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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon SES

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Mailjet

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMailjet is an email solution designed for both marketers and developers. Mailjet allows them to create, send, and track marketing and transactional emails via a user interface or APIs. EMAIL MARKETING Mailjet’s user interface is available in 5 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian) and enables marketing teams to create, test, and send emails. Its drag & drop email builder helps users create responsive emails. The user management…

    $17

    per month

    Plover

    N/AN/AN/AN/A
    Pricing
    Amazon SESMailjetPlover
    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
    Essential
    $17
    per month
    Premium
    $27
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon SESMailjetPlover
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—The Essentials plan contains Mailjet’s core feature. Premium includes advanced features to leverage email strategy. A discount is available for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon SESMailjetPlover
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Sinch
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    Plover
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
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    Features
    Amazon SESMailjetPlover
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and Mailjet and Plover
    Feature
    Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
    -
    Ratings
    Mailjet
    8.3
    15 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Plover
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings10.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings6.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings5.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings10.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings9.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) and Mailjet and Plover
    Feature
    Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
    -
    Ratings
    Mailjet
    10.0
    14 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Plover
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings10.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings10.014 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Amazon SESMailjetPlover
    Small Businesses
    Postmark
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Mad Mimi
    Score10 out of 10
    Postmark
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Postmark
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Campaign Monitor by Marigold
    Score9 out of 10
    Postmark
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Emma by Marigold
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Amazon SESMailjetPlover
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (23 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon SESMailjetPlover
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sinch
    I raised a ticket. It’s been four days and they won’t reply. So I raised another ticket asking why they are not replying. The issue was quite urgent. Then in a very short time, I saw the ticket was closed. So they have time to close my ticket, but they don’t have time or they don’t want to reply to a ticket. Very interesting.

    Their attitude of doing nothing is the worst and the rudest I’ve ever seen in my years of working with several email service companies. And I see that they blame this on the pandemic. But many other good companies, they are not doing this. Your problem is your problem, don’t try to blame someone else.

    So, please DO NOT buy it, consider others.
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    Plover
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    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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    Sinch
    • Mailjet is good at "links", it's really easy to link your content and photos to outside links.
    • Mailjet is good at getting emails out in a timely fashion.
    • Mailjet is really cost-effective compared to their competitors for what all you get.
    Incentivized
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    Plover
    No answers on this topic
    Cons
    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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    Sinch
    • Customer service is not excellent.
    • My email list's integrity was in question. They repeatedly turned off our service questioning my results.
    • Multiple times I went to use the service in need of sending out an email and our service was not working.
    Incentivized
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    Plover
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sinch
    No answers on this topic
    Plover
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sinch
    No answers on this topic
    Plover
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sinch
    Mailjet was much easier to set up, and much more affordable for us than other solutions we evaluated, such as SendGrid. SendGrid may be better suited for organizations with larger volumes or more technical staff, but for us, Mailjet was a superior solution at this time. We also looked at other competitors, but Mailjet impressed us the most with their ease of use and excellent customer support.
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    Plover
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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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    Sinch
    • Changing from active campaign to Mailjet decreased our mail spend by more than 50% in savings.
    • Been able to send so many emails for different campaigns increases our retention with active users who became engaged users. In our case, it is important to be in constant communication with customers.
    • Mailjet needs to be complemented with other tools, such as Zapier, in order to create better implementations. It might cost you for additional software but it is still cheaper than solutions that charge you by the number of users.
    Incentivized
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    Plover
    No answers on this topic
    ScreenShots

    Mailjet Screenshots

    Screenshot of Passport, which is Mailjet’s email editor used to create responsive emails and collaborate in real-time with other users inside the builder.Screenshot of the real-time collaboration tool.Screenshot of the statistics dashboard used to track campaign performance.Screenshot of an example of emails sent via SMTP relay or Send API.Screenshot of the drag-and-drop email automations builder