Cloudflare Email Service: now in public beta

network

https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-for-agents/

Lots of AI BS that is legally required in every blog post these days, but tldr: $0.35 / 1k outbound emails + you need a paid Workers plan ($5/month).

sayem314

you pay for email and also for workers, expensive.

niznet

Not only is the rate higher, we also need to pay our compute costs to them just to send emails

Can we use it for relay like mail.baby though.

Levi

This is very expensive in compare to ses.

JosephF

Who is this new Cloudflare service intending to compete with?

Levi

@JosephF said:
Who is this new Cloudflare service intending to compete with?

Aws. Slowly, cf drifts away from cdn only.

sshbox

Inertia. People who are already on Cloudflare and can't be arsed to use something else.

Hotmarer

@niznet said: we also need to pay our compute costs

You can send them via Cloudflare API:

curl "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/email-service/send" \
   --header "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
   --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
   --data '{
     "to": "[email protected]",
     "from": "[email protected]",
     "subject": "Your order has shipped",
     "text": "Your order #1234 has shipped and is on its way."
   }'

Just create a simple gateway that will expose SMTP, decode received data and send it via CF API (I already did that and it is working very well).

Edit: I also don't think that you need a paid plan to use that, you can have free workers plan with activated billing.

But still, very expensive ...

DataRecovery

Cloudflare Email Service

TL;DR:

"We'll do everything to have a finger in every pie on the interwebs."

akomi007

Yeah feels like every announcement now has to be padded with AI buzzwords, but the actual takeaway is just “we added email and here’s the pricing”

hary

$5 for worker, 3,000 included per month, then $0.35 per 1,000 emails

niranjan

Looks like I'm sticking with my MXRoute 15$/3 years plan 😴

JosephF

@niranjan said:
Looks like I'm sticking with my MXRoute 15$/3 years plan 😴

Does MXRoute do what this new Cloudflare email service is designed for?

NushairAlvi

Nowadays, Cloudflare is slow and laggy in the Asia region.

niranjan

@JosephF said:

@niranjan said:
Looks like I'm sticking with my MXRoute 15$/3 years plan 😴

Does MXRoute do what this new Cloudflare email service is designed for?

Yes, send transactional email without any AI stuff 😬

DataRecovery

@JosephF said:

@niranjan said:
Looks like I'm sticking with my MXRoute 15$/3 years plan 😴

Does MXRoute do what this new Cloudflare email service is designed for?

No, they don't. Fortunately.

suut

It starts at $5 per month. NameCrane $75 lifetime plan suits me better.

JosephF

@suut said:
It starts at $5 per month. NameCrane $75 lifetime plan suits me better.

You find the two services sufficiently comparable to each other that it comes down to price?

suut

@JosephF said:

@suut said:
It starts at $5 per month. NameCrane $75 lifetime plan suits me better.

You find the two services sufficiently comparable to each other that it comes down to price?

It makes no difference to me, and NameCrane is even more suitable for me.

nghialele

@JosephF said:

@niranjan said:
Looks like I'm sticking with my MXRoute 15$/3 years plan 😴

Does MXRoute do what this new Cloudflare email service is designed for?

No but its way cheaper, this is a low-end forum where people seeking for low-prices services.