Transactional Emailing Providers Best Email Marketing Services Comparison

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2018-08-18 01:02:15

Comparison of the cloud email services that provide transactional email or bulk email software (marketing software to manage mass email such as newsletters).

These services help you to send these emails without having to configure and manage mail servers, ensuring you to have state of the art configuration to ensure email deliverability. Your application can usually use SMTP protocol using their SMTP Relay, or use a specific API.

Transactional email is an expected email because it has been triggered automatically after a transaction or a specific event. Common examples of transactional email is : account opening and welcome message, order shipment confirmation, shipment tracking and purchase order status, registration via a contact form, account termination, payment confirmation, invoice...

These messages are especially important for ecommerce, shopping sites... (crucial step of the customer relationship : the customer would be really disappointed if he never receives the expected email). The deliverability criteria is really important.

This detailed comparison chart will help you to choose your cloud 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.

MailjetSendinBlueSendPulseActiveTrailSarv TESElastic EmailDoppler RelaySendGridturboSMTPMailgunAmazon SESMandrillTipimailSMTP.comSocketLabsPostmarkAuthMailerLeadersendSparkPostInboxRoadSwipeMailSwipePost
Like 50 23 9 7 2 8 6 42 3 15 3 7 1 13 11 5 2 1 2 2 3 1
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Websitehttp://www.mailjet.comhttp://www.sendinblue.comhttps://sendpulse.comhttp://www.activetrail.frhttp://sarv.com/transactional-email/http://elasticemail.com/http://dopplerrelay.comhttp://www.sendgrid.comhttp://www.serversmtp.comhttp://mailgun.comhttp://aws.amazon.com/ses/http://mandrill.comhttps://fr.tipimail.com/http://www.smtp.com/http://www.socketlabs.comhttp://postmarkapp.com/http://www.authmailer.com/http://www.leadersend.com/https://www.sparkpost.com/http://www.inboxroad.comhttp://swipemail.io/http://swipepost.io/?utm_campaign=ab&utm_medium=socialcompare&utm_source=website-swipepost
Pricing
Unlimited Free EmailsAll accounts come with the unlimited number of messages to send10.000 email gratuits par mois !Send Unlimited Cold Emails. as low as $15 per Month.
Price0.18 USD to $0.50 per thousand0.13 USD to $0.67 per thousand8.85 USD8 EUR à 0.5EUR le CPM en fonction du volume mensuel0.075 USD to 0.013 USD per thousand0.09 USD per thousand0.14 USD to 0.69 per thousand0.57 USD to $0.80 USD per thousand0.51 USD to $0.70 USD per thousand0.1 USD to $0.50 per thousand0.1 USD per thousand, plus traffic charges. $0.12 per GB of attachments sent.10 USD for cheapest MailChimp account + $20 per month minimum charge39 EUR à 279€ / mois selon la grille tarifaire : https://fr.tipimail.com/tarifs0.3 USD to $2.50 per thousand0.4 USD to $3.16 per thousand0.5 USD to1.50 USD per thousand0.13 USD to $0.83 per thousand0.1 USD to $0.20 per 10000.2 USD to $0.15 per thousand, depending on volume59 EUR a month20 USD and 50 USD for Unlimited Emails20 USD a Month
Free plan6,000 emails per month, max 200 per day9,000 emails per month, max 300 per 24 hours15 000 e-mails to send for free every month1 mois gratuit pour tester l'intégralité des fonctionnalitésFree Trial150000 free emails per monthFree Demo, unlimited emails 7 days45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day6000 emails per month - up to 200 per day10,000 free per month62,000 emails per month for EC2 usersN/A (Since re-integration with Mailchimp)10.000 emails gratuits par mois & 1000 envois/jour30 day money back2,000 emails per month25,000 emails, no time limit30 days money back6,000 emails per month (special offers for startups)15,000 emails per monthUnlimited free emails at just $20200,000 Emails free per Month
Startups planYesYes - https://sendpulse.com/startup/YesFree - 2,000 emails per monthYesUnlimited free emails at just $20Yes
