Originally published on rohitraj.tech
Resend looks the friendliest, SendGrid looks the safest, and AWS SES looks the cheapest. Run a real 10K-email/month India MVP through each and the math, the deliverability to Indian Gmail inboxes, and the DLT-style compliance burden separate them by an order of magnitude. Here is which one survives a 50-user-to-5K-user growth curve, which one bankrupts you at scale, and the exact ₹ numbers I have logged across four client launches.
Read the full version with code samples, diagrams, and architecture details: Resend vs SendGrid vs AWS SES for India MVPs in 2026 — Real Cost on 10K Transactional Emails
More engineering notes: rohitraj.tech/en/notes
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