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Email APIs: August 2026
The final August 2026 standings for “What should I use to send email from my app?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · August 2026
794 sampled answers · 11 models
- 1Amazon SESnew30.8%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Llama 3.3 70B · GLM 5.2—
- 2SendGridnew30.1%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Llama 3.3 70B · GLM 5.2—
- 3Mailgunnew30%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Llama 3.3 70B · GLM 5.2—
- 4Postmarknew24.8%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · Llama 3.3 70B · GLM 5.2—
- 5Resendnew19.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 · GLM 5.2—
- 6Loopsnew2.4%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · GPT · Gem · GLM 5.2—
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 11 AI models, Amazon SES is named in 30.8% of answers about email apis (8 of 11 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What should I use to send email from my app? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best SendGrid alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Which transactional email API is best? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 794 answers across 9 probe runs fed this month.