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Alternatives to Mandrill

Twilio SendGrid, Mailchimp, Apache Drill, Mailgun, and Gmail are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Mandrill.
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What is Mandrill and what are its top alternatives?

Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.
Mandrill is a tool in the Transactional Email category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Mandrill

  • Twilio SendGrid
    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. ...

  • Mailchimp
    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. ...

  • Apache Drill
    Apache Drill

    Apache Drill is a distributed MPP query layer that supports SQL and alternative query languages against NoSQL and Hadoop data storage systems. It was inspired in part by Google's Dremel. ...

  • Mailgun
    Mailgun

    Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly. ...

  • Gmail
    Gmail

    An easy to use email app that saves you time and keeps your messages safe. Get your messages instantly via push notifications, read and respond online & offline, and find any message quickly. ...

  • Amazon SES
    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. ...

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Amazon SNS
    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. ...

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Twilio SendGrid

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Email Delivery. Simplified.
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PROS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
  • 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
CONS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
  • 3
    Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
  • 1
    Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
  • 0
    Shares IP blacklist removal

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Luke Hamilton
Sr. Engineer at StackShare · | 4 upvotes · 102.5K views

At StackShare we were discussing how to increase the retention of our newly signed up users. We hypothesized that if we made certain changes to the emails in our on-boarding process we could increase our retention and activation of users.

We decided to use sendwithus because it offered us the ability to A/B test our transactional emails. We also utilized the sendwithus analytics dashboard to gain real time insight into the performance of our email campaigns. Furthermore sendwithus has a Rails gem that allowed us to easily integrate the product into our application. We were also able to integrate sendwithus with our SendGrid account. #ABTestingAnalytics #TransactionalEmail

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Julien DeFrance
Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 3 upvotes · 569.1K views

Nexmo vs Twilio ?

Back in the early days at SmartZip Analytics, that evaluation had - for whatever reason - been made by Product Management. Some developers might have been consulted, but we hadn't made the final call and some key engineering aspects of it were omitted.

When revamping the platform, I made sure to flip the decision process how it should be. Business provided an input but Engineering lead the way and has the final say on all implementation matters. My engineers and I decided on re-evaluating the criteria and vendor selection. Not only did we need SMS support, but were we not thinking about #VoiceAndSms support as the use cases evolved.

Also, on an engineering standpoint, SDK mattered. Nexmo didn't have any. Twilio did. No-one would ever want to re-build from scratch integration layers vendors should naturally come up with and provide their customers with.

Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

Many years later, Twilio demonstrated its position as a leader by holding conferences in the Bay Area, announcing features like Twilio Functions. Even acquired Authy which we also used for 2FA. Twilio's growth has been amazing. Its recent acquisition of SendGrid continues to show it.

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Mailchimp

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Easy email newsletters
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PROS OF MAILCHIMP
  • 259
    Smooth setup & ui
  • 248
    Mailing list
  • 148
    Robust e-mail creation
  • 120
    Integrates with a lot of external services
  • 109
    Custom templates
  • 59
    Free tier
  • 49
    Great api
  • 42
    Great UI
  • 33
    A/B Testing Subject Lines
  • 30
    Broad feature set
  • 11
    Subscriber Analytics
  • 9
    Great interface. The standard for email marketing
  • 8
    Great documentation
  • 8
    Mandrill integration
  • 7
    Segmentation
  • 6
    Best deliverability; helps you be the good guy
  • 5
    Facebook Integration
  • 5
    Autoresponders
  • 3
    Customization
  • 3
    RSS-to-email
  • 3
    Co-branding
  • 3
    Embedded signup forms
  • 2
    Automation
  • 1
    Great logo
  • 1
    Groups
  • 0
    Landing pages
CONS OF MAILCHIMP
  • 2
    Super expensive
  • 1
    Poor API
  • 1
    Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent

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Kirill Shirinkin
Cloud and DevOps Consultant at mkdev · | 12 upvotes · 709.7K views

As a small startup we are very conscious about picking up the tools we use to run the project. After suffering with a mess of using at the same time Trello , Slack , Telegram and what not, we arrived at a small set of tools that cover all our current needs. For product management, file sharing, team communication etc we chose Basecamp and couldn't be more happy about it. For Customer Support and Sales Intercom works amazingly well. We are using MailChimp for email marketing since over 4 years and it still covers all our needs. Then on payment side combination of Stripe and Octobat helps us to process all the payments and generate compliant invoices. On techie side we use Rollbar and GitLab (for both code and CI). For corporate email we picked G Suite. That all costs us in total around 300$ a month, which is quite okay.

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Spenser Coke
Product Engineer at Loanlink.de · | 9 upvotes · 310.5K views

When starting a new company and building a new product w/ limited engineering we chose to optimize for expertise and rapid development, landing on Rails API, w/ AngularJS on the front.

The reality is that we're building a CRUD app, so we considered going w/ vanilla Rails MVC to optimize velocity early on (it may not be sexy, but it gets the job done). Instead, we opted to split the codebase to allow for a richer front-end experience, focus on skill specificity when hiring, and give us the flexibility to be consumed by multiple clients in the future.

