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

I'm still quite happy with Amazon SES after switching from Mandrill, and I'm only paying about $5 per month to send a lot of emails.

It was complicated to setup, but not as bad as I thought it would be. AWS is surprisingly well documented and there are plenty of tutorials out there.

 

Same here.
About 3 dollars per month for all my forum mails

 

https://www.sparkpost.com/ working like a charm. 100k free per month, including SMTP or HTTP support.

 

Until they suspend you for links in your emails.

https://invisionpower.com/forums/topic/433158-sparkpost-suspended-me/

I'm going with Amazon. Everything I've read about the Amazon outage was that it only affected S3, I could be wrong, but that's all I saw.

 

I'm still thrilled with Amazon SES. The downtime was unfortunate, but to be honest, I didn't see any sign that I was affected.

 

Many mail providers are changing/changed their price matrix.

Actually, you get in average 10k mails during the 30days trial and then 100mails/day for free.

 

What is the current limit of sparkpost?

 

I skipped the free email services long ago. Postmark has been my go-to for years now, great pricing and deliverability is top notch.

https://postmarkapp.com/

 

I'm using sendgrid combined with Amazon SES for sending. SES is dirt cheap. Sendgrid I pay $14.95 per month and that gives me 50K emails plus the email marketing stuff (as a bonus).