Amazon SES Pricing
aws.amazon.com · Transactional Email · refreshed 2026-05-06Amazon SES is a pay-as-you-go API — sign up for an API key, then pay per call. Free tier available — Up to 3,000 message charges per month for the first 12 months.
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Amazon SES pricing
Sign up, get an API key, pay per call
Self-serve checkout with public pricing — an autonomous agent can complete the purchase without a sales call.
12 SKUs priced in mixed units (emails, GB, email_chunks…)
| Model / SKU | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
Outbound Email | $0.1 / 1K emails | — |
Outbound Email Data Charges for attachment data | $0.12 / GB | — |
Global Endpoints Additional charge when sending through multi‑region endpoint | $0.03 / 1K emails | — |
Inbound Email | $0.1 / 1K emails | — |
Inbound Email Chunks | $0.09 / 1K email_chunks | — |
Email Validation | $0.01 / validation | — |
Mail Manager Endpoint Per month per endpoint | $50 / endpoint_month | — |
Dedicated IP Standard Per month per IP | $24.95 / ip_month | — |
Dedicated IP Managed Base Base monthly fee for managed IPs | $15 / account_month | — |
Dedicated IP Managed Email 0‑10M emails per month tier | $0.08 / 1K emails | — |
Virtual Deliverability Manager 0‑10M emails per month tier | $0.07 / 1K emails | — |
Tenant Per month per tenant | $0.005 / tenant_month | — |
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Monthly usage (emails)
$0.000100 per emails · billed monthly
$0.1000
per monthAmazon SES pricing FAQ
Amazon SES pricing starts at $0.10 per 1,000 outbound emails; a free tier of up to 3,000 message charges per month is available, with additional charges for inbound email, data, and add‑ons. Billed per usage.
Amazon SES is priced per usage rather than per seat. Sign up for an API key, then pay per call.
Yes — Amazon SES publishes a free tier. Up to 3,000 message charges per month for the first 12 months.
Yes — Amazon SES's purchase motion is self-serve. A checkout URL is published on the pricing page. No demo is required.
Yes — Amazon SES's API documentation is publicly accessible, and the API is the primary product surface. An AI agent or developer can inspect the integration surface without authentication.
xpay scored Amazon SES as agent-ready: every advertised plan is self-serve with public pricing. Amazon SES publishes a pricing page with 4 discoverable plan tier(s). Per-unit pricing is published — an agent can forecast cost per task before committing. Self-serve signup exists alongside a sales-led / custom tier. Public API documentation is reachable without an auth wall. A free or freemium tier is offered. For the full purchase simulation see the linked Agent-Ready Index scorecard.
In the Transactional Email category, xpay's Agent-Ready Index lists alternatives ranked by their ability to support AI agent purchase. Visit the agent-readiness scorecard for Amazon SES to compare with 3 nearest peers.
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/ 100 in xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS IndexAmazon SES scores 85/100 on xpay's Agent-Ready Index v2: partial pricing visibility; self-serve checkout is available; a public API exists with documentation; usage-based / per-token pricing is publis…
See the full scorecardIncludes the 6-step agent purchase simulation, score breakdown across 7 dimensions, and the one-line fix that would lift Amazon SES into the Agent-Ready Verified band.At a glance
Up to 3,000 message charges per month for the first 12 months
Pay-as-you-go
Pay-as-you-go
12 models priced per undefined
API key signup
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Amazon SES pricing summary derived from a live read of https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/ on 2026-05-06. For the agent-readiness assessment — including the 6-step purchase simulation and a per-dimension scorecard — see xpay's Agent-Ready SaaS Index entry for Amazon SES.
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