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An easy-to-use Amazon SES alternative

Meet MailerSend, the Amazon Simple Email Service alternative that offers more flexible deployment options and increased functionality. You'll also enjoy award-winning customer support, responsive templates, advanced analytics and more.

MailerSend

World-class deliverability

With over 10 years of deliverability excellence under our belt, our experts protect your sender reputation and blocklist activity, ensuring inbox placement while reducing bounce rates and spam complaints.

Award-winning customer service

Our customer support team is with you at every step, providing friendly responses tailored to your specific queries. Whether you need help setting up, using advanced features, or integrating MailerSend with other apps, 24/7 support is just a click away.

93% satisfaction rate
100% response rate
24/7 support hours

Flexible deployment options

With comprehensive documentation and 7 regularly updated SDK libraries, getting started is easy—plug in our API or SMTP relay to your app and you’re all set! Plus, create seamless no-code integrations with Zapier to add triggers and automations.
Read our API docs
curl -X POST \
https://api.mailersend.com/v1/email \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer {place your token here without brackets}' \
    -d '{
        "from": {
            "email": "your@email.com"
        },
            "to": [
        {
            "email": "your@client.com"
        }
        ],
        "subject": "Hello from MailerSend!",
        "text": "Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.",
        "html": "

Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.

" }'
use MailerSend\MailerSend;
use MailerSend\Helpers\Builder\Recipient;
use MailerSend\Helpers\Builder\EmailParams;

$mailersend = new MailerSend(['api_key' => 'key']);

$recipients = [
new Recipient('your@client.com', 'Your Client'),
];

$emailParams = (new EmailParams())
->setFrom('your@email.com')
->setFromName('Your Name')
->setRecipients($recipients)
->setSubject('Subject')
->setHtml('

Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.

') ->setText('Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.'); $mailersend->email->send($emailParams);
php artisan make:mail ExampleEmail

Mail::to('you@client.com')->send(new ExampleEmail());
const Recipient = require("mailersend").Recipient;
const EmailParams = require("mailersend").EmailParams;
const MailerSend = require("mailersend");

const mailersend = new MailerSend({
    api_key: "key",
});

const recipients = [new Recipient("your@client.com", "Your Client")];

const emailParams = new EmailParams()
    .setFrom("your@email.com")
    .setFromName("Your Name")
    .setRecipients(recipients)
    .setSubject("Subject")
    .setHtml("

Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.

") .setText("Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend."); mailersend.send(emailParams);
package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    "time"

    "github.com/mailersend/mailersend-go"
)

var APIKey string = "Api Key Here"

func main() {
    ms := mailersend.NewMailersend(APIKey)

    ctx := context.Background()
    ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 5*time.Second)
    defer cancel()

    subject := "Subject"
    text := "Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend."
    html := "

Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.

" from := mailersend.From{ Name: "Your Name", Email: "your@email.com", } recipients := []mailersend.Recipient{ { Name: "Your Client", Email: "your@client.com", }, } variables := []mailersend.Variables{ { Email: "your@client.com", Substitutions: []mailersend.Substitution{ { Var: "foo", Value: "bar", }, }, }, } tags := []string{"foo", "bar"} message := ms.NewMessage() message.SetFrom(from) message.SetRecipients(recipients) message.SetSubject(subject) message.SetHTML(html) message.SetText(text) message.SetSubstitutions(variables) message.SetTags(tags) res, _ := ms.Send(ctx, message) fmt.Printf(res.Header.Get("X-Message-Id")) }
from mailersend import emails

mailer = emails.NewEmail()

mail_body = {}

mail_from = {
    "name": "Your Name",
    "email": "your@domain.com",
}

recipients = [
    {
        "name": "Your Client",
        "email": "your@client.com",
    }
]

mailer.set_mail_from(mail_from, mail_body)
mailer.set_mail_to(recipients, mail_body)
mailer.set_subject("Hello!", mail_body)
mailer.set_html_content("

Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.

", mail_body) mailer.set_plaintext_content("Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.", mail_body) mailer.send(mail_body)
require "mailersend-ruby"

# Intialize the email class
ms_email = Mailersend::Email.new

# Add parameters
ms_email.add_recipients("email" => "your@client.com", "name" => "Your Client")
ms_email.add_recipients("email" => "your@client.com", "name" => "Your Client")
ms_email.add_from("email" => "your@domain.com", "name" => "Your Name")
ms_email.add_subject("Hello!")
ms_email.add_text("Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.")
ms_email.add_html("Greetings from the team, you got this message through MailerSend.")