Cancellation policyCancel any time, no contractCancel at any time, no contractAnytime by request. No questions askedAnnulation à tout moment, sans engagementAny Time & Pay as you Go Plan AvailableCancel at any time, no contract.Cancel at any timeCancel at any time, no contractCancel any time, no obligationsCancel any time, no contractPay for what you send; no required contract or commitments.Cancel at any time, no contractSans engagement, annulable à tout momentCancel any time, no contractCancel any time, no contract, month-to-monthCancellation 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 contract, month-to-monthmonthly contractsAnytime by request. No questions askedCancel at any time
Features
SMTP supportYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes 24/7 Multilanguage SupportYesYesYesYesYesYesYes Globally redundant SMTP and API infrastructureYesYesYesYesYesYes
Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of")YesYesYesYesYesYesYes Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIMYesYesYesYesYesYes https://www.socketlabs.com/domainkey-dkim-generation-wizard/YesYesYesYesYes
Clicks Details (per Link, etc.)YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes Via real-time Event API webhookYes Reporting available both through Control Panel and APIYesYes Via HEMS PackageYes Real-time via webhook APIYesYes Through webhooks real-time event reporting.YesYes
Conditional Personalization (if/else)- Yes but, not through web newsletter editor, only by using the APIYesYesYesYes By Using API ref: https://sarv.com/docs/YesYesYesYes Via HEMS PackageYesYesYes
WYSIWYG Newsletter EditorYes Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included)Yes Available for free with all the plansYesYesYes Only in Marketing PlatformYes-Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly packageNoNoYesYes Via HEMS PackageYesNoYes- only with "Elite for Marketers" planYesNo
Dedicated IP availableYes With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address.Yes Gold or Higher PlanYesYesYes $20 per monthYesYesYesYes Gold or higher planYes $59 per monthNoYes $29 per monthYesYesYesNo Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated.YesYesYesYesYesYes
REST APIYesYesYesYesYesYesYes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too)YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes
Event APIYes For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real timeYesYesYesYesYes Yes, for our Silver plan and higher (and Free plan too)YesNoYesYesYesYes Notification APIYesYesYes Via Webhooks-
Send email through APIYes Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/YesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes Includes advanced merging and customization capabilities as well as ability to merge to templates created in the SocketLabs Control Panel.YesYesYesYesYesYes
Incoming Email SupportYes 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/NoYesNoYesYes Parse inbound email, including attachments and content. See docs.sendgrid.com for webhook examples. Supported by Griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddlerNoYes 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/griddlerNoYes Parses inbound, can be handled by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddlerNoYes Parses inbound mail streams into JSON messages and posts that data to a predefined endpoint. http://www.socketlabs.com/api-reference/inbound-api/Yes Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddlerYes Only Backup MXNoYesYesNoNo
Stores Outgoing Emails for Later ViewingYesYesYesNoYes May be an additional charge.Yes Stores for 45 DaysNo
Explicit/sexual content policy ?No not allowedNo not allowedNo-No
Needs time to approve account before sending ?Account is ready for use immediatelyYes. 12 to 24 hoursYes. 12 to 24 hoursYes, can be setup within very short noticeNoYes
Asks to create SPF and DKIM recordsYes Possible but not mandatoryYes DKIM/SPF can be used, but not mandatoryYesYes- We will create SPF & DKIM records for your sending domainsYesYes
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, SpanishEnglish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, GermanEnglish, Portuguese, RussianFrancais, Anglais, Espagnol, AllemandEnglish, Hindi, PunjabiEnglishSpanish, EnglishEnglishEnglish, Espanol, Français, Italiano, Portugues, German, Russian, Arabic, UkrainianEnglish, French, RussianEnglish, French, German, Japanese, SpanishEnglishFrançais, EnglishEnglish, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, IndianEnglishEnglishEnglishEnglishEnglishEnglish, Dutch, GermanEnglishEnglish
Multi-user LoginYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesNoYesYesNoYesNoNo
