Transactional Emailing Providers

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2012-05-14 23:42:01

Compare the cloud emailing platforms by features and prices:

Cloud emailing software usually handle transactional, marketing, bulk email, mass email (newsletters). 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 emailing 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 table will help you to choose your cloud emailing solution. Most of them have a free plan (such as Mailjet, Sendgrid...), it could be a good opportunity to test several providers before choosing one email sender.

Amazon SESCritSendDynElastic EmailMailchimp STS (SES wrapper)MailgunMailjetMessageGearsPostageAppPostmarkSendGridturboSMTP
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Websitehttp://aws.amazon.com/ses/http://critsend.comhttp://dyn.com/email/http://elasticemail.com/http://mailchimp.com/features/simple-transactional-service/http://mailgun.nethttp://www.mailjet.comhttp://messagegears.comhttp://postageapp.comhttp://postmarkapp.com/http://www.sendgrid.comhttp://www.turbo-smtp.com
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Technical details
SMTP supportYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYes SMTP server provided, use API to send!YesYesYes
RealtimeYesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYesNoYesYes
Send transactional emailsYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Send bulk emailsYesYesYesYesYesYesYes Real, bulk API allowing up to millions of personalized emails to be sent from a single API call.Yes Multiple recipients per API call supported.NoYesYes
SPFYes Yes Instructions on how to set it up on your domain are given.YesYesYesYesYesYesYes Instructions on how to set it up on your domain are given.YesYes
Automatic DKIM signingNo recommends not to sign certain headersYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Personalized SPF & DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of" )NoYesYesNoYesYesYesYesNo
Open TrackingNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYes
Click TrackingNoYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoNoYes
File AttachmentsYes Up to 10 MBYes up to 20 MBYesYes Possible via SMTPYesYesYes up to 10 MB
Message PersonalizationYesYesYes- Not through web newsletter creatorYes Freemarker, VelocityYesYes
Conditional Personalization (if/else)YesYes- Not through web newsletter creatorYes Freemarker, VelocityYes
WYSIWYG Newsletter EditorNoNoYesNoYesYesNoNoYes Newsletter app available on Silver plan and higher
HTML Content Templates (WYSIWYG Editor)YesYesYesYes
Dedicated IP availableNoYes but not as good as our shared cluster since shared cluster is way ahead of state of the artYesYesNoYesYesYesYes For Owl plans and up!YesYesYes
Pricing
Free plan2,000 emails per day for EC2 users1,000 emails, no time limitno free plan.first 1000Yes; Mailchimp don't charge on top of Amazon's rates.200 emails per day6,000 emails per month, max 200 per 24 hoursFirst 1,000 per month are free.100 emails per day, 1000 emails per month1,000 emails, no time limit200 emails per dayup to 1,000 free emails available on request
Price0.1 USD per thousand, plus traffic charges0.28 USD to $0.50 per thousand19.95 USD year - $195/mo0.08 USD to $1.00 USD per thousand0 USD (free for paying mailchimp customers) (amazon SES rates apply)0.1 USD to 1.00 per thousand0.18 USD to $0.60 per thousand0.25 USD to $1.00 per thousand for SMTP Relay service.0.4 USD to $1.00 per thousand1.5 USD per thousand0.1 USD to $1 USD per thousand0.8 USD to $1.40 USD per thousand
CurrencyUSDUSD, EURUSDUSDUSDUSD, EUR, GBPUSDUSDUSDUSDUSD, EUR
API
REST APIYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Event APINoYesYesYesYesYes Using Amazon SQSNoYesYes
Manage contacts through APINoYesYes
Send email through APIYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Support
24/7 SupportYesYesYes Dependent on plan levelYesYes For Pro PlansYesYes After hours support for critical incidents.NoNoYes only for critical incidents
Dedicated Support TeamYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYes
Additional
Introduction Videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnK54TAKWghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9kdciO-q-8http://vimeo.com/23283604
PluginsYes Prestashop, Wordpress, Dotclear, SPIP, Joomla, DrupalYes Java and .Net SDKsYes Ruby on Rails, PHP, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Node.JS, and many other third party plugins
Launch date2011-01-252007-01-012011-01-012010-01-012011-02-0220102011-01-262009 Jan2010-08-162009-10-212009-04-282010
Emails sent per month50000000030000000150000000400000003500000000
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Japanese, SpanishEnglish (support in French, English, German, Greek)EnglishEnglishEnglishEnglishEnglish, French, German, SpanishEnglishEnglishEnglishEnglishEnglish, Espanol, Français, Italiano, Portugues
Twitterhttp://twitter.com/amazonseshttp://www.twitter.com/critsendhttp://twitter.com/dyninchttp://www.twitter.com/mailchimphttp://twitter.com/mail_gunhttp://twitter.com/mailjethttp://twitter.com/messagegearshttp://twitter.com/postagebirdhttp://twitter.com/postmarkapphttp://twitter.com/SendGridhttp://www.twitter.com/turboSMTP
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Websitehttp://aws.amazon.com/ses/http://critsend.comhttp://dyn.com/email/http://elasticemail.com/http://mailchimp.com/features/simple-transactional-service/http://mailgun.nethttp://www.mailjet.comhttp://messagegears.comhttp://postageapp.comhttp://postmarkapp.com/http://www.sendgrid.comhttp://www.turbo-smtp.com
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