Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. SMTP Email Relay Solutions

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

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
SMTP Email Relay Solutions	Score9 out of 10	N/A	SMTP Email Relay Solutions is a transactional email service formerly from SharpSpring and now a J2 Global company.	$25 per month

Pricing

Amazon SES

SMTP Email Relay Solutions

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

Pricing Offerings
Amazon SES	SMTP Email Relay Solutions
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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