Amazon SES vs Postal vs Twilio SendGrid

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Amazon SES

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Postal

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Twilio SendGrid

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Pros of Amazon SES
Pros of Postal
Pros of Twilio SendGrid
  • 102
    Reliable
  • 96
    Cheap
  • 57
    Integrates with other aws services
  • 52
    Easy setup
  • 18
    Trackable
  • 2
    Easy rails setup
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    • 190
      Easy setup
    • 137
      Cheap and simple
    • 107
      Easy email integration!
    • 86
      Reliable
    • 58
      Well-documented
    • 28
      Generous free allowance to get you started
    • 25
      Trackable
    • 21
      Heroku add-on
    • 15
      Azure add-on
    • 13
      Better support for third party integrations
    • 6
      Simple installation
    • 6
      Free plan
    • 4
      Helpful evangelist staff
    • 4
      Great client libraries
    • 3
      Great support
    • 3
      Better customer support than the competition
    • 3
      Great add-ons
    • 2
      Nice dashboard
    • 2
      Scalable
    • 1
      Web editor for templates
    • 1
      Cool setup
    • 1
      Within integration
    • 1
      Easy set up
    • 1
      Free
    • 1
      Great customer support
    • 1
      Google cloud messaging

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    Cons of Amazon SES
    Cons of Postal
    Cons of Twilio SendGrid
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        • 3
          Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
        • 1
          Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
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          Shares IP blacklist removal

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        What is Amazon SES?

        Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

        What is Postal?

        Postal is a complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers. Think Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark but open source and ready for you to run on your own servers. Postal was developed by aTech Media to serve its own mail processing requirements and we have since decided that it should be released as an open source project for the community.

        What is Twilio SendGrid?

        Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.

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        What are some alternatives to Amazon SES, Postal, and Twilio SendGrid?
        Mailgun
        Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.
        Mailchimp
        MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.
        Amazon SNS
        Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and internet connected smart devices, as well as pushing to other distributed services. Besides pushing cloud notifications directly to mobile devices, SNS can also deliver notifications by SMS text message or email, to Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues, or to any HTTP endpoint.
        Mandrill
        Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.
        AWeber
        It is an email marketing service provider with over 100,000 small business clients world wide. It helps people keep in touch with the subscribers who have requested to be on their mailing list.
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