Prioritize emailsYes Email Priority Management is handled on Mailjet with X-Mailjet email headers : http://www.mailjet.com/docs/email-priority-managementYesYesYesYesYesYesYes 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/205582647Yes via multiple serversYesNoNo
PluginsYes Prestashop, Wordpress, Dotclear, SPIP, Joomla, DrupalYes PrestaShop, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Zapier, SalesforceYes Wordpress, Magento, AmoCRM, Bitrix24, WooCommerce, TypeForm, Zapier, CreateFormYes Prestashop, Magento, Shopify, SalesforceYes Client Library available on GithubYes Most major languages and frameworksYes Most major languages, frameworks, and platformsYes Prestashop, Magento, WordPress, Drupal,YesYes samples available in github repoYes http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.htmlYes Bitrix, Zapier, MailigenYes Node, PHP, Python & More, see http://developer.sparkpost.comNoYes
Support
24/7 SupportYes Across 3 Global Time Zones - Online ticket generationYes Online form submissionYes Online + phone, 24x7 all the timeYes Support téléphone, live chat, twitter, facebook et en françaisYes Phone, Live Chat and Email SupportYesYes Phone, Live Chat, Email SupportYes Online ticket generation.Yes Live Chat, Tickets, Phone, SkypeYes Online form submission.Yes Basic: Included, Developer: $49/month, Business & Enterprise prorated.Yes Support mail - téléphoneYes 24/7/365 Via Phone, Email or chatYes Online ticketing systemYes Support by email around the clock. Live chat.Yes 24/7 Email Support. Online form submission. No Phone Support.- Online form submissionYesYes Live Chat (Skype and Website), Email and PhoneYesYes Live Chat
Dedicated Support TeamYesYesYes Dedicated for VIP accountsYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYesYes Personal Account ManagerYesYes
Phone Support- Available for VIP clientsYesYes 24x7 for all accountsYesYesYesYesYes During regular business hours for all plan levels, including "Free." Critical and Escalation Support available 24/7Yes 24/7- For First-class plans- Available with paid support planNoYes 24/7 for all clientsYes During regular business hours for all plan levelsNoNoYesYesYes During regular business hours for every customerYesNo
Sample CustomersTAG Hauer, MIT, Fotolia, TheFancy, Jolicloud, Readability, Sketchfab, Prestashop, Amnesty International...BMW, Fleury Michon, Sodebo, Cora, Leroy Merlin, etc.LOT, Aeroflot, RadissonBlue, SwatchHilton, AVIS, Lufthansa, VISA, WIX, Continental Airlines, Crocs...IBM, HP, Adobe, Idea, HCL, Reliance, IndiaMartSpotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHubGithub, Heroku, Uservoice, Stripe, 37 Signals, Parse, Adroll, PagerdutyIntuit, IBM, ADP, Crutchfield, Warner Bros, Red Cross, Virgin, Panera Bread, Penn State UniversityIKEA, Minecraft, Livestream, Unicef, Litmus, Salesforce-DeskPinterest, Zillow, Financial Times of London, Career BuilderTravelBird, OngageBJP,Ajmera,Nirmal lifestyle
Websitehttp://www.mailjet.comhttp://www.sendinblue.comhttps://sendpulse.comhttp://www.activetrail.frhttp://sarv.com/transactional-email/http://elasticemail.com/http://dopplerrelay.comhttp://www.sendgrid.comhttp://www.serversmtp.comhttp://mailgun.comhttp://aws.amazon.com/ses/http://mandrill.comhttps://fr.tipimail.com/http://www.smtp.com/http://www.socketlabs.comhttp://postmarkapp.com/http://www.authmailer.com/http://www.leadersend.com/https://www.sparkpost.com/http://www.inboxroad.comhttp://swipemail.io/http://swipepost.io/?utm_campaign=ab&utm_medium=socialcompare&utm_source=website-swipepost
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  • voted for SwipePost (Like)
    World's only ESP that gives 200,000 emails /month for free of cost. Fastest Growing Email Delivery Service. http://swipepost.io/
    Posted 2018-07-30 14:05:15 by Mallika
  • Hi Vanina, Thanks for this comparison chart! Can you please include SwipePost in this comparison table too? url: http://socialcompare.com/en/review/swipepost-4a5myi34 SwipePost is the world's only ESP that gives 200,000 emails /month for free of cost. SwipePost is one of the Fastest Growing Email Delivery Service. Thanks
    Posted 2018-07-30 13:47:14 by Mallika
  • The email provides us with the system of mail jet and send grid which is some important technical features in the market these days, I took the support of AOL tech Support to deal with these systems of emailing, this helped me know much about the ways to deal with the transactions on email.
