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Amazon SES
Email service that sends and receives mail through an API, SMTP or SDKs, with delivery events published to AWS services.
Billing
- Pricing model
- Pay as you go by emails sent and received; optional monthly plans (Essentials, Pro, Enterprise) or à la carte1
- Free tier
- Up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits for new AWS customers; credits must be used within 12 months of account creation1
- Card required for free tier
- Not published
- Minimum spend
- None on à la carte pricing1
- Minimum spend (plans)
- Pro $105 and Enterprise $500 a month per account per region; Essentials has no fixed fee1
- Billing period
- Monthly, per account and per region2
Prices
Unit is $ per 1,000 emails. Example from the pricing page: 250,000 emails of 32 KB on Essentials is 250,000 × $0.16 / 1,000 = $40.00 plus $0.96 attachment data.
- Outbound email, default plan (Essentials), first 10M emails a month
- $0.16 per 1,000 emails1
- Outbound email, default plan: how new accounts start
- New accounts start on Essentials1
- Outbound email, advertised à la carte
- $0.10 per 1,000 emails1
- Attachment data sent
- $0.12 per GB, on top of the per-email rate1
- Inbound email (à la carte)
- $0.10 per 1,000 emails, plus $0.09 per 1,000 incoming email chunks1
Plans
Tiers are marginal. Fixed fees are per account per region. Rows for Essentials, Pro and Enterprise read from the plan table; à la carte from the à la carte table.
| Plan | 0 to 10M emails a month | 10 to 100M | Over 100M | Fixed fee a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials (default for new accounts) | $0.16 per 1,000 | $0.14 per 1,000 | $0.11 per 1,000 | None |
| Pro | $0.22 per 1,000 | $0.17 per 1,000 | $0.12 per 1,000 | $105 |
| Enterprise | $0.23 per 1,000 | $0.18 per 1,000 | $0.13 per 1,000 | $500 |
| À la carte | $0.10 per 1,000 | $0.10 per 1,000 | $0.10 per 1,000 | None |
Source1Amazon SES pricing
Other charges
- Dedicated IPs, standard
- $24.95 per month per IP1
- Dedicated IPs, managed
- $15 per month per account plus $0.08 per 1,000 emails for the first 10M a month1
- Email validation
- $0.01 per address validated by API or console1
- Virtual Deliverability Manager
- $0.07 per 1,000 emails for the first 10M a month, plus query fees1
- Mail Manager email processing
- $0.15 per 1,000 emails1
- Global Endpoints
- $0.03 per 1,000 emails on top of the base sending price1
- Other AWS services
- SNS, S3, CloudWatch and EC2 data transfer are billed separately1
Read from Amazon Web Services’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/send-email/amazon-ses.md