Resend vs Amazon SES
A comparison of Resend and Amazon SES built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
- Pick Resend if
- Projects that want a generous paid allowance for the money — 50,000 emails at $20 is several times what the same spend buys at Postmark or Mailgun.
- 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.
5 sourced criteria separate them:
- Entry paid plan
- Resend: $20/month for Pro, the cheapest 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.
- Pricing model
- Resend: Monthly plan with an included allowance, then $0.90 per 1,000 beyond it. Domains, dedicated IPs and SSO are priced as separate add-ons at $20, $30 and $150 a month.
- 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.
- Emails included
- Resend: 50,000 emails a month on Pro, the cheapest paid plan; 100,000 on Scale. The free plan allows 3,000 a month and caps the day at 100.
- Amazon SES: None. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one.
- Price per 1,000 over
- Resend: $0.90 per 1,000 on Pro and Scale, charged automatically in buckets of 1,000. Paid plans only — the free plan stops at its limit.
- 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.
- Dedicated IP
- Resend: Limited
- Amazon SES: Supported
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.
Resend 0
Amazon SES 0
At a glance.
| Criterion | Resend | Amazon SES |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry paid plan | $20/month for Pro, the cheapest 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. |
| Pricing model | Monthly plan with an included allowance, then $0.90 per 1,000 beyond it. Domains, dedicated IPs and SSO are priced as separate add-ons at $20, $30 and $150 a month. | 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. |
| Emails included | 50,000 emails a month on Pro, the cheapest paid plan; 100,000 on Scale. The free plan allows 3,000 a month and caps the day at 100. | None. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one. |
| Price per 1,000 over | $0.90 per 1,000 on Pro and Scale, charged automatically in buckets of 1,000. Paid plans only — the free plan stops at its limit. | $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. |
| Dedicated IP | Limited | Supported |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- Resend
- $20/month for Pro, the cheapest 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.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Resend ↗
“Pro [...] $20 / mo [...] 50,000 emails / mo”
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”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Pricing model
- Resend
- Monthly plan with an included allowance, then $0.90 per 1,000 beyond it. Domains, dedicated IPs and SSO are priced as separate add-ons at $20, $30 and $150 a month.
- 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) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Resend ↗
“Domains - $20 / mo [...] Dedicated IPs - $30 / mo [...] Single Sign-On - $150 / mo [...] Extra emails: $0.90 / 1,000”
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
50,000 emails a month on Pro, the cheapest paid plan; 100,000 on Scale. The free plan allows 3,000 a month and caps the day at 100.
None. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Resend ↗
“Pro [...] $20 / mo 50,000 emails / mo [...] Scale [...] $90 / mo 100,000 emails / mo [...] Free [...] 3,000 emails / mo 100 emails a day”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗
“Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Price per 1,000 over
- Resend
- $0.90 per 1,000 on Pro and Scale, charged automatically in buckets of 1,000. Paid plans only — the free plan stops at its limit.
- 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.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Resend ↗
“Extra emails: $0.90 / 1,000 [...] Resend automatically charges your plan's overage rate for each additional bucket of 1,000 emails. Available to paid subscriptions.”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- 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
Dedicated IP
- Resend
- Limited
- Amazon SES
- Supported
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Resend ↗
“Dedicated IPs - $30 / mo [...] Available to customers exceeding 3,000 emails sent per day on the Scale plan. [...] Dedicated IPs – – With add-on With add-on”
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
Which should you choose?
Choose Resend if…
Projects that want a generous paid allowance for the money — 50,000 emails at $20 is several times what the same spend buys at Postmark or Mailgun.
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…
- Resend: Log retention is 30 days and not extendable, and a dedicated IP needs the Scale plan plus 3,000 emails a day before it is offered at all.
- 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.
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: Resend or Amazon SES?
Resend: $20/month for Pro, the cheapest 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.
Should I choose Resend or Amazon SES?
Pick Resend if Projects that want a generous paid allowance for the money — 50,000 emails at $20 is several times what the same spend buys at Postmark or Mailgun.
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.