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Amazon SES pricing
Amazon SES publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 1 September 2026, Amazon SES pricing is on request across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Per 1,000 emails sent, tiered by volume, no campaign features included
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Amazon SES plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
| Pro | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise | On request | 3 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Essentials
On requestThe entry tier. It covers $0.16 per 1,000 emails up to 10 million a month, $0.14 per 1,000 from 10 to 100 million a month, $0.11 per 1,000 above 100 million a month, no fixed monthly fee.
Pro
On requestOver Essentials, this tier adds:
- $0.22 per 1,000 emails up to 10 million a month, scaling down at volume
- $105 fixed monthly fee per account per region
- Higher sending limits and support options
Enterprise
On requestOver Pro, this tier adds:
- $0.23 per 1,000 emails up to 10 million a month, scaling down at volume
- $500 fixed monthly fee per account per region
- Highest support tier and sending limits
What the product covers
The full Amazon SES feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Send and receive API
- Deliverability infrastructure
- Bounce and complaint handling
- Mail Manager
- Configuration sets
- Dedicated IP options
People bring Amazon SES in for an engineering team sending transactional email (receipts, password resets, alerts) at a volume where per-message cost dominates the decision, a company building its own email product or newsletter tool on aws and wanting to own the campaign layer itself, a business already deep in aws infrastructure wanting to avoid adding a separate marketing-platform vendor for pure transactional sending, a high-volume sender for whom ses's per-thousand rate is materially cheaper than a marketing platform's equivalent volume pricing. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Amazon SES are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Email Marketing
Too few email marketing tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon SES (this page) | On request | Per 1,000 emails sent, tiered by volume, no campaign features included | - | |
| Zoho Campaigns | Free | Per month by contact tier once on a paid plan | - | vs Amazon SES |
| Campaign Monitor | On request | Per month by contact tier and plan level | - | vs Amazon SES |
| Listmonk | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Amazon SES |
| Attentive | On request | quote | - | vs Amazon SES |
| Keila | Free, then €8/month | Per month by emails sent | - | vs Amazon SES |
| Ortto | On request | quote | - | vs Amazon SES |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Amazon SES badges page.
Before you pay for Amazon SES
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Amazon SES against the tools that do have one before committing.
Amazon SES runs on web, and is published by Amazon Web Services, Inc. of Seattle, Washington, United States. The full record is on the Amazon SES review, and the rest of the category is under best email marketing tools.
Amazon SES pricing questions
- How much does Amazon SES cost?
- Amazon SES publishes 3 tiers, from On request for Essentials up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Amazon SES have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Amazon SES is listed as Per 1,000 emails sent, tiered by volume, no campaign features included. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Essentials and Pro on Amazon SES?
- Pro costs On request against On request, and adds $0.22 per 1,000 emails up to 10 million a month, scaling down at volume, $105 fixed monthly fee per account per region, higher sending limits and support options.
- Which email marketing tools can I use without paying?
- 3 of the 8 email marketing tools listed alongside Amazon SES have a free tier: Zoho Campaigns, Listmonk, Keila.
- What am I actually paying for with Amazon SES?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for an engineering team sending transactional email (receipts, password resets, alerts) at a volume where per-message cost dominates the decision, a company building its own email product or newsletter tool on aws and wanting to own the campaign layer itself, a business already deep in aws infrastructure wanting to avoid adding a separate marketing-platform vendor for pure transactional sending.
- Does Amazon SES charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Amazon SES prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Amazon SES against before paying?
- The closest email marketing tools in this directory are Zoho Campaigns, Campaign Monitor, Listmonk, Attentive. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Amazon SES covering price, platforms and features.