Pricing
Cloud provider pricing for Alien Email resources.
Alien provisions Email in your customer's cloud. The customer pays AWS for SES usage, and Alien charges a small management fee. See Pricing for Alien's current rates.
Prices shown for US East regions. Last verified: July 2026.
SES Pricing
SES bills per message, not per instance — an idle Email resource costs nothing.
| Component | Price |
|---|---|
| Outbound email | $0.10 per 1,000 emails |
| Outbound attachments | $0.12 per GB |
| Inbound email | $0.10 per 1,000 emails |
| Inbound mail chunks | $0.09 per 1,000 chunks (256 KB each) |
Sending 100,000 emails a month costs about $10, before attachment data.
Linked Resources
The linked resources bill separately at their own rates: inbound mail objects land in Storage (S3), and sending events flow through an SNS topic to a Queue (SQS). SNS-to-SQS delivery is free; both are negligible at typical mail volumes.
Free Tier
SES includes 3,000 free message charges per month for the first 12 months of a new AWS account (shared across outbound and inbound).