Loops vs Amazon SES
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Loops and Amazon SES.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
Loops
0 reviews
4.0/5
Amazon SES
0 reviews
Amazon SES is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.9). Loops is an email platform for SaaS companies that combines marketing, transactional and lifecycle email, priced by subscribed contacts with unlimited sends on paid plans. New accounts get up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits with a 6-month free plan; the old 62,000/month EC2 allowance is no longer listed on the pricing page
Loops Email platform for SaaS: marketing, transactional and lifecycle email in one |  Amazon SES Cheapest bulk email API — $0.10 per 1,000 emails | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | pay-as-you-go |
| Starting price | Free tier available | Free tier available |
| Best for | SaaS teams that want marketing, lifecycle and transactional email in one developer-friendly product with unlimited sends and predictable contact-based pricing — especially those with engaged, modest-sized lists. | Engineering teams on AWS sending transactional or bulk email at volume who want the lowest per-email cost and can own deliverability operations. |
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| IPv6 | ||
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| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tierapi access | free tierapi accessus datacentereu datacenterapac datacenter |
| Visit Loops → | Visit Amazon SES → | |
Loops
Pros
- + Unlimited marketing and transactional sends on every paid plan, priced by contacts
- + Marketing and transactional email share one platform and one contact model
- + Free plan stores unlimited contacts and includes all platform features
- + No per-seat charges and no credit card required to start
- + Refreshingly candid pricing documentation, including machine-readable pricing
- + Developer-first API with SDKs for transactional and marketing sends
Cons
- - Steep jump from the free plan (1,000 contacts) to the first paid tier ($49/month)
- - Dormant subscribed contacts cost money every month — list hygiene is mandatory
- - Thinner automation and segmentation depth than mature marketing platforms
- - Small vendor (YC W22, roughly a dozen people) with a short track record
- - No published SLA outside Enterprise; infrastructure and deliverability details are scarce
Amazon SES
Pros
- + Lowest published per-email rate: $0.10 per 1,000 emails, no plan required
- + Same-region integration with EC2, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch
- + Transparent pricing page covering add-ons and plan bands
- + Global Endpoints for multi-region sending resilience
- + Scales to very high volume without provisioning infrastructure
Cons
- - Sandbox start (200 messages/day to verified recipients) with an opaque production-access review
- - No marketing tooling, templates, or dashboards — it is a pipe, not a suite
- - Dedicated IPs, attachments, and deliverability add-ons inflate the real bill
- - Deliverability and IP warm-up are your responsibility
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