Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. Sinch Mailgun

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Sinch Mailgun

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon SES	Score5.2 out of 10	N/A	Amazon 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
Sinch Mailgun	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	Mailgun is a transactional email API service which was owned and supported by Rackspace (acquired in 2012) and then spun off in 2017 as an independent and standalone entity. It is now supported by Sinch since that company's acquisition of Mailgun and Mailjet, through acquiring Pathwire.	$35 per month

Pricing

Amazon SES

Sinch Mailgun

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

Foundation: $35
per month
Growth: $80
per month
Scale: $90
per month
Flex: Free

Pricing Offerings
Amazon SES	Sinch Mailgun
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Amazon SES	Sinch Mailgun
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Dave Stack Member in Information Technology at North Coast Angel Fund (Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon SES I also use Sendgrid for sending all my transactional emails. It is more expensive than SES, but I feel it is more reliable with a better reputation than SES. I have also used Mailgun, but they are more expensive than SES and deliverability on a shared IP are as bad as SES. Incentivized Helpful? Justin Schroeder Full Stack Developer in Engineering at Journey Group, Inc. (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon SES SES is a much lower level technical tool than the other solutions we've used in the past with the exception of Mailgun. We've found SES to actually be much easier to use than Mailgun, although not as powerful. A good way to explain the difference between MailChimp, Constant … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Hakooz Owner in Information Technology at Innovah LLC (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon SES Although I like the email template capability with these other services, and one of them is actually a customer, the simplicity, reliability, and cost effectiveness of SES keeps it at the top of the list. Not to mention, we use so many other services at AWS, the integration is … Incentivized Helpful? D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. Owner and CEO in Engineering at Delcoe Communications, Inc. (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon SES Amazon SES is bare-bones, insofar as it will not "help" you with the contents of your message. You cannot use variables in the e-mail, it will not automatically track whether or not the recipient opened the mail or not, it will not help with unsubscribe links, and it will not … Incentivized Helpful?	Sinch (formerly CLX Communications) Verified User Chose Sinch Mailgun Mailgun is easy to use and reliable. Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Weaver Javascript Developer in Research & Development at Ministry Sync (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees) Chose Sinch Mailgun I've tried SES. It had spotty deliverability and AWS has fiddly docs and apis. I tried a few others and while some worked well, they had neither the exposure or maturity to make me confident in using them in a production app. Out of all the products that I have tried that offer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sinch Mailgun Mailgun was cheaper and easier to set up. No question! Incentivized Helpful? Alexandru Cristian Stanese Founder and CEO in Corporate at nLight Media (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Sinch Mailgun Easier to use and also has the 10, 000 free emails/month. Sometimes I don't need more than 10,000 emails/month. Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Chaudhary Software Engineer in Engineering at Capital One (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Sinch Mailgun I previously selected mailgun because of a PHP framework called Laravel. Since I was using that framework, and they had ready examples with mailgun and how to set things up, I went with the flow. It was really easy. Later when I started deploying my services, I was introduced … Incentivized Helpful?
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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 SES	Sinch Mailgun
Likelihood to Recommend	7.9 (21 ratings)	8.4 (28 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (8 ratings)	7.4 (7 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. Sinch Mailgun

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

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