Amazon SES
$16 for a hundred thousand emails — an order of magnitude below the field, with an onboarding process that earns it.
nothing else is close on price, and nothing else makes you apply for permission to send — which of those matters more depends entirely on your volume.
$0.16 per thousand emails, flat, with no monthly platform fee on essentials. that is $1.60 at ten thousand and $16 at a hundred thousand, against $75 to $133 for the same volume elsewhere. at a million emails the gap stops being a line item and becomes a budget decision.
the friction is real and worth pricing in. new accounts start in a sandbox and need manual production access approval before they can send to unverified addresses. there's no polished deliverability dashboard at the base tier, and log retention isn't documented on either the pricing page or the regions doc, which is a meaningful gap in a category where retention is the differentiator.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- transactional email providers
- pricing
- $1.60/mo
- website
- aws.amazon.com
nothing else is close on price, and nothing else makes you apply for permission to send — which of those matters more depends entirely on your volume.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.