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24 alternatives to Email API benchmarks

Hey HN, I'm Chris, CTO of Knock (https://knock.app). We built email.info because every developer we talk to asks the same question: which email provider should I use? The existing resources are mostly vibes — "Best of" listicles, anonymous Reddit threads, or LLM answers trained on that same content. Objective performance data is always missing. Knock is a notification infrastructure platform, so we send billions of API requests to downstream email providers every year. We aggregated that data into a public dashboard covering 10 providers (SendGrid, Postmark, Resend, Mailgun, Amazon…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Knock▲342

    Notification infrastructure for developers

    2022 · knock.app · its alternatives →

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    Forward an email and get an AI deliverability report in 30s

    2025 · mailtester.ai · its alternatives →

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    1,000+ Emails per Second with 99%+ Deliverability

    Mar 2026 · mailercloud.com · its alternatives →

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    Trigger event-based messaging from Stripe, Clerk, Supabase

    Apr 2026 · knock.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! Excited to share cc.dev after months of work and refinement. The idea for this product came from trying to do email marketing for my side project, CubeDesk, a site where Rubik's Cube enthusiasts can time themselves, race with one another, train algorithms — it's a fun niche! With over 40k users, sending even a single campaign was becoming expensive with MailChimp. I knew AWS SES would be much cheaper, but it’s just an API with none of the other necessities you need for a robust email marketing platform. Beyond cost, I was also frustrated with having to make sure my database was…

    2023 · cc.dev · its alternatives →

  6. 6AT

    I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp). It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens/sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https://llmapitest.com/ Code: https://github.com/qjr87/llm-api-test The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including…

    2025 · llmapitest.com · its alternatives →

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    Detailed email reporting that drives results

    2017 · keen.io · its alternatives →

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    All-in-one email deliverability platform for businesses

    2023 · mailercheck.com · its alternatives →

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    Dirac▲128

    It all started 4 months ago during my last startup. Even with barely any traction, I was getting about 20 emails a day. Some from cold randoms, some internal, some from prospects. And I just wasted so much time in my inbox. The current solutions? Superhuman and HEY. Sure they're pretty but the ai is just an after thought. And the tool that was supposed to help me just makes me, my own assistant. So I went and built Dirac. We're launching in 8 hours, https://www.producthunt.com/products/dirac-3?launch=dirac-4

    Jun 2026 · dirac.app · its alternatives →

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    Mailgun email tracking and analytics for everyone

    2021 · mailflagger.com · its alternatives →

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    Build, manage, and ship customer messaging from Slack

    Jun 2026 · knock.app · its alternatives →

  13. 13KN

    Hey HN! I’m Chris – one of the co-founders at Knock (https://knock.app). Knock is notifications infrastructure for developers. We provide a set of flexible API primitives you can use to power complex notification systems, without having to roll your own notifications infrastructure in-house. In short: we built notifications so you don’t have to. We learned about scaling notifications systems the hard way. Previously, my co-founder and I worked together at Frame.io, where we saw the upside of product notifications as well as the pain involved in building and maintaining them. With…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Email designer and analytics for your transactional emails.

    2020 · emailkick.com · its alternatives →

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    Clean your existing email lists with mailbox verification

    2019 · app.mailgun.com · its alternatives →

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    Stop Free Trial Abuse with Advanced Email Verification

    2025 · mail-check.tech · its alternatives →

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    Validate emails, less bounces & spam reports for 10X less

    2024 · emailawesome.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time email verification and email cleaning services

    2021 · bouncehunter.com · its alternatives →

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    Aggregating verified Emails from multiple top Email Finders

    2024 · linkedcrm.ai · its alternatives →

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    Create email campaign in 5 minutes with modern MJML Editor

    2020 · postohub.io · its alternatives →

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    Data-driven email validation powered by SparkPost.

    2019 · bird.com · its alternatives →

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    Keep your lists clean with email validation tool

    2025 · mailerio.com · its alternatives →

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    Emails don't manage themselves. Until now.

    Jul 2026 · dailytaskproai.com · its alternatives →

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    Send emails to real people. Email Verification Platform.

    2019 · emailable.com · its alternatives →

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