Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. GetResponse

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon SES
Score 8.5 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
GetResponse
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
GetResponse is an online marketing platform optimized for use by small businesses. It provides tools which support email marketing, autofunnel, landing pages, marketing automation, webinars, autoresponders, and enterprise marketing needs.
$19
per month
Pricing
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)GetResponse
Editions & Modules
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
FREE
$0
per month Up to 500 contacts
BASIC
$19
per month Up to 1,000 contacts
PLUS
$59
per month Up to 1,000 contacts
PROFESSIONAL
$119
per month Up to 1,000 contacts
MAX and MAX²
Custom (contact us)
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon SESGetResponse
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)GetResponse
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)GetResponse
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
-
Ratings
GetResponse
8.9
22 Ratings
13% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings8.016 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.715 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
List management00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
Lead Management
Comparison of Lead Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
-
Ratings
GetResponse
9.0
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Lead scoring and grading00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Data quality management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Campaign Management
Comparison of Campaign Management features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
-
Ratings
GetResponse
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Social Media Marketing
Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
-
Ratings
GetResponse
9.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
Social profile integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
-
Ratings
GetResponse
9.7
22 Ratings
26% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
-
Ratings
GetResponse
8.3
1 Ratings
9% above category average
API00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Customizability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Third-party software integrations00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)GetResponse
Small Businesses
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.5 out of 10
Vbout
Vbout
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.5 out of 10
PFL Direct Mail Platform
PFL Direct Mail Platform
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises

No answers on this topic

PFL Direct Mail Platform
PFL Direct Mail Platform
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)GetResponse
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(21 ratings)
9.0
(24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(8 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)GetResponse
Likelihood to Recommend
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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GetResponse
GetResponse is perfect for small to medium businesses. For a large business, it certainly could be used in some areas. One example would be for clients that are looking to get started with email marketing. I would not expect it to run a business as Salesforce or Keep. However, GetResponse is robust enough and has a solid suite of tools that would serve a medium or small business quite well. And of course, if a company is just looking for an email marketing solution GetResponse would be ideal. And to go even further, depending on the level of service you use, GetResponse has the potential to do things you might have been using separate tools for. Building funnels, the ability to host webinars, building landing pages. It's all there and it is priced very well.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • 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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GetResponse
  • Email creation—A simple interface and a variety of tools make it easy to create very attractive emails quickly.
  • List building—GetResponse is ideal for setting-up and using any number of segmented lists/
  • Forms and landing pages—These tools are also fairly strong, however, GetResponse (ironically) does not provide responsive forms for mobile, which I would think would be an urgent problem. They have so far not addressed it.
  • Customer support—Customer support via chat and email is strong. It's disappointing the company has pulled the plug on live phone-in support.
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • 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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GetResponse
  • The email editor is kind of a nightmare. Elements don't move or behave how you'd expect, the font choices are limited and pretty lame, adding new elements is difficult or often impossible... the whole thing feels 5+ years outdated. Buggy, slow, and extremely limited in functionality.
  • The entire UI feels similarly outdated and slow--just seems like GetResponse hasn't kept up with the curve of the market in terms of performance or aesthetics.
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
GetResponse
As I mentioned before. I believe that the platform is easy to use. Simple and easy process from start to finish. Email efficient and get to the client quickly. Catch errors that would prevent getting to where i need it to go. Overall great experience and would renew without question
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Support Rating
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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GetResponse
Excellent general support. However, in case of an escalation, their turnaround time over email (follow through) can go higher
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Alternatives Considered
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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GetResponse
Not the top of the heap and certainly far from the bottom. GR is arguably one of the best solutions for Home based or small shops. It is out of the box whereas some of the others are not as complete or more difficult to unpack. It lacks some features but over-delivers on others.
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Return on Investment
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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GetResponse
  • Only negative. They cleaned our entire contact list.
  • We had to start over with Get Response. Now that they have forcefully freed us, we'll be redownloading our actual customer and prospect list from our CRM.
  • They will not refund us. We paid for a year and they gave us 5 months. So we are also out $5,000.
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