Amazon SES versus Elastic 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
• Elastic Email From $19/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Starter: $19.00 monthly
  • Pro: $49.00 monthly

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

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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.

Elastic Email Paid tiers run from 50,000 to 10,000,000 emails a month.Free: 3,000 emails per monthStarter: 50,000 emails per monthPro: 50,000 emails per month

Sender domains

Amazon SES 10,000 verified identities per AWS Region

Elastic Email Sending from your own domain with DNS validation, SPF and DKIM is listed in the plan table.

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.

Elastic Email Free: 3 days of email logsStarter: 3 days of email logsPro: 7 days of email logs

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.

Elastic Email Webhooks can report sends, opens, clicks, bounces, unsubscribes and other email events.Pro: Webhooks 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.

Elastic Email Starter: Private IP add-on: USD 40 a monthPro: Private IP add-on: USD 50 a month

Support

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

Elastic Email Free support by in-app messenger or email, with a response expected within 24 hours; a paid Dedicated Support add-on shortens response times.

Overage charges

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

Elastic Email No per-email overage: on reaching the sending limit the plan upgrades automatically if auto-increase is on, or you upgrade manually.

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.
• Elastic Email Starter does not list webhooks, inbound email processing or sub-accounts; only Pro adds them.

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Next steps

• Amazon SES profile and plans · View Amazon SES pricing
• Elastic Email profile and plans · View Elastic Email pricing