Compare email sending platforms on evidence, not promises

Yes Partially No Not checked — nobody has gone to look yet Not applicable — the question doesn't arise

What each sending platform in the API / Transactionnel segment allows, capability by capability

Capability Source · check date	Amazon SES États-Unis 16 brands corpus	Mailgun 6 brands corpus	Mailjet 28 brands corpus	Postmark États-Unis 4 brands corpus	SP SparkPost 10 brands corpus	Twilio SendGrid États-Unis 9 brands corpus
▾ Tracking 8 capabilities
Open pixel Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not verified Observed	Yes
Click tracking Vendor documentation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not verified Observed	Yes
Exclusion by campaign	Yes	Yes	Partially	Partially	Yes	Yes
Exclusion by contact	Partially	Not verified	Partially	Not verified	Not verified	Partially
Consent — absence means no pixel	No	Not verified	No	No	Not verified	No
Native consent collection Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Non vérifié	Yes	Non vérifié	Non vérifié	Non vérifié
Tracking anonymization Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Not verified	No	Not verified	Not verified	Not verified
Traceable choice	No	Not verified	Yes	No	Not verified	No
▾ Unsubscribe 4 capabilities
List-Unsubscribe	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified Observed	Non vérifié	Not verified Observed	Not verified Observed
RFC 8058 — one click	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified Observed	Non vérifié	Not verified Observed	Not verified Observed
Preferences page Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified	Non vérifié	Not verified	Partially
Transactional exceptions Vendor documentation	Not verified	Not verified	Not verified	Yes	Not verified	Not verified
▾ Authentication 5 capabilities
DKIM Vendor documentation	Yes	Not verified	Not verified Observed	Yes	Not verified Observed	Yes
SPF Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified Observed	Non vérifié	Not verified Observed	Yes
DMARC Vendor documentation	Yes	Not verified	Not verified Observed	Yes	Not verified Observed	Not verified Observed
Sending domain Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified	Non vérifié	Yes	Not verified
Tracking domain Vendor documentation	Yes	Yes	Not verified	Partially	Yes	Yes
▾ Infrastructure & governance 4 capabilities
Logging	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified
API Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Yes	Not verified	Yes	Not verified	Not verified
Consent history	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified	Non vérifié	Not verified	Not verified
Granularity of settings Vendor documentation	Non vérifié	Not verified	Yes	Yes	Not verified	Partially
▾ The vendor 4 attributes
Vendor	AWS	Non vérifié	Non vérifié	ActiveCampaign	Non vérifié	Twilio
Headquarters country	États-Unis	Non vérifié	Non vérifié	États-Unis	Non vérifié	États-Unis
Data regions	Région AWS choisie	Non vérifié	Non vérifié	États-Unis	Non vérifié	International
Sheet last reviewed on	20/08/2026	20/08/2026	17/10/2026	19/08/2026	20/08/2026	11/09/2026

The market

What professionals search for

Search interest is not a measure of quality or market share.

Google Trends — worldwide, 10/2021 → 09/2026. Relative index from 0 to 100 over the period, calculated by Google for these sending platforms together, on a single scale, whatever segment is chosen above. Export uploaded by hand, no request made from this page.

• HubSpot ↓ 71
• Mailchimp ↓ 24
• Brevo → 15
• Klaviyo ↓ 12
• MailerLite → 7
• Salesforce Marketing Cloud ↓ 6
• Constant Contact ↓ 5
• Mailjet → 1

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What the compared capabilities mean

Open pixel

An individualized remote image, loaded when the message is opened. The capability says the platform knows how to insert one — not that it does so on every email.

Click tracking

The rewriting of links to count clicks. A treatment of the same nature as the pixel — individualized tracking — and enabled by default on every sending platform.

Exclusion by campaign

Sending a given campaign without inserting the open pixel.

Exclusion by contact

Removing the pixel for certain recipients only, while still sending them the message.

Consent — absence means no pixel

Without recorded consent, the platform knows how to send the message without a pixel. It's the capability that decides.

Native consent collection

The platform collects consent to tracking through its own means — a form, a preference centre, a revocation link — and applies it to the email. Exposing an attribute that the brand fills in elsewhere doesn't count as collecting it.

Tracking anonymization

A mode advertised as “identifier-free.” It only holds if it stops loading an individualized image: Article 82 concerns access to the terminal, not what is collected afterwards.

Traceable choice

A field or mechanism that durably retains the contact's choice on open tracking, and that can be exported.

List-Unsubscribe

The header that declares an unsubscribe address or page to the email client.

RFC 8058 — one click

One-click unsubscribing, handled by the email client without opening a page.

Preferences page

A page where the recipient chooses what they receive, instead of cutting everything off or keeping it all.

Transactional exceptions

Excluding a service flow from commercial unsubscribe rules, without taking it out of the logs.

DKIM

The signing of the message by the sending domain. It's this signature that carries the selector we use to recognize the platform.

SPF

The authorization, published in DNS, for this platform to send on behalf of the domain.

DMARC

The alignment of the previous two with the domain visible to the recipient. The policy remains under the brand's control.

Sending domain

A brand's own domain in place of the platform's. Once configured, only the DKIM selector still gives the tool away.

Tracking domain

A brand's own CNAME for rewritten links and the pixel. Without it, every click from the recipient names the platform.

Logging

A dated, exportable log of setting changes. It's what answers the question the day someone asks since when.

API

A documented public interface, including for contact attributes — without which a recorded choice stays locked inside the tool.

Consent history

The retention of a contact's successive consent states, and their export.

Granularity of settings

The level at which a setting applies: account, list, campaign, contact.

The five states

Yes, No, Partially, Not verified — nobody has checked yet — and Not applicable, when the question does not arise for this service.