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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. MailUp

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
MailUp
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
MailUp is the eponymous email & SMS platform from the Italian company that was founded in 2002 that now has a modest but respectable presence across the western world with a diverse customer base (Yamaha, Amnesty International, Korean Air, etc.). Mailup's platform combines email marketing, with transactional email and SMS features, and offers SMTP relay and plugins for ecommerce, CRM and CMS systems. Their unusual pricing scheme is tiered just on subscribers but on volume of sends and that…N/A
Pricing
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)MailUp
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon SESMailUp
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)MailUp
Top Pros
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Features
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)MailUp
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
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Ratings
MailUp
9.5
1 Ratings
16% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)MailUp
Small Businesses
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.6 out of 10
Mad Mimi
Mad Mimi
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Mailchimp Transactional Email (Mandrill)
Score 7.6 out of 10
VerticalResponse
VerticalResponse
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises

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Emma by Marigold
Emma by Marigold
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)MailUp
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(21 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)MailUp
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.
LN
Lav Nandan
Software Engineer
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MailUp
Great for marketing teams looking to quickly deploy emails without the need for HTML coding.
Tory Reiff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tory Reiff
Graphic Designer, Digital
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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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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MailUp
  • Email marketing creation
  • Email design
  • HTML template creation
Tory Reiff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tory Reiff
Graphic Designer, Digital
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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.
Apurv Doshi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Apurv Doshi
Senior Solutions Architect
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MailUp
  • Alt tag styling within the editor
Tory Reiff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tory Reiff
Graphic Designer, Digital
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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.
Diego Turcios Lara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Diego Turcios Lara
Devops Engineer
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MailUp
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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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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MailUp
Mailup has hands down the best editor for creating responsive emails, I've tried almost everything out there and this is the best, I recommend this to colleagues all the time!
Tory Reiff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tory Reiff
Graphic Designer, Digital
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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.
JH
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MailUp
  • Faster email development
  • More team members able to contribute to the email development process
  • Better templates
Tory Reiff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tory Reiff
Graphic Designer, Digital
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ScreenShots

MailUp Screenshots

Screenshot of Manage lists. With MailUp, you can manage mailing lists, groups and sending profiles, automatically eliminating duplicate addresses and handling users who cancel their subscription. The procedure is guided, quick and safe. The utmost simplicity, with no need to install additional software. Not bad, right?Screenshot of he winning variable, with mathematical certainty With A/B testing, discover, prior to mailing, what your recipients prefer to read, by automatically testing several versions of the same text, measuring its effectiveness on a select group. Opening results improve by up to 30% and, for each version, you have more statistical information. Mailing after mailing, you can only do better!Screenshot of Creating emails for mobile devices is easy Free your creativity and create emails and newsletters that have great visual impact, optimised for mobile devices. While you concentrate on the content of your campaign, MailUp takes care of the rest with the aid of an intelligent editor and plenty of cutting-edge functions. Not bad, right?Screenshot of Countless ways to create your messages. There's not only BEE with which create messages. You can start with HTML documents, RSS/Atom, URL or choose from hundreds of graphic models. Starting with an empty email? The convenient WYSIWYG editor helps you put your messages together with just a few clicks. It's all up to you!Screenshot of .and you can do the same with unsubscribe lists. Automatic management of unsubscribe lists allows you to activate the UNSUBSCRIBE button directly in the email client interface. The unsubscribers list also shows a list of users who performed this action, which may be edited and exported. This function also allows you to make up random groups of users, specifying the number of subscribers. This makes it easier to manage random sampling and A/B testing.Screenshot of