Amazon SES versus Mailjet

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
• Mailjet From $9/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Starter: $9.00 monthly
  • Essential: $19.00 monthly
  • Premium: $29.00 monthly
  • Custom: 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.

Mailjet Free: 6,000 emails per monthStarter: 8,000 emails per monthEssential: 15,000 emails per monthPremium: 15,000 emails per month

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.

Mailjet APIs, SMTP relay and webhooks on Free and paid plans.

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.

Mailjet Premium: available on request from the 100,000-send tier.Custom: One dedicated IP, with the option to buy more

Support

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

Mailjet Phone and chat support start from the 50k plans.Free: Online support in the first month onlyStarter: Online supportPremium: Priority 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.

Mailjet You can keep sending after the plan's emails run out; extra emails are billed per 1,000, at a price the page text does not show.

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.
• Mailjet Unused emails do not roll over; they expire at the end of each billing cycle.

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 and log retention.

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 Mailjet about sender domains and log retention; our sources do not establish them yet.

• Amazon SES profile and plans · View Amazon SES pricing
• Mailjet profile and plans · View Mailjet pricing