# Amazon SES vs SendLayer (slim)

> Amazon SES scores 73.6 (BB) to SendLayer's 47.7 (D) for sending email. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon SES scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against SendLayer's 47.7 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do sending email.

- Amazon SES: BB 73.6, rank #100 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-ses.min.md
- SendLayer: D 47.7, rank #1150 of 1513 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendlayer.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, 75 against 48; Schema & documentation, 85 against 68; Security & auth, 89 against 38; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 40; Transparency & trust, 87 against 49. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.
- SendLayer, good for Low-volume transactional mail for WordPress and small sites.

| Category | Amazon SES | SendLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 64 | 62 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 89 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 40 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 87 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon SES | SendLayer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | SendLayer, LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://email.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/v2` | `https://mcp.sendlayer.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Paid |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | none |
| Tools exposed | none | 5 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-08-21 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | no date given |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 5.2M npm/wk | 113 npm/wk, 9 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (8) | none |

Why the edge:
- Security & auth, Amazon SES +51: Amazon SES 89 (IAM with policies per action and identity, condition keys such as ses:FromAddress, temporary credentials and rotation (30).); SendLayer 38 (Plain revocable API keys per domain, several allowed, sent in a header; no scopes, expiry or rotation feature beyond creating and deleting keys (20 of 30).)
- Maintenance & community, Amazon SES +45: Amazon SES 85 (The SES v2 model last changed on 8 October 2026 (CreateExportJob documentation, commit 11f19c6), still the newest SES or SES v2 change in aws/api-models-aws on…); SendLayer 40 (The Node and Python SDKs were last released as 1.1.0 on 21 August 2026, 77 days before this check (20).)
- Transparency & trust, Amazon SES +38: Amazon SES 87 (Closed service under the AWS Customer Agreement, with Apache-2.0 SDKs (20).); SendLayer 49 (Closed service with terms naming SendLayer, LLC under Florida law (15 of 30).)
- Reliability, Amazon SES +27: Amazon SES 75 (AWS Health Dashboard with per-service, per-Region history and RSS feeds (20).); SendLayer 48 (Graded with the hosted lines.)
- Schema & documentation, Amazon SES +17: Amazon SES 85 (No OpenAPI, but the SES v2 Smithy model is published in aws/api-models-aws with types, required members and enums (25).); SendLayer 68 (OpenAPI file at developers.sendlayer.com/api-reference/sendlayer.json (version 1.0.1) covering four paths, send, events and webhooks (25).)
- Payments & pricing, Amazon SES +10: Amazon SES 30 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).); SendLayer 20 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0).)