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Compare SendinBlue vs Postmark vs Flowmailer vs Mailjet vs Mailgun vs SendGrid vs SparkPost vs Mail250 vs Amazon SES vs Mandrill vs Pepipost. This table provides an overview of the top SMTP providers around. Need your emails delivered to the inbox? Find the best provider for your needs below!
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Pricing
Free plan9,000 emails per month, max 300 per 24 hours25,000 emails, no time limit6,000 emails per month, max 200 per day10,000 free per month45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day15,000 emails per monthYes, 10K emails free62,000 emails per month for EC2 usersN/A (Since re-integration with Mailchimp)30k Emails Free For First 30 Days Then 100/Day Forever
Unlimited Free EmailsYou can upload unlimited contacts.
Price$ 0.13 to $0.67 per thousand$ 0.5 to1.50 USD per thousand$ 0.18 to $0.50 per thousand$ 0.1 to $0.50 per thousand$ 0.57 to $0.80 USD per thousand$ 0.2 to $0.15 per thousand, depending on volume$ 20 (Send 24k/ Day) $50 (Send 60k/ Day) $150 (Send 120k /Day)$ 0.1 per thousand, plus traffic charges. $0.12 per GB of attachments sent.$ 10 for cheapest MailChimp account + $20 per month minimum charge$ 15 per month
Startups planYesYesYes
Cancellation policyCancel at any time, no contractCancellation 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 contractCancel any time, no contractCancel at any time, no contractCancel any time, no contract, month-to-monthCancel any time, no contractPay for what you send; no required contract or commitments.Cancel at any time, no contractCancel any time, no contract.
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SMTP supportYesYes Globally redundant SMTP and API infrastructureYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of")YesYesYesYesYesYes Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIMYesYesYesYesYes
Clicks Details (per Link, etc.)YesYesYesYes Reporting available both through Control Panel and APIYes Via real-time Event API webhookYes Through webhooks real-time event reporting.YesYes
Conditional Personalization (if/else)YesYes- Yes but, not through web newsletter editor, only by using the APIYesYesYesYesYes
WYSIWYG Newsletter EditorYes Available for free with all the plansNoNo We don't do newsletters - Flowmailer focuses on transactional emailsYes Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included)NoYes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package- only with "Elite for Marketers" planYesNoYesNo
Dedicated IP availableYes Gold or Higher PlanNo Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated.- U should not use Dedicated IP if you're not a high volume sender!Yes With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address.Yes $59 per monthYesYesYesNo $25 per month for EC2 usersYes $29 per monthYes
REST APIYesYesYesYesYesYes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too)YesYesYesYesYes
Event APIYesYesYesYes For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real timeYesYes Yes, for our Silver plan and higher (and Free plan too)Yes Via WebhooksYesYes you can set up Amazon SES to publish email sending events to Amazon CloudWatch or Amazon KinesisYesYes via webhooks
Send email through APIYesYesYesYes Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/YesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Incoming Email SupportYesYes Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddlerYesYes 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 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/griddlerYes Parse inbound email, including attachments and content. See docs.sendgrid.com for webhook examples. Supported by Griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddlerYesNoYesYes Parses inbound, can be handled by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddlerNo
Stores Outgoing Emails for Later ViewingYesYes Stores for 45 DaysYesNoYesYes May be an additional charge.No
Explicit/sexual content policy ?NoNo not allowed
Needs time to approve account before sending ?Domains need proper authentication to start sending emailsNo. Domain approval is not required.Yes
Asks to create SPF and DKIM recordsYes Possible but not mandatoryYes Start Up Wizards helps you create SPF and DKIM recordsYes OptionalYes
LanguagesEnglish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, GermanEnglishEnglish, DutchEnglish, French, German, SpanishEnglish, French, RussianEnglishEnglishEnglishEnglish, French, German, Japanese, SpanishEnglishEnglish
Multi-user LoginNoYesYesYesYesYesYesNo
Prioritize emailsYesYes Queueing and scheduling of emails is availableYes Email Priority Management is handled on Mailjet with X-Mailjet email headers : http://www.mailjet.com/docs/email-priority-managementYes Add preferred time of delivery which can prioritize or schedule for later.YesNoYes 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
PluginsYes PrestaShop, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Zapier, SalesforceYes http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.htmlYes SMTP and REST API allow you to connect any source (including Ecommerce, CMS, CDP)Yes Prestashop, Wordpress, Dotclear, SPIP, Joomla, DrupalYes Most major languages and frameworksYes Node, PHP, Python & More, see http://developer.sparkpost.comYes WordPressYes Most major languages, frameworks, and platformsYes Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, MailWizz, Zapier
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24/7 SupportYes Online form submissionYes Support by email around the clock. Live chat.YesYes Across 3 Global Time Zones - Online ticket generationYes Online form submission.Yes Online ticket generation.YesYesYes Basic: Included, Developer: $49/month, Business & Enterprise prorated.Yes Live Chat and 24x7 email support
Dedicated Support TeamYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Phone SupportYesNoYes- Available for VIP clients- For First-class plansYes During regular business hours for all plan levels, including "Free." Critical and Escalation Support available 24/7Yes-- Available with paid support planNo- Limited to high volume senders
Sample CustomersBMW, Fleury Michon, Sodebo, Cora, Leroy Merlin, etc.IKEA, Minecraft, Livestream, Unicef, Litmus, Salesforce-DeskVodafone, Exact Online, Tele2, EnecoTAG Hauer, MIT, Fotolia, TheFancy, Jolicloud, Readability, Sketchfab, Prestashop, Amnesty International...Github, Heroku, Uservoice, Stripe, 37 Signals, Parse, Adroll, PagerdutySpotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHubPinterest, Zillow, Financial Times of London, Career BuilderDLF, Vodafone, etcSIEMENS, HBO, Vodafone, AllerganShine, Cleartrip, Arcamax, White Plum, SeekAsia, Traveloka, Tokopedia
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  • gdouvet on Oct. 2nd 2017 9:56:44 AM

