Amazon SES vs Mailgun vs Twilio SendGrid | What are the differences?

Amazon SES

Stacks6.6K

Followers3.4K

+ 1

Votes327

Mailgun

Stacks5.7K

Followers2.6K

+ 1

Votes657

Twilio SendGrid

Stacks7.6K

Followers3.6K

+ 1

Votes718

Pros of Amazon SES

Pros of Mailgun

Pros of Twilio SendGrid

102
Reliable
96
Cheap
57
Integrates with other aws services
52
Easy setup
18
Trackable
2
Easy rails setup

179
Quick email integration
149
Free plan
91
Easy setup
67
Ridiculously reliable
54
Extensive apis
29
Great for parsing inbound emails
25
Nice UI
23
Developer-centric
15
Excellent customer support
12
Heroku Add-on
4
Easy to view logs of sent emails
3
Email mailbox management for developers
2
Great customer support, love rackspace
2
Great documentation
1
Great PHP library
1
Better than sendgrid not ask too many question

189
Easy setup
136
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
Free plan
6
Simple installation
4
Helpful evangelist staff
4
Great client libraries
3
Better customer support than the competition
3
Great support
3
Great add-ons
2
Scalable
2
Nice dashboard
1
Google cloud messaging
1
Web editor for templates
1
Cool setup
1
Free
1
Within integration
1
Easy set up
1
Great customer support

Cons of Amazon SES

Cons of Mailgun

Cons of Twilio SendGrid

Be the first to leave a con

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

2
No Terraform provider
2
Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
1
Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
0
Shares IP blacklist removal

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 Mailgun?

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

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.

What companies use Amazon SES?

What companies use Mailgun?

What companies use Twilio SendGrid?