Prompt
SES is complicated. What should I use instead?
Latest observation
If you mean Amazon SES for sending email, the “best” replacement depends on what you need most:
Good alternatives
- Postmark — best if you want simple, reliable transactional email with great deliverability and easy setup.
- SendGrid — good if you want a popular all-purpose email platform with SMTP/API, templates, and marketing-ish features.
- Mailgun — strong for developers and transactional email, with decent flexibility.
- Resend — very developer-friendly, modern, and simple, especially for app emails.
- SparkPost — solid deliverability and analytics, more enterprise-leaning.
- Brevo (Sendinblue) — nice if you want email + marketing automation in one place.
- Mailchimp Transactional (Mandrill) — if you already use Mailchimp, though it’s less “simple” than Postmark/Resend.
My quick recommendation
- For app/transactional email: Postmark or Resend
- For a broader platform: SendGrid
- For marketing + email in one: Brevo
If you want the least headache
Use Postmark if your main goal is:
- password resets
- signup confirmations
- receipts/invoices
- notifications
It’s one of the easiest “SES replacements” for transactional email.
If you want, I can also give you a 2-minute decision guide based on your use case, budget, and whether you need SMTP or API.
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