Email Transactional Email Providers: Mandrill vs SendGrid vs Amazon SES vs Mailgun vs Postmark

I'm relatively new to transactional email providers and started using Mandrill for this forum and so far been excellent for email delivery and providing usefull mail delivery statistics in Mandrillapp interface. However, I came across this brief review comparison of different transactional email providers done by a web host and has some juicy information for comparing Mandrill vs SendGrid vs Amazon SES vs Mailgun vs Postmark.

• https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1417122

As I use Mandrill, I'm concerned about the reported problems where Mandrill would mark an email as delivered but it actually hasn't been delivered. The same web host posted a separate thread at https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1408109.

Thought it would be a good read for users here who are using Mandrill so they can double check if their emails are really being delivered as stated.

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Also anyone have experience with the other mentioned transactional email providers above ?

 

cheers Brent, guess I might have to play with different transactional email providers soon

 

you using SendGrid with a dedicated IP ?

 

huge differences in costs between Mandrill vs SendGrid

on 40k emails/month

• Mandrill = $5.60/month
• SendGrid = $9.95/month

on 100k emails/month

• Mandrill = $17.60/month
• SendGrid = $79.95/month on Silver Package or with Bronze with 60k additional at $0.001/email = $69.95/month

 

thanks

 

interesting, still happening or solved ?

having used sendy.co before though

 

guess for price it's still the only option for lower volume transactional emails

Yeah I just read about authmailer.com on WHT seems to be cheaper than Mandrill for higher volumes > 50,000-100,000+ transactional emails where Authmailer charges a flat US$10/month per 100,000 emails above the first 100,000 emails

i.e.

• Mandrill 50,000 emails = US$7.60/month
• Authmailer 50,000 emails = US$6.66/month
• Mandrill 100,000 emails = US$17.60/month
• Authmailer 100,000 emails = US$12.49/month
• Mandrill 500,000 emails = US$97.60/month
• Authmailer 500,000 emails = US$12.49/month + 4x US$10/month = US$52.49/month
• Mandrill 1,000,000 emails = US$197.60/month
• Authmailer 1,000,000 emails = US$12.49/month + 9x US$10/month = US$102.49/month
• Mandrill 2,000,000 emails = US$348.20/month
• Authmailer 2,000,000 emails = US$12.49/month + 19x US$10/month = US$202.49/month
• Mandrill 5,000,000 emails = US$798.20/month
• Authmailer 5,000,000 emails = US$12.49/month + 49x US$10/month = US$502.49/month

Haven't tried Mailjet or Authmailer though.

Mailjet like Mandrill has 12k emails free than more is paid, 120,000 emails = US$74.95/month which is 5x times more expensive than Authmailer at 100k emails mark.

Indeed Mailgun looks expensive, 100K emails = US$45/month and 120K emails = US$55/month and 500k emails = US$245/month and 1m emails = US$421.50/month

 

interesting came across even cheaper long term alternative elasticemail.com which gets cheaper, the longer you use them and more email pricing levels/volume you send !

The Best Price for Email, Get Yours - Elastic Email SMTP Relay

Code:

Monthly Emails:    50000
First month:    $32.01
After 3 months:    $9.50
After 12 months:    $4.50

Code:

Monthly Emails:    100000
First month:    $51.51
After 3 months:    $19.00
After 12 months:    $9.00

Code:

Monthly Emails:    500000
First month:    $127.51
After 3 months:    $45.00
After 12 months:    $45.00

 

maybe delay is from OVH to Mandril ?