At my company, we switched from Sendgrid to Mandrill when we ran into some deliverability problems with Sendgrid that we could not identify a cause for, but which magically disappeared once Mandrill was doing the sending.
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Re: Ask HN: Sendgrid or Mandrill?
#12I use Mandrill with Mailpoet (wp plugin), and have nothing but good things to say about them.
You didn't ask, but we compared them with AWS, and the big problem with AWS was that we had to throttle our own SMTP output. Mandrill will rate limit for you.
Re: Ask HN: Sendgrid or Mandrill?
#13Use Sendgrid for my previous company ( http://matchist.com ) and using Mandrill for my new one ( http://getdonald.com ). We used Sendgrid because in additional to transactional email, we needed parsing and events. Sendgrid was just the biggest name at the time so I chose it. All the Sendgrid competitors offer the same functionality for lower prices now, so there's little reason to choose Sendgrid today, in my opinion…
I can't find another email provider to give out dedicated IP addresses for less than sendgrid. We whitelabel a lot of our service so this is a significant cost.
Re: Ask HN: Sendgrid or Mandrill?
#14Neither, I really like Mailgun for their receiving email API. Their dev tools make everything really easy to set up and use. For outgoing email, Amazon SES works for me and is cheap.
Re: Ask HN: Sendgrid or Mandrill?
#15Use Sendgrid for my previous company ( http://matchist.com ) and using Mandrill for my new one ( http://getdonald.com ). We used Sendgrid because in additional to transactional email, we needed parsing and events. Sendgrid was just the biggest name at the time so I chose it. All the Sendgrid competitors offer the same functionality for lower prices now, so there's little reason to choose Sendgrid today, in my opinion…
I can't find another email provider to give out dedicated IP addresses for less than sendgrid. We whitelabel a lot of our service so this is a significant cost.
Ah, we didn't need dedicated IPs so not familiar with those costs.
Re: Ask HN: Sendgrid or Mandrill?
#16My previous company migrated from Sendgrid and Mailgun to Mandrill exclusively. Great service, good pricing, great customer support, good reporting, pretty strong all around.