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I feel like SparkPost should get a mention here: https://www.sparkpost.com edit (more details): The free tier allows up to 100,000 emails
We were relying on Mandrill to send a lot of emails. The problem with Mailgun, Sendgrid and others is that they're too expensive, which means they're unaffordable by our bootstrapped startup. Is there any service that has pricing similar to Mandrill?
If you can't afford those prices, your business has bigger problems.
At Redokun we use Postmark. It proved to have a good deliverability and the UI is very good.
I did a bit of research as soon as the news was announced. And found Sendgrid the most on par with what Mandrill was offering.
It seems a tad slow, but it's ok. Someone mentioned SparkPost, but quite a few emails from them were going to SPAM folders.
Basically, MailChimp didn't like Mandrill sending mass emails from the beginning. As far as I remember (5 months ago) Mandrill only allowed you to send emails one by one but Mailgun lets you send 1K emails at once.
That, plus the fact that they changed their policy for verifying domains with no notice which affected many users (not us).
http://blog.mandrill.com/we-are-making-domain-verification-m...
"This is a breaking change for us, we didn't have any notice at all?! Very poor customer service!" -- Adam Curtis (Mandrill user, 7 months ago)
Lucky for us we made the switch many months ago!
FYI, I'm sad to see that MailChimp (as a company) cannot see how two divisions in the same company can compete. Like Amazon hosting Netflix and also competing with Netflix. IMO, Amazon management is smart enough to keep these two divisions separate enough so either one that'll do a better job will succeed.
Big win for Mailgun, huge loss for MailChimp. They just stabbed developers in the back. Take note kids: this is a shining example of how not to market such a large product/service change. What a fiasco. Directly going against their About Page, failing to update their pricing page to indicate the change.. it's all bad. I'm in the camp of everyone else where the TOS change is forcing my startup leave. The net negative…
I imagine there was some kind of crisis happening behind-the-scenes... That's the only explanation I see for the overnight policy change and lagging updates on the site. Either that or total incompetence. Interestingly, their (former) competitors are taking full advantage of the outrage by running ads on Twitter and LinkedIn aimed at Mandrill customers who've been screwed.
Some head-to-head comparisons of Mailgun and SendGrid, for those trying to find an alternative provider. - Free Tier : Up to 10k emails/mo with Mailgun, up to 12k with SendGrid. - Low Volume : To send 100,000 emails/mo on a shared IP, you'll pay $45 with Mailgun or $20 with SendGrid. - High Volume : To send 300,000 emails/mo on a dedicated IP, you'll pay $204 with Mailgun or $199 with SendGrid. - Deliverability : In…
A startup I used to work at used SendGrid. I have nothing but good things to say about the experience. I liked it better than Mandrill, which I've used more recently.
Big win for Mailgun, huge loss for MailChimp. They just stabbed developers in the back. Take note kids: this is a shining example of how not to market such a large product/service change. What a fiasco. Directly going against their About Page, failing to update their pricing page to indicate the change.. it's all bad. I'm in the camp of everyone else where the TOS change is forcing my startup leave. The net negative…
This is where we're at too. We've long been evangelizing Mailchimp and Mandrill in our product, and as a result have sent plenty of customers their way. In fact, our product almost relies on them as a pair. Now, because of the ToS, we have to remove it from our product and port our users somewhere else...and fast. We also have to port our own servers to another service, and fast. I remember the day we finally had eno…
Some head-to-head comparisons of Mailgun and SendGrid, for those trying to find an alternative provider. - Free Tier : Up to 10k emails/mo with Mailgun, up to 12k with SendGrid. - Low Volume : To send 100,000 emails/mo on a shared IP, you'll pay $45 with Mailgun or $20 with SendGrid. - High Volume : To send 300,000 emails/mo on a dedicated IP, you'll pay $204 with Mailgun or $199 with SendGrid. - Deliverability : In…
[1] As reported by https://www.inboxtrail.com/compare