transactional email providers

ranked on what sending actually costs at two real volumes, and on how long you can still see the message afterwards — which is the spec nobody compares and everybody eventually needs.

5 listed · 5 researched by us · featured first, then most upvoted

MailerSend

we checked this~$5.60/mo

the cheapest mid-field option at both anchor volumes, with retention that's honest about being tiered.

#cost-sensitive-senders-w

Resend

we checked this$20/mo

$35 for a hundred thousand emails, a month of logs, and the api the rest of the category is being measured against.

#developers-who-want-the-

Postmark

we checked this$15/mo

the longest message history in the category and a price cut that made it competitive again — until you reach a hundred thousand.

#teams-whose-support-work

Amazon SES

we checked this$1.60/mo

$16 for a hundred thousand emails — an order of magnitude below the field, with an onboarding process that earns it.

#anyone-already-inside-aw

SMTP2GO

we checked this$10/mo

thirty days of logs as standard and two years if you'll pay — the most serious answer here to the question everyone forgets to ask.

#operations-teams-who-nee

this page is deliberately short: a handful of transactional email providers we looked at properly, rather than everything that exists. if you build one that belongs here, a free listing takes two minutes and $50 pins it to the top of this page.

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