Email API service

[anuveyatsu]

Options:

• Brevo (previously Sendinblue) - while it's OK I don't think UX is great.
• Sendgrid (part of Twilio) - we've been using it for a while generally OK.
• Mailchimp - we used it for sometime but then switched to Brevo, I think general experience and pricing were the issues.
• Mailgun - haven't tried
• Resend (backed by YC) https://resend.com/ - looks promising, esp, developer oriented – we could use it for transactional emails.
• https://loops.so/ (also backed by YC)
• Plunk - useplunk.com - not sure if other services support Markdown but it seems cool https://www.useplunk.com/blog/writing-emails-with-markdown

[Gutts-n]

@anuveyatsu Do you know the total number of emails and the average size of them sent monthly? Amazon provides an SMTP that can be cheaper depending on the number of emails and attachment sizes sent by it: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing

[anuveyatsu]

@Gutts-n for transactional emails, I believe the price is insignificant so I wouldn't compare on that basis. I am looking for the most dev friendly and easy-to-use stable option.

[luccasmmg]

I've used Resend and Mailgun, they are both fine for my needs, one thing to keep in mind is that those smaller services like Resend are essentially just a wrapper around AWS SES, the same way that Vercel is a wrapper around Lambda functions, so with increased usage we might find similar things to Vercel where they start charging for extra users etc.

There i also Postmark which is like all the other options in the list, a wrapper around SES

If it was up to just me i would use AWS SES, but other might find it confusing

[demenech]

A while ago, I was facing issues with an email server blocking password reset emails as spam, and after some research I ended up going with Resend, especially because it had a very easy to setup integration with Supabase. I had a great experience with it for transactional emails. UX is simple and great IMO.

Brevo is fine, but I had a bad experience with logging and debugging on TDC.

Others I haven't really used or can't recall the experience, but I think we wouldn't be able to completely drop tools like Mailchimp or Brevo because of the marketing features that wouldn't be included in Resend, for example.

[rufuspollock]

Started a dedicated page here: https://comparethe.co/Email+API+Services.

Let's add to that going forward.