Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) vs. MailUp vs. Plover
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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Amazon SES | Score9.2 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 | Score10 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 |
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| Delivers good value for the price | |||
100% Delivers good value for the price 13 Answers | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Happy with the feature set | |||
100% Happy with the feature set 13 Answers | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | |||
100% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 9 Answers | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
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100% Implementation went as expected 13 Answers | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic | |
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| 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 | No answers on this topic | Emma by Marigold Score8.5 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.5 | 10.0 | - |
| Usability | 7.5 | - | - |
| Support Rating | 8.3 | - | - |
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