# Amazon SNS vs ntfy (slim)

> Amazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) on agent readiness against ntfy's 61.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ntfy leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do notify push. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Amazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) on agent readiness against ntfy's 61.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ntfy leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do notify push.

- Amazon SNS: BB 72.8, rank #86 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns.min.md
- ntfy: C 61.5, rank #362 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ntfy.min.md
- Amazon SNS, good for Teams already on AWS that want cheap push, SMS and plain-text email alerts or fan-out to queues and functions under IAM and CloudTrail. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 53; Security & auth, 89 against 38; Maintenance & community, 75 against 67; Transparency & trust, 83 against 78. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- ntfy, good for An agent that has to reach its own operator or a small team on their phones with no setup. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 75; Payments & pricing, 50 against 35. Also Open source.

| Category | Amazon SNS | ntfy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 53 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 89 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 67 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon SNS | ntfy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | ntfy |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://ntfy.sh` |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Price for notify push | $0. per message | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the AWS Labs MCP server are Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 and GPL-2.0 (dual) |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-08-27 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-01-26 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-06-15 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 6.5M npm/wk | 34k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 4/5 (2) |