inbound-api/
Yes Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler
Yes Only Backup MX
No
Yes
No
Stores Outgoing Emails for Later Viewing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes May be an additional charge.
Yes
Yes Stores for 45 Days
Yes
Explicit/sexual content policy ?
No
No not allowed
No not allowed
No
Needs time to approve account before sending ?
Account is ready for use immediately
Yes
Yes. 12 to 24 hours
No
No.
No. Domain approval is not required.
Asks to create SPF and DKIM records
Yes Possible but not mandatory
Yes DKIM/SPF can be used, but not mandatory
Yes
Yes We will create SPF & DKIM records for your sending domains
Yes
Yes
Yes Optional
Languages
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German
Yes Email Priority Management is handled on Mailjet with X-Mailjet email headers : http://www.mailjet.com/docs/email-priority-management
Yes Add preferred time of delivery which can prioritize or schedule for later.
Yes
Yes
Yes Use the important option (API) or X-MC-Important (SMTP) to flag important messages and give them priority over other messages you're currently sending. https://mandrill.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/205582647
Compare side-by-side Best Transactional Email Service Providers with a review of each transactional emailing software enabling mass email, newsletters... Bulk email software comparison.
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Hi Vanina,
Thanks for this comparison chart!
Can you please include SwipePost in this comparison table too?
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SwipePost is the world's only ESP that gives 200,000 emails /month for free of cost. SwipePost is one of the Fastest Growing Email Delivery Service.
Thanks
The email provides us with the system of mail jet and send grid which is some important technical features in the market these days, I took the support of AOL tech Support
to deal with these systems of emailing, this helped me know much about the ways to deal with the transactions on email.
Thanks for the list! I had heard of most of them, but some were completely new. I have been using proofy.io for about a year now and I would recommend their service.
One day, they simply disabled our account because of some user complaints. Without getting to details. They did it twice. First time I we agreed emails are ok and "you are welcome to use elastic emails". In three weeks (or so) on monday ElasticEmail welcomed me with "You account permanently disabled" sign. Great!
adoconnection@gmail.com – thats my mail. I hope you ll be bancrupt damn elasticemail.
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Hi Vanina, Thanks for this comparison chart! Can you please include Mail250 in this comparison table too? url: socialcompare.com/...
after 2 months I can say I wish we started with them years ago.
I've personally been using Mailjet. Good interface for both transac & marketing email. Bought it on www.secret-saas.com to save money!
Nice sheet, Vanina. Could you please add Pepipost to this comparison sheet: pepipost-4odu2rou To give you a brief, Pepipost is an AI powered email delivery platform who not only gives a high inbox deliverability. But also reward the good senders by not charging them anything for the opened emails.
Hi Vanina, Thanks for this comparison chart! Can you please include SwipePost in this comparison table too? url: socialcompare.com/... SwipePost is the world's only ESP that gives 200,000 emails /month for free of cost. SwipePost is one of the Fastest Growing Email Delivery Service. Thanks
The email provides us with the system of mail jet and send grid which is some important technical features in the market these days, I took the support of AOL tech Support to deal with these systems of emailing, this helped me know much about the ways to deal with the transactions on email.
Solution efficace et support réactif. Je recommande
Please add see if services has list management function. i.e. Mailjet/Seninblue has list management function for free.
So far my experience is extremely ignorant, lazy and helpless first line support basically doing nothing. One ticket resolving takes more than 1 week!
Thanks for the list! I had heard of most of them, but some were completely new. I have been using proofy.io for about a year now and I would recommend their service.
Have had a good experience with Send in Blue. Just waiting for them to develop multi-user login. Fingers crossed!
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Hi Vanina, great comparison! Could you please add InboxRoad to the comparison too? socialcompare.com/... Thanks in advance!
Hi Vanina, Thanks for this comparison chart! Can you please includeSwipeMail in this comparison table too? url: socialcompare.com/... Thanks, Abhi
One day, they simply disabled our account because of some user complaints. Without getting to details. They did it twice. First time I we agreed emails are ok and "you are welcome to use elastic emails". In three weeks (or so) on monday ElasticEmail welcomed me with "You account permanently disabled" sign. Great! adoconnection@gmail.com – thats my mail. I hope you ll be bancrupt damn elasticemail.