When comparing Amazon SES vs SendPulse, the Slant community recommends Amazon SES for most people. In the question“What are the best transactional email services?” Amazon SES is ranked 6th while SendPulse is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Amazon SES is:
Amazon SES has one of the most competitive pricings on the market with just $0.10 per 1000 emails.
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Pros
Pro Highly cost effective
Amazon SES has one of the most competitive pricings on the market with just $0.10 per 1000 emails.
Pro Barebones service
Amazon SES is created to be a simple service for just sending emails through the API. If you need only to send emails and only that, then Amazon SES should at least be a good contender for your service of choice.
Pro Free tier if using EC2
If you are hosting your web application on Amazon EC2, then the first 62,000 emails each month are free.
Pro Reporting
Detailed reporting on all opens and clicks
Pro A large free plan for startups
Sendpulse offers a free plan of up to 25000 subscribers and unlimited emails or a dedicated IP address which sends up to 100000 emails a month for startups as long as they accept to insert the SendPulse logo in each of their emails.
Cons
Con Poor error handling
When email could not be received by the recipient due to some failure on their side, SES just drops it. No error recovery, reporting is not that great either.
Con Too lightweight
Since SES has been stripped down to do only one thing and do it well (send emails), there will be a lot of things missing which you will have to add on your own if you wish to have them.
Things like analytics, template hosting, design tools etc... are missing from SES. Although there are third-party tools that allow you to use Amazon SES's API to send emails with all the above features added.