Amazon SES versus Resend

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
• Resend From $20/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Pro: $20.00 monthly
  • Scale: $90.00 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.

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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.

Resend Paid plans have no daily cap, but received emails and every To, CC and BCC recipient count toward the monthly quota.Free: 3,000 emails per monthPro: 50,000 emails per monthScale: 100,000 emails per month

Sender domains

Amazon SES 10,000 verified identities per AWS Region

Resend Pro and Scale can add 100 more domains for USD 20 a month; Enterprise limits are set by contract.Free: 3 verified domainsPro: 10 domainsScale: 1,000 domains

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.

Resend Free and Pro: 30-day data retention.Scale: 30 days

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.

Resend Pro: 5 webhook endpoints.Free: 1 webhook endpointScale: 10 webhook endpoints

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.

Resend USD 30 a month add-on on Scale for customers sending more than 3,000 emails a day; Resend warms up, monitors and scales the IP.

Support

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

Resend Slack support and an urgent-response SLA are not included on Free or Pro.Free: Ticket supportScale: Dedicated Slack channelEnterprise: Guaranteed response times, a dedicated CSM and personalized migration 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.

Resend Paid plans can keep sending past the monthly quota with pay-as-you-go, capped by default at 5 times the quota; sending then pauses until the next billing cycle.Pro: Pay-as-you-go is switched on in team settings and bills extra emails in buckets of 1,000; without it, Resend notifies you and offers an upgrade.

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.
• Resend Every account starts at 10 API requests per second, whatever the plan; an increase goes through support.

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Next steps

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