Mandrill (MailChimp service), MailJet and SendGrid are 3 SMTP Email Marketing Services with free plan, so you can easily test them and decide which one is the best for you.
For a complete comparison table of all SMTP servers solutions, you can also have a look on this detailed comparison matrix: transactional-emailing-providers-mailjet-sendgrid-critsend
Link | Mailjet | Mandrill | SendGrid |
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| Like | Likes 52 | Likes 7 | Likes 44 |
| Website | mailjet.com | mandrill.com | sendgrid.com |
| Technical details | |||
| SMTP support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Realtime | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Send transactional emails | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Send bulk emails | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SPF | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic DKIM signing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Click Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | Yes Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included) | Yes | Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package |
| Dedicated IP available | Yes With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address. | Yes $29 per month | Yes |
| Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of") | Yes | Yes | Yes Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIM |
| Pricing | |||
| Free plan | 6,000 emails per month, max 200 per day | N/A (Since re-integration with Mailchimp) | 45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day |
| Price | $ 0.18 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 10 for cheapest MailChimp account + $20 per month minimum charge | $ 0.57 to $0.80 USD per thousand |
| Currency | USD, EUR, GBP | USD | USD |
| API | |||
| REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too) |
| Event API | Yes For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real time | Yes | Yes Yes, for our Silver plan and higher (and Free plan too) |
| Manage contacts through API | Yes Read a full tutorial at http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/contact-guide/ | Yes See our Newsletter API at http://docs.sendgrid.com | |
| Send email through API | Yes Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/ | Yes | Yes |
| Support | |||
| 24/7 Support | Yes Across 3 Global Time Zones - Online ticket generation | Yes Online ticket generation. | |
| Dedicated Support Team | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Additional | |||
| Video |  | vimeo.com/... | |
| Launch date | Aug. 10th 2010 | 2012 April | Apr. 28th 2009 |
| Emails sent per month | 800,000,000 | 8,800,000,000 (8.8 Billion) total in August 2013 13,196,017,135 total in 1/2015 | |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish | English | English |
| Website | mailjet.com | mandrill.com | sendgrid.com |
| Last update | Jul. 23rd 2019 6:33:26 PM | Jul. 23rd 2019 6:33:26 PM | Dec. 3rd 2020 12:30:59 PM |
User reviews and comments
Solution efficace et support réactif. Je recommande
So far my experience is extremely ignorant, lazy and helpless first line support basically doing nothing. One ticket resolving takes more than 1 week!
SendinBlue is terrible for support..
I had a very bad experience with Sendinblue
No more free plan since April 2016. :(
Update: managed to get second email confirmation working after being in touch with them via twitter, and decided to go with them due to mailgun's annoying company verification stuff which put me off.
I tried to add a second email to my account and it went straight into spam. Then the confirmation link inside didn't work (404). Then whitelisting my local domain didn't work, so now I'm stuck. Therefore, I have no interest in going any further as I can't be bothered waiting around for them to fix things.
We have used sendgrid as well as mandrill (MailChimp). Both have rock solid APIs and goof platform.
SendGrid, Mandrill and Mailjet are not the only transactional email providers with free plans. Can you open this table to other popular providers? (Disclosure, I work for Mailgun)
Thanks @loren, I have updated this comparison table accordingly.
MailChimp has a new SMTP service with a free plan now, called Mandrill (mandrill.com), and the STS product is being phased out. Let's get this comparison up-to-date! I've already added Mandrill and removed STS from the larger comparison at: transactional-emailing-providers-mailjet-sendgrid-critsend