What is the cheapest way to send emails?

Amazon SES is probably the cheapest if using EC2, as it'll give you 62,000 free. Outside of that it's $0.10 per 1000.

Question:

• Are you sending emails on behalf of your customers? Does it matter if emails end up in peoples' inboxes?

Sending with a cheap service is a sure-fire way for emails to end up in spam filters or not delivered at all. If it matters to you or your customers that the emails you send actually get to the destination, I would not cheap out on this.

I think Amazon SES is the cheapest. I'm personally a fan of Mailgun as their focus is on their API. Or if you're looking something a bit more WYSIWYG EmailOctopus runs on top of SES.
https://emailoctopus.com

You might find this post about setting up and sending email useful.
https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/everything-developers-need-to-know-about-sending-transactional-email--cms-31759

I really like sendgrid so far. 40k emails per month with 2500 contacts for 9.99. Super easy to upload contacts, use prebuilt templates, create re-marketing groups, etc.

I have 1 recommendation but it is not the cheapest. I use Postmark personally for my projects: https://postmarkapp.com/

I use it because the other, cheaper options such as Mailgun and AWS are cheaper, yes, but randomly you may find that the emails that you send to your users get marked as spam without you doing anything differently. Someone else's account on Mailgun, for example, could be sending spam which marks your entire Mailgun server IP address as spam which makes your emails send as spam.

This happened to me a few weeks ago without my knowledge. I recently found out about it after I realized my users were no longer receiving emails I was sending to them.

You need to purchase a more expensive account to have your own dedicated IP address on services such as Mailgun or you can use Postmark which is known for preventing your emails as spam.

In this case, cheaper is only sometimes better.

Besides Amazon SES, Mailgun also oggers 10k free emails and it's cheaper than Amazon. Also, great customer support.

Hey @redalert18 there is not a detailed comparation but you can check out more tools on http://emailstartups.com

maybe this can help: https://pierregillesleymarie.com/blog/2018/10/14/how-i-saved-875-dollar-per-year-on-email-marketing.html

I used Sendy + Amazon SES. Deliverability is average on this - definitely not as effective as paid services.

Since I'm on rackspace, I'll be looking into mailgun. Don't think it's the cheapest but neither is rackspace.

MailSwift (https://intdatalabs.com/send-newsletters-via-aws-with-mailswift.html) helps you send emails using Amazon SES without any coding efforts.

This is a pretty messy problem. I've found that Amazon SES used to have (about 1-2 months ago) pretty good delivery, but I've been finding that a good number of emails now end up in the spam folder. In fact, even the test email functionality (sent from within Amazon's own console) ended up in the spam folder.

I've tried Sendgrid and it too suffered through the same problem. Mailgun is the most consistent.

I'm looking for a better (and extremely cost effective) solution as well.

If you decide to use SES you will want to set up the hooks to handle deliverability messages and deal with bad emails / throttling ESPs / etc. etc. All the things that you are basically paying SendGrid to handle has a lot of practice of doing that very well.

https://moonmail.io looks really cool too and uses Amazon SES

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