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Cheapest at scale (1M+/mo)

Pure unit-cost ranking at million-message-a-month volumes.

criteria

  1. 01

    Amazon SES

    Transactional

    $0.10 per 1,000 emails. Nothing else comes close at unit cost.

  2. 02

    Cloudflare Email Service

    Inbound Transactional

    $0.35 per 1,000 in beta. Cheapest managed sender if deliverability holds up.

  3. 03

    SMTP2GO

    Transactional

    Tiered plans with full-feature parity at higher tiers.

  4. 04

    Mailgun

    Transactional

    Volume tiers competitive at scale; pay-as-you-go less so after Dec 2025.

  5. 05

    SparkPost

    Transactional

    Built for high-volume senders.

  6. 06

    SendGrid

    Transactional Marketing

    Reasonable at high volume but feature-gated.

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