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Add to SafariWhen comparing Mailjet vs Amazon SES, the Slant community recommends Mailjet for most people. In the question“What are the best transactional email services?” Mailjet is ranked 4th while Amazon SES is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Mailjet is:
Mailjet has a template designer included, along with the option to upload your own custom templates. This gives you a lot of flexibility in personalizing emails.
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Pros
Pro Powerful template design capabilities
Mailjet has a template designer included, along with the option to upload your own custom templates. This gives you a lot of flexibility in personalizing emails.
Pro Good interface
The interface is very nice. Clean and easy to understand, especially when it comes to analytics. The graphs are clear and well-organized and you can choose what kind of data to display through checkboxes on the top of the graphs.
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.
Cons
Con Customer service is not the greatest
Mailjet uses a ticket system to solve customer problems and answer questions related to the product. But usually they take a little bit of time to answer tickets and solve them.
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.
