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Postmark vs SparkPost: What are the differences?
Developers describe Postmark as "Email delivery for web apps - done right". Postmark removes the headaches of delivering and parsing transactional email for webapps with minimal setup time and zero maintenance. On the other hand, SparkPost is detailed as "Email Delivery and Analytics for Developers and Enterprises". SparkPost is the world’s #1 email delivery provider. We empower companies with actionable, real-time data to send relevant email to their customers which increases engagement and both top and bottom line revenue.
Postmark and SparkPost belong to "Transactional Email" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Postmark are:
- Create a new virtual server- Instant access to our infrastructure, no waiting required. Create as many servers as you want, for each of your web applications and environments.
- Drop code into your app- Swap in our SMTP endpoint, or get started with our APIs using one of our send API libraries for Ruby, Rails, .NET, Python, PHP, and more.
- Send emails and track delivery- A beautiful interface to monitor volume, bounces, spam complaints, and send activity. View full email content to troubleshoot issues.
On the other hand, SparkPost provides the following key features:
- Quick and easy SMTP or REST API integration
- Free trial
- Real-time & predictive analytics
"Simple" is the top reason why over 17 developers like Postmark, while over 8 developers mention "I could start sending real emails in less than 5 mins" as the leading cause for choosing SparkPost.
Docplanner, Meetupcall, and Lighthouse are some of the popular companies that use Postmark, whereas SparkPost is used by Pinterest, Dial Once, and DocEngage. Postmark has a broader approval, being mentioned in 66 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to SparkPost, which is listed in 49 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.
Of course we chose Coresender to send our own transactional emails :) So I thought I'll let you know how we use it.
We set up separate sending accounts for all company needs, eg. transactional emails, monitoring alerts, time to inbox. We even configured our office printers to send emails through Coresender.
We have a real-time and extremely usable view into what emails go through each account, so each time anybody reports an email not arriving we're able to assist them in a few seconds
We utilize our message timeline feature, so we can learn eg. if people are clicking on password reset links
We always know how many of our onboarding emails are being opened which helps us improve them
Finally, we have full controll over our suppressions lists, so we can add (and remove!) from them whenever necessary.
To sum up, at Coresender we're eating our own dogfood and it helps us stay connected to the product and understand our customers better.
While building our authentication system, we originally picked Mailgun. However, emails took minutes to arrive and some of them didn't get delivered - or got delivered to spam.
We started looking for a new provider, and settled on Postmark. We love that they track time-to-inbox, it makes me feel they really care about going above and beyond to provide a good service.
Pros of Postmark
- Simple18
- Great analytics10
- Email, done right8
- Easy setup5
- Heroku Add-on5
- Can review sent messages2
- Very inexpensive1
- Exceptional support1
- Pay per message1
- Great support1
Pros of SparkPost
- I could start sending real emails in less than 5 mins10
- Email don't end up in spam after DNS verification2
- Flexible, robust API1
- Very easy to integrate with Laravel1
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Cons of Postmark
- No 24x7 support1
Cons of SparkPost
- Suspended paid acount without warning or reason1
- Spam trap reports are suspicious b/c all users opted in1
- Support won't answer mail (9h so far)1
- Only free for 100 emails/day1
- New dedicated ip blacklisted by some clients1
