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| Technical details | ||||||||||||||
| SMTP support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 24/7 Multilanguage Support | Yes | Yes Globally redundant SMTP and API infrastructure |
| Realtime | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Send transactional emails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Incoming Email Support | 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/ | 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 | Yes | 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 Parses inbound, can be handled by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler | Yes Only Backup MX | Yes Parses inbound mail streams into JSON messages and posts that data to a predefined endpoint. http://www.socketlabs.com/api-reference/inbound-api/ | No | No | Yes | Yes Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler |
| Send bulk emails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No Multiple recipients per transactional email per the API or SMTP |
| SPF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Yes Instructions on how to set it up on your domain are given. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Automatic DKIM signing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of") | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes https://www.socketlabs.com/domainkey-dkim-generation-wizard/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Open Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes Via HEMS Package | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Click Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes Via HEMS Package | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| Clicks Details (per Link, etc.) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Via real-time Event API webhook | Yes Reporting available both through Control Panel and API | Yes Via HEMS Package | Yes Real-time via webhook API | Yes | Yes Through webhooks real-time event reporting. | |||||
| Message Personalization | Yes Yes, via web tool (WYSIWYG editor) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes Via HEMS Package | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Conditional Personalization (if/else) | - Yes but, not through web newsletter editor, only by using the API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Via HEMS Package | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | Yes Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included) | Yes Available for free with all the plans | Yes | Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package | No | No | Yes Via HEMS Package | Yes | Yes | Yes | - only with "Elite for Marketers" plan | No | ||
| HTML Content Templates (WYSIWYG Editor) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes Via HEMS Package | Yes | Yes Drag and drop | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Dedicated IP available | Yes With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address. | Yes Gold or Higher Plan | Yes | Yes | No $25 per month for EC2 users | Yes $59 per month | Yes | Yes $29 per month | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Gold or higher plan | Yes | No Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated. |
| Pricing | ||||||||||||||
| Free plan | 6,000 emails per month, max 200 per day | 9,000 emails per month, max 300 per 24 hours | 100 free emails per day and up to 1,000 contacts. | 45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day | 62,000 emails per month for EC2 users | 10,000 free per month | 30 day money back | N/A (Since re-integration with Mailchimp) | 30 days money back | 20,000 emails per month | 6,000 emails per month (special offers for startups) | 6000 emails per month - up to 200 per day | 15,000 emails per month | 25,000 emails, no time limit |
| Price | $ 0.18 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 0.13 to $0.67 per thousand | $ 9 per month for Email Marketing for up to 2,000 contacts and 60,000 emails/month or $9 per month for up to 10,000 emails per month for Email API. | $ 0.57 to $0.80 USD per thousand | $ 0.1 per thousand, plus traffic charges. $0.12 per GB of attachments sent. | $ 0.1 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 0.3 to $2.50 per thousand | $ 10 for cheapest MailChimp account + $20 per month minimum charge | $ 0.13 to $0.83 per thousand | $ 0.2 to $0.69 per thousand | $ 0.1 to $0.20 per 1000 | $ 0.51 to $0.70 USD per thousand | $ 0.2 to $0.15 per thousand, depending on volume | $ 0.5 to1.50 USD per thousand |
| Custom-Pricing For Big Senders | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Currency | USD, EUR, GBP | USD, EUR, GBP, MXN, ARS | USD | USD | USD | USD | USD, EUR, GBP, CAD | USD | USD | USD | USD | USD, EUR | USD | USD |
