Overall in email apis
8of 13 · score 58.5
Data coverage
96%
24 of 25 fields sourced
Best for
- •Catching and inspecting outbound mail in staging
- •Teams who want testing and sending under one account
- •Checking spam scores and HTML compatibility before a launch
Strong on
- +DKIM/DMARC friction 2 2/13
- +Log retention 30d 2/10
Weak on
- −Inbound parsing No 10/13Better: Postmark: Yes
- −Throughput ceiling 150 emails/hr 5/5Better: Amazon SES: 50,400 emails/hr
- −Price / 1k emails $1.5/1k 9/12Better: Amazon SES: $0.1/1k
- −Multi-domain sending Partial 9/13Better: Resend: Yes
vs Brevo
- •Ahead on IP warmup: Yes vs Partial
- •Ahead on Shared pool quality: 3 vs 2
- •Behind on Inbound parsing: No vs Yes
- •Behind on Free tier: 1,000 emails/mo vs 9,000 emails/mo
How Mailtrap scores among 13 email apis24 of 25 fields known
Features10
Time to first send
2h
7/13
Leader: Resend · 10min
Product scope
transactional-first
7/13
Leader: Loops · marketing-first
Inbound parsing
No
10/13
Leader: Postmark · Yes
Event webhooks
delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, unsubscribed
8/13
Leader: Amazon SES · delivered, opened, clicked, bounced, complained, deferred, unsubscribed, inbound
Hosted templates1st
visual-editor
1/13
React Email / MJML
handlebars
4/13
Leader: Resend · react-email, mjml
Log retention2nd
30d
2/10
Leader: Postmark · 45d
Throughput ceiling
150 emails/hr
5/5
Leader: Amazon SES · 50,400 emails/hr
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Data residency
us, eu
4/13
Leader: Amazon SES · us, eu, au, apac, sa, ca
Deliverability6
DKIM/DMARC friction2nd
2
2/13
Leader: Resend · 1
BIMI
Partial
4/11
Leader: Postmark · Yes
Suppression list1st
Yes
1/13
Bounce handling1st
Yes
1/13
Pricing4
Price / 1k emails
$1.5/1k
9/12
Leader: Amazon SES · $0.1/1k
Free tier
1,000 emails/mo
7/13
Leader: Brevo · 9,000 emails/mo
Dedicated IP
—
Pricing model
volume-tiers
5/13
Leader: Amazon SES · pay-as-you-go
Agentic2
llms.txt docs
No
6/13
Leader: Resend · Yes
Traction1
Funding
bootstrapped
10/13
Leader: Amazon SES · subsidiary
Positioning1
Positioning
"Email delivery platform", but the reason people arrive is still the staging sandbox, which remains the best in the category.
Timeline1
GA year
2013
8/13
Leader: Resend · 2023
AhaSend
Amazon SES
Brevo
Loops
MailerSend
Mailgun
Plunk
Postmark
