Link | Amazon SES | SendGrid |
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Technical details | ||
APIs, SMTP relay, and webhooks | Yes | Yes |
API keys and permissions | Yes | Yes |
Comprehensive client libraries | 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 |
DKIM customization | Yes | Yes Increase your delivery rates by adding a digital signature to your message header and showing which sending domain belongs to you. |
Real-time analytics and tracking | Yes Tracking metrics in SES help users to measure the effectiveness of the email campaigns. | Yes |
A/B Testing | No | Yes |
Data rich email activity feed | No | Yes Advanced search with comprehensive event data by email. 3 days of history included, 30 days with add-on purchase. |
Dedicated IP | Yes | Yes |
Flexible template editors | No | Yes |
Segmentation | No | Yes |
Send transactional emails | Yes | Yes |
Subuser management | No | Yes |
Send bulk emails | Yes | Yes |
WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | No | Yes +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package |
HTML Content Templates (WYSIWYG Editor) | No | 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) |
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 |
Additional | ||
Multi-user Login | Yes | Yes |
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 |