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Another one bites the dust. RIP Mandrill. CEO literally said to go with Amazon instead of Mandrill if you aren't interested in Mailchimp:
Going forward, all Mandrill users will be required to have a paid monthly MailChimp account and verify ownership of all sending domains. Here's the timeline: Starting 3/16, all new Mandrill users will create accounts through MailChimp, and current Mandrill users can merge their existing Mandrill account with a monthly MailChimp account. Current users will have until 4/27 to merge their accounts.
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"Startup developers looking for a cheap, reliable transactional service may want to consider Amazon SES."
Sauce: http://blog.mailchimp.com/important-changes-to-mandrill/
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"Startup developers looking for a cheap, reliable transactional service may want to consider Amazon SES."
Sauce: http://blog.mailchimp.com/important-changes-to-mandrill/
Basically I got an email which told me in 21 days I need to head over to Mailchimp and pay some monthly price. Ironically I'm still working on a $100 total spend I deposited in may of 2015 if memory serves me right.
Looking into my current account, I was getting charged $0.20 per thousand emails sent, which is not bad (first 12K emails a month are free). It comes out to $0.0002 per email. With Mailchimp's "pay as you go" it's comes out to over 25,000 emails being $250 or $0.01 per email. Now alot of people won't notice this cause it looks like fractions of a penny, but that's a HUGE difference. Going from $0.0002 per email to $0.01 is a price increase of 4,900%.
That's crazy at any level. So the only logical solution in their minds is to use one of the monthly plans based on subscribers. So from paying $100 in May 2015, and still having $60 works credits left, to now paying a monthly fee... They are selling these mandrill blocks at 25,000 emails for $20 per month - making it $0.0008 per email (still a 4x increase) - and that's ONTOP of the mailchimp monthly fee which will be required.
They are also discontinuing their reseller arrangement with Heroku, and going full on ecommerce solution for mailing. Anyone looking to send emails cheaply without having to waste time with Mailchimp's whatever it is the fuck they do, will have to go with Amazon SES or email.net (these boys are a bit gangster with it - shoutout to @flaw3d for putting me on this).
The best part was they sent this email out on a Wednesday after work hours, might as well been a Friday afternoon or a holiday weekend, cause that's less of a PR nightmare.
The borg assimilation will start March 16th - that's when merging with mailchimp account starts, and the last day of the old Mandrill will be April 27, 2016.
Here are some options I stole from VentureHarbour.com for options to consider:
Cost at 40,000 emails per month:
AmazonSES – $4 / month
SendInBlue - $7.37 / month
SendGrid – $9.95 / month
Mailgun – $15 / month
MailJet – $17.49 / month
Postmark – $30 / month
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Another to consider is:
EmailOne - $27 / month for UNLIMITED SENDING (upto 80,000 subscribers - they have more plans)
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I can't complain too much it was a good run - but I'm still pissed cause now I got a ton of work to do to move a TON processes to a new provider.