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AhaSend vs Amazon SES

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of AhaSend and Amazon SES built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Updated 12 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose AhaSend if…

EU-resident sending where you want to choose how long message data is kept — retention is a setting with a floor of zero on paid plans, not a policy you inherit.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Amazon SES if…

High volume where the per-1,000 rate dominates everything else — at $0.10 per 1,000 it is roughly a twentieth of what the managed services charge in overage.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • AhaSend: The published table stops at 100,000 emails and does not state a per-thousand overage rate, so what happens past the plan ceiling is not documented.
  • Amazon SES: There is no included allowance, no log retention on the pricing page, and deliverability tooling that the others bundle is metered separately here.

4 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionAhaSendAmazon SES
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Entry paid plan
$10/month for Pro; Max is $80/month.
No monthly plan — SES bills per email. Ten thousand emails, the tier Postmark and Mailgun both price at, costs $1.00 at the published $0.10 per 1,000. Our arithmetic on Amazon's rate, not a price Amazon quotes, and attachments add $0.12 per GB.
Pricing modelVolume plans on EU multi-region infrastructure, with retention as a plan axis rather than a fixed policy — every tier states a range, and the floor is zero on the paid plans.Pure usage billing with no monthly minimum: $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails plus $0.12 per GB of attachments, with dedicated IPs, deliverability tooling and address validation each metered separately on top.
Email
Emails included
25,000 a month on Pro and 100,000 on Max. The free plan allows 1,000.
None. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one.
Dedicated IP
Limited
Supported

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Entry paid plan

AhaSend
$10/month for Pro; Max is $80/month.
Amazon SES
No monthly plan — SES bills per email. Ten thousand emails, the tier Postmark and Mailgun both price at, costs $1.00 at the published $0.10 per 1,000. Our arithmetic on Amazon's rate, not a price Amazon quotes, and attachments add $0.12 per GB.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

AhaSend
Volume plans on EU multi-region infrastructure, with retention as a plan axis rather than a fixed policy — every tier states a range, and the floor is zero on the paid plans.
Amazon SES
Pure usage billing with no monthly minimum: $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails plus $0.12 per GB of attachments, with dedicated IPs, deliverability tooling and address validation each metered separately on top.
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — AhaSend ↗

    “Start for free. Scale effortlessly. Pay for what you use. [...] Multi-region EU infrastructure 1 to 7-day retention [...] 0 to 14-day retention”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

  • Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗

    “Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails $0.12 per GB of attachment data sent [...] Email Validation $0.01 per validation [...] Virtual Deliverability Manager – SES deliverability Per-email fee + query fee”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Emails included

AhaSend

25,000 a month on Pro and 100,000 on Max. The free plan allows 1,000.

Amazon SES

None. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one.

Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — AhaSend ↗

    “Pro [...] $10 /month 25,000 emails per month [...] Max $80 /month 100,000 emails per month [...] Free $0 1000 emails per month”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

  • Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗

    “Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Dedicated IP

AhaSend
Limited
Amazon SES
Supported
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — AhaSend ↗

    “Pro [...] Dedicated IPs [...] Max [...] Dedicated IP Pools”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

  • Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗

    “Dedicated IPs – Standard $24.95 / month / IP [...] Dedicated IPs - Managed $15 / month / account + per-email fee [...] Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) $24.95 / month / IP”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.

Price per 1,000 overAmazon SES: $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails, charged per recipient. Mail Manager tiers run $0.16 to $0.23 per 1,000 depending on feature set, and a multi-region endpoint adds $0.03 per 1,000.
Log retentionAhaSend: Configurable rather than fixed: 1 to 7 days on the free plan, 0 to 14 on Pro and 0 to 30 on Max. The lower bound of zero means retention can be turned off entirely.
SOC 2Amazon SES: Listed as SOC-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.
ISO 27001Amazon SES: Covered under AWS's account-wide ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification — not scoped per-service the way SOC, HIPAA and PCI DSS are on AWS's own site.
HIPAAAmazon SES: Listed as a HIPAA-eligible service on AWS's own reference page.
GDPR / data residencyAmazon SES: AWS customers can process personal data on all AWS services in compliance with GDPR, and choose the storage type and geographic region for their data.
PCI DSSAmazon SES: Listed as PCI DSS-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: AhaSend or Amazon SES?

AhaSend: $10/month for Pro; Max is $80/month.

Amazon SES: No monthly plan — SES bills per email. Ten thousand emails, the tier Postmark and Mailgun both price at, costs $1.00 at the published $0.10 per 1,000. Our arithmetic on Amazon's rate, not a price Amazon quotes, and attachments add $0.12 per GB.

Should I choose AhaSend or Amazon SES?

Pick AhaSend if EU-resident sending where you want to choose how long message data is kept — retention is a setting with a floor of zero on paid plans, not a policy you inherit.

Pick Amazon SES if High volume where the per-1,000 rate dominates everything else — at $0.10 per 1,000 it is roughly a twentieth of what the managed services charge in overage.

Provider pages

AhaSendEU multi-region email API priced by volume, with data retention configurable per plan rather than fixed.Amazon SESUsage-billed email sending from AWS, with no monthly plan and per-1,000 pricing an order of magnitude below the managed services.

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