    Posted 2018-06-29 02:02:59 by vmoses77
  • rated ActiveTrail: Overall rating 1
    Posted 2018-01-29 10:59:16 by JackBauregard
  • rated SendinBlue: Overall rating 1
    Posted 2018-01-29 10:59:12 by JackBauregard
  • rated Mailjet: Overall rating 1
    Posted 2018-01-29 10:59:04 by JackBauregard
  • voted for SendGrid (Like)
    Posted 2017-12-06 15:42:42 by RickBR
  • voted for Mailjet (Like)
    Posted 2017-12-06 15:42:37 by RickBR
  • voted for SendPulse (Like)
    You can pay Yearly and get 3 months of discount
    Posted 2017-12-06 15:42:33 by RickBR
  • voted for this Comparison (Like)
    Posted 2017-12-06 15:42:02 by RickBR
  • rated Mailjet: Overall rating 5
    Solution efficace et support réactif. Je recommande
    Français Posted 2017-10-02 09:56:44 by gdouvet
  • voted for Mailjet (Like)
    Super solution, efficace et support réactif. Editeur d'email très intuitif, pas besoin de connaissance en design ou de savoir coder.
    Français Posted 2017-10-02 09:51:53 by gdouvet
  • Please add see if services has list management function. i.e. Mailjet/Seninblue has list management function for free.
    Posted 2017-09-11 11:20:16 by ashf
  • 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!
    Posted 2017-09-04 21:49:40 by edrokov
  • voted for SwipeMail (Like)
    great company
    Posted 2017-08-23 19:23:32 by anshu
  • Thanks for the list! I had heard of most of them, but some were completely new. I have been using http://proofy.io/ for about a year now and I would recommend their service.
    Posted 2017-08-22 11:13:57 by arda
  • voted for SwipeMail (Like)
    Hello Startups, Email Marketing: Good news for all of you. We have launched our most Disruptive Pricing. Now you can promote your startup with bulk email marketing by sending unlimited emails at just $20 for 1 month. Limited Period offer. SignUp now: http://swipemail.io/pricing/?utm_source=k-sc&utm_campaign=k-sc
    Posted 2017-08-01 19:46:34 by Mallika
  • rated SendinBlue: Overall rating 1
    nul !! pas de sav Passez votre chemin
    Français Posted 2017-07-29 18:13:48 by youd
  • Have had a good experience with Send in Blue. Just waiting for them to develop multi-user login. Fingers crossed!
    Posted 2017-07-11 10:05:09 by Rob J
  • SwipeMail has changed their pricing. Now, Swipemail's pricing is one of the most disruptive pricing in the world. Visit pricing page: http://swipemail.io/pricing/
    Posted 2017-07-02 12:18:16 by Abhi
  • voted for InboxRoad (Like)
    Very satisfied with their support and deliverability knowledge.
    Posted 2017-06-21 09:38:02 by Bert
  • voted for InboxRoad (Like)
    Posted 2017-06-20 16:21:24 by InboxRoad
  • Hi Vanina, great comparison! Could you please add InboxRoad to the comparison too? http://socialcompare.com/en/review/inboxroad Thanks in advance!
    Posted 2017-06-20 12:10:09 by InboxRoad
  • rated ActiveTrail: Overall rating 5
    Posted 2017-06-18 14:42:28 by ericlen7
  • voted for ActiveTrail (Voter)
    Great platform, great service, love the automations
    Posted 2017-06-18 14:42:12 by ericlen7
  • Hi Vanina, Thanks for this comparison chart! Can you please includeSwipeMail in this comparison table too? url: http://socialcompare.com/en/review/swipemail-3r9hncet Thanks, Abhi
    Posted 2017-06-10 13:13:20 by Abhi
  • commented on Elastic Email
    One day, they simply disabled our account because of some user complaints. Without getting to details. They did it twice. First time I we agreed emails are ok and "you are welcome to use elastic emails". In three weeks (or so) on monday ElasticEmail welcomed me with "You account permanently disabled" sign. Great! adoconnection@gmail.com – thats my mail. I hope you ll be bancrupt damn elasticemail.
