How makers stay productive

Today I use amazon SES (1) but in the past I did use mailgun (2) and it's very nice too, both are cheap a has a big free tier.

1. https://aws.amazon.com/pt/ses/
2. https://www.mailgun.com/

I use Aweber because I want something simple, I am too lazy to change and I am not too concerned with the price.

If you are looking for something cheap, I suggest you emailoctopus, free up to 2500 contacts, $19 per month with 5k contacts (unlimited emails).

Currently migrating every site and every client I can to Sendinblue. Ease of use, low cost, nice basic templates, works beautifully for both transactional AND marketing. And it's a powerful tool for marketing whit great segmentation and automation. They also offer marketing SMS service. Their dashboard is super easy to use. Which saves time.

Sendinblue: up to 40,000 emails per month for $25, and their pricing is based on the emails you can send, not how big your contact/email addresses is. Which makes it perfect for growing/scaling newsletters and contact lists.

They do have a basic, free plan that allows up to 300 a day.

Now, three of my sites are communities. And if I get to the point where I need to send more than 500k emails a month (combination of transactional and marketing) , I will evaluate switching to Sendy and least for newsletters. Downside is that they don't have templates. Workaround (since I don't code) is keep a basic account at Campaign Monitor, create templates there, export the HTML for the template and upload to Sendy. I know, it sounds like a bunch of extra work but the price difference at that scale is worth it, costwise.