# The Amazon SES alternative for transactional email | Bird

Amazon SES is the cheapest way to push email if you have the engineering to run it. Bird trades a higher per-message price for managed deliverability, a simple bearer-token API, webhooks delivered to your URL, and SMS and voice on the same account, on the SparkPost network that carries about 40% of the world’s commercial email. If you live in AWS and want the lowest raw cost, SES is the better pick. See the Bird Email API for the full surface.

## What Amazon SES is great at. Where Bird is different.

## Low.