The best email sending services, according to hackers
6 email sending services recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
- Most recommendedCloudflare Email Service27 people recommend it
- Least regretAmazon SES19 recommend, 11 criticize
All email sending services
- Cloudflare Email ServiceCheap per-email pricing and tight integration with Cloudflare Workers and other tools people already use. Most common caveat: no SMTP interface yet, and agent-sent mail may hurt deliverability.27recommend
- Amazon SESPeople recommend it as a cheap, reliable way to send email through SMTP or an API, with good deliverability. Common caveat: sending approval is hard to get.19recommend
- PostmarkPeople recommend Postmark as a cheap, reliable email API for sending transactional mail, with good deliverability and solid performance across projects.9recommend
- AWS SESPeople recommend AWS SES as a reliable, low-cost way to send email with strong deliverability, often a few dollars a month. The common caveat is that getting production access approved can take weeks and feels like a hassle.8recommend
- SMTP2GORecommended as a free SMTP relay for sending mail from your own domain, with good deliverability at low volumes.7recommend
- Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)Recommended for reliable, cheap email delivery through AWS, with per-use pricing people say is hard to beat. Critics find its editor clumsy and dislike the AWS tie-in.6recommend