SMTP.com vs. SendGrid Comparison


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About Reliable SMTP relay and email delivery services. Powerful email delivery services that enable you to send and track high volume emails effortlessly. Integrate and start sending in minutes. All your transactional, email relay and email delivery needs under one roof. Whether you need a low-latency email delivery provider for your transactional emails, scalable infrastructure for high-volume sends or reliable backend solution for your marketing campaigns, SMTP is built to deliver. Reputation Defender is SMTP’s proprietary technology that uses big data to proactively monitor your email list health and safeguard your domain and IP reputation among ISPs by suppressing bad emails in your sends from hard and soft bounces. This ensures your delivery rates and inbox placement incrementally gets better over time.	About Email is the backbone of your customer engagement. The Twilio SendGrid Email API is the email service trusted by developers and marketers for time-savings, scalability, and delivery expertise. Our flexible Email API and proprietary Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), intuitive console, powerful features, and email experts make it easy to ensure all your email gets delivered in seconds and without interruption. Monitor engagement data and optimize deliverability with our Deliverability Insights dashboard. Whether you’re sending 100 emails or 100 billion, SendGrid is built to scale. Integrate with our RESTful APIs and SMTP in minutes, with sample code libraries available in 7 languages, interactive docs, templates, and more.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Companies that want to send high volumes of emails and improve deliverability	Audience Companies of all sizes searching for an email API to deliver an exceptional email experience
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing $25 per month $25 for 50,000 emails / mo $80 for 100,000 emails / mo $300 for 500,000 emails / mo $500 for 1,000,000 emails / mo 24hr support with all plans! Free Version Free Trial	Pricing $19.95 per month Free - $0/mo for 100 emails/day forever Essentials - starting at $19.95/mo Pro - starting at $89.95/mo Premier - custom pricing Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 1.0 / 5 ease 1.0 / 5 features 1.0 / 5 design 1.0 / 5 support 1.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 3.9 / 5 ease 4.0 / 5 features 3.9 / 5 design 4.1 / 5 support 3.9 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros None, the product worked to begin with but when it stopped working the support was dreadful and they locked us in. N/A. Cons The smtp service itself has intermittent failures that are reluctantly admitted after battering down the support door several times to find out why sites aren't sending emails. Worse still they have a plugin that was heartily sold to me as the Wordpress plugin when I started with them - this was supported gingerly at first, then, it still being on version 1 was entirely disowned by them - despite the plugin having all their branding and their site details and being published and distributed on the Wordpress platforms ... by them. They simply deny it now, having pushed me towards it and supporting it initially. Bad SMTP. Bad dashboard. Bad support. Bad price. Bad advantages. Bad everything.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Ok, thanks for the opportunity, be honest, these are my feedback after useing, please check below. first pro: 80% successful rate to find right email. second pro: most of time input first name and family name with company website, i can find right email. Emails actually get delivered unlike some other email marketing services and transactional email services we were using prior to SendGrid. Almost nothing. The system is too barebones, can't put emojis in emails, very little actual customization, other platforms are much better. I did like that the software was easy to use. It had a very user-friendly interface and made things easy to navigate through. Uploading contacts was a streamlined process. Sendgrid allows our company to send updates to a vast array of consumers through email. The credentials built through Sendgrid software allow our emails to not end up in the Junk Folder. Cons First con: if a person has many job positions at different companies, you only can obtain the first company information and existing person emails. Second con: it can't link with more social channels, like Twitter or Instagram and can't grab email in pictures and PDF files, also many information shows in Google but can't be found here. Third con: RocketReach can find the right email but usually GetEmail can't. Fourth con: the cost is high for monthly, and can't get free credits most of times. That's all the cons I found, i have been using this tool for more than one and a half years, anyway, thank you very much, hope your team can improve and do better. No cons for our use cases. Does everything we need it to do. First of all the service didn't work. The campaigns wouldn't be sent at all and I had to call customer support. EVERY TIME. And it would take time, hours DAYS, every time. So we lost a lot in proper campaign timing, leads would get cold. We lost ROI there. I didn't like that their shared IP still got bad ratings. I used a few of their competitors before this, and was getting much better open rates using the same emails on the other platforms. I needed a lot of help setting up my account. It would be helpful to have a more user-friendly set up.
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Company Information Ziff Davis Founded: 1995 United States www.smtp.com	Company Information Twilio SendGrid Founded: 2009 United States sendgrid.com/en-us
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Categories Email APIs Email Deliverability Email Verification SMTP Transactional Email	Categories Bulk Email Drag and Drop Email Builders eCommerce Marketing Email APIs Email Deliverability Email Management Email Marketing Email Template Design Email Testing Email Tracking Email Verification Marketing Automation SMTP Transactional Email
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