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Mailchimp appears to be offering unique emails from $5 per thousand! They appear to have significant discounts for emailing lists, but even at $12903 for 24.8 m

by Jabbles 16y ago

Mailchimp appears to be offering unique emails from $5 per thousand! They appear to have significant discounts for emailing lists, but even at $12903 for 24.8 million emails, that's still $.52 per thousand. http://www.mailchimp.com/pricing http://www.mailchimp.com/pricing Data transfer rates still apply for Amazon, but still... am I missing something?

jonknee 16y ago
I think they are more for the mom-and-pop business who wants an email list, not web apps that need to send email (which was always a sore spot for EC2 customers). That's why I compared it to Postcard, which is directly marketed as email for web apps. It would certainly be possible to run a Mail Chimp-esque email list with this, but it would take a lot more technical know-how (at minimum you need to create your own views for subscribe/unsubscribe/send). Or at least it will until someone starts selling a wrapper around it for a small mark-up...
DXL 16y ago
You're missing the fact that Mailchimp offers an entire email marketing app whereas Amazon offers an email deliverability web service. They each have completely different features and are in a different market.
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kule 16y ago
Yeah but don't forget you are buying MailChimps' UI for that too. It may not be the best but it's definitely usable for a non-technical user. However for your own custom interface this is going to be the obvious choice.
eli 16y ago
I really like Mailchimp, but it's just not geared for high-volume sending. If you were going to be sending into the millions, you would typically be looking at someone like Lyris or Silverpop. Edit: Mailchimp does a really good job of holding your hand and providing support. Amazon SES does not even provide basic analytics like open rates and click tracking.
jsdalton 16y ago
These are not really comparable products. MailChimp is an email broadcast and subscription management service. It's for sending things like email newsletters and marketing campaigns. SES/Postmark/Sendgrid are more for one-to-one type communications, e.g. delivering your application's forgot password email.
- Jabbles 16y ago
  Ah, thanks for that clarification. However, I would have thought that the "one-to-one type communications" would be more expensive (per email), than sending to lists. Amazon seems to allow both, at a much lower cost.
  - jsdalton 16y ago
    Yeah, well keep in mind a few things: * Until today, MailChimp was by far the cheapest option, esp. if you compare them against similar services, e.g. Campaign Monitor. * Mailchimp is a lot more than a dumb email server...it's a list management service, it offers stats, a pretty robust API, etc. You'd have to spend a lot of time to build up those capabilities around SES. * I'm not sure SES is meant to handle the volume MailChimp handles. (I don't mean technically, I more mean what is allowed by Amazon.) Just a few thoughts from a pretty well satisfied MailChimp customer. (I'm also a SendGrid customer, and you can bet I'll be taking a close look at SES as a replacement for that service.)

by Jabbles 16y ago

jonknee 16y ago

I think they are more for the mom-and-pop business who wants an email list, not web apps that need to send email (which was always a sore spot for EC2 customers). That's why I compared it to Postcard, which is directly marketed as email for web apps. It would certainly be possible to run a Mail Chimp-esque email list with this, but it would take a lot more technical know-how (at minimum you need to create your own views for subscribe/unsubscribe/send). Or at least it will until someone starts selling a wrapper around it for a small mark-up...

DXL 16y ago

You're missing the fact that Mailchimp offers an entire email marketing app whereas Amazon offers an email deliverability web service. They each have completely different features and are in a different market.

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kule 16y ago

Yeah but don't forget you are buying MailChimps' UI for that too. It may not be the best but it's definitely usable for a non-technical user. However for your own custom interface this is going to be the obvious choice.

eli 16y ago

I really like Mailchimp, but it's just not geared for high-volume sending. If you were going to be sending into the millions, you would typically be looking at someone like Lyris or Silverpop. Edit: Mailchimp does a really good job of holding your hand and providing support. Amazon SES does not even provide basic analytics like open rates and click tracking.

jsdalton 16y ago

These are not really comparable products. MailChimp is an email broadcast and subscription management service. It's for sending things like email newsletters and marketing campaigns. SES/Postmark/Sendgrid are more for one-to-one type communications, e.g. delivering your application's forgot password email.

Jabbles 16y ago
Ah, thanks for that clarification. However, I would have thought that the "one-to-one type communications" would be more expensive (per email), than sending to lists. Amazon seems to allow both, at a much lower cost.
- jsdalton 16y ago
  Yeah, well keep in mind a few things: * Until today, MailChimp was by far the cheapest option, esp. if you compare them against similar services, e.g. Campaign Monitor. * Mailchimp is a lot more than a dumb email server...it's a list management service, it offers stats, a pretty robust API, etc. You'd have to spend a lot of time to build up those capabilities around SES. * I'm not sure SES is meant to handle the volume MailChimp handles. (I don't mean technically, I more mean what is allowed by Amazon.) Just a few thoughts from a pretty well satisfied MailChimp customer. (I'm also a SendGrid customer, and you can bet I'll be taking a close look at SES as a replacement for that service.)