Allegrow vs. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Allegrow
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Allegrow is a platform for inbox placement optimization - this means optimizing demand generation, so more emails to prospects and customers land in the primary inbox, not spam or unfocused folders. On implementation of Allegrow, the user will be able to calculate from real-time data what percentage of outbound emails are landing in spam folders and use interactions, insights and content testing inside the platform to improve the user's sender reputation over time. This can drive improved open…N/A
Amazon SES
Score 8.4 out of 10
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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
Pricing
AllegrowAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Editions & Modules
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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
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AllegrowAmazon SES
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
AllegrowAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Best Alternatives
AllegrowAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Small Businesses
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Score 6.9 out of 10
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Score 8.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Twilio SendGrid
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Score 6.9 out of 10
Mailjet
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Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Everest (Return Path + 250ok)
Everest (Return Path + 250ok)
Score 10.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
AllegrowAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.5
(23 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
AllegrowAmazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Likelihood to Recommend
Allegrow
It's well suited for small businesses who don't have a large email list (less than 20K size), on a budget, and wants a simple solution to warm up their domain and IP. It's less appropriate if you plan on sending emails to a large list because the pricing can be a bit too expensive. As a side note, if you send more than 20K emails per month, for every 1,000 emails, you need to connect a different email address to Allegrow. Given they allow 5 accounts, this can add up very quickly which will push you into the next pricing plan.
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Simple Email Service comes with the bundle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and it also offers a limited number of emails per month for free. One who has a technical background and wants to send custom emails with custom domains in a professional way can go with Amazon Simple Email Service. If you have no technical background or tech team, it might not be useful for you.
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Pros
Allegrow
  • Improved deliverability
  • Improved email send rate
  • Learning and understanding spam filters
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Amazon AWS
  • As compare to other vendors that I have integrated response is very quick.
  • You can verify both domain or email to send out the emails from.
  • While setup you can easily configure it with your domain with few clicks like adding CNAME, DKIM records
  • Easy to use with or without access key and secret key within aws servers. You can directly map permissions to servers to go without credentials using boto3.
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Cons
Allegrow
  • Less disturbance to mail due to the amount of emails being received in the inbox
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Amazon AWS
  • While the service limits are one of the main points that keep the delivery metrics so reliable, it can be stressful to get a new implementation out the door quickly.
  • If you're looking for a point-and-click style email delivery tool, this is not the right type of product for you. Amazon Simple Email Service is for a developer-centric approach to implementation into existing applications, processes, and services.
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Usability
Allegrow
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Amazon AWS
1. Very less cost. 2. Fastest in market. 3. Negligible downtime. 4. Easy to integrate with other systems. 5. Easy to setup with your domain and email.
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Support Rating
Allegrow
Allegrow's support team is second to none. After spending months back and forth via email correspondences, the pending issue was the direct fault of my email configuration SPF record. All this time spent was cause by me not them. They were kind enough to offer unrelentless support with ample details.They truly and genuinely care about each customer. Don't matter how big or small. One of their reps. is an all star as he held my hand every step of the way.All and all, I highly recommend Allegrow for warming up your domain and IP because their support wont leave you hanging like other services I used before!God bless you guys tremendously!
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Amazon AWS
We did not have the need of contacting Amazon for support. The documentation they provide is of great quality. Examples are easy to follow. One thing to have into consideration is we didn't have the premium support for AWS, so I can't provide details on how good or bad this service is, but in general, the basic support I had was great.
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Alternatives Considered
Allegrow
I havent used other Allegrow alternatives. I chose Allegrow because of their lifetime deal on AppSumo and they were the only warm up email services I knew about at the time.
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Amazon AWS
Mailchimp has a fixed monthly price, and with the number of emails that we sent, it's pretty expensive. Since our mailings are quite infrequent, using Mailchimp didn't make financial sense for us, even though Mailchimp is a more polished, packaged solution for email marketing. We evaluated other email delivery solutions as well and didn't find anything that matches Amazon SES on reliability and pricing.
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Return on Investment
Allegrow
  • Improved deliverability of emails
  • Deliverability improved by 24% on average across several email accounts
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Amazon AWS
  • SES is still more cost effective than other email services like Mailgun.
  • Unless we have a high-traffic month, staying within the free tier is very nice for our bottom line.
  • Not having to spend time worrying about SES reliability saves us frustration and money.
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