Link | Amazon SES | SendGrid | Mandrill | Mailgun | SparkPost | Postmark | Brevo |
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Website | amazon.com/... | sendgrid.com | mandrill.com | mailgun.com | sparkpost.com | postmarkapp.com | brevo.com |
Technical details | |||||||
SMTP support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Globally redundant SMTP and API infrastructure | Yes |
Realtime | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Send transactional emails | 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 Parses inbound, can be handled 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 | Yes Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler | Yes |
Send bulk emails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No Multiple recipients per transactional email per the API or SMTP | Yes |
SPF | Yes Yes Instructions on how to set it up on your domain are given. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Automatic DKIM signing | 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 |
Open Tracking | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Click Tracking | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Clicks Details (per Link, etc.) | Yes Via real-time Event API webhook | Yes Reporting available both through Control Panel and API | Yes Through webhooks real-time event reporting. | Yes | |||
Message Personalization | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
Conditional Personalization (if/else) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | No | Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package | Yes | No | - only with "Elite for Marketers" plan | No | Yes Available for free with all the plans |
HTML Content Templates (WYSIWYG Editor) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Dedicated IP available | No $25 per month for EC2 users | Yes | Yes $29 per month | Yes $59 per month | Yes | No Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated. | Yes Gold or Higher Plan |
Pricing | |||||||
Free plan | 62,000 emails per month for EC2 users | 45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day | N/A (Since re-integration with Mailchimp) | 10,000 free per month | 15,000 emails per month | 25,000 emails, no time limit | 9,000 emails per month, max 300 per 24 hours |
Price | $ 0.1 per thousand, plus traffic charges. $0.12 per GB of attachments sent. | $ 0.57 to $0.80 USD per thousand | $ 10 for cheapest MailChimp account + $20 per month minimum charge | $ 0.1 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 0.2 to $0.15 per thousand, depending on volume | $ 0.5 to1.50 USD per thousand | $ 0.13 to $0.67 per thousand |
Custom-Pricing For Big Senders | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Currency | USD | USD | USD | USD | USD | USD | USD, EUR, GBP, MXN, ARS |
Cancellation policy | Pay for what you send; no required contract or commitments. | Cancel at any time, no contract | Cancel at any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract | 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. | 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 |
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 | Yes Via Webhooks | Yes | Yes |
Manage contacts through API | Yes See our Newsletter API at http://docs.sendgrid.com | Yes | Yes | Yes Edit active/inactive addresses by API. | Yes | ||
Send email through API | Yes | Yes | Yes | 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 | Yes Support by email around the clock. Live chat. | Yes Online form submission | |
Dedicated Support Team | 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 | No | - For First-class plans | Yes | No | Yes |
Headquartered | Seattle, WA | CO - CA | San Francisco, CA | San Francisco, CA | Parent Company: Wildbit - Philadelphia, PA | Paris, France | |
Additional | |||||||
Multi-user Login | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
Prioritize emails | 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 Add preferred time of delivery which can prioritize or schedule for later. | Yes | Yes | |||
User-Agent Tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Plugins | Yes Most major languages, frameworks, and platforms | Yes Most major languages and frameworks | Yes Node, PHP, Python & More, see http://developer.sparkpost.com | Yes http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.html | Yes PrestaShop, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Zapier, Salesforce | ||
Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish | English | English | English, French, Russian | English | English | English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German |
Sample Customers | SIEMENS, HBO, Vodafone, Allergan | Spotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHub | Github, Heroku, Uservoice, Stripe, 37 Signals, Parse, Adroll, Pagerduty | Pinterest, Zillow, Financial Times of London, Career Builder | IKEA, Minecraft, Livestream, Unicef, Litmus, Salesforce-Desk | BMW, Fleury Michon, Sodebo, Cora, Leroy Merlin, etc. | |
Sample Integration Partners | Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Softlayer, Rackspace, Heroku, Engineyard, Cloudbees | Mailchimp | Rackspace (owner), Heroku, Engineyard, AppFog | Heroku, SendWIthUs, OnGage, Iterable, boomtrain, kickbox, HP Exstream, Lytics, Infacta, Movable Ink, Zapier & More: sparkpost.com/... | ThriveThemes | ||
Website | amazon.com/... | sendgrid.com | mandrill.com | mailgun.com | sparkpost.com | postmarkapp.com | brevo.com |