Amazon SES is raw email-sending infrastructure from AWS — the lowest per-email price available, with everything above the SMTP/API layer left for you to build.
| Feature | SendPing | Amazon SES |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 3,000 emails/month (100/day), unlimited contacts, 1 domain — no card required | New AWS accounts only (12 months) |
| Entry paid plan | $14/mo — 50,000 emails, unlimited contacts, 10 domains | $0.10 per 1,000, pay-as-you-go |
| 100k emails/month | $24/mo (Pro 100k) · $63/mo (Scale, 1000 domains) | ≈$10 at 100k — plus everything you must build around it |
| Extra volume | $0.90 per 1,000 emails — credits never expire | Pure usage billing |
| Transactional + marketing in one | API sends, campaigns, automations, and audiences in every plan | Neither — sending infrastructure only |
| Contacts & audiences | Unlimited stored contacts on every plan | ✗ |
| Automations | Included — visual automations, 10,000 runs/month | ✗ |
| A/B testing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Inbound receiving | ✓ | Raw inbound to S3/SNS (you parse) |
| Event webhooks | Signed webhooks: delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, unsubscribed | Via SNS topics you configure |
| Official SDKs | 8 languages + CLI | AWS SDKs |
| Log retention | 30 days on every plan | None — you store events yourself |
| Dedicated IP | Add-on on Scale — Custom quote | Extra, self-managed warm-up |
| INR billing for India | ✓ | ✗ |
Amazon SES pricing and features summarized from public pricing pages, last checked 2026-08-02. SendPing figures come from the live plan catalog.
If you send tens of millions of emails a month, employ people whose job is deliverability, and want to own the whole stack on IAM-governed infrastructure, SES’s unit price is unbeatable and the control is total. SES is what infra teams build on; SendPing is what product teams ship with.
Free: 3,000 emails/month (100/day), unlimited contacts, 1 domain — no card. Paid from $14/month for 50,000 emails; 100,000 emails from $24/month; Scale at $63/month adds 1,000 domains, priority support, and the dedicated-IP add-on (Custom quote/30 days). Extra volume via credits at $0.90 per 1,000 — they never expire.
Pay-as-you-go: $0.10 per 1,000 emails (plus data transfer and attachment charges). Free tier applies only to new AWS accounts (3,000 message charges/month for 12 months). Dedicated IPs, and virtually everything else, cost extra.
Last checked 2026-08-02 against Amazon SES's public pricing.
Per email, yes — $0.10 per 1,000 is the floor of the market. But SES ships no suppression management, no contact storage, no campaign tools, no tracking UI, and no support. Teams switch to SendPing when the engineering time spent rebuilding those exceeds the plan price, which happens quickly below tens of millions of emails.
Yes — that is a rational path. Standard email (verified domain, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, webhook-driven events) is portable; nothing in SendPing locks your list or templates in.
You never see a sandbox: verify your domain, and your plan defines your sending limits. Anti-abuse review happens behind the scenes without production-access request forms.
Contact/audience management, segments, campaigns, automations, A/B testing, polls, template management, open/click tracking with a UI, automatic suppression, 30-day searchable logs, signed webhooks, 8 typed SDKs plus a CLI, and support.
Very-high-volume senders with dedicated deliverability engineering, teams with strict IAM/VPC governance requirements, and platforms building their own email product on top of raw infrastructure.
Thinking about moving? Read the step-by-step Amazon SES alternative guide.
Free tier with 3,000 emails a month — API, campaigns, automations, and webhooks included. No card required.