Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp account

Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by dancablam on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:17PM (#11171698)

FWIW We're switching to Sparkpost (I'm not affiliated with Sparkpost). They do the transactional email for the big dogs like Twitter, PayPal, LinkedIn, etc and have a pretty simple UI. Just throwing that out there for all the fellow Mandrill refugees.

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by techdragon on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:37PM (#11172423)

I just checked out Sparkpost, and unfortunately, they seem to have a crippling price discrepancy. Their new "express" plan is sort of comparable to what Mandrill charged, but as soon as I grow to the point where I need more, they are x3 the price. Not sure what they were thinking with that sort of thing, are they trying to discourage customers from growing their email volume on the platform?

I find this sort of "nonsensical pricing" very off putting. If your pricing page is so obviously 'wtf' like this, how can I take them seriously, even if they do the emails for Twitter, PayPal, LinkedIn, they could be the secret real host for Gmail for all it matters to me... Their pricing page tells me they have a screw loose.

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by cristoirmac on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:28PM (#11179262)

We tweaked our pricing today so 100k free and fixed the confusing plans - check it out https://www.sparkpost.com/pricing We have been doing transactional email for 15 years for the likes of Twitter, Pinterest, Zillow smaller developers and startups and are not going anywhere - we are very developer friendly. Also check out https://developers.sparkpost.com

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by wcossick on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:36AM (#11181881)

Which pricing is correct? https://www.sparkpost.com/pricing or http://pages.sparkpost.com/sparkpost-vs-mandrill

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by cristoirmac on Saturday March 05, 2016 @06:33PM (#11231632)

We were midway through our pricing update at the time - but both pages should now have the latest prices, including our 100K free tier. Please try it out and if you have questions you can find us at developers.sparkpost.com and slack.sparkpost.com

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by techdragon on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:36PM (#11179293)

See that's the sort of pricing I expect when I hear "The guys that send all of Twitter's email". Promptly letting me know that you cleaned up your pricing is a nice touch.

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by gabbygirl79 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @08:22PM (#11179246)

SparkPost just updated their pricing - now the free tier is 100k a month, and there are two other plans that are way simpler and more cost effective. Seems like they heard feedback about their pricing.

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by ceejayoz on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:09AM (#11174879)

I'm trying to figure out if you can just stay on the Express plan and pay the overages, given that the overages are 1/3 that of the higher plans. Very odd pricing, for sure.

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by ozziekh on Monday February 29, 2016 @01:35PM (#11197173)

they have changed their pricing plans, you can check it here https://www.sparkpost.com/pricing

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Re:Major changes to Mandrill, must be tied to a MailChimp ac... by mmilano on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:01PM (#11171870)

Signed up for a couple services to check them out... sparkpost is looking like a top candidate so far.

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