Amazon SES vs Campaign Monitor

Likelihood to Recommend

We use Amazon Simple Email Service to auto-respond to users that submit messages through a contact form. We are using Amazon Simple Email Service with our self hosted python application to send our marketing emails, get feedback for our services, and Hackathons.

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Verified User

Employee in Engineering

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Campaign Monitor is helpful for a company that wants to take the next step to using a higher level email marketing service. It helps get you into automation, dynamic content, and more advanced segmentation. It’s a good step up for teams coming from MailChimp.

It’s not appropriate for companies who are wanting to send out content marketing emails with the intent of them being shared on social media. The social sharing is non existent and embarrassing.

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Becca Sangwin

Marketing Director

The Gottman InstituteMental Health Care, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon SES

Campaign Monitor

WYSIWYG email editor

Dynamic content

Ability to test dynamic content

A/B testing

Email deliverability reporting

Amazon SES

Campaign Monitor

Standard reports

Pros

Amazon Simple Email Service is a much lower cost than most other solutions and truly makes cost a non-factor in most situations where we consider implementing it.
The API is so well documented that implementing Amazon Simple Email Service in nearly any application or codebase is achievable with basic coding knowledge.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology

Marketing & Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees

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Campaign Monitor is great with its templates for emails and newsletters. They're well-designed and mobile optimized.
Changing the templates or making your own is very intuitive and easy to do, even if you have no web design experience.
The bank of emails and ways to segment them before sending is super helpful for us.

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Sarah Bandy

Executive Director

Youth Empowerment through Arts and HumanitiesNon-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Even if you do not want to spam, you cant send an email to the unverified users.
Integration with other services is a bit tricky. To watch the trail, handle bounced emails, save emails on S3 are not straightforward to implement.
When you want to send a lot of emails (in bulk), it takes a significant amount of time.

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Apurv Doshi

Senior Solutions Architect

InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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The key field for matching accounts is email which is difficult for companies with multiple business units. One customer may use email across multiple business accounts. It should have a way to better match accounts for a unique record.
The premier version at $149 is a bit expensive for what it offers. It should have some price layer between $29 and $149, perhaps with the engagement features for segments.

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John Silva, MBA

Marketing Automation Strategist

Glidewell DentalHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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Campaign Monitor 10.0

Based on 2 answers

The templates, while useful, are very locked down, This makes it very usable from a novice's standpoint, but also very inflexible from a designer's standpoint. Creating several version of the email campaign and using A/B testing was a powerful and easy-to-use feature, and the system also provides the option of automating the sending of emails once an A/B testing criteria is reached

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Verified User

Employee in Social Media

Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Amazon SES 8.5

Based on 11 answers

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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Diego Turcios Lara

Devops Engineer

Acklen AvenueComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We have used a dozen services. They are almost all more expensive. Some force you to wait one week to approve/deny your account if they suspect that the email database is not legal. I have very important clients with legal databases that were rejected by other companies and could send emails from Amazon SES without problems.

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Francisco Mosse

Director

Efemosse SistemasInternet, 1-10 employees

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If you compare features, they are not too dissimilar really, but we found CM to be a better fit for our business. We have tried the others previously and whilst they work fine, CM was just better suited to other systems we already had in place which made our decision easy.

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Andrew Knight

Director

KnightRiley Strategic MarketingMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Joe Hakooz

Owner

Innovah LLCInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Easy to send out marketing email which has the highest return on investment of any form of marketing we do.
It's an easy recommendation to clients who are just getting started as part of a suite of tools we recommend that remove the barriers to being in touch with their clients and customers.

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Nicholas De Salvo

Founder, Creative Director

Edge One MediaDesign, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon SES Editions & Modules

Edition

Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2	Free¹
Sending Emails from an Application Hosted in Amazon EC2	$0.10 ($0.12)²
Sending Emails from Another Email Client or Software Package	$0.10 ($0.12)³
Receiving Email	Free⁴
Receiving Email	$0.10⁵

for first 62,000 emails
for every 1,000 emails after 62,000 (for each GB of storage)
for every 1,000 emails (for each GB of storage)
for the first 1,000 emails
for emails after the first 1,000

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Campaign Monitor Editions & Modules

Edition

Basic	$9¹
Unlimited	$29¹
Premier	$149¹

per month

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Rating Summary

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Feature Rating Comparison

WYSIWYG email editor

Dynamic content

Ability to test dynamic content

A/B testing

Email deliverability reporting

Standard reports

Pros

Amazon SES

Campaign Monitor

Cons

Amazon SES

Campaign Monitor

Usability

Amazon SES

Campaign Monitor

Support Rating

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Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

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Screenshots

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Amazon SES Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Campaign Monitor Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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