sendvia is a thin, honest layer over Amazon SES. Bring your own AWS account, keep your own deliverability, and pay a flat $19/month — no per-email markup, no surprise add-ons.
A flat, honest surface over SES. No mysterious "smart routing" tiers. No reserved IPs hidden behind Enterprise+. Just the primitives you need.
Your AWS account, your IPs, your reputation. We never relay through a shared pool — email is sent from your own SES identity.
Drop-in SMTP for existing tools (WordPress, Rails, Postfix) on ports 587 / 2525. REST API when you want it. Auth with your API key.
Auto-generated DNS records with one-click copy. Live verification status. BIMI + DMARC monitoring so your logo lands in Gmail.
Every send, delivery, open, click, bounce and complaint lands in your dashboard in seconds — not after a 30-minute batch.
Manage audiences, run campaigns, and track opens + clicks on the same stack as your transactional sends. Built-in unsubscribe (RFC 8058).
Fire real requests from your browser. Inspect payloads, headers, and responses — no curl commands, no SDK wiring to debug.
Pixel tracking and link rewriting, toggleable per-send. Country + truncated-IP of the open. No dark patterns, no shared tracker domain.
Hard bounces and complaints are added to your blocklist automatically — no duplicate sends, no reputation damage.
You pay SES at cost. We charge one monthly fee — never a per-email markup, never a seat fee, never a deliverability upsell.
REST or SMTP. Webhooks you can actually debug. Zero config.
curl -X POST https://api.sendvia.io/v1/email \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sv_live_••••" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "from": "[email protected]", "to": "[email protected]", "subject": "Welcome aboard", "html": "<h1>It works.</h1>" }'
Most "email APIs" are thin wrappers over SES charging you 10× for the pleasure. We don't.
| Postmark | Mailgun | SendGrid | Resend | sendvia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||||
| Base price | $15/mo | $35/mo | $20/mo | $20/mo | $19/mo flat |
| 100k emails / month | ~$75 | ~$60 | ~$30 | ~$40 | ~$29 (inc. SES) |
| 1M emails / month | ~$445 | ~$380 | ~$175 | ~$260 | ~$119 (inc. SES) |
| Infrastructure | |||||
| You own the AWS account | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| DNS setup | Manual | Manual | Manual | Manual | Auto + monitored |
| Sending domains included | 1 server | 1 (extras paid) | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Features | |||||
| REST API + SMTP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | API only | ✓ |
| Newsletters & mailing lists | — | Add-on | Add-on | — | ✓ included |
| Contact segments | — | Add-on | Add-on | Basic | ✓ rule-based |
| CSV import + subscribers | — | Add-on | Add-on | ✓ | ✓ |
| Webhook events | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduled sending | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open + click tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ + geo |
| One-click resend | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Log retention | 45 days | 5–30 days | 3–30 days | 3–72 hours | 90 days |
| Compliance & deliverability | |||||
| BIMI + DMARC monitoring | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| RFC 8058 one-click unsubscribe | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto blocklist (bounces + complaints) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two-factor authentication | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
sendvia cost = flat $19/mo + AWS SES at $0.10 per 1,000 emails. Competitor pricing approximate as of early 2026.
Start free, upgrade when you need newsletters, open tracking, or more domains. You always pay SES at cost.
Create an IAM user with SES + SNS access. Paste your keys once. We register your domain in SES and generate the DNS records for you.
Copy the DKIM, SPF, DMARC and BIMI records into your DNS. We watch verification live and tell you the moment you're green.
One POST to /v1/email — or point any SMTP client at smtp.sendvia.io. Watch it land on the dashboard.
The questions we get asked most by developers switching from SendGrid, Postmark or Mailgun.
You create an AWS account (or use one you already have), create a scoped IAM user with AmazonSESFullAccess and AmazonSNSFullAccess, and paste the access key into sendvia. From that point on, every email is dispatched to Amazon SES using your credentials from your AWS account.
Your sender reputation, your IP warm-up, your SES limits — all yours. sendvia is just the dashboard, API, SMTP relay and webhook handler on top. See the setup guide for the exact steps.
$19 flat fee + AWS SES at $0.10 per 1,000 emails = ~$119 / month for a million. For comparison: SendGrid ~$175, Resend ~$260, Mailgun ~$380, Postmark ~$445. See the comparison table for the full breakdown.
Free includes 250 emails/day on 1 domain with the REST API, full DNS auto-setup (DKIM / SPF / DMARC / BIMI), delivery + bounce stats, and automatic blocklisting.
Premium ($19/month) raises the limit to 100,000 emails/day on 10 domains, unlocks SMTP relay on ports 587 / 2525, open + click tracking with country-level geo, newsletters + mailing lists + segments, CSV import, scheduled sending, email body preview, one-click resend, and 90-day log retention.
Yes — on Premium. Point your client at smtp.sendvia.io:587 (or 2525), auth with your API key as the password, and send as usual. No plugin required; we translate SMTP to the same REST API path as our direct sends, so stats and webhooks work identically.
Sends are logged instantly. Bounces and complaints arrive via an SNS webhook — typically within 2–5 seconds of SES publishing the event. Opens and clicks (Premium only) register the moment the tracking pixel or link is hit, with country-level geo resolved from a truncated IP.
You can cancel anytime from the billing page. Your account drops back to Free on the next billing cycle. If you delete the account entirely, we remove your profile, domains, email logs, mailing lists and blocklist within 30 days. Your AWS account is yours — deleting sendvia never touches it.
Passwords are bcrypt-hashed, all traffic is HTTPS with TLS 1.3, CSRF tokens guard every form, optional TOTP 2FA is available. API keys are random with a sv_live_ prefix. Email logs auto-delete after 90 days. Sessions inactive for 30 days are purged. See the privacy policy for the full breakdown.
Yes. You can add domains in different SES regions (us-east-1, eu-west-1, ap-southeast-2, etc.) from a single sendvia account. Each send is routed through the region where the domain's SES identity lives, so EU-origin mail can stay in-region.
250 free emails per day, no credit card. Your existing SES account is ready in five minutes.
sendvia
A thin, honest layer over Amazon SES. Built for developers who want to own their deliverability.