# Amazon SES vs Cloudflare Email Service (slim)

> Amazon SES scores 75.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Email Service's 67.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Email Service leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do email send. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side…

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Amazon SES scores 75.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Cloudflare Email Service's 67.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Cloudflare Email Service leads on agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do email send.

- Amazon SES: BB 75.1, rank #48 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-ses.min.md
- Cloudflare Email Service: B 67.3, rank #212 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloudflare-email-service.min.md
- Amazon SES, good for Teams already on AWS who send at volume and want IAM, CloudTrail and per-Region control. Ahead on Reliability, 95 against 51; Security & auth, 87 against 77. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Cloudflare Email Service, good for Teams already on Cloudflare DNS and Workers that want transactional sending and inbound handling in one account at a low unit price. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 72 against 64; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20.

| Category | Amazon SES | Cloudflare Email Service |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 95 | 51 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 87 | 77 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon SES | Cloudflare Email Service |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Cloudflare |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v2` | `https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Cloudflare's Self-Serve Subscription Agreement and Developer Platform service-specific terms. The official `cloudflare` SDK on npm is Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2025-09-12 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 5.1M npm/wk | 3.8M npm/wk, 364k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (8) | none |