Amazon SES vs MailerSend

Amazon SES8.3Visit MailerSend6.8Visit

Higher score Amazon SES #8 in Email APIs 8.3/10 Paid ✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Amazon SES

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MailerSend #20 in Email APIs 6.8/10 Free plan · 14-day trial Free planFree trial✓ 5 of 5 features Visit MailerSend

• Amazon SES fits best

  AWS users sending high-volume email cheaply

• MailerSend fits best

  Small teams needing inexpensive full email delivery

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Side by side

Feature	Amazon SES 8.3/10 Visit ↗	MailerSend 6.8/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.3	6.8
Ranking	#8 in Email APIs	#20 in Email APIs
Best for	AWS users sending high-volume email cheaply	Small teams needing inexpensive full email delivery
Pricing model	Paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	$0.10/unit usage-based	$7/mo
Free plan	—	✓ (best)
Free trial	—	14 days
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud, Mobile
Platforms	Web	Web, iOS
Features Amazon SES 5/5 · MailerSend 5/5
Inbound email	✓	✓
Delivery event webhooks	✓	✓
SMTP relay	✓	✓
Email templates	✓	✓
Dedicated IP option	✓	✓
Specs
Monthly send limit	Not checked yet	5000 /mo
Our review
Pros	Usage-based outbound pricing starts at $0.10 per 1,000 emails Supports inbound receiving, SMTP, templates, and email event publishing Integrates with SNS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and AWS SDKs	Free plan includes API, SMTP relay, webhooks, and inbound routing Hobby starts at $7/month with 5,000 emails and 1,000 API requests daily Templates, tracking, verification, and multiple sending domains support core workflows
Cons	No permanent free plan Some features and pricing depend on the selected monthly plan Inbound receiving is region-dependent	Free plan is limited to 500 emails monthly and 100 emails daily Professional lists 50,000 emails monthly, matching the Starter limit Dedicated IP support is reserved for Enterprise accounts over 100,000 weekly emails
Our verdict	Amazon SES is a cloud email service for applications that need to send transactional messages, marketing email, newsletters, or other application-generated mail. Developers can send through the SES API, AWS SDKs, SMTP interface, console,… Read the review →	MailerSend is a transactional messaging service for developers and teams sending application-generated email. Its core tools cover a transactional email API, SMTP relay, inbound email routing and parsing, delivery-event webhooks, reusable… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Amazon SES — where it wins

  • Usage-based outbound pricing starts at $0.10 per 1,000 emails
  • Supports inbound receiving, SMTP, templates, and email event publishing
  • Integrates with SNS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and AWS SDKs

  Where it doesn't

  • No permanent free plan
  • Some features and pricing depend on the selected monthly plan
  • Inbound receiving is region-dependent

• MailerSend — where it wins

  • Free plan includes API, SMTP relay, webhooks, and inbound routing
  • Hobby starts at $7/month with 5,000 emails and 1,000 API requests daily
  • Templates, tracking, verification, and multiple sending domains support core workflows

  Where it doesn't

  • Free plan is limited to 500 emails monthly and 100 emails daily
  • Professional lists 50,000 emails monthly, matching the Starter limit
  • Dedicated IP support is reserved for Enterprise accounts over 100,000 weekly emails

• Amazon SES8.3/10 · Paid

  A low-cost AWS email API for high-volume transactional and marketing sending.

  Visit Amazon SESFull verdict →
• MailerSend6.8/10 · Free plan · 14-day trial

  Affordable transactional email with API, SMTP, inbound routing, and webhooks.

  Visit MailerSendFull verdict →