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MessageBird (formerly SparkPost) alternative

Save yourself the hassle of tracking down lost emails. Choose Postmark to enjoy great deliverability as standard, and a helping hand whenever you need one.

Exceptional deliverability for everyone

With MessageBird (formerly SparkPost) you'll need to pay extra for their "Premium" Add-On Plan to get Global ISP relations and mediation and deliverability data analysis, we handle this for all of our customers at no charge because, as an email service provider, we believe that's our responsibility to you.

  • Gmail

  • Apple

  • Hotmail

  • AOL

  • Yahoo

Time to Inbox data updated every 5 minutes

At Postmark, great deliverability isn't an up-charge. We don't just claim great deliverability. We share live delivery data so you can judge for yourself.

With most providers, when deliverability issues arise, they suggest that paying more for a dedicated IP address will fix the problems. We believe that's an abdication of responsibility to ensure your emails reach customers every time. It’s our job to provide you with great deliverability with or without dedicated IP addresses.

Whether you send thousands of emails or millions of emails, you’ll see the same quality of deliverability across our entire service. You'll be hard-pressed to find a provider more willing to stand by the quality of their shared IPs than Postmark. If or when the time comes that a dedicated IP address makes sense, we'll set you up on one.


Great support at no extra cost

You shouldn't have to pay for an upgraded version of dedicated support. At Postmark, amazing support is included for everyone.

91%
Customer Happiness Rating
  • πŸ˜ƒ Great (91%)
  • πŸ™‚ Okay (1%)
  • πŸ˜” Not Good (8%)

Customer feedback gathered through Help Scout over the past 60 days.

There’s no VIP section for support with Postmark. You can email us and usually hear back in a couple of hours, or you can reach us via live chat during business hours. If you’re having delivery problems, we’ll never tell you to just upgrade to a dedicated IP address. We’ll dive in and help you get to the bottom of things.

We also have comprehensive developer documentation and a support center packed full of resources to keep you going when our support team is enjoying some well-earned downtime with their families.


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  • Ignacio Roig Ignacio
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Unrivaled troubleshooting capabilities

When it's time for troubleshooting, nobody logs and retains more helpful details about the event history and content of messages than Postmark.

Search, filter, and view 45 days of detailed message activity from the activity feed.
Search, filter, and view 45 days of detailed message activity from the activity feed.
Detailed message event logs for every email.
Detailed message event logs for every email.
Full Content
Full Content

While MessageBird (formerly SparkPost) provides 10 days of message event history, Postmark provides a full 45 days of both message events and full content rendering to all accounts by default (and retention can be customized from 7 to 365 days if needed).

If you need to maintain more than MessageBird's 10 days of history, they recommend using their webhook and doing it yourself, and even then, you'll only have events. You won't have any details about the message content. With Postmark, you'll never again have to wonder exactly what happened to an email when a customer emails support.


Pre-built and fully-tested email templates

Save time getting started with our thoroughly documented, pre-built, and exhaustively tested email templates.

Start from a variety of pre-built templates or build your own.
Start from a variety of pre-built templates or build your own.
Edit and tweak your templates directly in Postmark.
Edit and tweak your templates directly in Postmark.
Preview your templates with easily updatable test data.
Preview your templates with easily updatable test data.

Postmark offers a full set of pre-built and exhaustively tested email templates to help you get started. For each of these templates, we've also written extensive guides about best practices for configuration, usability, engagement, copywriting, and more.

Whether you need more templates or just want to custom-build your own set of templates, we've built and open-sourced MailMason, a complete toolset to streamline building and updating a set of consistent transactional emails. It makes it easier build your emails by enabling you to use partials, automatically inline your CSS (or SCSS), test emails in Litmus, automatically generate text equivalents, and much more.

Don't take our word for it, though...

Postmark every day. UX is great. Delivery is top-notch and super fast. I've also used Sparkpost and Mailgun and they just don't compare.

Pete Keen

Pete Keen

via Twitter

We use @postmarkapp. Incredibly reliable service run by incredible people.

Jack Ellis

Jack Ellis

via Twitter

Postmark blows every other transactional email product out of the water.

Kyle Racki

Kyle Racki

CEO at Proposify

On top of all the tracking info, in almost four years with Postmark, I can’t remember a single time an outage impacted our business.

Joel Flory

Joel Flory

CEO at VSCO

Weβ€˜ve grown from sending 0 to 200,000 transactional emails daily, and Postmark helped us a lot with scaling that process.

Bartosz OlchΓ³wka

Bartosz OlchΓ³wka

Head of Development at LiveChat

Love the fact @postmarkapp are publicly sharing their status and deliverability details.

