I have used mailgun without any issues. The free tier is nice and I was not forced to have a paid plan when I got started.
Ask HN: Best provider for sending transactional emails?
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#22I've been pretty happy with Mailgun thus far. Their free tier is what got me started.
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#23We've had quite a lot of experience using Amazon SES, as we run an email marketing platform on it. We run both our marketing and transactional emails using it for https://emailoctopus.com . If you're already using AWS then I'd definitely look at SES. I appreciate the price may seem too cheap, but the service is now used by huge companies for their transactional emails, the likes of Netflix rely heavily on it. As long…
My company (and my last one also) uses SES. It's got both a REST API and SMTP endpoint, so for most apps all you need to do is reconfigure the settings.
If you already have EC2 instances, the free tier of 62,000 messages should be comfortable for a lot of teams.
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#24I have gone from Mandrill to Sendgrid and back to Mandrill. Personally, we had tons of issues with Sendgrid (too many blacklisted IPs, emails being delivered late etc) but Mandrill has been rock solid.
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#25Postmark has been excellent for me. Transactional only. I believe you get 25,000 emails for free, and then very reasonable after that.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stay away from Sparkpost. They will put your account on hold without any warning (and for no good reason) and then their support team takes ~2 days to reply.
We use mailgun but there are a bunch of wierdly dropped emails. Am I to hope that would change with something like Postmark if not with Sparkpost? The fact is that we always use the lowest tier of paid plan since our volume is not too big and dont feel that we are an "important" user on a lot of services.
Postmark treats their free users like first class users. But they only give 25000 free emails.
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#27Mandrill has the best features, but depending on your volume, their pricing might not be the best.