The full platform,
not just delivery.
Amazon SES hands you bare infrastructure: no contact store, no campaign tools, no dashboard. Bitelio wraps that same grade of delivery in a complete, fully managed email platform — free to start, paid tiers from $19/mo.
What It Actually Costs
SES looks cheap per email — until you price the platform you'd have to build around it
Complete platform, managed
The whole stack included, unlimited contacts on every plan, and zero infrastructure for your team to own.
- ✓Free plan: 1,000 emails/month — Pro $19/mo: 15,000 included, then $1.20 per extra 1,000
- ✓Contact management, campaigns, automation, bounce handling built in
- ✓Dashboard, analytics, and deliverability tooling included
Delivery infrastructure only
Bargain delivery rates — with every other component left for your team to build.
- No contact store, campaign tools, or dashboard
- Bounce and complaint handling falls on you
- Real engineering budget needed for everything else
What Comes in the Box
All the pieces SES leaves out, already built
Contact Management
A real subscriber database: track events, honor unsubscribes, build living segments. SES doesn't even have a notion of a contact.
Marketing Campaigns
One-off broadcasts, scheduled campaigns, open and click tracking. SES moves bytes; Bitelio operates your whole email program.
Workflow Automation
Event-triggered, multi-step sequences — onboarding, drips, win-backs. With raw SES, every bit of this is code you'd write and maintain.
Transparent Overage
Exceed your allowance and the meter reads a flat $1.20 per extra 1,000 emails. No tier jumps, no invoice surprises — and contacts stay unlimited everywhere.
EU-Hosted & GDPR-Compliant
EU infrastructure and GDPR-aligned processing out of the box — without wrangling AWS regions, IAM policies, or SNS topics to get there.
Bounce & Complaint Handling
SES bounce and complaint notifications are processed automatically, protecting your sender reputation with zero code on your side.
Feature comparison
Frequently asked questions
When should I use raw Amazon SES instead of Bitelio?
Raw SES makes sense when you already operate your own email platform and just need the delivery pipe — or when your engineers genuinely want to own every layer of the stack and can commit to building contact storage, unsubscribe flows, bounce processing, and analytics in-house. Bitelio ships that entire layer pre-built on SES-grade delivery, so you're productive from day one with no infrastructure to stand up or maintain.
Is Bitelio more expensive than Amazon SES?
Per email, SES is cheaper: $0.10 per 1,000, covering delivery and nothing else. Bitelio starts free at 1,000 emails/month, with Pro at $19/mo (15,000 included), Scale at $99/mo (100,000 included), and $1.20 per extra 1,000 after that. What the difference buys you: contact management, campaigns, automation, segmentation, bounce and complaint handling, an admin dashboard, and unsubscribe management — everything you would otherwise pay engineers to build and keep running.
Does Bitelio use Amazon SES under the hood?
It does. Delivery runs through AWS SES, so deliverability is identical to sending raw — but you also get the managed platform above it: dashboard, templates, campaigns, automation, and deliverability tooling, all maintained for you.
How hard is it to migrate from SES to Bitelio?
Not very. Swap the SES SDK calls in your sending code for Bitelio's API, and your existing domain verification and DKIM setup can come along for the ride. In return you instantly pick up contact management, bounce handling, unsubscribe lists, campaign tools, and a dashboard — none of it built or maintained by you.
Try Bitelio free
1,000 free emails monthly, no credit card. The full platform is already there whenever you need more.