Mailer To Go vs Amazon SES
Amazon SES is the low-cost, high-scale email engine inside AWS. It’s powerful and cheap per message — but bare-bones: you manage IAM, configuration sets, regions, the sandbox, and your own reputation tooling. Mailer To Go gives you managed transactional sending with the operational work handled for you.
At a glance
| Capability | Mailer To Go | Amazon SES |
|---|---|---|
| Transactional-email focus | Yes | General-purpose sending |
| SMTP relay | Yes | Yes |
| REST send API | In development | Yes (SESv2 / SDK) |
| Guided SPF / DKIM / DMARC | Yes | Manual (per-identity) |
| Managed subdomain via one delegated NS record (auto-rotated DNS) | Yes | Manual DNS records |
| Automatic bounce/complaint suppression | Yes | Account-level list (you wire up events) |
| Delivery event webhooks | Yes | Via SNS/configuration sets (you build it) |
| Managed dashboard & setup | Yes | Minimal; AWS console + IAM |
Mailer To Go starts at $15/mo for 25,000 emails with pay-as-you-go overage — see full pricing. Competitor pricing changes often; check their current published plans directly.
Where Amazon SES is strong
SES is hard to beat on raw per-email cost at very high volume, and if your stack already lives in AWS, the integration is right there. For teams with the ops capacity to run it, it scales enormously.
Where Mailer To Go is different
- Managed, not assembled. No IAM policies, configuration sets, regional endpoints, or sandbox to manage — provision and send.
- DNS handled for you via one delegated NS record with auto-rotated SPF/DKIM/DMARC. How.
- Reputation isolation on a dedicated subdomain by default.
- Config-var-native on Heroku, Addons.io, and Build.io.
The honest trade-off today: SES has a full API; our REST API is in development, so you send over SMTP (quickstart).
Migrating from Amazon SES
Export your SES suppression list, swap credentials, and cut over gradually. Step-by-step: How to migrate from Amazon SES to Mailer To Go. Broader comparison: Amazon SES alternatives.
FAQ
Is this more expensive than SES? SES wins on raw price; Mailer To Go’s value is the managed deliverability and the ops work you don’t do. Public pricing is coming.
Do I need AWS at all? No — Mailer To Go is independent of AWS.
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