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SMTP2GO vs Amazon SES

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of SMTP2GO and Amazon SES built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 17 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose SMTP2GO if…

Steady sending where the overage rate matters more than the plan fee — $0.85 per thousand on Professional is the lowest published here, and 30 days of reporting comes on every paid tier rather than as an upgrade.

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…

  • SMTP2GO: A dedicated IP needs the $75 Professional plan, and the entry tier's 10,000 emails is a quarter of what Resend includes for twice the price.
  • 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.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: SMTP2GO alternatives · Amazon SES alternatives

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

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionSMTP2GOAmazon SES
Pricing
Free tier
Yes
No
Kind of free offerFree tierIntroductory free tier
Entry paid plan$10/month for Starter, or $100 a year. Professional is $75/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 modelMonthly or annual volume plans — the annual price is ten months' worth — with per-thousand overage that improves on the larger plan, and SMS billed alongside email.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
10,000 a month on Starter and 100,000 on Professional. 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.
Price per 1,000 over
$1 per thousand on Starter, falling to $0.85 on Professional — the cheapest published overage of any provider here.
$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
Support
Support on entry paid plan
Ticket, chat and phone support on Starter ($10/month), the cheapest plan.
No support level comes with the service. AWS Support is bought separately as an account-wide plan, and its response times are graded by case severity rather than by product.

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.

Free tier

SMTP2GO
Yes
Amazon SES
No
Sources (2) →
  • Pricing — SMTP2GO ↗

    “Get started with our free plan for up to 1,000 emails per month. Sign Up Free No credit card required”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗

    “AWS Free Tier [...] New AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which can be applied towards eligible AWS services, including Amazon Simple Email Service. [...] The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation.”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Kind of free offer

SMTP2GO
Free tier
Amazon SES
Introductory free tier
Sources (2) →

Entry paid plan

SMTP2GO
$10/month for Starter, or $100 a year. Professional is $75/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

SMTP2GO
Monthly or annual volume plans — the annual price is ten months' worth — with per-thousand overage that improves on the larger plan, and SMS billed alongside email.
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 — SMTP2GO ↗

    “Starter $ 10 /mo $ 100 /year [...] Professional $ 75 /mo $ 750 /year [...] SMS messaging Extra emails: $0.85 / thousand”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • 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 · Report a correction

Emails included

SMTP2GO

10,000 a month on Starter and 100,000 on Professional. 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) →

Price per 1,000 over

SMTP2GO
$1 per thousand on Starter, falling to $0.85 on Professional — the cheapest published overage of any provider here.
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) →

Dedicated IP

SMTP2GO
Limited
Amazon SES
Supported
Sources (2) →

Support on entry paid plan

SMTP2GO
Ticket, chat and phone support on Starter ($10/month), the cheapest plan.
Amazon SES
No support level comes with the service. AWS Support is bought separately as an account-wide plan, and its response times are graded by case severity rather than by product.
Sources (2) →
  • SMTP2GO Pricing ↗

    “10,000 emails/mo 30 days of email reporting ticket/chat/phone support subaccount management sms messaging”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • AWS Support Plans ↗

    “human response times business/mission-critical system down production system down production system impaired system impaired general guidance < 30 mins 2 < 1 hour < 4 hours < 12 hours < 24 hours”

    Read 2026-09-14 · official site · Report a correction

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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 — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

What the free plan includesSMTP2GO: 1,000 emails a month.
Credit card to startSMTP2GO: No
When the free offer endsAmazon SES: 6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date.
Log retentionSMTP2GO: 30 days of email reporting, on Starter and Professional alike rather than rising with the plan.
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: SMTP2GO or Amazon SES?

SMTP2GO: $10/month for Starter, or $100 a year. Professional is $75/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.

Free tier: SMTP2GO or Amazon SES?

SMTP2GO: Yes

Amazon SES: No

Should I choose SMTP2GO or Amazon SES?

Pick SMTP2GO if Steady sending where the overage rate matters more than the plan fee — $0.85 per thousand on Professional is the lowest published here, and 30 days of reporting comes on every paid tier rather than as an upgrade.

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

SMTP2GOSMTP relay and email API with volume plans, 30 days of reporting on every tier and the lowest published overage rate in this set.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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Comments

Every page here is sourced and dated.