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Looking for a good SendGrid alternative
Hello,
I'm using SendGrid since February 2024, I've never been really happy:
- some customers complaining about non received emails while SendGrid was reporting them as delivered, etc)
- UI is slow as f*ck
- They just removed the marketing feature from the Email API plans and now ask for 15$/month for this feature that I'm using only 6 times a year.
I'm sending between 5K and 10K transactional emails per month (this is gradually increasing) and looking for a strong reputation provider with a nice and efficient product (and low price of course).
Do you have recommandation ? Please do not drop provide random providers, I'm looking for providers you've used and happy with their service.
I've already use Postmark in a previous job and it seemed to work fine.
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amazonses
Can't beat Amazon SES, as long as you're not using it for anything dodgy.
Our team also use SendGrid, with different templates set up for various business, and we send emails via Api. However, we’re now looking into cutting costs by building our own email delivery system.
You can probably switch your email provider to AWS SES and setup something like Sendy to manage newsletter or other non-transactional types.
Amazon SES or Plunk (based on Amazon SES)?
tldr use Amazon SES
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Provider: sparkpost
Provider: mailjet
Provider: amazon
Provider: sendinblue
Provider: netcorecloud
Provider: mxroute
Provider: mailchimp
Provider: sendgrid
Provider: emaillabs
Provider: mailgun
Provider: infomaniak
Provider: fastmail
Provider: migadu
Provider: amazonaws
Provider: mailchannels
Provider: ahasend
Provider: sendpulse
As everyone said SES.
Sendgrid is pretty reliable, you can get around the upcharge on marketing frontend by just connecting it to a free email front-end (install wordpress on some hosting, then just install a plugin like mailpoet and connect your sendgrid account and you now have a marketing frontend).
The deliverability is based on how warmed up emails are on your domain, so you gotta ensure you have things like dmarc and spf records properly set up and send to yourself and emails you have and build up reputation before you do bigger blasts.
MailChimp/Mandrill is one of the worst. Over priced and by default has poor deliverability even once warmed up unless you buy an extra Class C IP from them.
mailjet I am using. earlier i was using mail.baby but emails landed in spam folder mostly for outlook/hotmail addresses. with mailjet it went str8 to inbox. Amazon is cheapest of all.
alibaba directmail
SMTP2GO
mailchimp?
I've had good luck with SMTP2GO
brevo.com works fine for me
Hmm I recently dropped all my AWS dependencies, was tired of all the additional/hidden costs pilling up every month. SES seems to be best the best in terms of pricing though.
It seems really clean, will give it a try.
It has really good reviews, will also test it.
We use mail.baby works like a charm.
Amazon SES works best imo
SMTP2GO is nice
From listed above
The best I've ever seen is 162.247.166.0/24 in Sparkpost
It seems to belong to an HR software company.
Mail goes to inbox like it is really whitelisted.
87.253.233.0/24 or this one from Mailjet, it is for general use, looks like
172.246.0.0/18 from brevo
Amazon is hard to check, they don’t give everything to ordinary people, but here’s something visible
23.249.215.0/24 - Very clean, inboxes, but I do not see this location for ordinary users
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ses.html#ses_smtp_endpoints
Maybe it is sa-east-1, Seattle or South America (São Paulo)
54.240.64.0/20 - also clean, no flags, no spammers, probably, Virginia
76.223.177.0/24 - looks like Asia Pacific (Seoul)
23.251.234.0/24 - Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
23.251.224.0/19 - Europe (Stockholm), looks like the best choice
76.223.128.0/19 - Ireland
23.251.252.0/22 - Unknown location
54.240.32.0/20 - Unknown
54.240.24.0/22 - Oregon
Started to use plunk, the only main issue I encountered is that they're adding an "Unsubscribe" link in the footer pointing to
useplunk.net(even when you're using a custom domain) which has a negative spam core so blocked for some of my customer (~1%): https://x.com/spuyet/status/1957490935421702244I’ve been using Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) for 3 years and really like it—it’s reliable and cost-effective.
Pricing info: https://www.brevo.com/pricing/
You can also use the code EMAILVENDORSELECTION to get 50% off all plans for the first three months. https://www.brevo.com/partners/emailvendorselection/
We use postal, host it internally, warm the IP without sending spam through it, works a treat.
Heard good things about SMTP2GO, also second @HushedMan's recommendation of Brevo if you're doing more campaign stuff.
I agree with most people here: SMTP2GO easily gets the job done for 5k or even 10k transactional emails.
Check zeptomail, its only 2.5 € for 1 credit = 10k mails, which last for 6 months.
https://www.zoho.com/zeptomail/
Happy with SMTP2GO
Try billionmail or Aapanel mail server. It's amazing and fully working. I'm sending 10 k mails per month (it's a transactional email)
Single ip?
yes, i'm using it, latest update supports multiple ip option too. you can use for marketing campaign too, but for me, i'm using it for transactional emails, its amazing.