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Looking for a Mailchimp Transactional alternative?

At Postmark, transactional email isn't just an add-on. It's at the heart of what we do. Let’s put an end to deliverability issues—give Postmark a spin, and get 100 emails/month (every month!) at no cost.

👍 Why folks love Mailchimp Transactional:

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: You were just looking for Mailchimp Transactional (the artist formerly known as Mandrill) alternatives, and now you’re here. On the Postmark website. And Postmark, you guessed it, is a Mailchimp Transactional alternative. But we aren't here to start a smear campaign. Actually, there are a lot of great reasons why folks love Mailchimp Transactional:

  • 💼 Sub account support
  • 🐒 Backed by Mailchimp, the email elders
  • 📧 Handy templates for transactional needs

👎 But hey, no one’s perfect!

And we’ve heard from folks like you that there are some not-so-great things about Mailchimp Transactional:

  • 💸 Confusing pricing (what is a “block” of emails anyway?) and the occasional upselling mischief
  • 🥈 Transactional email is an add-on—not a core product
  • 📬 Emails don’t make it to the inbox as reliably as other providers
  • ⏳ Customer support could be...quicker?

Sound familiar? Reduce the headaches and give Postmark a try!

Get 100 emails/month for free, and take a look at our migration docs for Mailchimp Transactional.

Why real customers have switched to Postmark

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Easy pricing

Our rates? Transparent as a glass of water. No marketing plan required.

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Lightning fast delivery

Your customers expect transactional emails to arrive in the inbox immediately—not eventually. We don't just claim speedy delivery. We share live time-to-inbox data so you can judge for yourself.

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Land in the inbox

Our goal at Postmark is to make email delivery dead simple. We have an acute focus on our email delivery rates—that means getting your email into the inbox, not the spam folder. Otherwise, using Postmark isn’t justified, no matter what additional features we offer.

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Easier set up and integration

Postmark is loved by developers all over the world because it just works.

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Swift technical support

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—and we won't redirect you in an endless loop. We have a 95% customer satisfaction rating for a reason.

Ready to get started?

We’ll start you off with our free developer plan (100 test emails per month)

No credit card required

Great support as standard

Our knowledgeable support team is always on hand to help, whether it’s through 1-on-1 calls, webinars, email, live-chat or one of our many help docs and guides.

95%
Customer Happiness Rating
  • 😃 Great (95%)
  • 🙂 Okay (3%)
  • 😔 Not Good (2%)

Customer feedback gathered over the past 60 days.


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Postmark VS Mailchimp

Compared to Mailchimp Transactional, G2 reviews say Postmark wins in the following categories:

  • Ease of use
  • Ease of setup
  • Ease of admin
  • Quality of support
  • Product as a good partner in doing business
  • Product direction (% positive)
  • Detailed server logs
  • Notifications
  • Webhooks
  • Event tracking API
  • Mail send API
  • Spam filter testing
  • Custom tracking domain
  • Multiple domains
  • Dedicated IP
  • Documentation
  • Sender reputation management
  • Tracking and reporting
  • Enterprise scalability
  • Performance and reliability

Customers that already made the switch

We use Postmark for the important emails: password resets, order confirmations, email confirmations. These are the emails our users, and their customers, can’t afford to miss.

Spencer Fry

Spencer Fry

Founder at Podia

As a solo founder, I'm always reviewing and evaluating 3rd party providers. Can I get a better deal? Can I find another service that is more reliable? I’ve stopped asking those questions with Postmark. It hits the trifecta of great customer support, excellent service, and good/affordable pricing. I’m all in for Postmark!

Philip Manavopoulos

Philip Manavopoulos

Founder at Doorbell

Postmark’s API is consistent, super stable, and fast. The UI has remained consistent. The brand looks almost the same. There's a sense of continuity rather than flux. Not constant changes in the branding or UI, or chasing unnecessary features. Postmark has done a really good job of growing and changing in little ways that are beneficial, not detrimental, to me as a customer.

Justin Britten

Justin Britten

Founder & CEO at Prefinery

Easy to set up. Great API. Rapid mail delivery and no spam issues. We moved from Mandrill because of terrible deliverability and am pleased to say it’s been well worthwhile....we’ve even saved money. Thanks Postmark Team….you rock!!

Ben Jemison

General Manager at CircleLoop

Here’s a full breakdown of how Postmark compares to Mailchimp Transactional

Postmark Mandrill
Transactional emails ✔ ✔
Bulk/broadcast email ✔
(New in Postmark: Send your promotional or bulk email via Broadcast Message Streams.)
✔
Separate infrastructure for transactional and bulk email ✔ ✘
SMTP ✔ ✔
REST API ✔ ✔
Comprehensive official libraries ✔ ✔
Community libraries ✔ ✔
Spam score checking ✔ ✔
Spam complaint handling ✔ ✔
Bounce handling ✔ ✔
Shared IPs ✔ ✔
Dedicated IPs ✔
(Auto-managed based on individual sending volume)
✔
Separate environments with servers ✔ ✔
Pre-made email templates ✔ ✘
Template engine ✔ ✔
Inbox preview ✔
(Available when you send with Postmark Templates)
✔
($3/test for Litmus Visual tests)
Scheduled delivery ✘ ✔
A/B testing ✘ ✔
Email address validation ✘ ✘
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark Mandrill
Inbound email processing ✔ ✔
RegEx matching on all email headers ("routes") ✘ ✔
Chain multiple filters ✘ ✘
UTF-8 encoding ✔ ✘
Raw MIME ✘ ✔
Strip signature and quote blocks ✔ ✘
Spam filtering ✔ ✔
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark Mandrill
Delivery rates ✔ ✔
Bounce rates ✔ ✔
Open rates ✔ ✔
Click tracking ✔ ✔
Unsubscribe tracking ✔ ✔
Spam rates ✔ ✔
Full message storage ✔
(45 days free)
✔
(30 days)
Automatic tagging ✘ ✔
Custom tagging ✔ ✔
Custom header metadata tag ✔ ✔
Custom tracking domain ✘ ✔
Geolocation data ✔ ✔
Email client and device tracking ✔ ✔
Real-time notifications ✔ ✔
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark Mandrill
Time to Inbox ✔ ✔
System availability API ✔ ✔
Service availability API ✔ ✔
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark Mandrill
SPF ✔ ✔
DKIM ✔ ✔
DMARC ✔ ✘
2FA ✔ ✔
Opportunistic TLS ✔ ✔
Enforced TLS ✘ ✘
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
Postmark Mandrill
Dedicated support team ✔ ✔
24/7 support ✘ ✘
Email support ✔ ✔
Phone support ✔ ✘
Live chat ✔ ✘
Seen something inaccurate? Let us know.
10,000 emails
/month
125,000 emails
/month
700,000 emails
/month
Annual Savings $300 /year $60 /year $828 /year
Postmark Includes great deliverability and support as standard $15 /mo. $115 /mo. $455 /mo.
Mandrill Includes the required subscription to a paid MailChimp plan $40.00 /mo. $120.00 /mo. $524.00 /mo.

Visit our updated pricing page for all the details.

Does Postmark 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 high-volume plans?

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

Ready to get started?

Join hundreds of businesses who've already made the switch from Mandrill to Postmark.