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> built on top of AWS SES. [...] can be considered as a self-hosted alternative to services Someone doesn't really understand self-hosting.
> built on top of AWS SES. [...] can be considered as a self-hosted alternative to services Someone doesn't really understand self-hosting.
To this day I don't understand why email providers don't offer first-party Mail Merge facilities themselves. AFAIK Microsoft is the only one that offers the feature with Word and Outlook in its Office suite, and even that is very restrictive (besides being downright inaccessible from the newer apps).
Probably because it’s rarely used for anything other than unwanted email, aka spam.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/sendgrid/api-reference/transacti...
My understanding was that the main interest of SendGrid, Mailgun et al was precisely that they manage to (more or less) reliably mass send email through the great MS/Google/Proofpoint, where hitting the recipient's mailbox is less than guaranteed if you self-host.
> built on top of AWS SES. [...] can be considered as a self-hosted alternative to services Someone doesn't really understand self-hosting.
Nuances of self-hosting aside, I'd recommend caution looking at that pricing pane.
The disclaimer is:
> Calculated based on the plan that best matches the features of Plunk at 2500 emails per month.
And the author then cites prices of $0.001/email for Plunk and $0.013/email for Sendgrid.
I am neither a user or fan of Sendgrid but that feels like disingenuous anchoring. Sendgrid's free plan is 100/day; if you want to eliminate the free plan entirely and just focus on their cheapest paid option, it's $19.95 for 50K emails — or $0.000399/email, cheaper than Plunk's sticker price.
It's not entirely obvious to me how that $0.013 was even calculated ($0.013 * 2500 = $32.50). Either way, be sure to spot-check against live sticker rates before making a decision there.
That's an interesting way to see the world...
Nooo, thx........