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Amazon SES pricing (2026)
Prices on this page come from Amazon SES's official pricing page, checked 21 August 2026: aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/. Monthly billing, prices exactly as shown by the vendor, captured and dated by InboxRatio Editorial.
Summary — generated from our pricing datasets
Amazon SES' pricing page lists 3 transactional email plans, with no free plan. The cheapest paid plan is A-la-carte at $5/mo. At 50,000 emails/mo, A-la-carte at $5/mo is both the cheapest covering plan and the functional tier, the cheapest one with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications. At 500,000 emails/mo, the functional price is $50/mo on A-la-carte. Averaged across our 3-point volume ladder, those functional prices sit at percentile 0.0 among the 10 transactional email services we price (0 = cheapest), which places Amazon SES in the Budget price band. Published extras include overage from $0.10 per 1,000 emails and a dedicated IP from $24.95/mo. Every price is as shown by Amazon SES, captured with the monthly billing toggle active and promotions excluded, and was last checked on 21 August 2026.
From Amazon SES's official pricing page
Amazon SES transactional email plans
| Tier | Monthly price | Annual-billed | What's included | Overage /1k |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $8/mo | — | — | $0.16 |
| Pro | $116/mo | — | — | $0.22 |
| A-la-carte | $5/mo | — | — | $0.10 |
Checked 21 August 2026 on Amazon SES's official pricing page · monthly billing toggle active, promotions excluded, currency as shown. “—” = not published on the captured tier.
Entry tier vs functional tier
Entry tier
$5/mo
A-la-carte — the cheapest paid plan on the page.
Functional tier at 50,000 emails/mo
$5/mo
A-la-carte — the cheapest tier with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications.
From our pricing-by-volume dataset
What Amazon SES costs by email volume
| Volume | Cheapest covering plan | Functional tier | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50,000 emails/mo | $5/mo | $5/mo(A-la-carte) | 19 August 2026 |
| 100,000 emails/mo | $10/mo | $10/mo(A-la-carte) | 21 August 2026 |
| 500,000 emails/mo | $50/mo | $50/mo(A-la-carte) | 21 August 2026 |
Monthly billing, prices as shown. Where Amazon SES has no exact step at a volume, the nearest covering step was captured. Functional tier = the cheapest tier with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications.
Free plan, trial and extras
- Free plan
- No perpetual free plan listed
- Overage
- Essentials $0.16 per 1,000 emails · Pro $0.22 per 1,000 emails · A-la-carte $0.10 per 1,000 emails
- Dedicated IP
- Essentials $24.95/mo · A-la-carte $24.95/mo
What each tier unlocks
| Tier | API access |
|---|---|
| Essentials | yes |
| Pro | yes |
| A-la-carte | yes |
Per-tier clauses as recorded in our pricing dataset (checked 21 August 2026); “limited” = capped or partial, “not stated” = not documented by the vendor.
How Amazon SES pricing compares
$ Budget price band in transactional email — average functional-price percentile 0.0 across 3 volumes, among the 10 services we price (0 = cheapest).
- 50,000 emails/mo: #1 of 10
- 100,000 emails/mo: #1 of 10
- 500,000 emails/mo: #1 of 10
From our feature matrix — documented by the vendor
Headline features
- Marketing campaigns'Create and send targeted marketing campaigns, newsletters, promotional offers' — sending infrastructure; no campaign-builder suite
- Transactional email'Automate transactional messages' — 'purchase or shipping notifications'
- SMTP relay'the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) interface, and the Amazon SES API'
- Workflow builderNot offered (Mail Manager rules apply to inbound mail, not marketing workflows)
- API'integrate into any application for high-volume email automation' — SES API v2
- WebhooksEvent destinations via Amazon SNS/CloudWatch publishing rather than plain HTTP webhooks
- Dedicated IPStandard + managed dedicated IPs 'reserved for your exclusive use by leasing them for an additional cost' (fee per IP or managed monthly fee + per-message)
- SMSNot offered in SES (SMS lives in other AWS services)
Features checked 10 September 2026. ✓ documented · ◐ limited or plan-gated · × documented as absent · — not documented.
Generated from our datasets — every value verified and dated
Frequently asked questions
How much does Amazon SES cost?
Paid Amazon SES transactional email plans start at $5/mo (A-la-carte), according to Amazon SES' official pricing page as checked on 21 August 2026. At 50,000 emails/mo, the functional tier is A-la-carte at $5/mo.
Is there a free Amazon SES plan?
No. Amazon SES' pricing page lists no perpetual free plan. Checked 21 August 2026.
What does Amazon SES cost at 100,000 emails a month?
At 100,000 emails/mo, Amazon SES' A-la-carte tier costs $10/mo; it is both the cheapest covering plan and the functional tier (prices as shown, checked 21 August 2026).
What does Amazon SES' functional tier include?
At 50,000 emails/mo, A-la-carte ($5/mo) is the cheapest Amazon SES tier with a custom sending domain and webhook event notifications. We compare transactional email services on this functional tier rather than on the headline entry price. Transactional Email pricing compared.
When was Amazon SES pricing last checked?
On 21 August 2026, from Amazon SES' official pricing page (https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/). Every price on this page carries its capture date.