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Amazon SES API pricing

The cheapest at scale at $0.10/1k emails, with full AWS SDK coverage but raw, low-level DX.

Free tier or trialBilled pay-as-you-go per 1k emails·Verified Jun 27, 2026
Amazon SES API pricing at a glance: Outbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails, Inbound email $0.10 / 1,000 emails, Dedicated IP (standard) $24.95 / month per IP, Dedicated IP (managed) $15 / month per account
Free tier

3,000 messages/mo (first 12 mo)

Plans and prices

PlanPriceWhat it covers
Outbound email$0.10 / 1,000 emailsPay-as-you-go base rate, billed per recipient; plus $0.12 per GB of attachment data.
Inbound email$0.10 / 1,000 emailsPlus $0.09 per 1,000 incoming email chunks (256 KB each).
Dedicated IP (standard)$24.95 / month per IPManually managed dedicated IP addresses for reputation isolation.
Dedicated IP (managed)$15 / month per accountAuto-managed pool with tiered sending: $0.08/1k (0-10M), $0.04/1k (10-50M), $0.02/1k (50-100M).
Virtual Deliverability Managerfrom $0.07 / 1,000 emailsDeliverability advisor; tiered to $0.05/1k (10-100M) and $0.02/1k above 100M. Global add-on $1,250/mo per region.
Mail Manager$0.15 / 1,000 emails processedPlus $50/mo per ingress endpoint, $2/GB archive ingestion, $0.19/GB-month archive storage.

The pricing page, as we saw it

Amazon SES pricing page, captured for reference
Capture of aws.amazon.com. Captured from Germany, so some vendors show local prices or currency. Listed prices are verified Jun 27, 2026. The live page may differ.

Source: https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/. Prices change. Confirm on the vendor page before you commit.

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