Comparison of top SMTP Relay Services, with their popular features and website links. The comparison contains both open source(free) and commercial(paid) software.
This detailed comparison chart will help you to choose your cloud based SMTP Relay email solution for bulk email or transactional email. Most of them have a free plan, it will help you to test several email sender before deciding which one is the best for your needs.
Mail250 | Amazon SES | Mailjet | Mailgun | SendGrid | Postmark | SparkPost | |
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Website | https://mail250.com/ | http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ | https://www.mailjet.com | http://mailgun.com | https://sendgrid.com/ | http://postmarkapp.com/ | https://www.sparkpost.com/ |
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Price | 20 USD (Send 24k/ Day) $50 (Send 60k/ Day) $150 (Send 120k /Day) | 0.1 USD per thousand, plus traffic charges. $0.12 per GB of attachments sent. | 0.18 USD to $0.50 per thousand | 0.1 USD to $0.50 per thousand | 0.57 USD to $0.80 USD per thousand | 0.5 USD to1.50 USD per thousand | 0.2 USD to $0.15 per thousand, depending on volume |
Free plan | Yes, 10K emails free | 62,000 emails per month for EC2 users | 6,000 emails per month, max 200 per day | 10,000 free per month | 45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day | 25,000 emails, no time limit | 15,000 emails per month |
Startups plan | Yes | Yes | |||||
Cancellation policy | Cancel 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 | 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 |
Unlimited Free Emails | You can upload unlimited contacts. | ||||||
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SMTP support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Globally redundant SMTP and API infrastructure | Yes |
Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of") | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIM | Yes | Yes |
Clicks Details (per Link, etc.) | Yes | Yes | Yes Reporting available both through Control Panel and API | Yes Via real-time Event API webhook | Yes Through webhooks real-time event reporting. | ||
Conditional Personalization (if/else) | Yes | - Yes but, not through web newsletter editor, only by using the API | Yes | Yes | |||
WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | Yes | No | Yes Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included) | No | Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package | No | - only with "Elite for Marketers" plan |
Dedicated IP available | Yes | No $25 per month for EC2 users | Yes With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address. | Yes $59 per month | Yes | No Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated. | Yes |
REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too) | Yes | Yes |
Event API | Yes | Yes you can set up Amazon SES to publish email sending events to Amazon CloudWatch or Amazon Kinesis | Yes For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real time | Yes | Yes Yes, for our Silver plan and higher (and Free plan too) | Yes | Yes Via Webhooks |
Send email through API | Yes | Yes | Yes Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Incoming Email Support | No | Yes | 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 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 Parse inbound email, including attachments and content. See docs.sendgrid.com for webhook examples. Supported by Griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler | Yes Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler | Yes |
Stores Outgoing Emails for Later Viewing | Yes | No | Yes Stores for 45 Days | ||||
Explicit/sexual content policy ? | No | ||||||
Needs time to approve account before sending ? | No. Domain approval is not required. | ||||||
Asks to create SPF and DKIM records | Yes Optional | ||||||
Languages | English | English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish | English, French, German, Spanish | English, French, Russian | English | English | English |
Multi-user Login | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
Prioritize emails | No | Yes Email Priority Management is handled on Mailjet with X-Mailjet email headers : http://www.mailjet.com/docs/email-priority-management | Yes Add preferred time of delivery which can prioritize or schedule for later. | Yes | |||
Plugins | Yes WordPress | Yes Prestashop, Wordpress, Dotclear, SPIP, Joomla, Drupal | Yes Most major languages and frameworks | Yes http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.html | Yes Node, PHP, Python & More, see http://developer.sparkpost.com | ||
Support | |||||||
24/7 Support | Yes | Yes Basic: Included, Developer: $49/month, Business & Enterprise prorated. | Yes Across 3 Global Time Zones - Online ticket generation | Yes Online form submission. | Yes Online ticket generation. | Yes Support by email around the clock. Live chat. | Yes |
Dedicated Support Team | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Phone Support | - | - Available with paid support plan | - Available for VIP clients | - For First-class plans | Yes During regular business hours for all plan levels, including "Free." Critical and Escalation Support available 24/7 | No | Yes |
Sample Customers | DLF, Vodafone, etc | SIEMENS, HBO, Vodafone, Allergan | TAG Hauer, MIT, Fotolia, TheFancy, Jolicloud, Readability, Sketchfab, Prestashop, Amnesty International... | Github, Heroku, Uservoice, Stripe, 37 Signals, Parse, Adroll, Pagerduty | Spotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHub | IKEA, Minecraft, Livestream, Unicef, Litmus, Salesforce-Desk | Pinterest, Zillow, Financial Times of London, Career Builder |
Website | https://mail250.com/ | http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ | https://www.mailjet.com | http://mailgun.com | https://sendgrid.com/ | http://postmarkapp.com/ | https://www.sparkpost.com/ |
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