Compare · October 2026
SendPanda vs Amazon SES.
SendPanda sends on Amazon SES. Growth is $29 for 100,000 emails and includes the dashboard, editor, webhooks, suppression and an inbox, without an AWS account.
Price
Public list prices.
100,000 emails a month
Amazon SES on-demand against SendPanda Growth, October 2026. The SES bar is the mail price, not the time to operate it.
Amazon SES on-demand for 100,000 emails is about $10. SendPanda Growth is $29 for the same 100,000, and that price includes newsletters and the inbox. You are paying for the product around SES.
In this comparison SES has no visual editor, and the dashboard, events and suppression are yours to build. Incoming mail is also yours to build. SendPanda adds those. Sending runs in Stockholm, and message bodies are encrypted at rest.
The free tier on SES is credits. SendPanda Free is 1,000 emails a month, including 1 mailbox, and it does not ask for a card.
Features
Feature by feature.
| Feature | SendPanda | Amazon SES |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1,000 / month | Credits only |
| 100k emails a month | $29 | $10 + your time |
| Newsletters and audiences | Included | |
| Visual email editor | ||
| Receive email at your domain | Inbox, replies and forwarding | Build it yourself |
| Dashboard, events and suppression | Build it yourself |
Postmark Pro: $16.50 for 10,000 plus $1.30 per extra 1,000. SendGrid Essentials, Resend Pro, Mailgun Scale and Amazon SES on-demand rates. Prices change; check each provider before you decide. Resend includes 3 inboxes, with incoming and outgoing inbox messages using its transactional quota. SendPanda has separate incoming limits; replies and forwarding use the sending quota. Other receiving options include inbound webhooks or routing rules.
SendPanda
Where we fit.
You want SES delivery without operating an AWS account, and you send at most 200,000 emails a month.
Amazon SES
Where Amazon SES fits.
You send millions of emails a month. Use Amazon SES directly. SendPanda's largest plan is 200,000 a month; email us about Enterprise for dedicated IPs or more.
Switch
Moving a send call.
- Verify the domain. Publish three DNS records. We check them record by record.
- Create a key. A send-only key is enough for your app.
- Swap the call. You call SendPanda instead of SES. There is no AWS account to operate, and templates can be pasted in as HTML.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Does SendPanda use Amazon SES?
Yes. We run on Amazon SES and pass the savings on. You do not need an AWS account. You still get a dashboard, editor, webhooks, suppression and an inbox for your domain.
When should I use SES directly?
When you send millions of emails a month. SendPanda's largest plan is 200,000 emails a month; email us about Enterprise for dedicated IPs or more volume.
When we're not the right fit: if you send millions of emails a month, Amazon SES directly or SendGrid Pro will serve you better. Our largest plan is 200,000 a month; for dedicated IPs or more volume, email us about Enterprise. And if you need Outlook or Apple Mail to connect straight to a mailbox, that is not ready yet: our inbox is for support-style mail with daily limits, and you can forward any mailbox to Outlook or Gmail meanwhile.
Send, receive and design email. A few DNS records away.
Free for 1,000 emails a month. No card needed.