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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. SMTP2GO

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon SES

    Score5.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is an outbound-only email-sending service useful for marketing and transactional email, relying on the infrastructure of Amazon. Amazon SES provides the requisite statistics and built-in notifications for bounces, complaints, and deliveries for optimization of campaigns. Emails are sent via SMTP or the Amazon SES API. Amazon's pricing is per usage, presently at $.10 per thousand sends. The service is free for users of Amazon EC2 (up to 62,000 messages),…

    $0.10

    for emails after the first 1,000

    SMTP2GO

    Score9.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    SMTP2GO is a dedicated outbound email server SMTP2GO is a New Zealand based SMTP/Email API provider with support staff and servers based across the globe. It automatically connects to the closest server to ensure speedy and efficient delivery. The SMTP2GO support team offers 24/7 assistance in multiple languages to make setup simple. We offer support via ticket, chat and phone. GDPR? Inbound servers and data centres in the EU to make sure sending is…

    $10

    Monthly or Annual Monthly email quota

    Pricing
    Amazon SESSMTP2GO
    Editions & Modules
    Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2
    $0.10 ($0.12)
    for every 1,000 emails after 62,000 (for each GB of storage)
    Sending Emails from Another Email Client or Software Package
    $0.10 ($0.12)
    for every 1,000 emails (for each GB of storage)
    Receiving Email
    $0.10
    for emails after the first 1,000
    Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2
    Free
    for first 62,000 emails
    Receiving Email
    Free
    for the first 1,000 emails
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon SESSMTP2GO
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing includes support and onboarding.
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    Amazon SESSMTP2GO
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    SMTP2GO
    Chose SMTP2GO
    For our specific business needs, SMTP2GO was the choice for us. Having evaluated other services listed here (Mailgun, Amazon SES, JangoSMTP, etc.) we found our unique needs were all addressed with SMTP2GO's service. That said, the other listed solutions are each great and may …
    Incentivized
    Chose SMTP2GO
    Some of the other services are really good but with the ease of setting up sub-accounts, the success in not having bounced emails, or strange receiving issues, the platform being so easy to use, and great support when you need it. They just don't compare.
    Incentivized
    Chose SMTP2GO
    These types of products can be a commodity, but we have just found SMTP2GO to continue to add the features we need at reasonable cost and much less complexity.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Amazon SESSMTP2GO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (21 ratings)
    9.0
    (98 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)