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Amazon SES vs PlanetScale: 2026 Comparison

Amazon SES PlanetScale
Overview Amazon's scalable cloud email service for sending transactional and marketing emails at extremely low cost. A serverless MySQL-compatible database platform with branching, deploy requests, and automatic scaling.
Pricing Pay-per-use ($0.10/1000 emails) Freemium (Free-$39/month)
Key Features
  • Email sending
  • Receiving
  • Templates
  • Configuration sets
  • Dedicated IPs
  • Event publishing
  • MySQL compatible
  • Database branching
  • Deploy requests
  • Auto-scaling
  • Read replicas
  • Insights
  • Connection pooling
  • CLI
Pros
  • Extremely affordable
  • Massive scale
  • AWS integration
  • Reliable
  • Database branching is revolutionary
  • Serverless scaling
  • Great developer experience
  • Vitess-powered
Cons
  • Requires technical setup
  • Limited marketing features
  • No visual builder
  • Free tier removed
  • MySQL only
  • No foreign keys enforcement
  • Can be expensive at scale

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