Amazon SES versus Brevo Transactional Email

Price

• Amazon SES From $0.16 per 1,000 emails, first 10 million a month
  • Essentials: $0.16 per 1,000 emails, first 10 million a month, no monthly base charge
  • Pro: $105.00 monthly
  • Enterprise: $500.00 monthly
  • À la carte: $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails, no monthly base charge
• Brevo Transactional Email From $9/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Starter: $9.00 monthly
  • Standard: $18.00 monthly
  • Professional: $499.00 monthly
  • Enterprise: Vendor quotation required

Both list prices on the same basis. Compare what each plan includes; the lower amount alone does not make the better choice.

Documented for both

Sending volume

Amazon SES Quotas count recipients. In the sandbox: 200 emails per 24 hours and 1 per second; production quotas depend on your use case and can be raised.

Brevo Transactional Email Plans are priced on emails sent; contact-based pricing applies only to marketing features.Free: 300 emails per dayStarter: 5,000 emails per monthStandard: 5,000 emails per monthProfessional: 150,000 emails per month

Log retention

Amazon SES Archiving is a paid add-on: USD 2 per GB ingested plus USD 0.19 per GB a month for storage and search.

Brevo Transactional Email Flexible log retention is advertised; a numeric retention window is not stated on this page.

Webhooks and events

Amazon SES Sending events (sends, deliveries, opens, clicks, bounces, complaints, rejections, rendering failures and delivery delays) can be published to CloudWatch, Data Firehose, Pinpoint, SNS or EventBridge.

Brevo Transactional Email Event webhooks and real-time tracking are listed.Free: Webhook support included

Dedicated IP

Amazon SES Essentials: Managed dedicated IPs are an add-onPro: Managed dedicated IPs included; SES warms them up and scales themEnterprise: Managed dedicated IPs included; SES warms them up and scales themÀ la carte: Standard dedicated IPs cost USD 24.95 per IP a month; managed dedicated IPs cost USD 15 a month per account plus USD 0.08 per 1,000 emails up to 10 million a month.

Brevo Transactional Email Dedicated IPs with custom warming schedules are offered to high-volume senders; no price is published.Enterprise: Dedicated IPs are part of the custom Enterprise plan

Support

Amazon SES Production-access requests get an initial response from AWS Support within 24 hours.

Brevo Transactional Email Free: Email supportStarter: Email support in 6 languagesProfessional: Phone support plus 3 hours a year with a deliverability specialistEnterprise: Tailored onboarding and CSM support

Overage charges

Amazon SES Outbound email is charged per recipient, and tier rates apply marginally: each rate covers only the emails within its tier.

Brevo Transactional Email Pay-as-you-go email credits are an alternative to a plan: they do not expire and one email uses one credit.

Limits to check

• Amazon SES New accounts start in the sandbox in each AWS Region: verified recipients only, at most 200 messages per 24 hours and 1 per second, until production access is granted.
• Brevo Transactional Email Attachments are limited to 25 MB per email, and one API request can batch up to 1,000 emails.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Amazon SES: sender domains.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask Brevo Transactional Email about sender domains; our sources do not establish it yet.

• Amazon SES profile and plans · View Amazon SES pricing
• Brevo Transactional Email profile and plans · View Brevo Transactional Email pricing