 Link | Amazon SES | SendGrid | Mailgun | Mailjet | Brevo | MailGet | Postmark | SparkPost | Elastic Email |
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| Website | amazon.com/... | sendgrid.com | mailgun.com | mailjet.com | brevo.com | formget.com/... | postmarkapp.com | sparkpost.com | elasticemail.com |
| Technical details | |||||||||
| SMTP support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Globally redundant SMTP and API infrastructure | Yes | Yes | |
| Realtime | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Send transactional emails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Incoming Email Support | 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 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 | 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 Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler | Yes | Yes | |
| Send bulk emails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No Multiple recipients per transactional email per the API or SMTP | Yes | Yes | |
| SPF | 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 | |
| Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of") | Yes | Yes Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIM | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Open Tracking | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Click Tracking | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Clicks Details (per Link, etc.) | Yes Via real-time Event API webhook | Yes Reporting available both through Control Panel and API | Yes | Yes | Yes Through webhooks real-time event reporting. | Yes | |||
| Message Personalization | No | Yes | Yes | Yes Yes, via web tool (WYSIWYG editor) | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Conditional Personalization (if/else) | Yes | - Yes but, not through web newsletter editor, only by using the API | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | No | Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package | No | Yes Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included) | Yes Available for free with all the plans | No | - only with "Elite for Marketers" plan | Yes | |
| HTML Content Templates (WYSIWYG Editor) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Dedicated IP available | No $25 per month for EC2 users | Yes | Yes $59 per month | Yes With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address. | Yes Gold or Higher Plan | No Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated. | Yes | Yes | |
| Pricing | |||||||||
| Free plan | 62,000 emails per month for EC2 users | 45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day | 10,000 free per month | 6,000 emails per month, max 200 per day | 9,000 emails per month, max 300 per 24 hours | 25,000 emails, no time limit | 15,000 emails per month | 100 free emails per day and up to 1,000 contacts. | |
| Price | $ 0.1 per thousand, plus traffic charges. $0.12 per GB of attachments sent. | $ 0.57 to $0.80 USD per thousand | $ 0.1 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 0.18 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 0.13 to $0.67 per thousand | $ 0.5 to1.50 USD per thousand | $ 0.2 to $0.15 per thousand, depending on volume | $ 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. | |
| Custom-Pricing For Big Senders | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Currency | USD | USD | USD | USD, EUR, GBP | USD, EUR, GBP, MXN, ARS | USD | USD | USD | |
| Cancellation policy | Pay for what you send; no required contract or commitments. | Cancel at any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel at any time, no contract | Cancellation must be issued via the Service. Any cancellation issued must be done three (3) days prior to the end of the contract term. | Cancel any time, no contract, month-to-month | Cancel at any time, no contract. | |
| API | |||||||||
| REST API | Yes | Yes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Event API | Yes you can set up Amazon SES to publish email sending events to Amazon CloudWatch or Amazon Kinesis | Yes Yes, for our Silver plan and higher (and Free plan too) | Yes | Yes For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real time | Yes | Yes | Yes Via Webhooks | Yes | |
| Manage contacts through API | Yes See our Newsletter API at http://docs.sendgrid.com | Yes | Yes Read a full tutorial at http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/contact-guide/ | Yes | Yes Edit active/inactive addresses by API. | Yes | Yes | ||
| Send email through API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Support | |||||||||
| 24/7 Support | Yes Basic: Included, Developer: $49/month, Business & Enterprise prorated. | Yes Online ticket generation. | Yes Online form submission. | Yes Across 3 Global Time Zones - Online ticket generation | Yes Online form submission | Yes Support by email around the clock. Live chat. | Yes | Yes | |
| Dedicated Support Team | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Phone Support | - Available with paid support plan | Yes During regular business hours for all plan levels, including "Free." Critical and Escalation Support available 24/7 | - For First-class plans | - Available for VIP clients | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Headquartered | Seattle, WA | CO - CA | San Francisco, CA | Paris, France | Paris, France | Parent Company: Wildbit - Philadelphia, PA | San Francisco, CA | Canada | |
| Additional | |||||||||
| Multi-user Login | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||
| Prioritize emails | Yes Add preferred time of delivery which can prioritize or schedule for later. | Yes Email Priority Management is handled on Mailjet with X-Mailjet email headers : http://www.mailjet.com/docs/email-priority-management | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| User-Agent Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Plugins | Yes Most major languages and frameworks | Yes Prestashop, Wordpress, Dotclear, SPIP, Joomla, Drupal | Yes PrestaShop, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Zapier, Salesforce | Yes http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.html | Yes Node, PHP, Python & More, see http://developer.sparkpost.com | Yes Wordpress and Joomla plugins available. | |||
| Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish | English | English, French, Russian | English, French, German, Spanish | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German | English | English | English | |
| Sample Customers | SIEMENS, HBO, Vodafone, Allergan | Spotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHub | Github, Heroku, Uservoice, Stripe, 37 Signals, Parse, Adroll, Pagerduty | TAG Hauer, MIT, Fotolia, TheFancy, Jolicloud, Readability, Sketchfab, Prestashop, Amnesty International... | BMW, Fleury Michon, Sodebo, Cora, Leroy Merlin, etc. | IKEA, Minecraft, Livestream, Unicef, Litmus, Salesforce-Desk | Pinterest, Zillow, Financial Times of London, Career Builder | Riddox, Vuelio, Vonage, Quicko, Poptin, Swiftqueue, Clikadu | |
| Sample Integration Partners | Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Softlayer, Rackspace, Heroku, Engineyard, Cloudbees | Rackspace (owner), Heroku, Engineyard, AppFog | Wordpress, Joomla, Prestashop, Drupal, Zapier, Elastic.io... | ThriveThemes | Heroku, SendWIthUs, OnGage, Iterable, boomtrain, kickbox, HP Exstream, Lytics, Infacta, Movable Ink, Zapier & More: sparkpost.com/... | acyba.com mailpoet.com | |||
| Website | amazon.com/... | sendgrid.com | mailgun.com | mailjet.com | brevo.com | formget.com/... | postmarkapp.com | sparkpost.com | elasticemail.com |