Email Mandrill users will be required to have a paid monthly MailChimp account

Yeah it's basically $20 per 25,000 emails for 1st 500k and then $18 per 25,000 from 500,001 to 1st 1million + minimum cost of $10/month for mailchimp pro account and no more using Mandrill for campaign/newsletters, for that you use Mailchimp and their user based cost pricing Pricing | MailChimp

So from Growing Business | MailChimp if you're newsletter has 10,000 email addresses and you use to send 10,000 emails via mandrill to those users, then it would of cost you $9.9.5 for the first 25k emails per month.



But with change, you need to send that 10,000 emails for newsletter via Mailchimp at $75/month



And if you have non-newsletter transactional email volume of say 2 emails per user per day, 10k x2 x30 = 600k emails per month, Mandrill old cost = 124.95

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New cost would be $18 per 25k block = 24x18 = $432/month

• Mandrill old cost total = $9.95 + 124.95 = $134.90/month
• Mandrill + Mailchimp new cost total = $75 + 432 = $507/month = 3.75x times more !

Based on Email - Mandrill users will be required to have a paid monthly MailChimp account | Centmin Mod Community to compare, 600K emails from other providers would be:

• Amazon SES 600K = 600 x 0.10 = $60/month
• Sparkpost 600K = $44.99/month + 600-200 = 400x0.2 = $80 overages = $124.99/month 500K X 0.2 overages + $24.99 = 124.99/month
• Mailgun 600K = $281.50/month or via Rackspace.com account $267.50/month
• Sendgrid 600K = Lite plan 600 x 0.10 = $60/month or Essentials plan 100K with overages = $394.95/month or on 700K plan $399.95/month
• Pepipost 600K = 600/5 x $1 = $120/month for opened emails only
• Elasticemail 600K = 600-25 = 575 x 0.19 = $109.25/month
• Authmailer 600K = 12.49/month or $149.90/yr 1st 100k and then $10 per 100k overages = 5x10 = $50 + 12.49 = $62.49/month

 

well according to post here, they have a large market share for transactional emails so probably thought overall they'll come out ahead $$$ wise

from that 600K + 10k subscriber example above, mandrill could afford to loose 50% of their transactional volume and still come out ahead on the new pricing i think ?

i think competitors like sparkpost and sendgrid probably could ramp up their efforts even further, give mandrill refugees a further 10% discount if they're willing to post on their own twitter, facebook, google+, blog and forums a detailed account of why they are changing and moving from mandrill. That would be one big marketing and PR and SEO boost for the competitor

 

First issue I have had with Amazon SES and an SES IP being blocked by hotmail for being on spam list SPAMCANNIBAL which Amazon SES isn't haven't any luck getting the IP off of Forcing email change [email bounced status] | Centmin Mod Community Not sure how wide spread this would be on other transactional email providers too heh

 

Well, if you look hard enough, pretty sure all transactional email providers will have problems with hotmail/yahoo just due to sheer number of servers and the way hotmail/yahoo use various spam lists i think. Haven't looked into whether sparkpost, sendgrid, mailgun etc have such issues though.

Quick google-fu for sendgrid - the documentation is there as IP being on spam lists is a probability

• A Few More Things You Can Do To Get Delivered @Hotmail
• Blacklist - SendGrid Documentation | SendGrid
• Email Deliverability 101 – Support

Interesting for List-Unsubscribe header for Hotmail

• List-Unsubscribe
• What is “List-Unsubscribe?”
• 3 Steps to Qualify for Gmail’s “Feedback Loop” - Return Path

Probably explains why so many hotmail/outlook emails mark emails as spam due to graymail feature ?

And Microsoft Changes List-Unsubscribe Requirements - Return Path

 

Also nice tips at Bulk Senders Guidelines - Gmail Help

 

Ah forgot to login to see stats past Feb 2016 but looks the same, guess only pain plan goes further

 

Elasticemail blog post Where to move from Mandrill? -

interesting TOS item Terms

You need to provide address and other info ! Sort of defeats whois privacy !





Not sure I'd be able to use them because of this ?

Edit submitted a ticket to Elasticemail support and seems it's just for their eyes only ?

Got more clarification

Not inspiring if Elasticemail's activation email went to my spam box heh

Spam and suspicious emails - Gmail Help



Added centminmod.com for free 25k testing



Using elasticemail as users report like Amazon SES and Authmailer, it hides the origin server IP address as well. Just something useful in future if or when I require moving to a DDOS protection solution on a new IP

They support hotmail's required List-Unsubscribe header



Reputation and Delivery info Reputation And Delivery







Elasticemail referral link

 

wow, they're just booting everyone off ! and sparkpost changed their pricing again heh Transactional Email Services with TLS Encryption | SparkPost

 

Maybe it's not just that, maybe there's a higher proportional amount of work and effort with spam listings with the free tier that is ruining their IPs reputation ? That could in long term be problematic. But who knows.

Updated above post for elasticemail, seems profile details is for their eyes only for anti-spam

 

Elasticemail video tutorials Help Videos

 

Sparkpost CTO promises 100k free tier is locked in for life I Am All In. Here’s My Promise to Developers - SparkPost Blog

 

Doesn't hurt to give sparkpost a try too along with elasticemail and my current Amazon SES



confirmed 100k free tier has a 10k daily limit

 

Ah but Sendgrid has my eye too

 

Another provider, Maildocker with 10k free and 1m at $199.95/m Pricing

Maildocker: The best free alternative to Mandrill!