 Link | Amazon SES | SendGrid |
|---|---|---|
| Image |  |  |
| Website | amazon.com/... | sendgrid.com |
| Technical details | ||
| SMTP support | Yes | Yes |
| Realtime | Yes | Yes |
| Send transactional emails | 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 |
| Send bulk emails | Yes | Yes |
| SPF | Yes Yes Instructions on how to set it up on your domain are given. | Yes |
| Automatic DKIM signing | Yes | Yes |
| Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of") | Yes | Yes Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIM |
| Open Tracking | No | Yes |
| Click Tracking | No | Yes |
| Clicks Details (per Link, etc.) | Yes Via real-time Event API webhook | |
| Message Personalization | No | Yes |
| Conditional Personalization (if/else) | ||
| WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | No | Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package |
| HTML Content Templates (WYSIWYG Editor) | No | Yes |
| Dedicated IP available | No $25 per month for EC2 users | Yes |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | 62,000 emails per month for EC2 users | 45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day |
| Price | $ 0.1 per thousand, plus traffic charges. $0.12 per GB of attachments sent. | $ 0.57 to $0.80 USD per thousand |
| Custom-Pricing For Big Senders | No | Yes |
| Currency | USD | USD |
| Cancellation policy | Pay for what you send; no required contract or commitments. | Cancel at any time, no contract |
| API | ||
| REST API | Yes | Yes Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too) |
| 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) |
| Manage contacts through API | Yes See our Newsletter API at http://docs.sendgrid.com | |
| Send email through API | Yes | Yes |
| Support | ||
| 24/7 Support | Yes Basic: Included, Developer: $49/month, Business & Enterprise prorated. | Yes Online ticket generation. |
| Dedicated Support Team | 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 |
| Headquartered | Seattle, WA | CO - CA |
| Additional | ||
| Multi-user Login | Yes | Yes |
| Prioritize emails | ||
| User-Agent Tracking | Yes | |
| Plugins | ||
| Languages | English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish | English |
| Sample Customers | SIEMENS, HBO, Vodafone, Allergan | Spotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHub |
| Sample Integration Partners | Windows Azure, HP Cloud, Softlayer, Rackspace, Heroku, Engineyard, Cloudbees | |
| Website | amazon.com/... | sendgrid.com |