# Send the email
ms_email.send
MailerSend

Advanced analytics dashboard

View real-time analytics to make adjustments to sendings on the fly or create custom reports and export them at the click of a button. Access details about hard and soft bounces, opens clicks and more.

MailerSend

Built for teams

Effortlessly bring on your entire team with multiple users, roles and customization of user access to each domain’s settings and analytics. Non-technical teams will love the simple no-code integrations, user-friendly dashboard and drag & drop editor.

MailerSend

Professionally designed templates

Take your pick from the rich library of responsive templates and make them your own with the user-friendly drag & drop or Rich Text editor, for professional-looking emails that fit your brand design.

MailerSend

Inbuilt email verification

Give your email deliverability a boost and protect your sender reputation from harm by cleaning your recipient email list of catch-all emails, disposable emails, emails with typos and more.

MailerSend

Easy transactional SMS API

Get started sending transactional text messages in minutes with the developer-friendly API and encourage 2-way conversations with customers using inbound routing.

MailerSend

IP allowlist protection

Safeguard your account against unauthorized access to the API and SMTP credentials by adding trusted IP addresses to your IP allowlist.

How MailerSend features compare with Amazon SES

MailerSend has everything for developers and non-technical teams to contribute to transactional email, including flexible set-up options, advanced analytics and a rich library of professionally designed templates.
MailerSend Amazon SES
50,000 emails/month $30 $5
Email API, SMTP relay, webhooks
SMS API
Inbound routing
Bulk emailing
Suppression management
Email tracking & analytics
Drag & drop template builder
Rich text template editor
HTML template editor
IP pool management Deliverability Dashboard for reputation monitoring at $1,250/month
Dedicated IP Available for high-volume senders Available as an add-on
Email verification
24/7 email support
Live chat support Available for Premium and Enterprise plans Available via additional support plan
Onboarding assistance
Multiple users
User roles 5 roles and custom options are available
Multiple domains
∞ templates 250 for Premium plans, ∞ for Enterprise
30-day data retention 14 days on Premium and 30 days on Enterprise plan 14 days

How MailerSend prices compare with Amazon SES

MailerSend pricing is simple and transparent. You never pay extra for advanced functionality or better deliverability. Start with 3,000 emails/month free and only pay for every 1,000 emails thereafter. Upgrade to save money on additional emails and get more features.
MailerSend Amazon SES
Reputation monitoring Free $1,250
3,000 emails/month Free Free
50,000 $30 Free
100,000 $60 $4
250,000 $150 $19
500,000 $300 $44
750,000 $450 $69
1,000,000 $580 $94
1,500,000 $825 $144
2,000,000 $1100 $194
2,500,000 $1,375 $244
2,500,000+ Custom Custom

These estimations are based on Amazon EC2 hosting. Note there are additional charges for incoming/outgoing data, number of emails received, and additional features.

Frequently Asked Questions

What support is available?

24/7 customer support is available to all users, so whether you’re on a free or premium plan, you’ll always get a timely response. Premium users also enjoy 24/7 live chat and priority support.

How will you secure my transactional email campaigns?

MailerSend’s email delivery service is built on a secure email infrastructure, while our mail servers protect your email sendings with SPF, DKIM and DMARC security protocols. 

What’s more, our users go through an approval process to ensure that all accounts are legitimate and won’t be used for the purposes of spamming, protecting everyone’s email deliverability. 

You can always be confident that your sending domain is safe from unauthorized sendings and that your sender reputation remains intact.

Do you offer dedicated IP addresses?

Dedicated IPs are available for high volume senders. If you’d like to have a chat about whether a dedicated IP would be right for your business, get in touch.

Is the setup process complicated?

The goal of MailerSend’s email service is to take the hassle out of transactional email, that’s why we’ve made it easy to set up and maintain.

We provide clear, comprehensive documentation and 7 SDK libraries (PHP, Laravel, Node.js, Golang, Python, Ruby, Java) that are updated monthly. Developers can simply plug in our email API or SMTP relay and MailerSend will do the rest while low-coders can use our extensive library of integrations to connect their apps.

What happens if I go over my monthly email limit?

When you reach your monthly plan email limit, additional emails are charged on a pay as you go basis, per 1,000 at decremental rates depending on the plan size. This starts at $1.00/1,000.

You can upgrade at any time to save money on emails and get additional features.

Do you have any integrations?

We offer a variety of integrations including WooCommerce and WordPress. What’s more, you can integrate MailerSend with Zapier to connect with over 3,000 apps.

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Give MailerSend a try with a free account

Small business, enterprise or startup: Your whole team can quickly start working on transactional emails with no long-term commitments—start with 3,000 free emails per month, then pay as you go!

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