{"head":{"title":"Email API Pricing Compared: Cost per 1,000 Emails | OceanLab","description":"Transactional email API prices from Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun and Amazon SES: plans, included emails and overage per 1,000, checked at source.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/categories/email-api"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","category":"email-api","vendors":[{"id":"aws","name":"AWS","product":"Amazon Web Services (EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, SES, Cognito)","categories":["cloud-hosting","serverless","object-storage","cdn","databases","email-api","auth"],"source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"US East (N. Virginia), on-demand, Linux, USD. No Savings Plans or Reserved Instances. A month is 730 hours. Most prices come from AWS's official Price List API; CloudFront rates are for US edge locations.","plans":[{"id":"cloudfront-free","name":"CloudFront Free (flat-rate)","monthly":0,"summary":"Per distribution. 1M requests and 100GB data transfer a month, 5GB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-pro","name":"CloudFront Pro (flat-rate)","monthly":15,"summary":"Per distribution. 10M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 50GB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-business","name":"CloudFront Business (flat-rate)","monthly":200,"summary":"Per distribution. 125M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 1TB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-premium","name":"CloudFront Premium (flat-rate)","monthly":1000,"summary":"Per distribution. 500M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 5TB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-custom","name":"CloudFront Custom (flat-rate)","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom pricing through a specialist. No usage limit.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-essentials","name":"SES Essentials","monthly":0,"summary":"No monthly fee. New SES accounts start on this plan from July 21, 2026. $0.16 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-pro","name":"SES Pro","monthly":105,"summary":"$105 per account per region per month, plus $0.22 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-enterprise","name":"SES Enterprise","monthly":500,"summary":"$500 per account per region per month, plus $0.23 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"}],"meters":[{"id":"ec2-t4g-medium","kind":"vm-2cpu-4gb","label":"EC2 t4g.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Graviton2), Linux on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":24.528,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0336 per hour x 730 hours. Shared tenancy, no extra software. EBS storage is billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/20261023221355/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"ec2-t3-medium","kind":"vm-2cpu-4gb","label":"EC2 t3.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Intel), Linux on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":30.368,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0416 per hour x 730 hours. Shared tenancy. EBS storage is billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/20261023221355/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"lambda-requests","kind":"fn-requests","label":"Lambda requests","unit":"request","per":1000000,"price":0.2,"included":1000000,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0000002 per request. Free tier: 1M requests a month.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSLambda/20261022183959/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"lambda-gb-second","kind":"fn-gb-second","label":"Lambda duration (x86)","unit":"GB-second","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":400000,"price":0},{"upTo":6000000000,"price":0.0000166667},{"upTo":15000000000,"price":0.000015},{"upTo":null,"price":0.0000133334}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"x86 price. First 6 billion GB-seconds a month at $0.0000166667. Free tier: 400,000 GB-seconds a month. Billed per 1 ms.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSLambda/20261022183959/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-standard-storage","kind":"storage-gb","label":"S3 Standard storage","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":51200,"price":0.023},{"upTo":512000,"price":0.022},{"upTo":null,"price":0.021}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"First 50 TB a month at $0.023 per GB.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-put-requests","kind":"storage-ops","label":"S3 Standard PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests","unit":"request","per":1000,"price":0.005,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-get-requests","kind":"other","label":"S3 Standard GET and other requests","unit":"request","per":1000,"price":0.0004,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.004 per 10,000, shown here per 1,000.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"egress-internet","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Data transfer out to the internet (from us-east-1)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":100,"price":0},{"upTo":10240,"price":0.09},{"upTo":51200,"price":0.085},{"upTo":153600,"price":0.07},{"upTo":null,"price":0.05}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"First 10 TB at $0.09 per GB, after the free 100 GB. The 100 GB is shared across all AWS services and regions.