Amazon SES vs MailerSend
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Amazon SES and MailerSend built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
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
Choose MailerSend if…
Teams sending email and SMS from one provider who need a longer activity window than a debugging log — 30 days of activity data against 7 days of API logs is a distinction the rest of this category does not draw.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
Consider something else if…
- 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.
- MailerSend: Both paid tiers include the same 50,000 emails, so paying three times more buys features rather than volume, and the entry price is the highest here.
4 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
Amazon SES 0
MailerSend 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Amazon SES | MailerSend |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Entry paid plan | 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. | $31.50/month for Starter, billed $378 a year. Professional is $99/month, billed $1,188. |
| Pricing model | 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. | Volume plans quoted in USD, EUR or GBP, with SMS metered separately from email and a 500,000 daily API request ceiling on Professional. Annual billing is twelve months at a discount rather than ten. |
| Emails included | None. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one. | 50,000 a month on both Starter and Professional — the plans differ on features and SMS allowance rather than email volume. |
| Price per 1,000 over | $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. | $1.30 per 1,000 emails on both Starter and Professional. |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- 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.
- MailerSend
- $31.50/month for Starter, billed $378 a year. Professional is $99/month, billed $1,188.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗
“Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails $0.12 per GB of attachment data sent”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — MailerSend ↗
“Starter [...] $ 31.50 /month $378.00 billed yearly [...] Professional [...] $99.00 /month $1,188.00 billed yearly”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Pricing model
- 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.
- MailerSend
- Volume plans quoted in USD, EUR or GBP, with SMS metered separately from email and a 500,000 daily API request ceiling on Professional. Annual billing is twelve months at a discount rather than ten.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- 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
- Pricing — MailerSend ↗
“USD EUR GBP [...] 50,000 emails /month 150 SMS /month Extra usage $1.30 /1,000 emails [...] 500,000 daily API requests”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Emails included
None. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one.
50,000 a month on both Starter and Professional — the plans differ on features and SMS allowance rather than email volume.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗
“Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — MailerSend ↗
“Starter [...] 50,000 emails /month 100 SMS /month [...] Professional [...] 50,000 emails /month 150 SMS /month”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Price per 1,000 over
- Amazon 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.
- MailerSend
- $1.30 per 1,000 emails on both Starter and Professional.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗
“Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails [...] Global Endpoints $0.03 / 1,000 emails [...] 0 – 10M emails / month $0.16 per 1,000 emails $0.22 per 1,000 emails $0.23 per 1,000 emails”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — MailerSend ↗
“Extra usage $1.30 /1,000 emails”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
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.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Amazon SES or MailerSend?
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.
MailerSend: $31.50/month for Starter, billed $378 a year. Professional is $99/month, billed $1,188.
Should I choose Amazon SES or MailerSend?
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.
Pick MailerSend if Teams sending email and SMS from one provider who need a longer activity window than a debugging log — 30 days of activity data against 7 days of API logs is a distinction the rest of this category does not draw.