    Posted 2017-05-29 12:35:48 by SHADE
  • voted for Mailjet (Like)
    Posted 2017-05-19 17:40:21 by Michiel Missotten
  • Could you perhaps add InboxRoad SMTP Relay? Thanks in advance
    Posted 2017-04-21 14:31:45 by InboxRoad
  • suggested on SwipeMail to set Free plan to yes
    Posted 2017-04-08 09:04:36 by Abhi
  • suggested on SwipeMail to set Pricing per subscriber (monthly payment) to yes
    Posted 2017-04-08 08:55:32 by Abhi
  • suggested on SwipeMail to set Free trial period to yes
    Posted 2017-04-08 08:54:59 by Abhi
  • suggested on SwipeMail to set Free trial period to yes
    Posted 2017-04-08 08:52:11 by Abhi
  • suggested on SwipeMail to set Free trial period to yes Free Plan : 2000 Emails
    Posted 2017-04-08 08:51:49 by Abhi
  • voted for SendinBlue (Like)
    Posted 2017-03-31 11:13:10 by maxime
  • rated SendinBlue: Overall rating 5
    Posted 2017-03-31 11:04:07 by maxime
  • voted for SendinBlue (Voter)
    Posted 2017-03-31 11:03:59 by maxime
  • suggested to set Editor to public
    Posted 2017-03-28 08:37:33 by aman
  • voted for SwipeMail (Like)
    Best email marketing company in Mumbai India
    Posted 2017-03-14 12:36:29 by SwipeMail
  • commented on SendPulse
    I am a very detail orientated person and the detailed statistics review is great on Sendpulse. I had started with a free trial but now I am a monthly user and love it. The prices are adjustable depending on the time of email/subscriptioners that you have. If you have less than 2,500 then you can use up to 15,000 emails, which is a great option. Being a business owner based out of Milan, Italy, I like that this service is international and is fast and reliable. I highly suggest Sendpulse to anyone who is looking to spend a reasonable amount on a service with extraordinary benefits.
    Posted 2017-02-14 21:09:24 by Assunta
  • voted for Elastic Email (Like)
    Posted 2017-02-13 21:32:15 by Beverly Findlater
  • voted for Elastic Email (Like)
    Posted 2017-02-13 17:21:24 by Michael Bridgeman
  • voted for Elastic Email (Like)
    Intuitive, simple, still expanding.
    Posted 2017-02-13 17:21:14 by Piotr Nowak
  • SendPulse is a great new email provider for your businesses. They have great pricing levels and tiers depending on what you are looking for for your business.
    Posted 2017-01-12 22:21:36 by Sarah Bailey EF
  • voted for SendPulse (Like)
    It is well organized and reliable in every way. When you put subscribers to your mailing lists, evaluate the results of email campaigns and send newsletters it is more than enough to see that this is the right service for You. I suggest you give it a try, the payment is the last thing that will be on your mind when you have free trial version.
    Posted 2017-01-04 18:55:37 by Nicolas Clarkson
  • voted for SendPulse (Like)
    Thanks to an integrated platform, it is usable on all the mobile devices, will not be a problem to implement the service in the actual project. The rates are set up, depending on the intensity of mailing or the amount of letters per month. For example, up to 15k letters per month are for free.
    Posted 2016-12-27 20:13:58 by Darya Karas
  • voted for SendPulse (Like)
    Convenient service for creating mailing, good delivery of letters. Easy to navigate in the personal account and work with templates. Everything is simple and clear. Help is always timely.
    Posted 2016-12-27 14:55:45 by Kirill_Vel
  • I vote for SendPulse Convenient service for creating mailing, good delivery of letters. Easy to navigate in the personal account and work with templates. Very comfortable usability. Help is always timely.
    Posted 2016-12-27 14:53:47 by Kirill_Vel
  • voted for SendPulse (Like)
    Every email marketing solution I've tested and worked with so far has its own unique benefits, but this one takes the cake. If you are a small business looking to get started with email marketing with the least amount of fuss, this service should be part of your toolbox. It's also exceptionally affordable when you consider how much you get with your plan. Delivery rate is very high, they have great and quick tech support and their open rate is much better then at competitors. So if you're out there looking for a great email marketing solution, this service is what you're looking for.
    Posted 2016-12-26 16:31:13 by Marjan Bažalac
  • voted for SendPulse (Like)
    Great service and Highly recommended
    Posted 2016-12-25 06:07:26 by Harun
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