    Solution efficace et support réactif. Je recommande

  • edrokov on Sep. 4th 2017 9:49:40 PM
    commented on Mailjet

    So far my experience is extremely ignorant, lazy and helpless first line support basically doing nothing. One ticket resolving takes more than 1 week!

  • maxime on Mar. 31st 2017 11:04:07 AM
  • Paul on Mar. 25th 2016 9:29:58 PM
    commented on SparkPost

    AVOID SPARKPOST SparkPost is a new Scammer in the place of Email Marketing. They canceled our account only 48 hours after payment claiming that our complaint rate was too high. Out of 27.000 emails sent, we had 150 bounces = 0.5% which is a very low bounce rate in any given industry. (we have made a screenshot showing these data). The way they communicate with us is like a Police Investigation, or even worst since they assume clearly that you are guilty! On Top of this, You can see on the Home Page of their website that they use very poor Marketing Pratices : Welcome Mandrill Customers! Here’s your migration guide. They want to take over the customers of Mandrill, their main competitor, with agressive Marketing. Don't be fooled by their low prices, there is NO service behind, and they use scammer practices

  • Charles on Feb. 25th 2016 11:58:30 AM
    commented on Mandrill

    No more free plan since April 2016. :(

  • Maffoo on Feb. 6th 2016 1:40:45 PM
    commented on Mailgun

    Actually, screw my previous comment. I take it back. They require business verification, and you have to jump through all these hoops for them to allow you to use their service, then beg them "oh pretty please" let me use your service oh wise Rackspace gods. Sod that, no time for that.

  • Maffoo on Feb. 6th 2016 1:38:09 PM
    commented on Mailjet

    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.

  • Maffoo on Feb. 1st 2016 12:29:54 PM
    commented on Mailgun

    This is definitely my favourite of the lot. Very good service, as to be expected from Rackspace. But also pretty cheap, which isn't so much to be expected from them!

  • Maffoo on Feb. 1st 2016 10:50:54 AM
    commented on Mailjet

    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.

  • Rob Pearl on Dec. 29th 2015 11:29:34 PM
    commented on SparkPost

    great but they dont mention your DAILY LIMITS even on a paid plan

  • Gagan on Dec. 10th 2015 7:29:49 PM
    commented on SparkPost

    I bought sparkpost and they have some problem working with interspire which i got to know later. I asked them to give me time to fix things as i use interspire and you are the only one who need a patch to be added. Neither they refunded and keep billing me for no use. and nor they replied to my request. Handle with care.

  • GabVega on Jul. 9th 2014 6:00:18 PM
    commented on Brevo

    La référence en matière d'emailing : tarifs exceptionnel, fonctionnalités complète et prise en main simple. A essayer au plus vite !