Great move. Will probably switch to it immediately from Sendgrid as soon as it goes GA.
Sendgrid recently killed their free tier (100 emails per day) and their lowest plan is now $20/month for 50,000 emails. It's totally overkill for low traffic projects.
Even with those pricing structures, 95%[1] of the spam I get comes from sendgrid. To their credit, their abuse@ address is good at handling the reports and they reply with a followup that the report was received and able to be acted upon[2].
The volume of spam (for me) doesn't seem to be decreasing from them, so there's a lot of moles to whack.
[1] Just a guess from looking at the last weeks
[2] I know it's automated, but often there's 2 that come with the 2nd one stating it's acted upon, so i'm hopeful.
These services are just spam-circumvention as a service. It's cheaper and easier to pay 20 bucks to sendgrid and let them fight the fight with google/microsoft/yahoo than to circumvent spam protections of the big providers.
You can very reasonably and reliably expect spam amount to correlate with the cost of sending said spam or expected return. At any service. There used to be a time where you HAD to check your mailbox several times a week or it would (literally) overflow with spam.
Yes, honestly been much more reliable than my previous provider (mailgun). Their IPs were constantly getting on spam blocklists with yahoo and hotmail. No issues with zepto so far, been using about 9 months.
> Sendgrid recently killed their free tier (100 emails per day) and their lowest plan is now $20/month for 50,000 emails. It's totally overkill for low traffic projects.
With a pricing structure like that it appears they became too tired of verifying/validating users to not send spam. Unfortunately I don't blame them.
$10/year for 10,000 messages/year is 10 cents per message. (Or some other volume at 10 cents/message.) Surely too high for spammers but cheap enough for an app with a low message volume.
Well, I was responding to your claim that "it appears they became too tired of verifying/validating users to not send spam" is the reason for killing their low-volume free tier. It's a different story if they dropped the free tier to focus on large-volume customers.
Sure, and then the spammers figure out how to fool the checks. And sendgrid has to figure out how to detect the new and improved spammers. Then the spammers figure out how to fool the new and improved checks... and so on.
The part where sendgrid has to keep figuring out how to make new and improved validation is expensive.
Re: Sendgrid killing their free tier - I used them for the contact form on my personal website, and after they ended the free tier I was able to move to Resend (who has a similar free tier) without too much work. Pretty happy with it so far.
Sounds expensive. Amazon SES has 1k emails/month included for free (if you use an API to send). When sending via SMTP that quota does not apply, but still 1k Emails just costs 0.1$ (yes, 10 cents). I do not use any other AWS services but SES for my emails because of the pricing, I host everything else on Hetzner.
That doesn't seem like even close to the truth, else Amazon SES would have no business. I use it myself in my Webapp to deliver signup verification and haven't gotten a single complaint so far.
Thanks for recommending mailpace, £7.50/month for 10,000 emails is very reasonable, _and_ they support idempotency! Definitely makes me consider switching to them..
Sendgrid recently killed their free tier (100 emails per day) and their lowest plan is now $20/month for 50,000 emails. It's totally overkill for low traffic projects.