Comparison of top SMTP service providers of 2020, 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.
Enlace | Mail250 | SendGrid | Mailgun | Mailjet | Postmark | AuthMailer | Mail250 | Leadersend | SparkPost |
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| Me gusta | Le gusta 9 | Le gusta 44 | Le gusta 16 | Le gusta 52 | Le gusta 6 | Le gusta 2 | Le gusta 9 | Le gusta 1 | Le gusta 2 |
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| Sitio web | mail250.com | sendgrid.com | mailgun.com | mailjet.com | postmarkapp.com | authmailer.com | mail250.com | leadersend.com | sparkpost.com |
| Precios | |||||||||
| Free plan | Yes, 10K emails free | 45 day free trial, 12,000 per month, 400 emails per day | 10,000 free per month | 6,000 emails per month, max 200 per day | 25,000 emails, no time limit | 30 days money back | Yes, 10K emails free | 6,000 emails per month (special offers for startups) | 15,000 emails per month |
| Unlimited Free Emails | You can upload unlimited contacts. | You can upload unlimited contacts. | |||||||
| Precio | $ 20 (Send 24k/ Day) $50 (Send 60k/ Day) $150 (Send 120k /Day) | $ 0.57 to $0.80 USD per thousand | $ 0.1 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 0.18 to $0.50 per thousand | $ 0.5 to1.50 USD per thousand | $ 0.13 to $0.83 per thousand | $ 20 (Send 24k/ Day) $50 (Send 60k/ Day) $150 (Send 120k /Day) | $ 0.1 to $0.20 per 1000 | $ 0.2 to $0.15 per thousand, depending on volume |
| Startups plan | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Cancellation policy | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel at any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel 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 | Cancel any time, no contract | Cancel any time, no contract, month-to-month | |
| Características | |||||||||
| SMTP support | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí Globally redundant SMTP and API infrastructure | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí |
| Personalized DKIM for free (no more "on behalf of") | Sí | Sí Upgrade to a Silver plan or higher to get personalized DKIM | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | |
| Clicks Details (per Link, etc.) | Sí | Sí Via real-time Event API webhook | Sí Reporting available both through Control Panel and API | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí Through webhooks real-time event reporting. | ||
| Personnalisation conditionnelle (if/else) | Sí | Sí | - Yes but, not through web newsletter editor, only by using the API | Sí | Sí | Sí | |||
| WYSIWYG Newsletter Editor | Sí | Sí +$0,25 per thousand, in addition to monthly package | No | Sí Available for free, with any plan (Free plan included) | No | Sí | Sí | - only with "Elite for Marketers" plan | |
| Dedicated IP available | Sí | Sí | Sí $59 per month | Sí With our Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Plans, you can ask for a Dedicated IP address. | No Shared IPs. They believe shared IPs are preferable to dedicated. | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí |
| REST API | Sí | Sí Yes, for our Bronze plan and higher (and Free plan too) | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | |
| Event API | Sí | Sí Yes, for our Silver plan and higher (and Free plan too) | Sí | Sí For every plan, you can get every event (open, click, bounce...) in real time | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí Via Webhooks | |
| Send email through API | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí Only by one HTTP call http://dev.mailjet.com/guides/send-api-guide/ | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | |
| Incoming Email Support | No | Sí Parse inbound email, including attachments and content. See docs.sendgrid.com for webhook examples. Supported by Griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler | Sí 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 | Sí 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/ | Sí Handles inbound, can be parsed by griddler: https://github.com/thoughtbot/griddler | Sí Only Backup MX | No | No | Sí |
| Stores Outgoing Emails for Later Viewing | Sí | No | Sí Stores for 45 Days | Sí | |||||
| Explicit/sexual content policy ? | No | No | |||||||
| Needs time to approve account before sending ? | No. Domain approval is not required. | No. Domain approval is not required. | |||||||
| Asks to create SPF and DKIM records | Sí Optional | Sí Optional | |||||||
| Idiomas | English | English | English, French, Russian | English, French, German, Spanish | English | English | English | English | English |
| Multi-user Login | Sí | Sí | Sí | No | Sí | Sí | |||
| Prioritize emails | No | Sí Add preferred time of delivery which can prioritize or schedule for later. | Sí Email Priority Management is handled on Mailjet with X-Mailjet email headers : http://www.mailjet.com/docs/email-priority-management | No | Sí | ||||
| Plugins | Sí WordPress | Sí Most major languages and frameworks | Sí Prestashop, Wordpress, Dotclear, SPIP, Joomla, Drupal | Sí http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.html | Sí WordPress | Sí Bitrix, Zapier, Mailigen | Sí Node, PHP, Python & More, see http://developer.sparkpost.com | ||
| Support | |||||||||
| 24/7 Support | Sí | Sí Online ticket generation. | Sí Online form submission. | Sí Across 3 Global Time Zones - Online ticket generation | Sí Support by email around the clock. Live chat. | Sí 24/7 Email Support. Online form submission. No Phone Support. | Sí | - Online form submission | Sí |
| Dedicated Support Team | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí | Sí |
| Phone Support | - | Sí During regular business hours for all plan levels, including "Free." Critical and Escalation Support available 24/7 | - For First-class plans | - Available for VIP clients | No | No | - | Sí | Sí |
| Sample Customers | DLF, Vodafone, etc | Spotify, Foursquare, Pandora, Hootsuite, Uber, Kickstarter, Air BnB, GitHub | Github, Heroku, Uservoice, Stripe, 37 Signals, Parse, Adroll, Pagerduty | TAG Hauer, MIT, Fotolia, TheFancy, Jolicloud, Readability, Sketchfab, Prestashop, Amnesty International... | IKEA, Minecraft, Livestream, Unicef, Litmus, Salesforce-Desk | DLF, Vodafone, etc | Pinterest, Zillow, Financial Times of London, Career Builder | ||
| Sitio web | mail250.com | sendgrid.com | mailgun.com | mailjet.com | postmarkapp.com | authmailer.com | mail250.com | leadersend.com | sparkpost.com |
User reviews and comments
Solution efficace et support réactif. Je recommande
So far my experience is extremely ignorant, lazy and helpless first line support basically doing nothing. One ticket resolving takes more than 1 week!
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
great but they dont mention your DAILY LIMITS even on a paid plan
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.