We also considered .NET core or Node.js for the API layer, and React on the front-end, but our experiences dealing with mature Node APIs and the rapid-fire changes that comes with state management in React-land put us off, given our level of experience with those tools.

We're using GitHub and Trello to track issues and projects, and a plethora of other tools to help the operational team, like Zapier, MailChimp, Google Drive with some basic Vue.js & HTML5 apps for smaller internal-facing web projects.

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Apache Drill

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Schema-Free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop and NoSQL
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PROS OF APACHE DRILL
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    NoSQL and Hadoop
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    Free
  • 3
    Lightning speed and simplicity in face of data jungle
  • 2
    Well documented for fast install
  • 1
    SQL interface to multiple datasources
  • 1
    Nested Data support
  • 1
    Read Structured and unstructured data
  • 1
    V1.10 released - https://drill.apache.org/
CONS OF APACHE DRILL
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    Mailgun

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    The Email Service for Developers.
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    PROS OF MAILGUN
    • 178
      Quick email integration
    • 148
      Free plan
    • 91
      Easy setup
    • 67
      Ridiculously reliable
    • 53
      Extensive apis
    • 30
      Great for parsing inbound emails
    • 25
      Nice UI
    • 22
      Developer-centric
    • 15
      Excellent customer support
    • 12
      Heroku Add-on
    • 4
      Easy to view logs of sent emails
    • 4
      Email mailbox management for developers
    • 2
      Great PHP library
    • 2
      Great documentation
    • 2
      Great customer support, love rackspace
    • 1
      Better than sendgrid not ask too many question
    CONS OF MAILGUN
    • 2
      Cost
    • 2
      No HTTPS tracking links supported
    • 1
      Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun
    • 1
      Cannot create multiple api keys

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    We've moved our transactional email away from Mandrill to Mailgun. We had continued using Mandrill after Mailchimp deprecated the service awhile back, because the amount of credits we were offered essentially made it free.

    However, following a couple weeks of frequent downtime and poor service transparency from Mandrill, we decided it was time to make the switch. It appears they no longer had any engineers with the ability to identify the core problems.

    Mailgun has been more reliable, yet not as reliable as we expected. We still see issues a few times per week with the API failing when we attempt to make a call. The Reporting UI is way better.

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    Gmail logo

    Gmail

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    A free web-based e-mail service
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    PROS OF GMAIL
    • 21
      Its free
    • 7
      User-friendly
    • 2
      Nice UI
    • 2
      Snooze
    CONS OF GMAIL
    • 4
      Can't unsend, add open trackers or read recipients

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    Amazon SES logo

    Amazon SES

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    Bulk and transactional email-sending service.
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    PROS OF AMAZON SES
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      Reliable
    • 97
      Cheap
    • 57
      Integrates with other aws services
    • 52
      Easy setup
    • 18
      Trackable
    • 2
      Easy rails setup
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      Cyril Duchon-Doris

      We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as

      • Managing AWS backups
      • Processing emails received on Amazon SES and stored to Amazon S3 and notified via Amazon SNS, so as to push a message on our Redis so our Sidekiq Rails workers can process inbound emails
      • Pushing some relevant Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms to Slack
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      Amazon SESAmazon SESMailchimpMailchimp

      I would like to know how I can implement a transactional email, or if it is possible to do so, like Mailchimp, using Amazon SES. I want to have the flexibility of creating emails like MailChimp, with a bulk email sending capability. Is it as simple with AWS SES as it is with MailChimp? If so, then how can I implement that for my own product? Thanks!

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      Twilio

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      Bring voice and messaging to your web and mobile applications.
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      PROS OF TWILIO
      • 148
        Powerful, simple, and well documented api
      • 88
        RESTful API
      • 66
        Clear pricing
      • 61
        Great sms services
      • 58
        Low cost of entry
      • 29
        Global SMS Gateway
      • 14
        Good value
      • 12
        Cloud IVR
      • 11
        Simple
      • 11
        Extremely simple to integrate with rails
      • 6
        Great for startups
      • 5
        SMS
      • 3
        Great developer program
      • 3
        Hassle free
      • 2
        Text me the app pages
      • 1
        New Features constantly rolling out
      • 1
        Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
      • 1
        Easy integration
      • 1
        Two factor authentication
      CONS OF TWILIO
      • 4
        Predictable pricing
      • 2
        Expensive

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      Ravi Sathanapalli
      Director Product Management at Centime · | 7 upvotes · 173.8K views
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      TwilioTwilioAmazon SNSAmazon SNS

      Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

      We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

      We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

      What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

      Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

      Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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      Cheri Booth
      Vendor Relationship Manager at Storage Asset Management · | 6 upvotes · 89.1K views
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      Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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      Amazon SNS

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      Fully managed push messaging service
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      PROS OF AMAZON SNS
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        Low cost
      • 6
        Supports multi subscribers
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        We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as

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        Ravi Sathanapalli
        Director Product Management at Centime · | 7 upvotes · 173.8K views
        Shared insights
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        TwilioTwilioAmazon SNSAmazon SNS

        Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

        We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

        We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

        What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

        Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

        Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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