- pricing
- web hooks
- API - documentation, coverage, libraries
- reporting
- chunking applications
- https://www.ventureharbour.com/transactional-email-service-best-mandrill-vs-sendgrid-vs-mailjet/
- http://stackshare.io/stackups/mailgun-vs-mandrill-vs-amazon-ses
- silver plan for 120,000 per month at $66
- https://www.sendinblue.com/pricing/
- can set up via the api
- transactional: request, delivered, hard_bounce, soft_bounce, blocked, spam, invalid_email, deferred, click, & opened
- https://apidocs.sendinblue.com/webhooks/#1
- documentation feels a little slim
- coverage feels small. They don't seem to have anything to get the contect for an email sent. campains, smtp and sms
- they have a node library - https://github.com/mailin-api/mailin-api-node-js
- they have a ruby library - https://github.com/mailin-api/mailin-api-ruby
- not sure if you can register different applications
- not sure what the reporting is like
- has sms too
- api docs feel a little slim
- the a
- "A dedicated IP plan allows you to send email campaigns using your domain name" what happens if we're not on the IP plan
- On a monthly plan - "You'll start with the capacity to send 40 emails per hour, and your bandwidth will be adjusted automatically based on your engagement metrics. (Bandwidth limits do not affect senders using a dedicated IP.)"
- 100,000 @ $79.95/mo
- comes with dedicated IP
- https://sendgrid.com/pricing
- They have a mandrill to sendgrid guide https://sendgrid.com/blog/how-to-migrate-from-mandrill-to-sendgrid/
- Attachments sent via HTTP are handled differently than Mandrill as well
- SendGrid does not offer a synchronous mode.
- they have node and ruby wrappers at the ready - https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-nodejs https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-ruby
- docs are not as easy to undertand as Mandrill
- Looks like they have pretty good webhook support. https://sendgrid.com/docs/API_Reference/Webhooks/event.html
- Even have some projects to allow consumpion of the data they send . https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/libraries.html#-Webhook-Libraries
- No sandbox as of yet but they do have a sink email address @sink.sendgrid.net
- 1,000 credits $1.50 per thousand emails
- 500,000+ credits $1.00 (33% off) per thousand emails
- 1,000,000+ credits $0.75 (50% off) per thousand emails
- 2,000,000+ credits $0.50 (66% off) per thousand emails
- 5,000,000+ credits $0.25 (83% off) per thousand emails
- 100000 = $150 or $100 (if buying 500k+ credits)
- https://postmarkapp.com/pricing
- documentation much better organised. seems comprehensive
- coverage looks pretty good (was able to satisfy postoffices e2e test requirement)
- no click tracking
- open web hooks
- bounce
- inbound (received email)
- Seems a much more pro outfit
- "Postmark is for transactional email only. You may not send newsletters, announcements, or any other bulk email. If you’re uncertain if your email qualifies as “transactional”, you can always contact support and we’ll review your usage." <<<<<<<<<
- liked their article on not having dedicated IPs which is about them taking responsibility https://postmarkapp.com/blog/the-false-promises-of-dedicated-ips
- 0 - 10,000 Free
- Next 500,000 $0.00050
- Next 1,000,000 $0.00035
- Next 5,000,000 $0.00015
- 100000 = $45
- https://www.mailgun.com/pricing
- bounce, deliver, drop, spam, unsubscribe, click, open
- docs OK. don't show example response
- coverage looks OK. not as full featured as postmark
- used by many it seems (see 2nd source article)