Amazon SES has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out. Transactional and bulk email API/SMTP… Catalogue date August 2026.
How it ended:effective 2025-07-16 — AWS restructured its Free Tier into expiring credits, which removed the per-service SES allowance for new accounts. The SES pricing page, read 2026-08-27, offers only 'up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' with 'the free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation' and no perpetual sending allowance from any source. Source ↗Full history ↓
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a standing condition, so it does not lapse.
Limits, pricing history. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-11-10.
Amazon SES has no ongoing free tier; what it offers is a credit grant that runs out: Transactional and bulk email API/SMTP… Its free tier has ended — one recorded free tier removal, on 2025-07-16. We no longer rate it.
The day we last read the vendor's page. On 2026-11-10, the page we cite for Amazon SES stated $0.16, $0.12, $0.10 and $200.00, figures this listing gives.
Free Tier Details
Transactional and bulk email API/SMTP. No perpetual free tier: new AWS accounts get up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits usable across eligible services, and the free plan runs for 6 months after account creation. From July 21, 2026, new SES accounts (and account-region pairs with no metered SES activity since June 1, 2025) start on the Essentials plan: $0.16 per 1,000 emails for the first 10M a month, with no monthly fee, including Virtual Deliverability Manager's SES deliverability insights. An account can switch to à la carte pricing at any time: $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails plus $0.12 per GB of attachments. Sending from AWS adds EC2 compute and data transfer.
We read that on 2026-11-10 from https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/, and our check recorded: the page names Amazon SES as "amazon ses" and states "$0.16" and "$0.12" and "$0.10" and "$200.00". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
From aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing, read 2026-11-10:
New AWS customers will receive up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits, which can be applied towards eligible AWS services, including Amazon Simple Email Service. At account sign-up, you can choose between a free plan and a paid plan. The free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation.
AWS restructured its Free Tier into expiring credits, which removed the per-service SES allowance for new accounts. The SES pricing page, read 2026-08-27, offers only 'up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' with 'the free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation' and no perpetual sending allowance from any source. Source ↗
Before: 3,000 messages/month free, rising to 62,000 emails/month when sent from EC2, Lambda or Elastic Beanstalk; $0.10/1,000 from external servers
After: No free sending allowance. Up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits usable across eligible services, free plan for 6 months after account creation, then $0.10/1,000 emails from any source
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No. What Amazon SES offers is a credit grant that runs out: Transactional and bulk email API/SMTP. No perpetual free tier: new AWS accounts get up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits usable across eligible services, and the free plan runs for 6 months after accou...
Is Amazon SES's free offer reliable?
Amazon SES's free tier has ended — one recorded free tier removal, on 2025-07-16: AWS restructured its Free Tier into expiring credits, which removed the per-service SES allowance for new accounts. The SES pricing page, read 2026-08-27, offers only 'up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' with 'the free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation' and no perpetual sending allowance from any source. Source: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/aws-free-tier-credits-month-free-plan/ There is no free tier left to rate.
Is Amazon SES's free offer good for production?
Not for long. It is a credit grant that runs out, so plan for paid usage before you depend on it.
What changed in Amazon SES's pricing?
Amazon SES has had 1 recorded pricing change. Most recently: AWS restructured its Free Tier into expiring credits, which removed the per-service SES allowance for new accounts. The SES pricing page, read 2026-08-27, offers only 'up to $200 in AWS Free Tier credits' with 'the free plan will be available for 6 months after account creation' and no perpetual sending allowance from any source. Source: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/aws-free-tier-credits-month-free-plan/ (2025-07-16).
What category is Amazon SES in?
Amazon SES is categorized under Email on AgentDeals.