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/20260916132208/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"cloudfront-gb-us","kind":"cdn-gb","label":"CloudFront data transfer out (United States, Mexico, Canada)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":1024,"price":0},{"upTo":10240,"price":0.085},{"upTo":51200,"price":0.08},{"upTo":153600,"price":0.06},{"upTo":512000,"price":0.04},{"upTo":1048576,"price":0.03},{"upTo":5242880,"price":0.025},{"upTo":null,"price":0.02}],"included":0,"note":"Pay-as-you-go. First 1 TB a month is free (Always Free tier), then $0.085 per GB up to 10 TB. Europe is the same for the first tiers.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCloudFront/20261019150500/aws-other/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"cloudfront-https-requests","kind":"cdn-requests","label":"CloudFront HTTPS requests (United States)","unit":"request","per":1000000,"price":1,"included":10000000,"note":"Page price is $0.0100 per 10,000 HTTPS requests, converted to per 1M. First 10M HTTP or HTTPS requests a month are free.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCloudFront/20261019150500/aws-other/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"rds-pg-t4g-micro","kind":"db-instance","label":"RDS for PostgreSQL db.t4g.micro, Single-AZ on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":11.68,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.016 per hour x 730 hours. Storage billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRDS/20261020003232/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"rds-pg-gp3","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"RDS for PostgreSQL gp3 storage, Single-AZ","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.115,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRDS/20261020003232/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"ses-outbound-alacarte","kind":"email","label":"SES outbound email (a la carte, no plan)","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0.1,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Attachments add $0.12 per GB.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/","plan":null},{"id":"ses-outbound-essentials","kind":"email","label":"SES outbound email on the Essentials plan","unit":"email","per":1000,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.16},{"upTo":100000000,"price":0.14},{"upTo":null,"price":0.11}],"included":0,"plan":"ses-essentials","region":"us-east-1","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"cognito-essentials-mau","kind":"mau","label":"Cognito Essentials MAU (direct or social sign-in)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"price":0.015,"included":10000,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Free tier of 10,000 MAUs per account, does not expire. SAML/OIDC users have only 50 free MAUs.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/","plan":null},{"id":"cognito-lite-mau","kind":"mau","label":"Cognito Lite MAU (direct or social sign-in)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":0.0055},{"upTo":1000000,"price":0.0046},{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.00325},{"upTo":null,"price":0.0025}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"The 10,000 free MAUs come first. We read the paid tiers as counted after them.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCognito/20261020233814/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null}],"notes":[{"title":"Free data transfer","detail":"The first 100 GB a month out to the internet is free. It is shared across all AWS services and regions, not per service."},{"title":"CloudFront free tier","detail":"Pay-as-you-go CloudFront includes 1 TB out and 10M HTTP or HTTPS requests a month, always free. Flat-rate plans are per distribution with no overage charges."},{"title":"Per-second billing","detail":"EC2 Linux on-demand is billed per second, with a 60-second minimum. Lambda duration is rounded up to the nearest 1 ms."},{"title":"Lambda and Cognito free tiers","detail":"Lambda includes 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds a month. Cognito Lite and Essentials include 10,000 MAUs a month, and this does not expire."}],"unverified":["CloudFront request price for Europe (only the US price is shown).","The RDS free tier for new accounts, since eligibility varies.","A free SES allowance: none was found on the SES page.","Where the Cognito Lite volume tiers start: we read them as counted after the 10,000 free MAUs."],"payg":true},{"id":"resend","name":"Resend","product":"Resend transactional email API","categories":["email-api"],"source":"https://resend.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, monthly billing (Resend has no annual plans). Transactional email plans only; smallest volume step of each plan shown.","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free","monthly":0,"summary":"3,000 emails a month, max 100 a day","source":"https://resend.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"pro","name":"Pro","monthly":20,"summary":"50,000 emails a month","source":"https://resend.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"scale","name":"Scale","monthly":90,"summary":"100,000 emails a month","source":"https://resend.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom volume and pricing","source":"https://resend.com/pricing.md"}],"meters":[{"id":"emails-pro","kind":"email","label":"Emails beyond the Pro plan","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0.9,"included":50000,"plan":"pro","note":"Only with pay-as-you-go overages turned on; billed in buckets of 1,000.","source":"https://resend.