Amazon SES pricing and limits

Q: Does Amazon SES have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a introductory free tier.

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Usage-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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Entry paid planNo 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 tierNo

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Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated September 202614 criteria comparedSources last checked 3 October 2026

Amazon SES pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan: No monthly plan — SES bills per email source ↗
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… source ↗
When the free offer ends: 6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date source ↗

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

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.

Consider something else if…

There is no included allowance, no log retention on the pricing page, and deliverability tooling that the others bundle is metered separately here.

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Amazon SES pricing

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Free tierNo

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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.”
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Kind of free offerIntroductory free tier

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Amazon SES Pricing ↗
“At account sign-up, you can choose between a free plan and a paid plan. The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation.”
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When the free offer ends6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date.

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Amazon SES Pricing ↗
“The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation. [...] All Free Tier credits must be used within 12 months of your account creation date.”
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Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗
“Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails $0.12 per GB of attachment data sent”
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Pricing modelPure 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.

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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”
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Email

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Emails includedNone. There is no included allowance on the pay-as-you-go rate; every email is billed from the first one.

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Amazon SES Pricing — AWS ↗
“Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails”
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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.

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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”
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Dedicated IPSupported

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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”
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Support

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Support on entry paid planNo 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.

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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”
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Compliance

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SOC 2Listed as SOC-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.

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AWS Services in Scope — SOC ↗
“This webpage provides a list of AWS Services in Scope of AWS assurance programs. [...] Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) ✓ Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) ✓ Amazon Simple”
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ISO 27001Covered 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.

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ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Compliance — AWS ↗
“AWS has certification for compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2022, 27017:2015, and 27018:2019. These certifications are performed by independent third-party auditors.”
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HIPAAListed as a HIPAA-eligible service on AWS's own reference page.

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HIPAA Eligible Services Reference — AWS ↗
“The services listed below are eligible to create, receive, process, maintain, or transmit electronic protected health information (ePHI). [...] Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Amazon”
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GDPR / data residencyAWS customers can process personal data on all AWS services in compliance with GDPR, and choose the storage type and geographic region for their data.

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GDPR — Amazon Web Services ↗
“AWS customers can use all AWS services to process personal data [...] in compliance with the GDPR. [...] Customers have control of their customer data. With AWS, customers can: Determine where their customer data will be stored, including the type of storage and geographic region of that storage.”
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PCI DSSListed as PCI DSS-compliant on AWS's own compliance scope page.

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AWS Services in Scope — PCI DSS ↗
“This webpage provides a list of AWS Services in Scope of AWS assurance programs. [...] Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) ✓ ✓ Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) ✓ ✓ Amazon”
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Amazon SES in the news

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Amazon SES pricing questions

How much does Amazon SES cost?

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.

Amazon SES Pricing — AWS · read 6 Sept 2026

How does Amazon SES charge?

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.

Amazon SES Pricing — AWS · read 6 Sept 2026