Prompt
I'm building an app that will send a lot of billing notices and password resets. What service should I use?
Latest observation
Oct 5, 2026
OpenAI APIWeb search: off
For billing notices and password resets, you should use a transactional email service rather than a marketing email tool.
Good options:
- Postmark — excellent for transactional email, strong deliverability, simple setup
- SendGrid — flexible and widely used, more feature-rich
- Mailgun — good API and developer tooling
- Amazon SES — very cost-effective if you’re comfortable with AWS
- Resend — modern developer-friendly option
What to look for:
- High deliverability
- Fast sending
- API/SMTP support
- Bounce and complaint handling
- Domain authentication support: SPF, DKIM, DMARC
- Separate transactional from marketing mail if you do both
If you want a quick recommendation:
- Best overall for transactional notices: Postmark
- Best low-cost at scale: Amazon SES
- Best general-purpose: SendGrid
If you want, I can also help you pick based on your stack, expected volume, and budget.