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"emails-scale","kind":"email","label":"Emails beyond the Scale plan (100k step)","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0.9,"included":100000,"plan":"scale","note":"Larger Scale steps have lower overage rates (down to $0.46 at 2.5M).","source":"https://resend.com/pricing.md"},{"id":"emails-free","kind":"email","label":"Free plan emails","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0,"included":3000,"plan":"free","note":"No overage on Free; capped at 100 emails a day.","source":"https://resend.com/pricing.md"}],"notes":[{"title":"Monthly only","detail":"Self-serve plans are billed monthly. There are no annual plans or annual discounts."},{"title":"Overage","detail":"Paid plans can keep sending past the quota if pay-as-you-go is on. Overage is billed in buckets of 1,000 emails at the plan's rate."},{"title":"Inbound counts","detail":"Each received email counts toward the transactional email quota."},{"title":"Marketing is separate","detail":"Broadcast (marketing) emails do not count against transactional limits; marketing plans are priced by contacts."}],"unverified":["Enterprise pricing is not published."]},{"id":"postmark","name":"Postmark","product":"Postmark transactional email","categories":["email-api"],"source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, monthly billing (no annual plans offered). Prices at the smallest 10,000 emails/month step.","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free (Developer)","monthly":0,"summary":"100 emails a month, no overages","source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing"},{"id":"basic","name":"Basic","monthly":15,"summary":"10,000 emails a month","source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing"},{"id":"pro","name":"Pro","monthly":16.5,"summary":"10,000 emails a month, inbound processing","source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing"},{"id":"platform","name":"Platform","monthly":18,"summary":"10,000 emails a month, unlimited sending domains","source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"emails-basic","kind":"email","label":"Extra emails on Basic","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":1.8,"included":10000,"plan":"basic","source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing"},{"id":"emails-pro","kind":"email","label":"Extra emails on Pro","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":1.3,"included":10000,"plan":"pro","source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing"},{"id":"emails-platform","kind":"email","label":"Extra emails on Platform","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":1.2,"included":10000,"plan":"platform","source":"https://postmarkapp.com/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free plan","detail":"The free Developer plan includes 100 emails every month and never expires. No overages are allowed on it."},{"title":"No annual plans","detail":"Postmark does not offer annual plans right now."},{"title":"Volume steps","detail":"Each plan starts at 10,000 emails a month; higher volume steps cost more per month."}],"unverified":["Prices for higher volume steps (slider) were not captured."]},{"id":"sendgrid","name":"Twilio SendGrid","product":"SendGrid Email API","categories":["email-api"],"source":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, monthly billing. sendgrid.com/en-us/pricing redirects to twilio.com; plan data read from twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing. Smallest volume step of each plan.","plans":[{"id":"free-trial","name":"Free Trial","monthly":0,"summary":"100 emails a day for 60 days","source":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing"},{"id":"essentials","name":"Essentials","monthly":19.95,"summary":"50,000 emails a month","source":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing"},{"id":"pro","name":"Pro","monthly":89.95,"summary":"100,000 emails a month, dedicated IP included","source":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing"},{"id":"premier","name":"Premier","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom pricing","source":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"emails-essentials","kind":"email","label":"Emails included in Essentials 50k","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0,"included":50000,"plan":"essentials","note":"Overage rate is not published on the page.","source":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing"},{"id":"emails-pro","kind":"email","label":"Emails included in Pro 100k","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0,"included":100000,"plan":"pro","note":"Overage rate is not published on the page.","source":"https://www.twilio.com/en-us/products/email-api/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free is a trial","detail":"The free tier is a 60-day trial at 100 emails a day, not a forever plan."},{"title":"Volume steps","detail":"Essentials 100k is $34.95/mo. Pro goes from $89.95 (100k) up to $1,099 (2.5M)."},{"title":"Overage","detail":"Sending past the plan's volume may add overage charges; the page does not state the rate."}],"unverified":["Per-email overage rate is not shown on the pricing page.","Premier pricing is custom."]