Rachel Andrew

Rachel Andrew

via Twitter

Made the switch to @postmarkapp today. The customer service and delivery rates are awesome, but the thing I love is EVERYTHING IS YELLOW!

Samuel Goudie

Samuel Goudie

via Twitter

...I love the new templates feature in postmark, BTW! that’s already saving me some time. Look nice too.

Dave Kobrenski

Dave Kobrenski

via Twitter

Personal experience of working with a few other providers recently is that @postmarkapp definitely seems to have the upper hand on speed.

Robert Rawlins‏

via Twitter

Wow, @gmail deliveries via @postmarkapp is really fast, ~1s! Seems to have an excellent #ISP reputation. #transactional #mails #service

David Jimenez

David Jimenez

via Twitter

Postmark vs. MessageBird (formerly SparkPost)

Postmark is a solid SparkPost alternative, providing everything you’ll need for sending application emails, processing inbound email, and tracking user engagement.

Postmark SparkPost
Transactional emails βœ” βœ”
Bulk/broadcast email βœ”
(New in Postmark: Send your promotional or bulk email via Broadcast Message Streams.)
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Separate infrastructure for transactional and bulk email βœ” ✘
SMTP βœ” βœ”
REST API βœ” βœ”
Comprehensive official libraries βœ” βœ”
Community libraries βœ” ✘
Spam score checking βœ” ✘
Spam complaint handling βœ” βœ”
Bounce handling βœ” βœ”
Shared IPs βœ” βœ”
Dedicated IPs βœ”
(Auto-managed based on individual sending volume)
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Separate environments with servers βœ” βœ”
Pre-made email templates βœ” βœ”
Template engine βœ” βœ”
Inbox preview βœ”
(Available when you send with Postmark Templates)
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Scheduled delivery ✘ βœ”
A/B testing ✘ βœ”
Email address validation ✘ ✘
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark SparkPost
Inbound email processing βœ” βœ”
RegEx matching on all email headers ("routes") ✘ ✘
Chain multiple filters ✘ ✘
UTF-8 encoding βœ” ✘
Raw MIME ✘ βœ”
Strip signature and quote blocks βœ” βœ”
Spam filtering βœ” βœ”
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark SparkPost
Delivery rates βœ” βœ”
Bounce rates βœ” βœ”
Open rates βœ” βœ”
Click tracking βœ” βœ”
Unsubscribe tracking βœ” βœ”
Spam rates βœ” βœ”
Full message storage βœ”
(45 days)
✘
Automatic tagging ✘ ✘
Custom tagging βœ” βœ”
Custom header metadata tag ✘ ✘
Custom tracking domain ✘ βœ”
Geolocation data βœ” ✘
Email client and device tracking βœ” ✘
Real-time notifications βœ” βœ”
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark SparkPost
Time to Inbox βœ” ✘
System availability API βœ” βœ”
Service availability API βœ” βœ”
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark SparkPost
SPF βœ” βœ”
DKIM βœ” βœ”
DMARC βœ” ✘
2FA βœ” βœ”
Opportunistic TLS βœ” βœ”
Enforced TLS ✘ ✘
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark SparkPost
Dedicated support team βœ” βœ”
24/7 support ✘ βœ”
Email support βœ” βœ”
Phone support βœ” βœ”
Live chat βœ” βœ”
(via Slack)
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
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See how to migrate from SparkPost to Postmark

We’ve put together a comprehensive migration guide that covers everything you need to know about switching from MessageBird (formerly SparkPost) to Postmark.

How much does Postmark cost?

10,000 emails
/month
125,000 emails
/month
700,000 emails
/month
Annual Savings $60 /year - -
Postmark Includes great deliverability and support as standard $15 /mo. $115 /mo. $455 /mo.
SparkPost $20 /mo. $96.25 /mo. $410 /mo.

Do you offer a free trial?

All new accounts start off on our free developer plan with 100 emails per month. Use it for however long you need, it doesn’t expire.

Do you offer dedicated IPs?

Dedicated IPs are available to high-volume senders. Read about our policy for issuing dedicated IPs.

What happens if I go over my plan’s monthly email limit?

Extra emails on our paid plans are calculated at the end of your billing cycle and included with your plan cost for the upcoming month.

What payment types do you accept?

We accept payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Diners, and JCB. We do not accept PayPal or Purchase Orders.

Can I send bulk marketing email through Postmark?

Yes you can! To comply with industry best-practices and to maintain our high deliverability, it's important though that transactional and marketing emails never mix. That's why we created Message Streams, a parallel but completely separate sending infrastructures for your transactional and broadcast emails.

Do you offer high-volume plans?

Yes! Contact us to learn more about our high-volume pricing.

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