Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. Mailtrap

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Mailtrap

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon SES	Score 8.4 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
Mailtrap	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Mailtrap is a modern email platform for developer and product teams that send emails at scale. It is designed to send emails with a focus on high deliverability rates, fast delivery, and protecting sender reputation. The service includes 24/7 technical support. The benefits of using Mailtrap, as described by the vendor include: High deliverability & fast delivery: 99.99% platform uptime, dedicated IPs, auto warm-up, and throttling. Multi-tenant accounts…	$15 per month per user

Pricing

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Mailtrap

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

Email API/SMTP Basic: $15
per month
Email Sandbox Basic: $17
per month
Email Sandbox Team: $42
per month
Email API/SMTP Business: $85
per month
Email Sandbox Business: $123
per month
Email Sandbox Enterprise: $498
per month
Email API/MTP Enterprise: $750
per month
Email API/SMTP Custom: By request
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon SES	Mailtrap
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Each tier's price mentioned in the table is its starting point - they vary based on the amount of emails per month. Also, Email Sandbox has an annual pricing option.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Mailtrap

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User Ratings
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Mailtrap
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (23 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)	Mailtrap
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 LN Lav Nandan Software Engineer Read full review	Railsware As I said, Mailtrap is particularly well-suited for software development teams working on email functionality within their applications. All the automation and intuitive environment helped us create a workflow that's almost set and forget. Incentivized William David Senior Software Developer Read full review
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. Incentivized RS Ranu Singh Technology Manager Read full review	Railsware Flexible for engineering teams. Mailtrap works well in environments where multiple developers are responsible for email functionality. We're on the Enterprise plan which allows for customizations for our needs. For example, we had a request not to record email bodies for privacy reasons, and Mailtrap enabled that pretty fast. The user experience is awesome. The platform is easy to use and the support team responds fast and helps us out with any questions. Incentivized William David Senior Software Developer Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Railsware Inbox placement analysis - currently, Mailtrap does not offer inbox placement analysis. But their analytics dashboard compensates well for that. Incentivized William David Senior Software Developer Read full review
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 RS Ranu Singh Technology Manager Read full review	Railsware 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 Diego Turcios Lara Devops Engineer Read full review	Railsware 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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Railsware sendgrid is powerful for email delivery, but Mailtrap's dedicated testing environment and focus on development teams made it the clear choice for our needs. Its ability to simulate various email scenarios without affecting real users is unmatched. Plus, their sending is reliable, regardless of your volume. Incentivized William David Senior Software Developer Read full review
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. Incentivized JH Joe Hakooz Owner Read full review	Railsware Efficiency - Made testing emails faster, so we can launch new features quicker. Reliability - Enhanced the reliability of our email notifications (transactional emails). It really improved our customer satisfaction. Cost-Effective - Avoided the need for multiple tools and saved us money by consolidating our email testing, sending, and management. Incentivized William David Senior Software Developer Read full review
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