},{"id":"mailgun","name":"Mailgun","product":"Mailgun Send email API","categories":["email-api"],"source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, monthly billing. Smallest volume step of each plan. Overage rates are 'from' rates.","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free","monthly":0,"summary":"100 emails a day","source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/"},{"id":"basic","name":"Basic","monthly":15,"summary":"10,000 emails a month","source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/"},{"id":"foundation","name":"Foundation","monthly":35,"summary":"50,000 emails a month, 1 month free trial","source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/"},{"id":"scale","name":"Scale","monthly":90,"summary":"100,000 emails a month, 1 month free trial","source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/"}],"meters":[{"id":"emails-basic","kind":"email","label":"Extra emails on Basic","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":1.8,"included":10000,"plan":"basic","note":"Listed as 'from' rate.","source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/"},{"id":"emails-foundation","kind":"email","label":"Extra emails on Foundation","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":1.3,"included":50000,"plan":"foundation","note":"Listed as 'from' rate.","source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/"},{"id":"emails-scale","kind":"email","label":"Extra emails on Scale","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":1.1,"included":100000,"plan":"scale","note":"Listed as 'from' rate.","source":"https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free plan","detail":"Free sends up to 100 emails a day with 1 custom sending domain."},{"title":"Billing timing","detail":"Plan cost plus extra emails are billed at the start of each month for the previous month; first month is prorated."},{"title":"Dedicated IPs","detail":"Extra dedicated IPs are $59 per IP per month."}],"unverified":["Exact overage rates at higher volume steps (page says 'from')."]}],"vendorPages":["aws","azure","cloudflare","digitalocean","firebase","fly-io","google-cloud","mongodb-atlas","neon","netlify","planetscale","render","supabase","vercel","algolia","google-maps","mapbox","paddle","plaid","postmark","resend","sendgrid","stripe","twilio"],"leftOut":[],"siblings":[{"label":"CDN pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cdn","detail":"Priced on 1 TB of CDN traffic and 10M requests a month."},{"label":"Cloud hosting pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cloud-hosting","detail":"Priced on one 2 vCPU / 4 GB server running all month, with 200 GB of egress."},{"label":"Database pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/databases","detail":"Priced on the smallest paid always-on database with 20 GB of storage."},{"label":"Edge functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/edge-functions","detail":"Priced on 20M edge function requests a month."},{"label":"Object storage pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/object-storage","detail":"Priced on 500 GB stored, 1 TB downloaded and 1M writes a month."},{"label":"Serverless functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/serverless","detail":"Priced on 10M invocations and 1M GB-seconds a month."},{"label":"Product analytics pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/analytics","detail":"Priced on 5M events a month."},{"label":"Auth pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/auth","detail":"Priced on 20,000 monthly active users."},{"label":"Banking data API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/banking-data","detail":"Priced on 500 verified bank accounts a month."},{"label":"Error monitoring pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/error-monitoring","detail":"Priced on 100,000 errors a month."},{"label":"KYC and identity verification pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/kyc-identity","detail":"Priced on 500 identity verifications a month."},{"label":"Maps API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/maps","detail":"Priced on 100,000 web map loads and 50,000 geocodes a month."},{"label":"Observability pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/observability","detail":"Priced on 10 hosts and 200 GB of logs a month."},{"label":"Payments pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/payments","detail":"Priced on 1,000 card payments of $50 a month."},{"label":"Search API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/search-api","detail":"Priced on 100,000 searches a month."},{"label":"SMS API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/sms","detail":"Priced on 10,000 SMS to US numbers a month."}],"faqs":[{"question":"Which email API vendor is cheapest?","answer":"For 100,000 emails a month, AWS comes out lowest at about $10.00 a month on list prices, and Postmark highest at about $126.00, checked 2026-10-25. A different workload can change the order, so enter your own numbers in the estimator."},{"question":"How is the estimate worked out?","answer":"Each vendor is priced on its cheapest plan that lists a rate for every line of the workload: the plan fee plus each usage line, after any free or included amount. A plan's monthly minimum counts as a floor. Volume tiers are applied in order. Taxes, discounts and committed-use deals are left out."},{"question":"How current are these prices?","answer":"Every rate was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-25 and links to it. Prices change often: check the vendor's page before you commit, and tell us if a number here is out of date."}]}