| Cancellation policy | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel at any time, no contract | Cancel at any time, no contract. | Cancel at any time, no contract | Pay for what you send; no required contract or commitments. | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel at any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract, month-to-month | Cancel any time, no obligations | Cancel any time, no contract, month-to-month | Cancellation must be issued via the Service. Any cancellation issued must be done three (3) days prior to the end of the contract term. | |
| API | ||||||||||||||
| REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Event API | Yes For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real time | 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 | Yes | Yes | Yes Notification API | Yes | Yes Via Webhooks | Yes | ||
| Manage contacts through API | Yes Read a full tutorial at http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/contact-guide/ | Yes | Yes | Yes See our Newsletter API at http://docs.sendgrid.com | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Edit active/inactive addresses by API. | ||||||
| Send email through API | Yes Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/ | 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 | |||
| Support | ||||||||||||||
| 24/7 Support | Yes Across 3 Global Time Zones - Online ticket generation | Yes Online form submission | Yes | Yes Online ticket generation. | Yes Basic: Included, Developer: $49/month, Business & Enterprise prorated. | Yes Online form submission. | Yes 24/7/365 Via Phone, Email or chat | Yes 24/7 Email Support. Online form submission. No Phone Support. | Yes Online ticketing system | - Online form submission | Yes Live Chat, Tickets, Phone, Skype | Yes | Yes Support by email around the clock. Live chat. | |
| Dedicated Support Team | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Phone Support | - Available for VIP clients | Yes | Yes | Yes During regular business hours for all plan levels, including "Free." Critical and Escalation Support available 24/7 | - Available with paid support plan | - For First-class plans | Yes 24/7 for all clients | No | No | Yes During regular business hours for all plan levels | Yes | Yes 24/7 | Yes | No |
| Headquartered | Paris, France | Paris, France | Canada | CO - CA | Seattle, WA | San Francisco, CA | Ukraine | Finland | Aston, PA | Latvia, Riga | San Diego, CA | San Francisco, CA | Parent Company: Wildbit - Philadelphia, PA | |
| Additional | ||||||||||||||
| Multi-user Login | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||
| Prioritize emails | Yes Email Priority Management is handled on Mailjet with X-Mailjet email headers : http://www.mailjet.com/docs/email-priority-management | Yes | Yes | Yes Add preferred time of delivery which can prioritize or schedule for later. | 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 | Yes via multiple servers | Yes | |||||||
| User-Agent Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes via webhook API | Yes | Yes | |||||||
| Plugins | Yes Prestashop, Wordpress, Dotclear, SPIP, Joomla, Drupal | Yes PrestaShop, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Zapier, Salesforce | Yes Wordpress and Joomla plugins available. | Yes Most major languages and frameworks | Yes | Yes Most major languages, frameworks, and platforms | Yes samples available in github repo | Yes Bitrix, Zapier, Mailigen | Yes Node, PHP, Python & More, see http://developer.sparkpost.com | Yes http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.html | ||||
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German | English | English | English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish | English, French, Russian | English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Indian | English | English | English | English | English, Espanol, Français, Italiano, Portugues, German, Russian, Arabic, Ukrainian | English | English |
| Sample Customers | TAG Hauer, MIT, Fotolia, TheFancy, Jolicloud, Readability, Sketchfab, Prestashop, Amnesty International... | BMW, Fleury Michon, Sodebo, Cora, Leroy Merlin, etc. | Riddox, Vuelio, Vonage, Quicko, Poptin, Swiftqueue, Clikadu | Spotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHub | SIEMENS, HBO, Vodafone, Allergan | Github, Heroku, Uservoice, Stripe, 37 Signals, Parse, Adroll, Pagerduty | Intuit, IBM, ADP, Crutchfield, Warner Bros, Red Cross, Virgin, Panera Bread, Penn State University | Pinterest, Zillow, Financial Times of London, Career Builder | IKEA, Minecraft, Livestream, Unicef, Litmus, Salesforce-Desk | |||||
| Sample Integration Partners | Wordpress, Joomla, Prestashop, Drupal, Zapier, Elastic.io... | ThriveThemes | acyba.com mailpoet.com | Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Softlayer, Rackspace, Heroku, Engineyard, Cloudbees | Rackspace (owner), Heroku, Engineyard, AppFog | Mailchimp | Heroku, SendWIthUs, OnGage, Iterable, boomtrain, kickbox, HP Exstream, Lytics, Infacta, Movable Ink, Zapier & More: sparkpost.com/... | |||||||
| Website | mailjet.com | brevo.com | elasticemail.com | sendgrid.com | amazon.com/... | mailgun.com | smtp.com | mandrill.com | authmailer.com | socketlabs.com | leadersend.com | serversmtp.com | sparkpost.com | postmarkapp.com |