SENDUNE vs AWS Pinpoint

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If you have not already done so, read this article first: Why switch to SENDUNE?

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SENDUNE and AWS Pinpoint are like fraternal twins to the extent that both rely on the same core infrastructure to deliver messages - mainly AWS SES, and AWS SNS.

You can send Emails and SMS with both SENDUNE and AWS Pinpoint. But it's pretty cumbersome to do so with Pinpoint. You have to read (and understand) a lot of documentation and wrangle a lot of code and you would have just scratched the surface. That's not all. AWS has rolled out Pinpoint with an some monsters to deal with. First, Pinpoint can get needlessly expensive as it charges $0.0012 per customer/contact managed. SERIOUSLY — a huge charge for something that should have been a basic requirement. This rules out Pinpoint for Small and Medium Businesses (SMB’s).

SENDUNE was created to solve exactly this problem. SENDUNE handles all the complex integrations with SES, SNS, SMS, SQS, Cloudwatch, S3, etc and gives you a ready-made solution to start sending messages - all in about 15 minutes flat. Plus you get all the functionality of the Deliverability Dashboard included at no additional cost.

But that's not all. SENDUNE is a full fledged 'Customer Data' platform. You can store huge amounts of contacts and contact metadata that you can analyse in multiple ways to generate valuable intelligence about your customers. And to top it, SENDUNE has features like 'Team Inboxes' and 'Live Chat' for customer support. Beat that!

SENDUNE focuses on speed, simplicity, and ease of use. Our team has built systems that handle billions of data points every day with four nines (99.99) availability. We applied much of that learning to SENDUNE. SENDUNE is designed to scale massively and be highly available at the same time. SENDUNE should be your choice if you crave speed, simplicity, ease of use.

Here's a little table that compares SENDUNE and Pinpoint.

Feature	SENDUNE	AWS Pinpoint
Free Plan	Yes (5000 contacts and 50000 emails/month)	3000 emails per month ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Starter Paid Plan Cost	USD 24/- (100000 contacts + 250000 emails)	USD 1250+ /- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Contacts	Generous limits. See above.	USD 0.0012/- per contact/month
Signals Intelligence	Yes	Don't even think about it
Send Emails	Yes	Yes (add some code)
Send SMS	Yes	Yes (add more code)
Push Notifications	Yes	Yes (i said MORE CODE)
Team Inboxes	Yes	No