Best Transactional Email Providers
Many cloud hosting providers, including Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and DigitalOcean, do not support sending emails directly from their servers. They often recommend using a third-party SMTP service for sending emails. Third-party SMTP servers enhance email deliverability and eliminate the need to manage your own email server. When hosting on a shared server, email deliverability can be compromised if another user sends spam, resulting in your IP address being blacklisted. Using a third-party SMTP service ensures consistent email delivery without these risks.
Below is a comprehensive list of top third-party SMTP service providers ideal for sending emails from your website.
Smtp2Go
SMTP2GO is a reliable and scalable email delivery service that provides a robust SMTP server infrastructure for sending emails from anywhere in the world. They offer a free plan for up to 1,000 emails per month, as well as paid plans starting at $25 per month for 50,000 emails.
MailJet
Free account allows you to send 6,000/- emails per month with 200 mails per day limit. Paid plan starts at $9.65 per month for 30k emails.
Amazon Simple Email Service
$0.10 per 1,000 emails sent. 65K free emails per month if you are hosted on EC2.
Disadvantage: You can only send from @your-domain.extn, if you have a SAS application and need to send it from some other email address, you need the domain added to SES and verified.
To get your Amazon SES service activated, you need to contact Amazon support. Verification is a manual process, can take up to 24 hours. You need to give them information about your use case, how you prevent spam, and how you handle email bounces.
https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing
SendInBlue
Up to 300 emails per day for FREE.
https://www.sendinblue.com/pricing
ElasticEmail
No more free plan. Price starts at $0.5 per day + $0.1 per every 1000 emails.
How much do you have to pay per month if you sent 1000 emails per month?
Answer: Based on the information you shared, you will be paying $15.10 for 1 month. The amount is broken down to $0.10 for 1000 emails and $0.50 x 30 days = $15.00. This is why the total is $15.10. The daily $0.50 is charged to your account regardless of whether or not you will be sending emails.
SparkPost
50K Emails for $9 per month. If you are on AWS, you can get it cheaper from marketplace.
SendGrid
Free Plan offers 100 emails per day. Paid Plan starts at 40K email per month for $9.95 per month.